>>52953021>Why do so many anons like to pretend that bipedalism in starters is a recent occurrence caused by "GF wanting to pander to furries" or some shit when it's always been the staple?It had more options but it wasn't dominant. Every gen until gen 5 had options of quadrupede monsters.
>That "we should go back to quadrupedal monsters" when we rarely had them?Have options is always good.
>but saying that what makes them bad is being bipedal, implying the desired design theming forced them to be one when we've had so many is just wrong.This point I actually agree. What makes the new starters bad is that they are badly designed as a whole to force them to turn bipedal furrybaits.
A good example is the Litten line. Litten is a normal cat, torracat is a bigger and more powerful cat (starts to turn into a tiger) and Incineroar is a man in a fursuit that people can even draw going to a 9-5 job without issues. Unlike the starters until gen 5 they don't look like a monster that is growing up and could be found in the wyld, but more artificial.
One of things that I noticed with starters is that is very easy to imagine some starters in the wyld as a family. In older generations this was even used in the promotional art and in some videos (like the time when ash found a pack of bulbasaurs being led by a venusaur to evolve). The new starters don't look like that. Actually the final forms sometimes don't even look like the same species.
In the end they are just a mockery of what was good in pokemon before.
