There’s really no excuse for these pokemon games to look the way they do in 2024 when games like tears of the kingdom exist. It’s not like the pokemon company and Nintendo don’t have the budget to make a pokemon game of that level. They just don’t want to. Same goes for other Japanese game properties that seem to be resistant to modernize and reinvent themselves
It really seems like Gamefreak just can’t handle 3D games, but they’ve been forced to since the Switch is now the only main platform for Nintendo.
I feel like the games would really flourish if they were taken away from Gamefreak and given to a different studio to handle.
They get like 3 years between each major title, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. If they’re overwhelmed by remakes and side games then they need to outsource those parts, but maybe they’re worried about being shown up by another studio.
Pretty sure diamond and pearl remakes were outsourced and still ass. The company just doesn’t care enough.
They were decently made games as far as I was aware. The main issue I was seeing brought up with them was that they were direct copies of the originals without any real improvements, so you might as well play the originals. I can’t remember seeing any complaints that the ILCA games were made incompetently, just that what they ended up making was uninspired.
A common complaint I saw with them was they were Diamond/Pearl remakes, not a Platinum remake (since Platinum had so many improvements).
Even then, every remake that came before it added something more to the originals than just a 2D sprite to 3D model conversion. Even if they had included the improvements from Platinum, it still would’ve felt lacking because they added nothing to justify buying and playing the remakes over the originals. Not even the National Pokedex was expanded beyond what already existed back in gen 4, so you couldn’t even get the novelty of playing with your newer Pokemon in Sinnoh.
I guess I’m more upset about this than I realized, but to ILCA’s credit, none of my complaints come from the perspective of the game being poorly coded or full of bugs.
They should have had these conversations after the release of Black/White. But truth be told, they probably don’t give a fuck. They make them, people buy them, they always sell out in record numbers, so they’ll make another one again, that’ll somehow be even worse than the previous one
