For reasons beyond my understanding, Final Fantasy 14 players threw a fit back in 2021 when Square Enix added more polygons to its game grapes.making them more similar to what you'd expect from a modern game. Now I can only imagine those same players had a great time in Pokemon Legends: ZA since it appears to have a very similar breed of blocky polygonal berries.
Good people in GameSpark were snooping around Lumiose City when they decided to check out the vines near a building like everyone else does, and when they got closer they realized they were just as low-res and stupid as the ones from Final Fantasy 14. And you know, yeah, it's almost like Game freak stole grapes straight from Square Enix's fantasy MMORPG.
In the midst of GrapeGate 2021, our friends at PC Gamer sat down with various game developers and asked them important questions such as “How many game developers does it take to make a banana explode well?” (It's about six.)
“Every feature you add to a game adds potential future 'technical debt' for quality testing and bug fixes down the line,” Unfortunate Spacemen creator Jeff “Zag” Keane said at the time. “As complexity increases, other departments have to grow to accommodate this. It adds up.”
The point is that it makes sense for developers to siphon resources from scenery and assets that no one is paying attention to in order to minimize processing requirements. In other words, be nice to Pokemon Legends: ZA grapes. They are doing their best.
