>>41426489Not always darker, but richer colours, yeah. XY tried to make all of the Pokemon models paler to call back to Sugimori's watercolour-looking art, but it ended up being super washed-out. I like some nice pastels as much as the next guy, but it depends on how they're used - and I think the natural world has so many more colours than that.
SwSh looks alright colour-wise, but then it has the emptiness problem.
Also I just checked my Pokemon Mini: the battery got old and all this powder was everywhere when I opened it. I cleaned it up the best I could, but with a new battery it just won't turn on now. Sad.
>>41424438Technically the Pokemon Mini and it's little library was Gen 2 since it came out before Gen 3 in the East.