>>54003115It's not that they're exceptionally bad, it's just that you're relying on a 20-year old blogpost about developer thoughts on a game. Even in Gen 1 we had pic related, a super-intelligent pokemon.
JUST A BEAST LOL
And other examples like Machoke and Machamp, very clearly humanoid pokemon who even go so far as to have subligars to cover up their nether regions. Why? Most pokemon you see have their ass on full display. Yet this one needs human modesty?
YEP JUST A BEAST.
It's almost like the initial conceptions of the idea of Pokemon have changed over the decades the game has been out.
>>54003158There's also the simple fact that if you initially perceive Pokemon as anything other than simple beasts/critters, you're stepping into the ethics of enslaving sentient creatures in order to do battle for cash prizes. Which, I'm sure any reasonable person (ie: not shitposters in this thread) can understand is probably not a topic that Nintendo/TPC want to encourage anymore, given that the game is pixels away from being a children's cock/dogfighting simulator.
