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sc94597 said:

I don't think it is wrong to say that the best-looking 3DS games if remastered (given higher-res textures and a resolution bump) would look similar to Sword and Shield.

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate has better animation work, and roughly comparable visual quality to Sword and Shield. Both games incorporate fixed cameras in their perspective, so world design is very similar. 

Of course if you're going to compare a Game Freak game to its predecessor it will look better. But Game Freak's 3DS efforts were lazy as well. The 3DS isn't that much less powerful than the GameCube yet the Pokemon games looked far worse than their GameCube peers. 

Now compare these efforts to something tailored for the Switch and has high quality assets like Monster Hunter Rise. 

Monster Hunter Rise looks better than Sword and Shield absolutely. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate though? I mean, the remastered textures do great work hiding the very low quality assets and poly counts, but I would not say that it's overall better than Sun and Moon (except for maybe those god awful tree bark textures on Sun and Moon). I'll show you:

Also, I disagree that the Gamecube games on 3DS look better than Sun and Moon. I think those are rose colored glasses. Just about everything has much better models on Sun and Moon. Texture resolution is lower on some things, I do agree, but I don't think it was just a shoe in. Personally I think that Sun and Moon are great looking 3DS games. This is what it looks like (4k compressed, btw):