>>55255440Gen 3 is my favorite and I consider the graphics austere, nothing fancy but they give you all the necessary information and never get in the way. It's a gameplay first design. Gen 2 is more lavish but everything gets a bit muddled because of the limited hardware. In Gen 4 the pseudo-3D overworld is jarring and busy but the Pokemon sprites are very well done. If they didn't use 3D in the overworld it would have looked amazing, also the smeared battle backgrounds are hideous.