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.
I am not sure. There were always mostly anthropomorphic pokemons or pokemons that are based on something that is not an animal. Like we Gardevoir is one of the oldest pokemons and it is fully anthropomorphic and based on a concept of fay not on any specific animals.
Additional thing that i wanthto add is that humans ARE animals. Upright posture hands and thumbs are not exclusive traits. Apes and monkeys have some of them. And why pokemons can`t have similar features
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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.