>>57220779Personally I haven't enjoyed 3d battles in mainline until PLA. It's not perfect but it's cool to actually see pokémon lunging and hitting their opponent. Not even the Stadium games did that.
Otherwise I think they're fine. Some mons have better 3d models than others but that is true for sprites too kek (Gen 3 Banette is disgusting).
As for 2D games, I think GameFreak was actually a master of pixel art. It's hard to explain but their sprites and tiles being easily readable and cute looking made them stand out compared to other games. You can see it in their non-Pokémon stuff like Drill Dozer too.
Gen 3's development has actually shown they spent a lot of time trying to make the pokémon look good and make them have depth.
Their maps lost charm when they went with the 2.5d look and I never have been crazy over it.
