>all these stupid idiot morons claiming the GBC can't handle better graphicsThere are so many gorgeous games on GBC. They don't even use all of their graphical memory. There is so much unused space in every Pokemon ROM, how do you think /rheg/ do it? Look at this game. Look at it.
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDN1ANklrokHundreds of fully animated enemies in real time battles, with overworld sprites for most of them. Does Pokemon need to be fully animated or real time? No, not really.
Just click around that video. Go to any point in it. You'll see what GameFreak could have done with the literal millions of dollars and higher budget they had and chose not to do. They have been incompetent from the start, owing ALL of their success to connections in merchandising industries and the work of Ken Sugimori. Pokemon games have always been technically very underwhelming. This Star Ocean game isn't even the highest budget game on GBC.
