>>58896809Alright.
>The attempt to mix pixel art with constant sprite animation results in environments that look cluttered, muddy, and cheap.Looks fine on original hardware. When you play it on an emulator it's gonna look bad. All DS games look bad on an emulator.
>The tiles are over-detailed, noisy, and oddly scaled, making towns and routes harder to read at a glance.I don't know yawnie, I was able to see what a town or route had to offer with a glance and some exploration.
>Unova’s world often looks like a prototype that never got properly refined.Have you seen how the actual prototypes looked? They were going for a different look to the Gen 4 games by having slightly more realistic chibis.
>The heavy use of blur, zoom, and pseudo-3D camera angles only makes this worsePersonally I see it as them trying and succeeding to emulate the awe and spectacle of those PS1 games where sprites were moving on a 3D model.
>The Pokédex is bloated to an embarrassing degree.Only time I'm going to mention a post gen 5 game in this, but XY's dex is insanely bloated, even for Pokemon standards. Every route feels like one of those "Every pokemon in one region!" hacks. Unpolished and nonsensical.
>When your region’s answer to classics is a trash bag, an ice cream cone, and a literal pile of gears,Don't look at Gen 1's gallery of monsters, including: a pile of sludge, a Poke ball, two magnets on a steel ball, a rock with arms, and a literal seal, down to the name.
>resulting in a hollow reboot that lacks the charm of the original.Then why is Gen 5 just as remembered as much as the classics that started it all? Why is Gen 5 commonly seen as one of, if not the best generation of Pokemon?
>Many Pokémon are blatant stand-ins for older favourites, but without the personality or memorability that made those originals iconic.I don't know, plenty of people love Trubbish and Chandelure.
Just admit you have a hate boner for the DS era because you were in diapers when it was new.
