“I hope TemTem does well, but nothing about the monster designs look good to me Like every design feels both underdesigned and overdesigned at the same time”
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'Simultaneously overdesigned and underdesigned' is perhaps the best way to describe what's off with Temtem's monster design. So many of the worst ones are a mish-mash of different ideas with no core concept in the middle. And conversely, a lot of the best ones do have a core principle.
Platypet, the fakemon, looks great because he's not overdesigned and it's very clear what he's trying to be. His evolutions look so-so because they're just stretching him out.
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Pigepic, the pink pig thing, is probably as popular as it is because, again, the core concept's clear. It's a flying pig.
The worst ones are things like not-popple, Sparzy, because it really doesn't look like
anything. It's just a mess. With Raignet, the planning went as far as 'magnet-head' and never got any further, so they just gave it a weirdly buff body that skipped leg day.
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The other one I hate is Barnshe, because it looks like one of those friggin' tiny face memes. And that face is the only thing it's really got in common with a barn owl.
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