@EdBoatConnoisseur @beardalaxy It wasn't claymation, they borrowed SGI workstations from Rare to make pre-rendered sprites. At least that's what I've heard.

@xianc78 @beardalaxy Well those sprites look clay-ish

@galena @beardalaxy @xianc78 I liked BDSP's art style and game philosophy, and I love that it was faithful to the successful and beloved DS graphics.

As for SMRPG, I thought it was very overrated when I played it on the Wii, so if that is faithful too, that might be an issue,

@KoopaTV @beardalaxy @xianc78 Incorrect opinion

@galena @KoopaTV @xianc78 i don't think BD/SP look nearly as faithful as SMRPG and LA do.

@beardalaxy @KoopaTV @xianc78 To me, it looks like the same kind of thing - taking proportions intended for a completely different artstyle and lazily applying them to a new artstyle, without any concern for how much it clashes. It's "faithful" in the wrong ways, rather than attempting to find a way to make it look good with a different style, or retaining the old style, it creates an ugly half-assed mix of new and old. There are certain limitations older hardware, and certain artstyles, impose. These limitations impact game design, art design, etc; the proportions of the artstyle are an example of these sorts of limitations. The proportions work with their intended artstyle because they are part of it - a product of it. Taking those exact proportions and using them for a completely different artstyle just looks ugly and lazy. They're mindlessly copying the limitations without understanding why they were there to begin with or what purpose they served - it's just mindlessly tracing the work without understanding why it works.

BDSP were endlessly mocked for being "faithful" remakes to the point of serving 0 purpose, because they're just straight up worse than the game they're trying to remake; they're just a much, much buggier DP with an atrocious artstyle, and without any of the improvements people loved about Platinum.

@galena @beardalaxy @xianc78 BDSP is not worse than Diamond / Pearl. That's absurd. It also had several improvements made over Diamond / Pearl that addressed the issues that critics and players had of Diamond / Pearl at the time they came out.
I wrote about those if you're interested.
https://www.koopatv.org/2023/06/sinnoh-remasters-addressed-original-issues.html

@KoopaTV @beardalaxy @xianc78 Literally defending the laziest cashgrab pokemon has ever made

@galena @beardalaxy @xianc78 I find anti-BDSP arguments to be very lazy and derivative. Pro-BDSP is a lot more thoughtful and fun; fitting of a fun videogame.

@KoopaTV @beardalaxy @xianc78 ok shill

@galena @beardalaxy @xianc78
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@KoopaTV @beardalaxy @xianc78 Shill.