>>36274538Animal Crossing uses an intentionally simple and cartoony artstyle, and is also a casual game that doesn't need to be all that ambitious. Also only one comes out per gen instead of yearly releases.
Pokemon has a cartoony style but still looks like ass, and now we have these super high poly models clashing with the PS1 level environments and characters.
Pokemon's closest point of comparison is Dragon Quest, which also uses a simple artstyle, yet it looks a million times better than Pokemon and clearly has much more love and attention put into it.
And honestly I could totally forgive bad graphics if they at least put effort into the game world and content, but each game gets smaller and less interesting and more bereft of things to do. Compare to DQM Joker 3 which looks pretty assy but has a huge world map, shit loads of new features that weren't possible on previous technology, and tons of stuff to keep you occupied for dozens of hours.
