Oh, the horror! [Sprites of Shame]

Harmonious Fusion said:

D/P/Pt and B/W Mew. Something about the face seems very, very off, and I find that particular shade of pink to be kinda gross.

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Oh my god, thank you for bringing this Mew sprite up because I had totally forgotten about it. I really dislike the pose it has, it just bothers me for some reason >.>

Harmonious Fusion said:

Literally every first frame Ho-Oh sprite from RS to B2W2, excluding HGSS. Depending on how you count, this is either four or seven games' worth of sprites.

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Wow, that is pretty weird. Though I guess I can kind of understand why they did it - Ho-Oh is a pretty elusive Pokemon that can't be obtained all that often, so it was probably put on lowest priority for sprite redoing and then I guess. just never fixed? That is weird, though.

The Dark Avenger said:

There is too much detail and zero taste in the actually design, let alone the messy execution of the sprites.

Very glad XY had refined designs, which translated well into the 3d models. It's beyond me that people actually like Kyurem fusions.

The issue I have with tynamo is the odd positioning. It's a complete profile of its body which makes it look disengaged.

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Yes. It all comes back to me now. xD

Your eyes just hurt looking at this spirte, because it has way too much detail to fit into 80x80 or 96x96, can't remember the exact dimensions, so don't quote me on anything. xD

The fact that it's animated dosen't help at all, but most of the time you're looking at it's back sprite so it dulls down the problem somewhat.... I guess.

Yeah, it does have a weird pose, but in all honesty I couldn't see how else they would have done it without people criticizing them for having put in a lack of detail. Tynamo's rather plain, after all.

Yukari Yakumo said:

Someone beat me to Charizard. It looks like what you'd get if you gave Dragonite a Fire typing. Speaking of Dragonite:

This is Charmeleon's back sprite form the Generation I games. Looks exactly like a Dragonite, in my opinion.

Yeah, it looks almost like a direct copy with some minor edits, but while you could blame it on hardware limitations, it dosen't even have a horn. It's a protrusion of sorts, and shares the same color as it's skin.

Kadabra's sprite in R/B looks like an Alakazam with a missing spoon and a slightly larger tail. No defining features, like the star on its forehead.

It feels mean of me to kick down the first generation while it's down, but...these are just bad.

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Agreed. It's eyes are really off, and there's this black line that runs in the middle of the sprite and just really throws the whole thing off balance. It's nice to see that people are posting a mixture of older and newer generation sprites, it shows that it's not only the old generation sprites that are bad.

IDK, I think that's a little creepy.

So's the XY model:


EDIT: I like all 3 forms of Kyurem, in both gen 5 and gen 6, btw.

Okay so hear me out. Sure, this one is far superior in quality to the Green sprite, but look at this thing, it doesn't look like the Charizard drawn art at all! To me this looks more like it should have been a DRAGONITE sprite. The only thing they have to do is remove the fire.

The Dark Avenger said:

There is too much detail and zero taste in the actually design, let alone the messy execution of the sprites.

Very glad XY had refined designs, which translated well into the 3d models. It's beyond me that people actually like Kyurem fusions.

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I have to strongly disagree with you on these ones. Particularly in White Kyurem, who is my favorite of Kyurem's formes. I think it has a graceful elegance that works quite well. However, Black Kyurem is a friggin fatass and you can be as mean as you want to him, lol.

I'm surprised no one has included upside down Koffing yet. Bizarrely enough the Koffing from Green was much better.



Same deal with Mewtwo.



It amazes me that the few good sprites from Green actually got made worse in Red/Blue. It's almost like a pokemon form of communism where the ones that got bad sprites were improved but the ones that had good ones were made worse.

Here are some bad green ones:



Here are some more familiar yet nearly as bad Red/Blue sprites:



EDIT - Also the reason why I think these sprites are bad is because they look nothing like what the pokemon is meant to look like. Talking about the design of a pokemon is another thing entirely, but the whole point of a sprite is to make the thing look like what it looks like in design documents, and on that level, these ones fail abysmally.

Zekrom said:

IDK, I think that's a little creepy.

So's the XY model:

EDIT: I like all 3 forms of Kyurem, in both gen 5 and gen 6, btw.

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Holy nightmare fuel, Batman, kill it with fire.

I'm not exactly such a huge fan of Mewtwo's green design. Its head looks a lot bigger than its whole body, which is super-strange. If it were smaller, it definitely would have made more sense and easy to bare.

Not too fond of Gengar's, either, unfortunately; somehow, its back seem sort of cut-off from the rest of its body.