Recent content by Sonikku A

Leaks sadly confirm this was...a mistake A rogue GF artist did this, even though Yoshida, Takao, Ohmura, and Sugimori didn't consider it. Also why no early OW sprites for her exist, while we do have many early ones for Ethan Early Trainer sprites in 2008 initially used a more inverted color...

This is definitely based on 2D art for pose We'll probably get the 2D one later

Yeah like those Retro """purists""" ignore that Devs generally had better hardware than what the consumer had, making assets at a much higher res than what the TV showed. Arcade screens generally weren't composite dogshit consumer CRTs like purists overrate for home console. They also notably...

Frankly the weird colorspace instead of using a more standard one like what SP/Micro did is weird. The fact GB Player doesn't handle it properly makes it more odd Same for straight up not having link cable support for GB/GBC. Nintendo should've been aware how enormous of an IP Pokemon was for...

Tbf the main artwork not being watercolor did a lot. Even compared to his digital late 1996-2001 art, Sugi's sense of saturation just weirdly died middle of RS dev (early presented RS mons are mostly fine for contrast, but then you look at Team Aqua or especially FRLG art it gets super pale...)...

Yes, but the SP changed the colorspace to be closer to GBA player. That's not what many 2001-3 GBA games like RS were made for, and especially irrelevant to the Gengar topic SMW's GBA port looks attrocious on SP/Micro/GB Player for this reason. It was made way earlier for the original GBA This...

Gengar's Shiny for Gen 3 on OG hardware is not as contrasted as raw graphics ripped/emulation, largely due to the crap dim screen Using the accurate shader It's still markedly different than Sugi's art where that's less red shifted in comparison, but nowhere as drastic as what emulation and...

Honestly I'd argue Dark isn't THAT good, it's just hard carried by Prankster (fucking bullshit it gives priority to none volatile moves), and Kingambit's ability, along with the ruinous quartet having hyper minmaxxed stats for 2 of them When you look at Bombirdier and Mabosstiff, neither make...

No one really wants to admit that Gen 2 was when Pokemania was dying. It's very noticeable for the anime crowd that after Ash lost in the Indigo league, interest plummeted as people were mad. It doesn't help that Gen 2's identity is severely Kanto oriented, so even the casual crowd that grew up...

Honestly kinda funny how Water took a hit this Gen cuz of the Paradoxes, weather war for said paradoxes, and cover legends. Same for reduced Scald distribution It's not bad, but huh

Bug really should be buffed defensively + not be resisted by Fairy. Basically a more utility oriented Steel (Posts this for the millionth time)

It does get me how they kinda fucked up the world building with the sheer lack of side quests or even mention from NPCs about development. Gen 2 tried with the bug/fishing contests and noting the older apricorn balls, but the former being tied to a literal 24/7 clock hurts it, and there are no...

Gen 3 is in a weird position nowadays honestly regarding fandom spats. Other than "Hoenn confirmed" posting right before ORAS, it kinda deflated for talk outside romhacking. And even then for the latter for an obnoxiously long time it was for FRLG based hacks until decomps around 2019 It's just...

The clothes design isn't good, especially with the drab tawny colors. Snowboarders look way more cool effortlessly, and that's not getting into poses Also the fact that I mistook them for rangers cuz of the earthy colors isn't good. Every Gen after 2 they wear slick jumpsuits (or suits in XY...

Ah, my mistake ...yeesh that makes it worse. Ace trainers are supposed to be cool