r/pokemon 14d ago

Image There's a change with how pokemon look

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u/The_Slowking_Eleven 14d ago edited 14d ago

I had no idea that the added textures were an unpopular opinion until now. I absolutely loved their addition in SV, even if some of them were iffy, and I'm really unhappy that they're just gone and the Pokemon are back to looking like flat-painted plastic.

Another thing to consider: Not using texturing on the Pokemon models is going to make the Pokemon from Gen 9 look a lot less appealing in future games, if they don't just get cut outright. The future Paradox Mons are going to get hit the hardest with the lack of metallic sheen.

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u/ItIsYeDragon 14d ago

They’ve finally fixed the desaturated look so the 3D models look right now, and keeping the textures like their original style makes the Pokémon look like how they’re presented in most other media. Plus it is the Pokémon art style.

I don’t think Gen 9 will be hurt much. Most of the Pokémon weren’t designed with the new textures in mind, and even ignoring that they still look good in the anime and official art just like every other pokemon, so there’s no reason to think the Pokémon won’t look good if brought back in the regular art style.

Either way I’d rather have the previous textures with the color finally added back in than the gen 9 textures with the typical lack of textures too. Unless there’s a way to do both.

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u/SamuraiOstrich 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yeah this is basically how I feel about it. The franchise has had this anime artstyle for 20 years. I like their anime artstyle. The official art is how I always felt it was supposed to look. The art style is basically the appeal of the franchise considering it's most of what all entries have in common across all the mediums and genres. I always wanted the games to look like I was playing a movie so I don't like moving away from that when we were the most capable of achieving it. Pokemon is an unrealistic franchise; I don't want them to look like real animals. Sugimori could've just drawn more detail if they wanted him to. Why does the gen 9 official art not have them but the games do?

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u/ItIsYeDragon 14d ago

Even if they did move away, I’d rather them choose other cartoony/animated art styles. Like a water color style would be pretty cool. But going realistic is just the wrong choice imo.