"Why are the animations in the older console games so much better than in the newer 3DS and Switch games?"

So I’ve just been playing Pokémon colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness for the first time and the thing about these games that stand out to me the most is how good the battle animations for the Pokémon are.First of all, the idle animations are fantastic. In newer games the Pokémon mostly just stands around, but in the GameCube games idle animations really bring out the Pokémon’s character. For example in colosseum Hariyama is continuously doing the sumo step for an idle animation, and then there is Ursaring who swings its arms back and forth. In the newer games these Pokémon’s idle animations are non-existent and they just stand there. These are just 2 examples.Then there are the animations for when a Pokémon gets hit. Each Pokémon reacts differently and acts as if the move they got hit by actually had a big impact and dealt damage. My favorite has to be Lotad, where it basically gets flung backwards and stumbles before recovering and walking forward again. In new games, no matter how big the attack, the animation for getting hit just looks like the Pokémon was lightly slapped.Now the battle animations, nearly every Pokémon has a different animation for using a body attack, beam attack, or an attack involving a punch or kick. In newer games every Pokémon (with only a few exceptions) only has 2 attacking animations. One for physical attacks, and one for special attacks.Now I know that nowadays it would be more difficult to do this cause there are so many Pokémon, and that larger animations will make battles take longer, but it’s honestly worth it because it makes every Pokémon seem that much more unique. One last thing, the old console games actually get wailord’s size correct. And blastoise actually shoots hydro pump out of its cannons. So there is more attention to fine detail. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/3fzYWij