>>718089315
Specifically in art direction and character design.
Just look at the bottom of this image and then the top, the bottom being newer games is filled with pastel colors and mixed clothing designs, what older games either had a fantasy aesthetic like symphonio or a fantasy future '90s aesthetic like abyss. Think Mobius, Nausicaa, things of that nature. If you told me the bottom games were part of some 2010s gacha franchise I would believe you. I never played any of the newer games so I can speak upon the story, but just the general look of everything was so mixed and looked extremely gay. There was a point when Japanese were influenced by worldly things and other media, now they are only influenced by other anime which is what created the moeblob epidemic. I cannot relate to any new Japanese media.