>>39067602What's sad about James is, while you can definitely criticize his art direction, I'm sure most of SS' major problems are out of his control, because really outside of drawing pretty picture I'm sure the Art Director gets out-commanded by pretty much everyone else, and is taken the least serious. But because he's a major face being presented to everyone by Gamefreak, he's going to get a lot of flack.
I considered it odd that he was being shown off a lot since usually his position and others don't get even a lick of Direct time, but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional. James is the sacrificial lamb intended to take it, and then be tossed aside afterwards so they can say "silly gaijins, we let you try making a game but you failed".
