>>54224940>It's almost as if deceiving the player is the entire reason for a mimic to exist.Which is why other games' mimics show this off by making it so that said mimic's appearance is functionally indistinguishable from the chest it's imitating until the attack in both gameplay AND design, making it so that the player can go "aw damn I was tricked" while also not thinking afterwards "wait, how does this work?".
Dragon Quest's used this mimic design for nearly it's entire life without changes, even after moving to 3D, because they understood from the get go the basis of a mimic is to be believably deceptive in both the meta sense AND in-universe, because what the fuck is the POINT of a mimic in a game if it's not even believable in that game's already fantastical setting?
>b-b-b-but they HAD to make it a Pokeball!!!Didn't have to make it several times bigger than one.
So no, this isn't an excuse. Go fuck yourself you nostalgiablind apologist.
