>>43618092I like Gen 5 but I disagree with the sprites looking good. I mean the Pokémon sprites when not animated, they look great, but in motion, I just can't really enjoy they much. It's obvious that what they did was they just rotates the limbs and other body parts of the Pokémon. My ideal version of a 2D sprite game would be to have animations similar to Crystal (instead of 2 frames and using tweening techniques like in Emerald and Gen 4) and maybe an extra animation for when the Pokémon shuts its eyes and opens them again - it was great how Gen 5 did this - but again, that's just my preference.
>The overworld looked much smoother than ugly Gen IVMeh that's subjective. The 3D backgrounds were pretty cool but I don't really like the overworld trainer sprites, they look too lanky.
>I still don't see the impetus for Game Freak making the move to 3DI think it was just logic that they wanted to do this - they didn't do it in the DS era because models didn't look great. The truth is most video games use 3D models because they're easier to develop and normies prefer them.