The point you're making with your post here is... what? That the animations are bad? Sure, the legendary wolf Pokemon doesn't look particularly great when they turn round there. But how enjoyable these games turn out to be won't really be that dependant on their visuals. Yes, nicer visuals would be nicer. But if your whole argument about these games being a disappointment is based on that clip, you're clutching at straws, desperate not to like the game based on any little thing you can find to criticise it for.
I appreciate that for someone who's made the argument that they've spent less time adding old Pokemon so as to spend more time working on the animations, to then say they're not bothered about graphics, might seem like I'm flip-flopping. Let me try and explain my point of view.
Pokemon isn't about graphics and never has been, but there are reasonable expectations to have now that we're on a home console. As an example:
Absolutely, that's shoddy, and if that ends up being the experience we have in the finished game, then this will be a disappointing product. But that's a video from before release, so it's pointless to judge the game on it.
There are some aspects of the game that will be improved by better visuals, and some that would be a nice-to-have, but not a must-have. The big dog's turning circle isn't going to wreck my enjoyment of the game. However, if two battling Pokemon stand at opposite ends of a battlefield, and send blandly coloured icons toward one another, it'll be a missed opportunity IMO. The move to Switch necessitates improvements in the battle system animations - for example, if someone uses Fire Blast, I want to see a blast of fire. I want to see a Low Kick, a Surf, a Hyper Beam, a Swords Dance. And I want to see the relevant Pokemon look like they're actually performing, and reacting to, these moves, not just defaulting to a standard "performs move" animation (like in Pokemon Stadium, for example!)
So seeing footage of Morpeko perform his moves in the trailers gives me hope that this is what they're doing. And I totally understand that to try and do this, for nearly a thousand Pokemon, and for thousands of movesets and combinations, is a massive amount of work to do. So I'm OK with them focusing on a subset of Pokemon, and making them look decent.
I don't care much for Gigamaxing, I'm not sure I see the point, but hearing the developers talk about it, makes me similarly hopeful, as it sounds like their motivations for moving in this direction were because standard battling didn't really show off the console's abilities. Which makes me suspect that they know that simply having two battling Pokemon stand at opposite ends of a battlefield, sending blandly coloured icons toward one another, won't wash.
There are probably other factors at play here that make me much less likely to be a Dexiteer. I've never sought to "catch 'em all" in any previous game. And the last series game I played was Heart Gold, meaning there's plenty of new Pokemon in this new game for me. But even so... I find it hard to empathise with anyone criticising the game at this point.
The expectation that all the previous Pokemon should be in the game, because... [scene missing], is outright entitlement, and it stinks. And it's this sense of misplaced outrage that is fuelling all subsequent criticisms of the game, because
the game isn't out yet. So criticising the way it looks, the way it plays, the volume of features, etc. is all conjecture. And it comes across as childish, spoilt, entitled conjecture, from a fanbase that appears to have unilaterally decided it has been irrevocably slighted and therefore dislikes this game.
We don't even know that there are only 400 Pokemon. They've confirmed Mew will be in it, for one thing, and he's not on the leaked list of 400. I'm expecting there'll be a post-game extended dex. I also expect them to add support for the rest of the "missing" Pokemon over time. (Though I appreciate that both of these things are conjecture as well!) But I wouldn't be bothered if they didn't; I'd be bothered if it's a bad game. But I'm looking forward to finding out, and I'm hopeful that it isn't.
And Jezo... are you saying the animations in Pokemon Stadium were better?
) aside, I've put the main part in bold. Are you aware just how much you're proving my point:
