>>53468313Ehh, they really lose that crisp look, also no anime art style on anime characters always looks weird.
I think the shaders and what not they used for XY were actually good, and captured the crispness of the sprites extremely well. But they fucked it up in some ways unrelated to it just being 3D:
>Colors imitated washed out sugimori art, rather than the vivid colors of DS era>Idle poses mostly suck, pokemon just stand there without any sense of drama or action>Some Pokemons models fucked up the proportions and were never fixed.The final thing, I think they should never have had the constantly moving around camera, and kept the view of the battles behind your own pokemon, for the effect of you viewing the battle as your trainer character does and not from some unseen camera man filming a sports event or something. This would have also masked the iffy animations by not putting such a huge focus on them.
We could have had all the advantages of 2D and 3D at once, has our cake and ate it so to speak. 3DS era was so close but fucked it up at the finish line.
SwSh, PLA, and SV just look like shit though. The models are just stuck there without any fancy shaders or outlines mimicking and anime look, they just look super cheap, while also not fixing any of the problems of the 3DS's system. It looks like that shitty footage of the 3DS games running in HD on emulators where the outlines don't work and what not, except somehow even worse
