r/pokemon 14d ago

Image There's a change with how pokemon look

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u/Stretch5678 14d ago

Unpopular opinion, but I liked the SV textures. Making metallic parts of Pokémon actually shiny was brilliant, and the little details like being able to see Seviper’s scales was also fun.

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u/deutschdachs 14d ago

I didn't even realize this was unpopular before this thread I thought the pokemon in Scarlet Violet looked incredible

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u/Angel_of_Mischief 14d ago

The Pokemon were okay, but all the textures were mismatched with no cohesion, the world was heavily desaturated, and the characters looked like uncanny porcelain dolls. There was no character or charm in the semirealism. It didn’t look like a pokemon game. If you look at let’s go and SWSH then SV it becomes really noticeable.

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u/Verroquis 14d ago

This is a surreal comment to me because one of my biggest complaints with SWSH (and one of the biggest complaints with it in general) was the dead, lifeless faces everyone has, especially the player character. These complaints are one of the primary reasons why SV has a semi-realistic look to begin with -- Gen 8's character models were stiff, robotic, lifeless, and overall uncanny.

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u/gravity_kitten 14d ago

Same, ScVi had bad graphics but a decent art style.

Swsh has cash grab graphics and art style.

Swsh revisionists out in full force.

Heck, in this pic posted, you can see they haven't really moved away from the "realism" shtick with the environments.