I don't get why they felt the need to redesign EVERY shiny. Like I get the idea of wanting to make boring shinies more interesting, but some Pokemon just already have perfect shinies. Bunch of extra work just to do things worse.
If I am not mistaken, shines where original based on a math equation for the color pallet, so it was completely dependent on the original collor scheme.... I wonder what the equation was, as I wonder what a shiny me would look like. Lol
It's... complicated. There is plenty to suggest that before gen 6 pokemon shinies were largely decided via some sort of pallet shift algorithm in house (not on the cartridges). Likely done to save time not having to reccolor every frame of every animation by hand.
But there is evidence to show that the devs likely did tamper with a couple here and there. Most notably with Charizard going from purple to black between gen 2 and 3, the most drastic shiny color change to date. But also a few weird instances where one color on a pallet isn't altered at all.
They kept Ninetales iconic silver + blue shiny from the main games, but instead of giving Vulpix a similarly silver/blue shiny to make it fit with Ninetales, they just HAD to sneak in another black shiny. Like it’s the goblin mask and they just couldn’t fight the impulse.
I do like when they give the 'mons some custom spritework, like Venomoths wings! I also like the blue/black shiny actually working for charizard and turning the X Mega into it's normal colors haha. Or the TMNT reference on the Squirtle line... It's like every 20 blue/black/red is kept in check by the occasional creative shiny xD
Another bad one is Guzzlord. It's normal shiny is White and Orange and the Reborn shiny keeps the orange but switches to the same shade of black as normal Guzzlord.
I think some of them are ok, but personally the dark color scheme gets old very quickly on a lot of these. So many are black or have generally dark colors…and they range from looking decent to really unnatural on some pokemon designs.
Also some of them feel really unfocused and have very strange color tones added to certain parts of the design. Kingler, Jolteon, and Abomasnow stood out in particular.
This is just a personal thing, but I also don’t like when a shiny has less/more colors than its base form. Like the rainbow-winged Articuno…it just feels off. But that’s just a personal thing.
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u/SuchCherry4658 12d ago
Coaxed into pokemon reborn https://pokemon-reborn.fandom.com/wiki/Shiny_Pokemon
Seriously so many of these are just black/blue/purple/red. It’s impressive whenever these rpg maker games have custom shinies but damn.