>>56545985The GBA itself was a downgrade from Gen 2
>hideously bright and flashy colors everywhere due to the screen>no night pallet>removed animations that Crystal had and then brought them back but way worse>gen2 games had different sprite colors for different versions, removed in 3Also, FRLG graphics are a downgrade from RSE even though they do have more muted colors. The artstyle trying to emulate the outdated aesthetic of Gen1 was a bad design choice and looks awkward everywhere.
Gen 5 is a downgrade from 4 also
>those sprite animations in battle look awful; cant even turn it off>trying to cram way too much detail into small sprites>all that 2.5d everywhere that doesn't age well>having the camera zoom way out cinematically just to show how shitty everything really looksThere's not a single frame you get in this game that looks good.
The artstyle has been trash since Gen 7 too, and they can't into soul in 3D whatsoever. No need to get into how awful shit looks in the Switch games. LGPE is the best looking one and its artstyle is a fucking war crime in a Kanto game when Kanto previously had only been seen in the 2 best artstyles (art direction wise, not the sprites as previously mentioned)
