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>The battle screen on the left is an ABSTRACTION. You are supposed to imagine the battle. It's an abstract representation of what the real battle would look like, just like in most JRPGs.
>The battle screen on the right is too 3D, too realistic, leaves nothing to the imagination and DOES NOT WORK as an abstraction. The pokemon are REALLY THERE, two feet away from each other, repeating their lame idle animations over and over again. 3D does NOT work as an abstraction. So instead of asking you to imagine the awesome things it represents, it's doing the imagining for you and showing you a really lame, sterile, lifeless "battle".
