>>57760878>>57760885One thing is design and another is drawing style. Gen 8 designs are, conceptually, mostly fine, it's just that weird noodle limbs style that ruins them. Both Nessa and Irida's models look cute ingame and moreso in Masters, which is funny since Masters models have fewer polygons than Switch games (but still a lot more than 3DS games).
Conversely, Gen 9 suffers both from that dogshit school uniform 90% of the NPCs in the map use, and from the sloppy graphics and 3D shading. But the unique NPC cast has plenty of cute girls, the problem is that you see most of them once or twice in the entire playthrough and never again. (Until you unlock the League Club thing in Blueberry at least)
The fact models are best looking in Masters, decent in SwSh and worst in Scarlet/Violet shows they should have never moved away from toon shading style