>>55229214>With the caveat that 4 showed signs of being rushed and it could have been a lot better. Just for example there was nothing stopping them from having fully animated pokemon sprites like gen 5Is this ironic shitposting? DP had new unique sprites and animations for every single pokemon, even those not in the DP regional dex, and Platinum changed some and added a second frame to every single back sprite, and then HGSS changed some sprites and back sprites again.
Meanwhile, BW reused every single non gen 5 sprite from gen 4, and B2W2 had the exact same sprites as BW. The way battle animations are done in gen 5 is by splitting the sprites into several body parts and making them move, it's very easy to do
that's actually how porn flash games are made. Objectively speaking the way gen 4 (or Emerald, for that matter) handled sprites took much more effort than how it was done in gen 5
If anything you should be calling gen 5 rushed if this is your argument
