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you need to compare to other monster games like mystery dungeon. i agree the games could have always looked better (because of md) but this can only be proven if the games have the same focus on monsters. the monsters are the most important part of the game.
i just looked up the game on the left and it doesnt have animated monsters in the battle. they are completely static. no back sprite either because that isnt used in normal rpgs for monsters. im not sure how many different kinds of monsters they have which is extremely important as well but they are not hand animated like in crystal which obviously gives more time for backgrounds. only the little overworld monster sprites that walk around are animated with a simple 2 frame animation. if i saw right then the game also has random encounters so im not even sure if all monsters even have an overworld animation.
