mountaindewslave said:
I agree, the original 100 Pokemon or so have better art, uniqueness, differences. obviously naturally when you have more and more you run out of good ideas and ways to differentiate them, but jeez there are some ugly and strange looking new Pokemon...
the original are just so pure and diverse and each has its own memory. Unfortunately it seems few newer Pokemon really stick in people's minds |
These are from Gen 1:
We have a Pokeball with a face, an upside-down Pokeball with eyes, a pile of sludge with a face, a slightly bigger, even more lazily-designed pile of sludge with a face that reminds of you its name spell backwards, a dildo with eyes and a pleasure bump, and three dildos with eyes and pleasure bumps. Oh, and never forget:
Remember that this thing once had black skin that people of my ilk might have found offensive at one point in time. So let's not pretend like the good ol' days didn't have some bad ideas. Meanwhile, here are some brilliant designs from later generations:
We have a hawk/eagle that is a cross between the Mexican flag and a high-flying lucha libre style pro wrestler, a beagle that takes after Italian artists and uses its tail as a paintbrush, a bald eagle with the colors of the American flag who is a proud Native American warrior, a lizard who represents at least three different generations of counterculture movements in American society by my count, an orangutan based on the monk Daruma and Daruma dolls, the same Pokemon in another form based on the three wise monkeys and Daruma dolls, a tortoise based on the world tortoise in many world legends, an ape based on Son Wukong from Journey to the West, and an emporer based on Poseidon.
There are some Pokemon that are brilliantly designed and clearly inspired from every generation, and there are some clear duds. Gen 1 is no different from the rest. This is coming from someone who began with Pokemon Blue from the time it came out. Blastoise is still my all-time fave, but I don't let my nostalgia blind me.
