>>39554920There are plenty of Wii U games that look better. Bayonetta 2, Windwaker HD, Botw Wii U, Pikmin 3.
And you will probably say "They aren't the same genre" Doesn't matter still older games on worse hardware and they look better and have better lighting as well.
>Pokemon has never been on the forefront of graphicsDoesn't mean it's okay that the games look fucking terrible does it? I mean christ some of the textures are legitimately worse than GameCube textures. The reflections on the water are baked and don't even remotely resemble their surroundings, no Pokemon reflections on the water either. LGPE water looked better. Characters are the only thing that look fine, the problem is that the characters look like they are being photoshopped into their surroundings because of how drastically different they look from the rest of the game.
These games look horrible graphically. Regardless if they are an upgrade from before. The visual cohesion of the games are worse than before. SM at least was more consistent with how it looked. And that game was ugly too.