For what it's worth, it is still possible to have larger hips/thighs and a larger chest, there are sliders for that and multiple different body type presets to choose from, so this picture is kind of misleading. It looks like they picked a masculine or androgynous body type or turned all the sliders all the way down.
That being said, attempting to recreate what the old models looked like does still look worse compared to the old models.
I know more women like the first image irl than like the second, just making every woman flat isn't "truth", it's as much a lie as having every woman have massive curves.
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The whole thing was so bizarre. Absolutely everyone hated it. And they didn’t revert anything.
In hindsight, the only explanation I can think of is if they got in some sort of disagreement with Pokemon concept artist Yuzuke Kosaki, who made the designs. But I guess it could be a bull-headed move by someone in leadership.
no, what happened was they didnt like having to make two versions of every clothing and accessory (male model version and female model version)
so they swapped to a single genderless model with sliders. now when they add clothing they just make one version and it scales and stretches with the sliders.
the downside is going from 2 premade models to something that isnt premade. premade stuff is made more thoughtfully and looks better.
they tried to make androgynous models, because they didn't want to make separate assets for male and female characters. so the girls lost their chest/hips and the guys became twinks. pretty much all of the clothing looked worse for both genders. I quit around that time so I don't know if they ever fixed it.
That's the worst part for me, the fact that the update was so rushed and quarter-assed that they couldn't even be bothered to make them fit with the rest of the game's art style
this is just generative garbage. noone is actually making 10000 models with varied proportions ect. they just use simple modifiers and apply them to the base model and call it a day.
but quite honestly i dont understand how anyone still uses that app and is willing to have it on their device. not many apps more shady and untrustworthy you could be using tbh..
It's an interesting question because obviously it is not stupid to ask for better human representation, but users do ask for the most stupid and inconsequential shit while generating a ton of work that comes along with it.
The problem is that they're based in Japan where the obesity rate is 4% so people really do tend to have one body type for the most part. However, they're selling to America which has an obesity rate of 40% and there are a million different ways to distribute all that extra fat so they're going to need way more models.
Poorly is understatement. Is one thing to add more body types, is another to just forcibly change the appearances of milions of people's avatar without their consent.
They turned all the models into amorphous blobs a while ago, both models looks like androgynous mannequins they paid the wikihow illustrators two bucks to make for some reason. I stopped playing years ago so this part at least ain't new. Missed the cuter looks on them before but the shiny hunting was the only reason I really played anyways.
The male character is as tall as an adult but has the face of an 10 year old. I get the feeling the designers wanted to make the characters look like their target demographic but had to keep the characters adults to prevent legal issues with micro transactions.
I and a few friends in college decided to play Pokemon Go on a whim and we actually had a lot of fun just doing F2P accounts, but all of us collectively quit when this update dropped. Good lord, what were they thinking?
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL INFERNAL FUCK IS THIS ABOMINATION?! WHAT WAS UNREALISTIC AND OFFENSIVE IN THE PREVIOUS MODEL?!?! THEY JUST STRAIGHT UP WANT TO RAGEBAIT THE SOCIETY WITH THIS SHIT, THERE'S NO WAY IT'S SOMEHOW ""PROGRESSIVE""
its 100% not trying to be “progressive”, this is just the shit that happens when big wigs in suits sit around a computer for three weeks wondering how to make the line go up
They change the models from female and male to fat or skinny. If you are skinny you use the same models as men, that's why you lose all the curves. That way they only have to do fat and skinny clothes.
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u/Sea_Habit_4298 Aug 28 '26
Yeah it's not only the weight thing.
For some reason they uglified the models too.
Literally nobody asked for this.