>Sprites in general had a much greater sense of life and personality in themNo you pompuous dick, they absolutely didn't.
The only flaws I've seen in the 3D models are washed colors and the perma-gliding animations for some of them, but the upsides make up for them.
Gen V's sprites might have looked cool back then but all they were was tweening, which is very cheap and unnatural when used as an "animation" """"style""". The models stood in place, moved up and down for 3 seconds, and then shook their arms/legs/head/etc. up and down for a while. All these motions weren't hand-made, they were just made by rotating or stretching different parts of the body.
The sprites have no real motions. There aren't any natural stretches, smears or any sense of proper anatomy in some of them (see
>>29620742, which can't be excused because it's not a smear).
3D models were the only logical progress. Myfirst game was White but man, anybody who thinks sprites were better is either shitposting or an idiot who doesn't know what proper animation is.
