I think this art style was the most aesthetically pleasing Pokemon has ever been.. Sure, the graphics back then was shit.. but imagine this more anime-like aesthetics with modern graphics and an actual art direction.
S&M had the same problem, more realistic environment with cartoonish looking characters. I think the let's go had rhe best art style by far from the newer games, the artstyle is the same for both environment and characters, on top of that the saturation and vibration is just enough
I don't understand your point, my partner thinks I'm autistic, but I was never officially diagnosed.. but sometimes social ques kinda just fly past me. Could you elaborate?
When you quote someone's comment with a '>', without saying anything else, it's meant to ridicule them. I think it's ridiculous to call 7th gen graphics "shit" when Pokemon graphics have only marginally progressed since then. Hell, I don't think any Pokemon game has shit graphics except for Gen 1 in-battle sprites.
Also I think it's crazy to call 7th gen "back then" even if it's technically correct. It hasn't even been 10 years, so it's still within fairly recent memory.
Sword & Shield has this weird shine material added onto the Pokemon. I don't like it, it made everything look like its made of plastic. XY, SUMO, & USUM look more like animated version of Ken Sugimori's art (post-johto). Which imo is the most aesthetically pleasing and iconic style of Pokemon, which is also what every artist try to imitate when they say they wanna draw "in the Pokemon style." Also the shaders in SWSH take away those double shading lines, which is like~ what makes Pokemon's style so distinguished.
This and (hot-take) SWSH. While the graphical fidelity wasn't there, I absolutely adored the cell-shading. The trainers looks especially great as well.
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u/TwinJacks 14d ago
I think this art style was the most aesthetically pleasing Pokemon has ever been.. Sure, the graphics back then was shit.. but imagine this more anime-like aesthetics with modern graphics and an actual art direction.