>>43904574About 60% poor management from Gamefreak, 40% the sheer scope difference.
Like, S/S should have looked better if they were competently managed and actually given the resources to make it work.
But also, Pokemon Snap is like 100 times smaller in scope than Sword and Shield. There's no huge full world, it's just a set of levels with highly curated content so they can spend way more time on just making sure everything you see on the track looks good. They don't have to worry about scaling every aspect to fit every pokemon and can instead just make sure the pokemon they choose to put in each level are right and the level itself is clean.