>>29253300This is probably my biggest complaint, just like everyone else. The final stage is literally my mom's toucan. It is just a 1:1 representation of an actual toucan. Maybe its animations add more to it, maybe it has some traits that we can't garner from the model alone, but just looking at it? It's a toucan with absolutely no other flavor. The surprise of going from woodpecker to toucan is probably the whole point of it, but that doesn't cut it. Even if it just retained a little bit of the woodpecker theme so that it was part woodpecker and part toucan, like the red crest, it would be somewhat interesting.
This really reminds me of Wingull>Pelipper - it evolves into a totally different species for essentially no reason. At least in that case, they were both stylized and made into something more (stripes and coloring giving a "sailor" theme, anatomy and proportions being somewhat unique)
>>29253402Shut the fuck up, nobody is arguing that Gen I Pokemon looked more like animals. There are some people who are mad about the object-themed Pokemon (which have always been around and I actually really like), and some who are angry about the newer art style (Which has a lot more smoothed lines and cartoony proportions, whereas Gen I had rougher, jagged lines and more Toriyama-esque style), but hardly anything from Gen I was just a direct representation of an animal. The only one I can think of is Seel, and even then it at least has minor additions to make it special, which this toucan does not.
