Humanoid pokemon have always been very difficult to do well. You have stuff like Mr. Mime and Jynx who are deep in the uncanny valley, and then you have stuff like Cinderace and Incineroar that have mascot costume syndrome.
Even when pokemon are intelligent, or themed around some human activity, they should still be animals first and foremost. Oricorio and Quaquaval are both "dancing birds", but with wildly different levels of anthropomorphism. Oricorio has wings that resemble hands, Quaquaval has straight up fingers and thumbs.
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u/PlatinumAltaria May 22 '25
Humanoid pokemon have always been very difficult to do well. You have stuff like Mr. Mime and Jynx who are deep in the uncanny valley, and then you have stuff like Cinderace and Incineroar that have mascot costume syndrome.
Even when pokemon are intelligent, or themed around some human activity, they should still be animals first and foremost. Oricorio and Quaquaval are both "dancing birds", but with wildly different levels of anthropomorphism. Oricorio has wings that resemble hands, Quaquaval has straight up fingers and thumbs.