I respect the opinion of whoever is happy with the remakes but these are definitely not what I wanted. I actually liked the graphical direction pokemon took with Sword and Shield (excluding the wild area and the out of place berry trees) and especially Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. I was hoping they'd make it in at least the graphic style of the Let's Go games. Other than the catching mechanic, graphics wise those games were solid. Or maybe even the ORAS style of chibi models, those were detailed, expressive, and looked good close up, just anything but these weird, expressionless, poorly shaded lego/roblox people. In the battle scenes the trainer models also look bad, the shading looks terrible and I feel like they just don't match the pokemon models.
Also, what's the point in a 3d remake if everything looks almost exactly like the original models? Its so easy to just download a rom of Pokemon Platinum and an emulator for free. I think there's even an emulator that lets you play it on your phone! IF it's a 1:1 remake like they're making it sound, there's literally no reason why I should buy this. Especially if its 60$ like the Let's Go and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon remakes. I've also seen a lot of people saying that graphics don't matter its the gameplay that matters, but every pokemon game literally has the same exact gameplay with very few changes so the only thing they have going for them at this point is graphics. If gameplay matters so much over graphics, you might as well just replay the original Diamond and Pearl. If you dont want to replay the same game, you could download one of the several FREE fan games or rom hacks and get the same gameplay experience, just with pixel art.
Unless its like ORAS where they add cool things flying on Latios and Latias and story changes, walking with pokemon like in HG and SS, or even entirely new areas to explore I just don't see a reason to buy these.
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I respect the opinion of whoever is happy with the remakes but these are definitely not what I wanted. I actually liked the graphical direction pokemon took with Sword and Shield (excluding the wild area and the out of place berry trees) and especially Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. I was hoping they'd make it in at least the graphic style of the Let's Go games. Other than the catching mechanic, graphics wise those games were solid. Or maybe even the ORAS style of chibi models, those were detailed, expressive, and looked good close up, just anything but these weird, expressionless, poorly shaded lego/roblox people. In the battle scenes the trainer models also look bad, the shading looks terrible and I feel like they just don't match the pokemon models.
Also, what's the point in a 3d remake if everything looks almost exactly like the original models? Its so easy to just download a rom of Pokemon Platinum and an emulator for free. I think there's even an emulator that lets you play it on your phone! IF it's a 1:1 remake like they're making it sound, there's literally no reason why I should buy this. Especially if its 60$ like the Let's Go and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon remakes.
I've also seen a lot of people saying that graphics don't matter its the gameplay that matters, but every pokemon game literally has the same exact gameplay with very few changes so the only thing they have going for them at this point is graphics. If gameplay matters so much over graphics, you might as well just replay the original Diamond and Pearl. If you dont want to replay the same game, you could download one of the several FREE fan games or rom hacks and get the same gameplay experience, just with pixel art.
Unless its like ORAS where they add cool things flying on Latios and Latias and story changes, walking with pokemon like in HG and SS, or even entirely new areas to explore I just don't see a reason to buy these.