>>44020111Yes and no?
Most early gen pokemon that look like shit might have been to push toys, but we were around them longer than a year so we got to develop our own ideas of why they were they way they were.
Muk isn't something I would think would sell many toys, but Lapras would.
Lapras looks natural, though, like a real creature who belongs somewhere in the wild. But for years, we were taught that Lapras had a purpose, same with most early pokemon.
Now, we have things like this, and I didn't even know it had a mouth under that fire nozzle nose or that the rocks on its back exploded, but there is no place or time for these things to feel at home in their world. They just walk around waiting to get caught, and I think that was the autistic anon's point. The game used to fold into itself with its flavor.
The world complimented the monsters who complimented the characters who complimented the world.
The more robotic the game feels, the less fun it can be.
