>>46373695These games get made so quickly they must have like, literally zero time given early on to experiment with artstyle, they just pick something and go with it because going back would put them behind schedule.
Rather than many of the games we would consider actually good nowadays that basically get a release date but then keep pushing it back in order to finish the game, pokemon will just release at the appointed date no matter what because they games are essentially made in a factory rather than put together by artists.