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Honestly, the Gen V sprites would probably look a lot better if they had more original frames than tweened ones. Tweening, as shown by the fuck-deep amount of shitty Flash cartoons in the present, is economical but generally terrible in the art department. That said, they should probably give the models a couple more idle animations. It'd be kind of cool if they gave them ones that change depending on their health or status to show their weakened state in unique ways instead of just slowing them down, along with reintroducing the blue tint for when they get frozen and stopping them from having animations entirely instead of having their hurt animations play because it kind of looks weird.
Oh yeah, on the subject of models somebody made this a while ago. They changed the models' palettes to be their Gen V/anime ones, their normal Gen VI ones, and in the middle is a midpoint mix between the two which probably look the best IMO.