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If I'm honest I didn't care for the DS art style of pokemon games. They weren't awful, just a bit off. The 3D modelling wasn't great, it was low res and looked janky. Often your character sprite would overlap nearby sprites in ways that looked weird, and the games felt a little unresponsive. I feel like it took away from whatever 2D art style we might have had.
I'm looking forward to the series taking the leap into full 3D, but the 3D/2D hybrid kind of turned out worse than either a fully 2D or 3D art style.