>>56837166This is true, but doesn't apply to gen 5
Why? Because the DS sprites aren't downscaled, they have shitty animations.
See Garchomp, his original sprite comes from gen 4, gen 5 just added motion, Bad motion may I add.
>>56837195Something you all forget is Hardware limitations: pick your favorite 2D DS game, pick a random character sprite and you may notice that they probably use 15/16 color pallete, the same limitations as DS Pokémon games, there're games that look better on the same hardware, for example: Knights It The Nightmare, Shiren The Wanderer (DS1/DS2 but more importantly DS4 and DS5) The World Ends With You or Megaman ZX/Advent
Pokémon was never a "top graphics" game and that's fine, but the ugly chopped off and stretched animated sprites are a conscious design decision, not a limitation
