Now that I've seen them at their proper scales, reverting them to the originals just makes them look like toys

Again. They've gotten this right in Let's Go. Why has that game suddenly became a paramount of effort?!

I could see maybe why they did it with smol Pokemon so that you can properly see their designs, but it doesn't make sense making the big ones smaller. And the game already zooms out further than it needs to with Pokemon that are pretty small in the game like Golduck or Empoleon. Just a myriad of weird decisions with these remakes.

So you're telling me, they did the proper sizes for everyone THEN MADE THEM SMALL AGAIN??? They CAN exert effort. Just in wrong ways

DistantKingdom is the dood who people keep telling "If you don't like it then fix it yourself" Except he actually follows through.

The biggest problem isn't that Gamefreak didn't do this. It's that they intentionally changed the sizes of everything so that it looked the way it did. It was an *intentional* design choice that nobody on the dev team decided to stop. And the fact that it takes fans altering the files of the game itself to do something that should have been in the game from the start baffles me.

Seeing the Wailords like that was somewhat romantic 😂

The fact that this game was built in Unity is absolutely the best thing about it. The fan games made from it are gonna be amazing!

Remember in HGSS when a legendary Pokémon technically took up one space, but appeared as though they took up 9 spaces and they couldn’t even fit inside tiny buildings? Good times…

If you’re ever feeling insecure just remember that your standards aren’t as low as a Pokemon fans.

OMG. Budew is really THAT SMALL!? Budew has just gone from cute to adorable

The worst part is that they intentionally messed up the scaling. That’s so weird.

I think certain scaling things would be a bit too extreme (budew is barely visible, wailord obscures everything) but some of these are no brainers to appear scaled properly, especially legendaries

Dialga and Palkia were just painful to see so small. Pearl was the first game pokemon game that I really got into and better at the game. Seeing my childhood so deliberately dragged through the mud hurts and I cannot find any reason to give Nintendo any money with these mistakes piling up

The thing is, they don't even need to be the proper scale, just a rough estimation. For example you don't have to make Wailord huge, but just big enough that you know that is big. Or some pokemon that are small, not so small but just so you know that they are small. You just look at this and go "This could've gone so much better so easily, yet it didn't". When you do art you don't use shortcuts just to finish a piece faster and call it done, you use shortcuts to have a 'higher quality' piece and components in a small window of time. It's a bit infuriating to look at this (the whole GF problem with art directing) from an artist's prespective

It’s sad to see that a fan can do better than a multi million dollar company, but of course we love the franchise, the company only loves the money

It's amazing how much of a difference this makes to the overall game quality and feel.

Used this in my playthrough. Was very thankful for it. I will admit, there are a few Pokemon on the small end of the scale that might be just a bit too small, but overall it works great. If I was Game Freak I'd just slightly scale up the few Pokemon that are extremely small and leave it at that.

Imagine improving, could'nt be Pokémon

I don't truly don't understand these people. They had both proper Pokemon scaling and following Pokemon implemented in Let's Go correctly then with each Switch game it got drastically worse. Mind you Let's Go was done by a smaller team of people.

When the Wailords got so close at the end I chuckled a bit lol.

Pokemon finally reached early ps2 era graphics , maybe in a decade more we'll get to ps3

two accurately scaled Wailords looks a bit awkward. Even unmodded, I find the fields don't give enough space between pokemon and make some look to close together, so fixing that too seems like a good idea.

Nintendo: "HE WAS ABLE TO FIX THIS IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS" GameFreak devs: "We could hire him to lead our teams for a better pokemon experience" Nintendo: "Nvm too much work, let's sue him better"

It's nice that it is made using Unity. Someone could literally make a better game like Renegade Platinum but for Switch with fixed stuff. Certain evolutions were locked in post game, following Pokemon sucked, sizes as this video shows and a lot of other things

We are in a time, where mods are made to fix Pokemon

Another improvement I think pokemon could have is a system earthbound created. If youre super strong, theres an option to just automatically defeat the pokemon

BDSP is so nice because in the future it will be the base game for all the improved hack ROMs with eventually mega evolutions, complete dex and quality of life features.

5:10 NOW KISS! Thanks for the mod, DK! It's a shame, I can't even defend it by saying this restriction was for handheld mode, but in Docked mode they're full size. They chose to have small models in their TV sized game for no reason.

The Wailord issue would be easily fixed moving their model back in the battle arena. Where's the rule that says the Pokémon HAS to be completely in front of the trainer?

The cherry on top of the hurt cake is seeing how beautiful your version of shinies are. Espeon, Ponyta.. i WISH

I love the tiny pokemon being tiny! It makes them SO much cuter!

I miss the 2D abstractions. Smaller Pokémons had quick or more drastic movements while lumbering giants had slower weighty movements

At this point, DK deserves my money more than the Pokémon Company itself.

Odd question, but do you think that there could be a mod that patches in the old menu sprites for Pokémon? I can’t be the only one that hates that they replaced the old menu sprites with 3D models.

5:10 Okay but those two wailords do not look good at all like this. They're way too close together. And Budew is a little too small, I get that this is its size, but it'd be really annoying to have it be this small in battle. Otherwise, looks good.

I genuinely wish they made chibi Pokemon, if your gonna make all the humans chibi then make the pokemon chibi too :( would've been so cute

5:10 they can finally kiss,,

The scaling was probably done to prevent glitching through objects. The routes and towns are designed to fit in a 1/1 grid character. Idk who suggested this but making the mons also chibi would have worked probably better

You pulled at my heart strings seeing the Pokemon in full sizes with the battle revolution music in the background.

i can’t stop laughing at the two wailord looking at each other like 👁👄👁

I hope there's a way to fix the "GB camera" too, as it looks awkwards to see the Pokemon in their actual size with that damn angle all the time. Some of the dynamic camera from the Stadium/Colosseum series would be really good.

Descale everything to make dinomax look even bigger. Then possibly sale the correct scales back bundled with future dlc. If there's backlash then release a free update fixing the scales for positive PR.

I’m fine with the designs being short in the overworld because the clipping would be ridiculous, but during battle I see no reason why their scaling is smaller.

Love the FIX series and love the videos where you argument stuff. I love to see you show me what is possible on these games and the direct and indirect Game Freak/Nintendo shade lol Please show us how to mod our swiches!!

The difference is surprising. And the custom shiny pokemon look really cool!

5:05-5:18. Oh wow, I didn’t not know that Wailord had Wailady as a significant other. They must really like each other by the way they’re staring.

"Now why would they alter the original size of Pokemon-" *sees Budew* "Oh."

I think that since BDSP overworld is already in an abstracted 3D chibi style, 3D chibi following pokemon would fit best. Each Pokémon in the pal park in DPPT, and all Pokémon HGSS had a unique following sprite, so a unique chibi following model would be most faithful. The studio’s interpretation here is plain lazy, and while I agree that size scaling needs to be fixed in battle, I think that battle models used in the chibi overworld just look jarring and out of place, scaled correctly or not.

When it comes to these mods I'm always curious as to how much time it took and what was the difficulty level of doing it?

5:15 it’s kind of obvious why they descale it with the Wailords being super close together with their true scale. But then again that could be remedied by having the battlefield scale according to the size of the Pokémon on-field

5:07 So it's true, love can bloom on the battlefield

I'm surprised that Budew is that tiny!! And the Wailord Jeez as surprising as it would be if they were that size wouldn't people just say that it looks abit well enlarged you wouldn't even see the trainer unless they're standing super far away

This is cool to see. I do have one small point of constructive criticism: the constant, quick cuts between 2d and 3d are not great to look at and make it harder to admire the new models. I think the video would look a lot better if you showed one long shot of each instant of constantly cutting back and forth. Aside from that, cool stuff!

Proper scaling makes the legendary Pokémon and other large Pokémon look more menacing.

Okay so I have a funny idea for Wailord: What if you could only see it’s shadow bc Wailord would be floating?

Holy crap these are insane!!!

I am just happy they are scaling pokemon right in PLA

I remember i brought my drapion out of its ball, and i never let it out again. It doesn’t deserve to be shrunk like that.

5:10: history will say they were just roommates

wild to me that the devs would purposely make them look so stupid

Yeah thanks for your hard work on this I love using this mod and it's like...going back to the base game without this mod and the others...is like night and day. It feels so weird playing without them. My favorite is definitely the 60 FPS. I'm almost floored by how well it works and just dumbfounded to why they chose not to implement 60 FPS?!?! I get that the trainers move erratically in the oveeworld but...that could be fixed... It's just really disappointing going back to sword and shield too. I'll look at that 30 fps and just feel disappointed lol...

Pokémon Dev Joey: he you know what's be funny? Pokémon Dev Ralphie: what you thinking? Pokémon Dev Joey: what if we just made all the Pokémon smaller? Pokémon Dev Ralphie: that's... A brilliant idea! Who's gonna notice!

i love my gyarados, she's been on my team since jubilife city, but i almost never take her out to walk with me cause she's so small. looks more like an ekans, or a baby snake.

Stop buying Pokemon titles if you have to "fix" every single entry.

5:10 Now kiss!

I’m guess it’s altered because one of the camera shots during battle is right behind the Pokémon. Which would mean altering how close it is to their backside for however many Pokémon are too large and would take up too much space on screen.

I like how his salamence in the intro is Satoru Gojo. One of my favorite anime characters btw

Hey, can you make the new Pokémon games? You put way more effort than an entire company

Hey, have you seen roco kingdom mobile yet

I think part of the problem is that the placement of the Pokemon in the battles are also too close to each other for scaling to work. Instead they should just space them farther away and have the camera cut to them during attacks to compensate the distance.

To be honest fighting an Palkia that actually looks more or less the size you imagine it is a lot more satisfying. But that small pokemon could do with a slightly bigger character, so it's just how you like the game to be like.

I always thought they were shrunk down like our character. But makes no sense how big they are before capture.

For me it's not the scale that looks weird, I find weird that everything in the overworld is chibi and the pokemon aren't

I recently got back into Let’s Go Eevee and I have to say, HOW did they get it right the first time but now fall on the first hurdle?

I believe that they want the Pokémon to be view fully on the gameplay, but it will need to spend a ton of time to optimise it one by one So they using another approach, scaling down their pokemon size proportional to the environment they are in, so the Pokémon in the overworld will shrunk until where the hit box actually is (to prevent any overlap issue) In the battle it shrunk so that the Pokémon is at least 2/3 the size of the trainer height while max is the size of camera that they can fit in

I don't understand how the pokemon doesn't seem to understand how rewarding and cool it would feel to go up against these giant goliath sized pokemon with a tiny little pikachu or eevee and win

It’s crazy how such a small change can make such a big difference

0:29 Arceus is a lot bigger than this in the anime but nice work!

Yeah I can see why ones like Budew would be brought up in scale a bit cause that actual size might be too small for some to see, especially when melded into an environment like a grass terrain that would make it even harder. That being said, yeah super wack that larger mons like the Legendaries are shrunk to be as big as the player. It wasn't until the Wailord one that I realised it might be a spacing issue (either that or it could cause lag???), cause it's wonderful to see Wailord at its original full size but mann the fact that the two Wailord are so close shows the design flaw in how far apart your Pokemon and the opponent's is. In Stadium, Colosseum and Revolution your Pokemon for both Singles and Doubles is spaced apart quite a bit, and your Pokemon is/are also fairly spaced apart from your opponents as well, much moreso than what you see in the Switch titles (I'll excuse 3DS due to hardware limitations and all). This can mean that, in the Collosseum or Stadium games, Pokemon can be at their true sizes without risking them being too close to one another and potentially obscuring the gameplay. Not to mention moves are always executed from a 3/4 front angle, either from your Pokemon or the opponents, so you can always see the animation as opposed to mainline Pokemon where most of the time (apart from I guess signature moves, and mayyybe some normal ones?? I don't remember what moves like Air Slash are like, I feel like they were executed from the front when selected by the player maybe) moves are executed from a 3/4 back. Maybe that's a reason why they believed downsizing them was the best way to go? They thought it wouldn't obscure the gameplay??? I have absolutely no idea and I might be stretching the reasoning why

wailord: "bruh, social distancing" wailord 2: "sorry lol"

with this scale and the fights in the overworld, this would prob be my fav pokemon game of all time

3:35 I think the reason why the devs scaled back the pokemon was so they could reuse the same camera angles over and over again without adjusting anything. I think this may be the case because a lot of larger pokemon don't fully fit within the (unaltered) camera frame when reverted back to their actual sizes. It's funny, because they could have fixed the issue by creating 3 or 4 different camera frame sizes and assigning them into each pokemon according to their scale. That way they wouldn't waste time creating a new camera framing for each pokemon.

Did you saw how when Floatzel uses Ice Beam it comes from its butt?

They look so HUGE when compared to the itty Bitty Chibi Midget Minion Characters.

They probably make them smaller to make battles seem more equal. I mean an onix is like a mega huge rock snake BUT it can be beaten by a tiny little tentacool if it uses the right moves. Now if you saw tentacool and onix standing next to each other you'd realise just how absurd it would be for ANYTHING that small to deafeat it, even with the right moves. So yeah it only makes sense to make them seem a bit more equal sized in battles.

5:05 "N-now.... now kiss." Big wailords are so close to each other I love it

Fortunately we will have real sizes in PLA 🙏 What a relief Imagine a baby Arceus your size in the game 😂

Now all you need is a camera mod to accurately track different sized Pokémon in battle

Right after I watched this amazing video, I got an ad video about Legends Arkoos (Arceus), which ties in surprisingly well! (I pronounce His name as ''Arkoos'' since it sounds way cooler in my opinion).

The problem isn't the scale in BDSP. It's the fact that the Pokemon and battles don't fit the art style of the rest of the game

Thank god Legends arceus has proper scaling

I'd like to see the match between Chingling and Wailord

*Lass Samantha sent out Budew!* *Unfezant stomped onto the Budew!*

So happy they made it right in Arcues

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS. This really means a lot when I actually choked and almost died seeing the first follow Pokémon trailer. It couldn't have gone worse. Thanks. It makes it so much better.

This is another one of those basic improvements that Pokémon will never do simply because they can’t bother themselves with anything but the bare minimum

That's actually so much better. Looking at a giant palkia or arceus gives it's legendary status much more weight. It actually looks great.

They probably just changed it to be smaller to resemble the sprite sizes in the 2D games. Pokemon weren’t to scale with their real sizes for the most part. And probably because you’re also tiny and cute in the game. Not everything will translate perfectly when you change mediums

"I fixed the scales" . . . "as well as became Cynthia herself"