>>54599365You can see the disparity when all the sprites are laid out. I think there was at least three sprite artists working on the game.
One couldn't sprite for shit, and was responsible for ones like Machop, Vileplume, Primeape etc. No sense of form or proportion whatsover.
The other was a bit of an amateur, not really capable of staying on model, but managed to make some cool and interesting sprites like Parasect, Slowbro, Persian etc.
The third and final was actually good at his job and followed the Sugmori artwork, creating gems such as Clefairy, Nidoking/Queen, Aerodactyl, Mewtwo etc.