Saturday, March 21, 2020

Steam Game Festival Spring 2020 Demo Reviews

So while everything else in the world is going on and I'm mainly just waiting for things to happen in Animal Crossing, I decided to check out some of the trade show type demos that showed up on Steam recently. Some are repeats from last time they did this from the Game Awards, so I found some new ones to look over. Just some unscored impressions here, nothing too in-depth.

Monday, March 9, 2020

Pokémon Design Ranking, Generation 6

On the continued backwards journey through Pokémon designs by generation, next is the first 3D generation, as in the main games on the handhelds were in full 3D and not sprites in a 2D environment, so there was a start of a disconnect between the art and how that translated to 3D, especially given that they really wanted to maintain an "anime" look for the "main" games. Also they made the models way too high-res for the system in an attempt to future-proof it. This covers the games from Pokémon X and Y to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, but the really high-res models continued into the next generation.