>>58481933The games are developed around the average child in Japan, up to and including the heights of the creatures, when compared t the height of the average Japanese 10 year old. Everything is mildly larger than children, because they're still meant to remain approachable and potentially worthwhile choices, with more significant ones being larger than the average stuff in-region, to impress their greater significance (Dondozo being fuck-huge as much for the fish it's based off, as the fact it becomes a tank for a smaller fish while referencing some pretty nasty real-life cases of parasitic fish).