This is probably how some of us imagined the game would look like...I'm still disappointed by SWSH...but more by the story and how they handled the adventure as a whole than by the design and graphics (and I loooove some of the characters!). You don't play Pokémon for awesome graphics, it's about the road and everyone you meet on it.
This image captured it really well.

and I loooove some of the characters!

SwSh have, imho, the best characters of all time, of all pokémon games. Especially in the last... I'd say 3 gens, gym leaders and E4 became so more boring and dull with very few exceptions here and there (e.g. I barely can't recall the name of any but one or two of the gym leaders of Kalos), while in SwSh every gym leader has such a design that you can give it a full personality just with a look, it's amazing.

Gunslinger said:

SwSh have, imho, the best characters of all time, of all pokémon games. Especially in the last... I'd say 3 gens, gym leaders and E4 became so more boring and dull with very few exceptions here and there (e.g. I barely can't recall the name of any but one or two of the gym leaders of Kalos), while in SwSh every gym leader has such a design that you can give it a full personality just with a look, it's amazing.

Exactly! I agree one hundred percent! Hope they continue like that so we can enjoy a game close to this image in the near future.