I've never played a Pokémon game, but I can just imagine the things The Pokémon Company could do with this franchise, but everything they do is just lame. The remakes are not enticing and Legends, while it's appreciated they decided to do something different for once, despite the fact they just decided to take a gigantic note from BotW, looks really poor; way, way poorer than the 4-year old game they're trying to follow. For one of the largest media franchises in the world, it's disappointing to see what they continue to produce.

That's just how I see it, though, I don't think Pokémon deserves this kind of awful treatment.

Bold of you to assume I dislike Link's Awakening artstyle. I actually like it, which is the reason why I liked it in the original DP games, which also had it. Soooo... These games apparently have same (or almost same) artstyle as the originals, not a striking difference in graphics quality (outside of battle animations which we know everyone praised on SwSh) and also doesn't seem like they will add a lot of new content outside of a DLC-like expansion. Sounds like a remaster more than a remake.

Was referring to you disliking the BDSP art style, which you made quite apparent, rather than Links Awakening.

I think whether its a remake or a remaster comes down to how the software was built. Is the DS software with some enhancements? Then its a remaster. Has it be rebuilt from the ground up? Then its a remake. I can’t see them having used the DS software at all so its still a remake even if the graphical style gives it the appearance of a remaster.

that's no excuse to keep below average

A random thought:

I think they will never update the graphics of remakes again and with that in mind Unova will likely be their last remake 

The keep point is mainline series are getting smaller in scope each gen since gen 5 with the next iteration only bringing in less features, less gameplay, smaller maps and overall demanding less time to beat the main story with a non existent post-game content 

I mean, to make a full remake Pokemon Platinum with current gen graphics and maps you need to actually spend money and time. Sword and Shield have weird small lazy maps with boring routes and so on. Sinnoh is a bigger region with bigger story, more monuments, more designed geography, more cities, more story to animate, etc etc, the cost and time to make Sinnoh with Sword and Shield level of graphics would need more money and time than Sword and Shield to a potential smaller seller

Game Freak clearly doesn't care for quality, they want to maximize profits with a inferior quality product. This remake will sell over 10 million copies regardless of what it looks like, so why spend 5x their budget in a game that have a ceiling of sales under Sword and Shield (around 20 million copies)? 

Mainline pokemon's are more expensive because they start a brand new generation, it's not only a matter of graphics and manpower, it's about keeping the brand alive even with the bare minimum technological progress. Remakes doesn't need such effort, their main goal is to exploit the brand 

That's why I think Pokemon Legends may be their next iteration of secondary series after the mainline Pokemon, if it enjoy a good success enough to justify a sequel to be released I can see them fully dropping remakes to favour this new series. 

Splatoon 3 just got a 2022 release date nothing else. That could be at June or September. So like 1 year. While Pokemon Arceus did have early 2022 which could be at March since Nintendo loves having a big game at March. 

Exactly. People will discuss, analyse, make theorys and argue all over social media. They did the right thing to show it early despite not looking polished at all.

Minor detail that most people seem to have missed: The Diamond and Pearl remakes are not developed by Gamefreak, but by Ilca. From what I can gather from a quick Google search, Ilca has some smaller (mobile) games and apps to their name, and they assisted in the making of visuals and cinematics for several high-profile games like Nier:Automata, Dragon Quest XI and Code Vein, but this will be their first big game where they are in charge. It could be a fresh wind that will give the remakes a flair we can't expect from Gamefreak, or it could be a complete disaster since they are unexperienced with working on games of this scale. Only time will tell, I suppose...

I was disappointed in the way the Diamond and Pearl remakes look, but I'm sure I would still enjoy it regardless. Pokemon Legends Arceus looks cool. The only concern I have about it is its performance. I'm sure it'll be more optimized by the time the game's out next year, but we'll see what happens with it.

I guarantee you these D/P remakes will be inferior to the originals in every way. Just buy D/P or Platinum on the DS. These remakes are not worth picking up.

Poke'mon Legends on the other hand has me pretty hyped. I forgot that Gamefreak moved their offices to the main Nintendo building. So they may be getting some help polishing this one by mainline Nintendo. If Nintendo EAD or Monolithsoft is helping with Legends, and if they delay it to winter 2022 it could wind up being polished to perfection!