Although Pokémon Legends: Arceus arrived on the Nintendo Switch last month, The Pokémon Company confirmed that the series will have its annual launch in late 2022 with the arrival of the ninth generation in Pokémon Violet and Pokémon Scarlet. With the announcement of the new installments, the three initial Pokémon were revealed: Sprigatito, Fuecoco and Quaxly, that were already recreated with the visual style of the Game Boy Color.
the talented artist alessandroknown as Zaebucca on Twitter, he shared his take on Pokémon Violet & Scarlet’s starters in pixel art style and what colors they would have been had they made it to the Game Boy Colorin the Pokémon Gold, Silver & Crystal generation.
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Although every time the designs of the initials of a new generation of Pokémon are revealed, dissatisfied fans always arise, it seems that this time the majority is happy with Sprigatito, Fuecoco and Quaxly. These designs are so good that we can use the zaebucca art as proof, because in their GameBoy Color version they look like the monsters we met in the first generations of the franchise.
According alessandro, he made this illustration as a warm-up and as a distraction from his work, so it’s clear his talent to be able to create fan art of this quality in this way. “your warmup is my 10 day job”, tells an impressed fan, along with others who praised the illustration of the Pokémon Violet & Scarlet starters with the Gameboy Color art style.