>>25038238>limitations breed creativityThat's true, and it's called art through adversity, but this do-dad thing is over exaggerated and only true for some pokemon in the later gens but not as a whole. My point is that
A) If you judge modern pokemon with the standard made for the gameboy it is VERY easy for something to be *relatively* overdesigned. Emphasis on relatively. Most other franchises can get away with way more without getting the over designed label.
B) You could go through a thousand art directors but even the biggest minimalists will take advantage of better hardware, and their art style will be affected by what is contemporary.
Where am I going with this? Many pokemon have great stand alone designs, but not by the standard's of gen 1's art direction. There are pretty much two types of people. The ones who mostly judge the design as its own thing, and those who check if it's a good design relative to the art style Gen 1.
But you have to remember that Gen 1 designs are their own thing and a specific product of the 90s on toaster tier hardware, and those conditions can never really be met again. It's fine to hold them up as the pinnacle of design that should be applied to the whole series, but it should also be acknowledged that such a desire is pretty much impossible from the start, and a bit unfair.
