>>38695386I think the gen 3 sprites were mostly great, although they admittedly were incredibly biased towards their native regions. In the Hoenn games, Hoenn pokemon were the only ones which looked good, and in the Kanto games, ditto for Kanto pokemon. I feel like they left the Johto pokemon to some B-team, because they all looked like hot garbage.
I'm also in the minority who likes the 3D models; if you play with them in those dumbass minigames, the one upside is you actually get to notice how animated and full of life they are. Of course it's Gamefreak we're talking about, so they fucked it all up by making the battles (you know, the FUCKING CORE OF THE GAME) incredibly static. I don't understand how or why they made the decision to keep the Pokemon in their idle for 99 percent of the battle, and to use such bare-bones excuses for animations when they LITERALLY ALREADY HAD ANIMATIONS WHICH COULD BE USED ALMOST UNIVERSALLY FOR ANY KIND OF DYNAMIC MOVE.
