>>48493933Speaking seriously, if you look at Sugimori's original artwork, they aren't plagued with overdesign and superfluous frills. The concepts with rare exceptions are kept basic and consistent. If
>>48493944 were in any game released past 1999, it'd have obtuse-looking eyes, pointless frills, some sort of upturned oval nose and so on. Its identity as a trick box would be unintuitive.
