Pokemon Fan Art Shows Gen 2 Sprites of Gen 3 Pokemon

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Game Freak is known for creating Pokemon sprites that are later fleshed out into fully realized creatures in later titles, and some Pokemon fans have wondered what modern of them would look like with the visuals of oldertitles. One Pokemon fan has decided to create their own Gen 2 sprite demakes of a team of Pokemon from Ruby andSapphire.

Reddit user Healingmii recently shared a compiled image of various Pokemon sprites they created inspired by the Pokemon Gold andSilver design. Healingmii's fan art includes seven popular Pokemon from Ruby and Sapphire covering a variety of typing and unhindered by the often replicated Hoenn starter Pokemon. Because Pokemon Gold andSilver were the original forays into improving Pokemon sprites with a broader color pallet, Healingmii's Gen 2 sprites are fittingly less blended and brighter in tone.

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The Gen 3 Pokemon included in Healingmii's fan art are Gulpin, Pelipper, Salamance, Shuppet, Spheal, Swablu, and Trapinch. Being the larger Pokemon, Pelipper and Salamance take up the majority of Healingmii's fan art, while the rest still accurately represent their proportions in Pokemon Ruby andSapphire. Though these Pokemon look like they'd fit into Gold andSilver thanks to Healingmii's artistic twist on them, the sprites are noticeably different from their Gen 3 equivalents and aren't animated like they might be if inspired by Pokemon Crystal instead.

Because the Game Boy Advance brought a big technological leap to the Pokemon series, the sprites were refined to be less jagged like the more pixelated Pokemon in Healingmii's fan art. As a result, Healingmii's Gen 2 sprites have a more visibly boxy and abnormal outline to them compared to their true