>>14352136That game's a notalgia bait.
It's meant to look like the old games it is trying to emulate.
The case of Pokemon is different.
It has always had a certain art style for its official art, they always tried to use that style for the characters pictures before a battle and now they use it for the character illustrations before a battle and parts of the game.
That's the direction the games have always been heading and they will eventually get there.
They should have gotten there sooner. Instead we're still stuck with a chibi style, which is not really a stylistic appeal like some unique art styles, it's just the same old style that refuses to let go of the game.
The complain isn't merely that the style is bad or different, the complain is that when they could have taken it to 3D and given it an awesome style they didn't go all the way.
Now some might say it's due to the limitations of the system but we've all seen the 3D do much more. It was either fear of change that made them hesitate about a drastic change, or lack of resources and time given to the series or maybe the developers didn't feel confident enough in their skills with the hardware to make the leap yet,or Nintendo could simply want to keep the big change of art style as an ace they can use later.
Either way it's bad. They might not do it this gen, or next, and who knows really how long it'll take to finally do it now that they lost this good chance to go all out with the redesign.
That's all there is to it, they didn't do their best with this chance. It sucks a lot too as an old time fan because the games have barely changed in so many years and this was their big chance and they just wasted it and went halfway. Are we going to get another 5 or 10 years of this level of graphics? Fuck that thought scares me.
