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I think a lot of people are forgetting that the Stadium games were battle simulators above all else, the detailed animation had to be a major selling point to make the experience worthwhile. Personally I think the animation for a majority of pokemon in modern games is fine, the real issue is that attack animations for pokemon are not thought out enough and it results in several cases of a model doing nothing in several animations. Even if you want to argue the point of length it's irrelevant when the games can just be given a fast forward mode in battles that skips them at the player's leisure. Also pokemon are cartoon characters, get over it.
