/vr/ - Retro Games

The monster part of Pocket Monsters was really highlighted by gen 1 spritework. Very animalistic designs whereas later pokemon sprites are very blobby and cartoony. The original concepts shine through on a lot of these sprites way more than the too clean looking sprites from later games. Gastly in particular is literally vapor here instead of the defined circle with eyes he then became

and the stiff ass 3d models with the washed out colors from the newest games are shit