>>40566644the amount of effort they put isn't any more than the one they put for the other 3D gens, yes of course retexturing and making new animation doesn't take just a finger snap but they did this with the previous game as well so this isn't a special case here is what i was trying to tell (with XY not only they animated 700+ for battle and for pokemon amie and while) and it's not like they needed to put insane amount of effort elsewhere since this is mainly a turn based RPGs about monster fighting and the graphics are mediocre as always and the formula is that same, it's been 6 years since we've gone fully 3D and we still have pokemon t-posing, doing little hops while jpegs fly across the screen, it's embarassing
Also regarding the Creatures inc. affair, we had walking/running animations for all pokemon future proofed since SM in 2016 so this clearly shows us:
1- They definitely commisioned this otherwise they wouldn't have bothered just for the 20-30 overworld pokemon you had on the 3DS game so it's clear they do get help for big things like this
2- If there's some shit that could be done (like making unique animations for hundreds of pokemon) than it sure can be done
