>>6916135>>6913639Well, yeah. Ashley Wood's designs were meant to be purposely inefficient and wonky--in-universe, most of the bots we've seen are produced during the 80s, when a lot of robot toys and designs were these weird canister looking things with strange proportions. The genius of Wood's early work on WWR was juxtaposing these goofy designs with extremely realistic gritty wartime paintings of them.
From the start, Acid Rain was clearly a more serious franchise. While some of its mechs are a little on the goofy side, I think this is more accidental than purposeful.