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I just can't get over how shit the 3D Gamefreak games look compared to 3rd party gamecube titles made 20 years ago.
I could get over all the performance issues if they just didn't look so abysmal.
Here's a random shop in Gale of Darkness next to the BIG ACADEMY in SV.
In XD, every floor tile is unique and individually placed. There's stuff jutting out of the wall. There's loads of details. It looks appropriate for its size. There's a certain level of dinginess that makes it look lived in. It looks like a little diorama that someone spent time putting together and decorating.
Every environment in SV just looks so flat, barren, and unnaturally clean. It looks like the inside of a Target at 7 AM. Like this is the first room you enter academy, and it's just a flat, gaudy plain of reused textures. It's absurdly clean, like the floors just waxed and the walls were just painted 2 minutes ago. Everyone standing so awkwardly straight like they're about to be examined by military officers. And it's so HUGE. Like there is so much empty, unused space. It's easily 10x the size it needs to be. It looks just awful.
