>>54265749>>54265771This is a purposeful misquote that you do in every single thread and I'm sick of it. Here is what Sugimori ACTUALLY said:
>"I see. Most Pokemon in Gold & Silver were of the cute variety, but this time…”>Sugimori: Our priority with Pokemon has always been to create an even split of ‘cute’ and ‘cool’. But at that time, the breeding mechanic was a heavily advertised new feature in Gold & Silver, and so there were many ‘baby’ Pokemon created to showcase this. So even with the many ‘cool’ designs of those games, we felt that the audience would misinterpret this as an imbalance. So for Ruby and Sapphire, we had to ensure that this notion of imbalance did not reoccur, and we ended up making a lot of cool new designs. >”When you were designing Pokemon around the time of Gold & Silver, where you now taking merchandising into consideration, and did this ultimately cause any constraints for the new designs?”>Sugimori: “Rather than constraints, I’d say we were careful about a lot of things. Like we’d say ‘this Pokemon is cuter/stronger, so it should act like this’. However this time we didn’t really dwell on this too much.” I am going to follow you through everyone one of these threads and post this correct version until you stop.
