>>19873638That does indeed look better than this "duuuuuuuh" pose. It doesn't need to bounce up and down of course, that does look kinda dumb, but at least it's consistent with its theme of being in permanent alert. There's something to it, which is more than can be said of its 3d animation.
They could have made it all twitchy and tense, watching you from different angles and shit, perhaps that occasional different animation could be it crouching, I don't know. DOING Patrat things.
I'm not defending genV sprites btw, there's nothing to defend, I know most of them are shit. I'm just saying genVI animations are, more often than not, either completely bland and soulless (see this case and
>>19873097), pants on head retarded (see
>>19872969,
>>19872550,
>>19872434) or just plain wrong (see
>>19871523).