didn’t just create a single image for each of them either, as they’re all expressively animated.

Japanese Twitter user did more than just daydream, though, and created awesome bitmap versions of eight Scarlet and Violet gym leaders!īW風ドット絵完成したぞォ！！ #ポケモンSV /oDw6HQfjt3- 京雲寺ハヤテ February 28, 2023Īcross the top row are Larry, Grusha, Ryme, and Tulip and below them stand Brassius, Katy, Kofu, and Iono. However, Pokémon doesn’t strive for photo-realism, and looking at the polygonal people encounter in Scarlet and Violet, you might find yourself daydreaming about what they’d look like rendered in the art style of the pre-polygon games. It’s a switch most other popular video game franchises had made years earlier, and with polygons now being the industry norm, no one was surprised when Scarlet and Violet, the newest Pokémon games, arrived last September with their casts made of polygons too. With the release of Pokémon X and Y in 2013, the series’ left bitmapped visuals behind and went to polygonal models. And it’d sound great with the Nintendo DS sound suite too.

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