>>44676166This is an issue I've had with Pokemon for a while.
People try to point to what they don't like about newer gens, whether it be too many objectmons, too many humanoid mons, too many "my mom's animal", too many edgy mons, too many cute mons, etc. But in reality, every gen has has mons of all of those categories.
My problem with newer mons is that they look more like toys than believable creatures or monsters. Whether they be cool or cute, objects, furries, or literally just animals, the new mons just have this cheap, "plastic" quality to them.
I think the watercolor art does a lot to help the old mons. Even something like Voltorb, which is a mimic and meant to appear artificial, still looks like something that can exist without collapsing under its own weight.
