Looks like a step from Arceus to me whilst keeping the same art design and character model types.

What’s makes this feel different is the flip from an Ancient Rural Landscape to a Large Urban city set in the present, so tonally it should feel different.

I can appreciate what they were trying to go for with Arceus and its style, but it is by far one of the most visually unappealing Pokemon titles they’ve ever developed, muddy, dull, empty, visual clippings everywhere and N64 fog aplenty. For all its issues even Sc/Vi was a substantial step up.

Z-A at the very least seems to visually hold its own a little bit more and has substantial improvements. But it’s no peak of the system like BOTW or the Xenoblade games achieve.

By Sonicka

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