| Cerebralbore101 said: Yeah I really thought it was weird that the Donkey poke'mon has a signature kick move with a kicking animation, but when he does the doublekick fighting move he doesn't just do that animation twice. Instead he just does a 2 inch jump into the air. Also Scorbunny has an animation in his Poke'dex profile that could have been used for the doublekick move. The best explaination I can think of is that Gamefreak might want to keep some of the old animations for nostolgia's sake. Kind of like how we still hear digitized Poke'mon screams, instead of smoother sound files. If true, then criticizing Poke'mon for lazy animations would be as silly as criticizing Dragonquest for 8 bit sound effects. But that's just a theory, and we'd have to ask the developers. |
No need for theorys, we've known why for months. Game Freak brought attention to their low quality themselves when they tried to push high quality animations as a reason for the cuts, that by getting rid of Pokemon, the ones left will be improved with more expressiveness. Of course we're then going to point out the fact that every returning Pokemon model and it's animations were ripped straight from the 3DS the same as they were in Let's Go, and the new Pokemon share the same minimalist style of animation as does the game at large. There are exceptions like the opening cut scene with the starters that show Game Freak is capable of quality, but just can't be bothered to apply that to the majority of the game.
For full context, this is the quote from the Tree House demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmWu-f6L0Mo @25:30
"But with the transition to the Nintendo Switch hardware with it being much more powerful allowing us to be much more expressive with each of the individual Pokemon. And now we're well over 800 Pokemon species in the games. At Game Freak we really spent a lot of time thinking about what the best way to move forward was, really preserving the quality of all the different Pokemon while also taking into account the battle balance having so many different Pokemon available all within limited development time so we don't keep fans waiting too long for every new entry in the series.
After a lot of discussion we decided to come to a new direction, and so what that means for Sw/Sh is that players will be able to transfer their Pokemon from Pokemon Home only if they appear in the Galar region Pokedex. So we were very careful we spent a lot of time really thinking what the best selection of Pokemon to match the setting of the adventure would be. I'll talk about more details in future opportunitys such as media interviews but I wanted to let you know today."
Summary from an interview shortly after: https://www.siliconera.com/game-freak-says-it-will-be-hard-for-all-pokemon-to-appear-even-in-games-after-pokemon-sword-shield/
"Masuda reiterates that with the shift to the Switch, the amount of time needed to make the graphics more beautiful and the animations more lively has increased. Another aspect is the fact that the Pokemon series has reached over 1,000 Pokemon (including form changes), and as such, apart from the graphics, balancing for new Pokemon with new abilities has become very hard. This is the reason behind the decision this time, and they have judged that it will be hard for all the Pokemon to appear, even in titles going forward. This was a decision that had to be made sooner or later, according to Masuda."
"According to Ohmori, even in Pokemon Sun & Moon, bringing in every Pokemon was something barely manageable, and with Pokemon Sword & Shield and the need to redo models, and so they had to make a decision. However, Ohmori says that despite this, the Wild Areas and story will have quite a bit of content to make up for it."
| think-man said: Sword/Shield will go down as one of the most controversial Pokemon mainline titles ever released. People either love it or hate it. Gamefreak has played it safe for a long time with previous entries, but their transition to HD (which is probably the most ambitious) should be seen as a learning experience. I'm sure that the next title, or even the Sword/Shield ultimate will fix alot of the problems people have. |
They said that going forward they'll continue with the cuts (see above), cycling Pokemon in and out on a whim. With this game undoubtedly going to sell +10 million, they have no reason to fix anything, only to cut corners further.
