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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 11:10:57 No.58998641 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>58998737 >>58998764 >>58998831 >>58998848 >>58998865 >>58998988 >>58998991 >>58999003 >>58999236 >>58999264 >>58999370 >>58999438 >>58999799 >>58999819 >>58999970 >>59000046 >>59000067 >>59000287 >>59000386

People are having nostalgia for SS graphics now

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 11:13:58 No.58998647 Report

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11 years old that started playing Pokemon with Sword and Shield are adults now. It was bound to happen soon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 11:15:26 No.58998651 Report

Quoted By: >>58998658 >>59000372

>Sword and Shield's graphics are the best ever. Anime-style is justice.
>I grew up with the Game Boy Red and Green games, so I was amazed by the graphics of Sword and Shield. I'll never forget the excitement I felt when I walked through the first town. I really thought, "Today's Pokemon is amazing."

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 11:18:30 No.58998658 Report

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>>58998651
I mean for the most part that's a viewpoint I agree with. I replay SS the most out of all the Switch titles

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 11:19:10 No.58998661 Report

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I have no doubts these games will be considered the new "peak" soon enough

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 11:23:13 No.58998665 Report

Quoted By: >>58998991 >>59000165 >>59000403

I do agree on the fur being ugly

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 11:59:14 No.58998737 Report

Quoted By: >>58999888

>>58998641
Soulsilver ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:05:28 No.58998762 Report

Quoted By: >>58998771 >>58998980

Swsh looks great outside the wild area people just had to latch on to literally everything to complain about because of the dex cut

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:06:30 No.58998764 Report

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>>58998641
SS's artstyle and graphics were genuinely good. SV fucked it all up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:08:49 No.58998771 Report

Quoted By: >>58998980 >>58999995

>>58998762
this, if not for dexit swsh would have been extremely well-received, especially with its dlc

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:35:51 No.58998831 Report

Quoted By: >>58998841

>>58998641
SwSh suck but they're a step up over what came later.
Graphics arent great but they're passable in most contexts, not distractingly bad. I had fun just playing bike simulator and team building.
Then SV came out, had actually distractingly ugly visuals, breeding was so bad it was essentially removed, and raids, the only endgame system that exists without breeding, were utterly broken, straight up didn't work at all and felt like a buggy nightmare.
Not surprising even I have some nostalgia for SwSh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:41:17 No.58998841 Report

Quoted By: >>58998847 >>58998986

>>58998831
>Graphics arent great but they're passable in most contexts, not distractingly bad
imo this is all they need to be. i sincerely do not give a fuck about pokemon looking like the most hi-def AAA UE5 masterpiece, so long as its not actively ugly (like PLA and SV were). id rather the graphics just be passable and more time get devoted to making the game actually fun. if it looks great, thats a nice bonus, but shiny graphics cant save a mid game. ww looks nice, but if it has the same problem sv did of an empty as fuck map, all the graphics in the world wont make me like it

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:45:10 No.58998847 Report

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>>58998841
Shame about the AAA prices.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:45:36 No.58998848 Report

Quoted By: >>58998863 >>58998986 >>58999270

>>58998641
It was literally the last mainline game that had any actual effort put into locations (no the Legends games are not mainline). Compared to SV, SWSH had soul

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:49:25 No.58998863 Report

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>>58998848
i remember randomly, like a year into playing swsh, i stumbled across a child NPC in hammerlocke(?) who asked me to take a letter to their friend in the glow mushroom town i forget the name of. I get there and the friend is an old man who said the writer of the letter died long ago. went back to hammerlocke and the child was gone, with a reaper cloth in her place.

swsh have their flaws but they have a lot that aligns with how things were in the older games. sv has next to nothing in terms of little quest lines like that, every item is either just sitting in a random field or just bought from a delibird presents

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:50:49 No.58998865 Report

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>>58998641
After SV's abysmal graphics I don't blame them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 12:52:18 No.58998867 Report

Quoted By: >>58999433

Let me know when it's acceptable to outright like these games, thx
I loved Sword and place it as my second favorite in the entire series right after Emerald, but I get all sorts of replies when I bring it up

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:30:18 No.58998980 Report

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>>58998771
>>58998762
>tiny ass, linear ass hallways
No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:32:21 No.58998986 Report

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>>58998848
>hallways
>effort

>>58998841
SWSH is mid through and through.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:32:55 No.58998988 Report

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>>58998641
SilSoulver?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:33:43 No.58998991 Report

Quoted By: >>58999308 >>58999462 >>58999779

>>58998641
>>58998665
>bitch and whine endlessly that the games look like shit because of the outlines and celshading
>even mod those out because it hecckin "looks better"
>compare the main series games with a literal railroads game
>"WAAAAAAAH WHY DID THEY DROP CELSHADING AND OUTLINES XISTERS WHYYYYY!"

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:38:22 No.58999003 Report

Quoted By: >>59000165

>>58998641
the beginning area of swsh wasn't bad honestly. the towns in general were pretty nice. i still really like motostoke. the games are still kind of awful to play and the graphics/animations at times are just inexcusable. it'll always be one of the worst gens, undoubtably, but it's not all negatives.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:43:07 No.58999026 Report

Quoted By: >>58999321

>People are now actually defending Sword and Shield
Stop breathing immediately, ywnbaw.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:47:09 No.58999038 Report

Quoted By: >>58999043 >>58999278 >>59001363

After SV, no shit.

Gen 10 is keeping this same ugly style by the way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:48:26 No.58999043 Report

Quoted By: >>58999061

>>58999038
Gen 10 looks more like SM than SV

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:49:29 No.58999049 Report

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The Wild Area looked like complete garbage and so did the "caves". This criticism was leveraged at the game because they removed a bunch of Pokemon under the pretext of improving visuals and animations. Complete lies btw.

It looked passable beyond that, but was linear, empty and barbones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:52:04 No.58999061 Report

Quoted By: >>58999074

>>58999043
Baffling post, please explain

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 13:54:49 No.58999074 Report

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>>58999061
trust me bro

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 14:36:43 No.58999236 Report

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>>58998641
SS looks good until you go to the wild areas which is what brings the game down

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 14:45:56 No.58999264 Report

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>>58998641
I mean anime style is the graphics pokemon should have, I always cringe when people claim it's bad and especially so the times Ive seen people unironically wish pokemon looked like TLOU or dark souls.

Like I love the way gen 10 is looking, very excited for it and all, I dont hate where they are going but if it were up to me I'd like them to focus on an improved anime aesthetic for the world. Unfortunately the very loud minority will get pandered to in the end when they should be ignored.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 14:47:31 No.58999270 Report

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>>58998848
>legends games
>not mainline
Are people actually still lying to themselves like this? Lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 14:48:40 No.58999278 Report

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>>58999038
This is literally /vp/'s guy. How can you possibly hate the king?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 14:56:11 No.58999304 Report

Quoted By: >>59000020

I know it's GAYfreak and they're incompetent, but why, if they struggle with making the realism look good, have they not just said "fuck it" and gone full cel-shaded? Pokemon could look like Okami and nobody would shit on it nearly as hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 14:56:59 No.58999308 Report

Quoted By: >>58999323

>>58998991
>bitch and whine endlessly that the games look like shit because of the outlines and celshading
>even mod those out because it hecckin "looks better"

That was for 3ds game with pixelated outlines you dishonest subhuman
No one modded cell shading out of SwSh

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 15:00:25 No.58999321 Report

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>>58999026
There's multiple series where this happens, its because newer entries literally keep getting worse, so obviously people end up defending older entries for being better than newer ones. There's no change of opinion or weird cultural shift happening its just like, thing gets worse, people prefer the less worse one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 15:01:59 No.58999323 Report

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>>58999308
it's still whining
the 3ds screen was small and the outlines didn't look bad on it
we're talking about piratefag subhumans who were playing the games on bigger screens and complaining the outlined celshaded style didn't look good on those

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 15:21:29 No.58999370 Report

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>>58998641
What SV does to people...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 15:36:58 No.58999433 Report

Quoted By: >>58999803

>>58998867
it's Joe's favorite game

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 15:37:48 No.58999438 Report

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>>58998641
I liked SwSh's artstyle, always have :)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 15:42:25 No.58999462 Report

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>>58998991
>bitch and whine endlessly that the games look like shit because of the outlines and celshading
>even mod those out because it hecckin "looks better"
Speak for yourself. I always defended cel shading and outlines, and thought the 3DS mods to remove them looked like shit. Pokemon is at its best when it’s trying to be like a cartoon or an anime, instead of the forced “muh realism” garbage SV forced with its terrible textures and muddy dirt shading.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 16:48:07 No.58999779 Report

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>>58998991
Man you just now a /vp/ post is going to be ultra dogshit the moment you see an uppercase greentext
You retards have no other way to form an argument than making up a screaming baby in your head and say look that's you
What a childish way to respond to an argument, grow up

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 16:50:04 No.58999792 Report

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>Everyone shit on SwSh and says the game looks like ass everywhere
>Surprised when gamefreak drops the artstyle for something else
You guys do it to yourself.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 16:51:05 No.58999799 Report

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>>58998641
Swsh always looked good on the routes and cities, it was the god awful "wild zone" that looked and ran like complete trash. I said for years that it was a bizarre compromise and Swsh would have been better off without it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 16:51:36 No.58999803 Report

Quoted By: >>59000266

>>58999433
Who's Joe?

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 16:53:47 No.58999819 Report

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>>58998641
>now

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:02:52 No.58999888 Report

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>>58998737
Sword and Shield. You can tell from the context of the OP where his picture is of Gen 8 and not Gen 4.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:15:36 No.58999970 Report

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>>58998641
Gloria is garbage

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:17:42 No.58999991 Report

Quoted By: >>59000013

Gen V was peak
It's essentially what those HD Pixel Remasters from Square would have been 15 years ago on a DS. Imagine that, Pokemon in HD-2D with lovingly animated sprites and detailed environments....

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:18:22 No.58999995 Report

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>>58998771
>if not for dexit swsh would have been extremely well-received
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA nice one anon. Even with all of SVs flaws theyre still better games than SWSHit

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:19:34 No.59000013 Report

Quoted By: >>59000027

>>58999991
>lovingly animated

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:20:06 No.59000020 Report

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>>58999304
>Pokemon could look like Okami and nobody would shit on it nearly as hard.
PLA did the okami style and everyone hated it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:21:06 No.59000027 Report

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>>59000013
Holy sovl

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:24:51 No.59000046 Report

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>>58998641
they might be ass but SV looked and ran even worse.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:26:06 No.59000058 Report

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SS artstyle was the only good thing it had going for it, it's not about the cycle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:27:03 No.59000067 Report

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>>58998641
SS does have some nice looking set pieces when viewed in screenshots
But they're all backgrounds at a fixed angle, in game you can't go there and if you can there's tons of pop in

I remember walking up to that first town and suddenly seeing the crowd pop in around Leon and went...oh dear

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 17:44:51 No.59000165 Report

Quoted By: >>59000260

>>58998665
>>58999003
Yuuri is so FUCKING cute god damn.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:08:41 No.59000260 Report

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>>59000165

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:10:41 No.59000266 Report

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>>58999803
Joe Mama

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:15:45 No.59000287 Report

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>>58998641
When zoomed out and not in the wild area, SS did look really good. It mostly looked bad once you actually looked closely at a texture, or saw the open baren wild area. If you cant be real about what you didnt like about a game, you cant be trusted on that game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:18:42 No.59000306 Report

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It's just because Pokemon is going for more realistic environment now, and that makes it less distinguishable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:32:12 No.59000372 Report

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>>58998651
Indeed, the departure from the anime-style graphics is what made gen 9 instantly so, so bad. I give PLA a pass though.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:36:55 No.59000386 Report

Quoted By: >>59000419 >>59000461

>>58998641
Based Japs, we should have kept the anime look and eventually evolved into what Monster Hunter Stories 3 is doing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:39:23 No.59000403 Report

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>>58998665
>fur
I see no fur on either side, just a plain white flat color that maybe has slightly more texture added on the right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:41:51 No.59000419 Report

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>>59000386
Stories 3 looking that good and running at 60 fps is genuine magic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 18:49:32 No.59000461 Report

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>>59000386
game freak just aren't that talented. it's not a matter of direction they just don't have what it takes to make a game that looks that way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 22:20:17 No.59001363 Report

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>>58999038
>Disrespecting Xaviersama
Fake fan, you make me sick.

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