>>45782858The previous games had the "It's on a low power handheld, of course it's going to look like shit" excuse.
The 2D games looked... fine for the most part. Not groundbreaking, but never ugly.
The 3d games on the 3ds looked pretty bad but that's just what you get with an old low power device like that.
We were promised a real console experience. A mainline title. We'd seen how good Battles could look 20 years ago starting with Pokémon Stadium. In 2006, PBR, on the weak as fuck Wii looked stunning.
What we ended up getting was a 3ds game, except rendered at a higher resolution, with stiff, lifeless animations, literally ZERO alternate routes or caves to explore and NPCs at every corner telling you where to go
>Welcome to TOWN. You want to go to GYM and challenge LEADER, right? GYM is THERE. Go THERE.>Welcome to GYM. Here be LEADER. You want to challenge? Go in. Challenge LEADER>Hello. I am LEADER. You challenge me? Good. I only have one type so I'm easy as fuck to defeat even though I'm meant to be a boss. Don't worry, I'd still be easy even if you only had Pokémon weak to my type.>Oh no, I have been defeated. You now want to go to NEXT TOWN, right? And challenge LEADER there, right? Go DIRECTION.It's a fucking joke, it's a fucking mess. What the heck did they purge the dex for if the result felt like it was even LESS than the 3ds games, which already were quite the massive leap down from Gen5?
My nostalgia was a powerful shield that helped me somehow still enjoy the 3ds games, but that's gone now. Those new games are simply terrible.
