>>58810948See, you posted a great example. Really interesting concept, made dogshit by the terrible spritework. They immediately fixed it in FRLG too, and that style was modified for every following Pokemon game aside from Emerald, so we can see other examples.
>>58810968Given GS's battle sprites were being finished last minute or occasionally in Crystal that's certainly an opinion, but whatever man aesthetics are easily the most arguable thing there is. I think we can agree base DP has no aesthetic, like at all, but I think Platinum at least makes an attempt even if it's no HGSS. And yeah, Gen 5 is pretty consistently above board on basically everything but almost never excels in any area which can leave some people wanting (at least it's not XY where nearly everything is just below standard making it genuinely dip into mediocre).
