>>49033380The gameplay has remained largely the same for 25 years. Battles still play out like they do on gameboy, even down to reading out the move before playing animations. The level and region design has degraded to the point of being little more than a series of straightlines exacerbated by characters with robotic animations constantly telling you where to go. They've so far done absolutely nothing new in regards to exploration or character movement.
If they won't improve on any of the aforementioned, what excuse due they have to not improve graphics? Video games are visual medium, if they're not going to significantly change gameplay, or improve what's already there, then the least they can do is make the games look nice. There's no reason for a game series as big as this to look worse than games that came years before it on the same system. Not now, not in past, not ever.
