>>49497599By far the most annoying thing about Pokemon moving to 3D is that it's shown off how many people are ignorant to GameFreak being graphically behind on every single console they put Pokemon on EXCEPT for the Gameboy, and even then, it took two games for them to fix their monster sprites.
It is so easy for bad 3D to look so bad that even a layman can go, "That's bad", but the same isn't said for 2D. It's why people fucking eat up Undertale even though it's 2D art direction is a goddamn mess. Pointing out poor art design is a more nuanced skill than pointing out low res textures.
The people who bitch about Pokemon's bad graphics and then point to outsourced games for, "Why can't the games look like this!?" when you should expect that GameFreak sucks at graphics and has for 20+ years is the most infuriating thing because it's not even bait, people genuinely are unaware that Emerald or Diamond or Silver looked like fucking garbage relevant to the console they were released on and think PLA is the first time Pokemon has ever looked "ugly".
