>>48540521I hate THAT part of every 20yo youtuber video looking back on gen 1 (for the first time)
>look at this dude, they completely got it wrong. Now then came yellow which mostly fixed this bad sprite problem......Nigga the monsters were designed as the red and green sprites first. Then they made blue alt sprites because in Japan blue was a glorified bug fixing patch and needed extra selling points. THEN came the watercolor sugimori art. Then came the anime, then came the sprites for yellow and beyond.
That said a lot of yellow sprites look good, derivative of the anime they may be. But some of them (pidgey, charizard, moltres, arbok, raticate, etc.) take it too far and look like direct scans of anime images. Not a fan.
But yeah, rbg look like pocket monsters. Because that's what they were, back before it became a trillion dollar international multimedia brand.
