>>22443504The sprites in gen 5 were worse. The overworld sprites ended up being pixelated because they tried to do some pseudo-3D shit and it ended up making everything look strange when they kept zooming in and out. And they also kept changing the camera during battles, which meant that the battle sprites looked pixelated when the battle started and the camera zoomed in.
In the previous gens, the camera was always fixed so you had none of this distortion going on.