>>55619314He's very, nu-gen pokemon. Modern pokemon uses a style that tends toward looking kind of rounded, squishy, perhaps even with exaggerated or less distinct shapes, and uses more goofy or weird hairs. They're particularly not afraid of making the male characters look strange. Kieran is no exception to these trends. They at least spared him of any strange proportions, and I wouldn't categorize his DLC1 design as the "intentionally strange looking" category, but he does still have the odd paper cut-out hair and is subject to the general artstyle.
I ended up liking Kieran as a character so I don't mind his design much now, but before playing the DLC1 I thought he just looked like any other faggot modern character, then before playing DLC2 I was pissed they gave him a fucking onion as his hair. They even basically acknowledge it looks stupid ingame in some conversation he has with Carmine. It's not even difficult to fix, just make it less bulbous and less cardboard.
I hope whoever is responsible for the current art direction is fucking fired
