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Manlytears on 13 February 2022
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shikamaru317 said:
Manlytears said:

I made some calls about how horrible the game looks, and yeah it looks fugly, but N64 ugly!? This is too much.
It looks ahead of Gamecube and PS2, More in line with PS360 game for sure, i'd say this game is outdated by 15 years... anyway, you made some valid points, 7.5 is also how i would grade this game.

I feel like even 7th gen open world games that were known for being pretty ugly graphically, like Fallout 3, still have better environment graphics than Legends Arceus does, and it doesn't even come close to your average open world 7th gen games, let alone the top of the line ones.

Pokemon Legends Arceus

For comparison, I'm going to post some examples of AAA open world games from gen 7 which were taken from either the Xbox 360 or PS3 version of the games (not PC), ranging from worst looking to best looking (imo):

TES 4: Oblivion (2006)

Saints Row (2006)

Fallout 3 (2008)

Assassin's Creed 2 (2009)

Far Cry 2 (2008)

Saints Row 3 (2011)

Sleeping Dogs (2012)

Just Cause 2 (2010)

Red Dead Redemption (2010)

Far Cry 3 (2012)

GTA V (2013)

It tops 2006's Oblivion and Saints Row overall, but that's not saying much, both were well known for being quite ugly and far below your average AAA open world game for the 7th generation, as both released very early gen when developers were still coming to grips with 2 brand new console architectures (an excuse Gamefreak lacks, Switch has been out for nearly 5 years now and only has to optimize for a single console with handheld and docked performance profiles).

Legends Arceus feels like some sort of halfway point between gen 6 and gen 7 I'd say, we're talking like 2005-2006 6th/7th cross-gen game territory, which would make it about 16-17 years outdated overall. Though like Zyro said in the video, there are some aspects of it's graphics that feel even more outdated than that, like the grass sprites spinning in circles to follow the camera instead of being fully 3D grass blades in the world, I may be mistaken, but I don't think any AAA gen 7 games had spinning grass sprites, and even gen 6 would have had very few games using tech that outdated.

I agree with your analysis, very well put.