>>45016581>>45021175what does quality mean to you? You can't be using verisimilitude as a measure of quality because SWSH looks cartooney as shit. And you definitely can't be saying that SWSH represents the full realizations of pokemon's visual aesthetic, because the environments look totally dull and generic.
Take all the pokemon and npc's out of the overworld and SWSH just becomes another switch game with mediocre graphics. However, all of the 2D pokemon games would still be immediately recognizable, even if you removed a similar amount of things from them. That's because the artistic style of the older games is much more iconic than whatever it is the 3D games have been doing. The 3D games have failed to establish a unique visual style, which is why they look worse than gens 2,4, and 5 imo.
The color, shape, and placement of most assets is entirely nondescript. The only thing unique about SWSH's trees, buildings, and sky boxes is that they all look a bit shit. I don't see what's wrong with chibi characters if they live in a world that meshes with their appearance (see sanrio).
