Retarded Weeb
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The behind the scenes stuff Masuda and other GF staff wrote for Gen 3 to 6 do get pretty crazy, but that kind of just makes it all the more frustrating. Like in the Tajiri era they were just wanting to make some simple game capturing the feeling of being a kid going off exploring the woods and shit, and they did that pretty well. Then Masuda takes over and they start going all in on shit like gods, aliens, ancient civilizations, conspiracies, cults, or whatever, but then when they actually make the game it all gets filtered through some marketability filter until the final result feels like totally toothless kiddy shit that you have autistically examine to squeeze any thematic substance out of. The only reason we know any of these games could've been a lot weirder is because of someone hacked their server and leaked a bunch of stuff we weren't supposed to see, like them writing much more grand plots than what made it into the actual game or writing legends about teenage girls getting raped and knocked up by Pokemon.
A lot of people think Sugimori designed all the old Pokemon because their final designs were all filtered through his drawings, but even Gen 1 there were four different people designing Pokemon. Something to keep in mind about Pokemon designs is that the early ones were very much influenced by technical limitations, and when those limitations were removed it affected how they went about designing Pokemon, whether for better or worse.
They've made it very clear in multiple interviews that the original Gen 1 Pokemon were drawn directly into the game and never went through any design process on paper. That's why any unusued Pokemon from that era that have ever been shown off or leaked were all in unfinished sprite form and not sketches or anything. No sketches were ever made. A big thing this influenced is that since the game was in black and white, many Pokemon didn't have any sort of color scheme in mind. That's why most Gen 1 Pokemon have a very simple color schemes with often a single prominent color, because the colors were only designed as Sugimori was drawing up the official art for them near the game's release, and most colors are based on what color palatte the Super Game Boy would display them in. Because of this, the Gen 1 Pokemon ended up having fairly simple designs, though their final look was filtered through Sugimori's artstyle since he was in charge of drawing up the official art.
Gen 2 was the same except they were on Game Boy Color now, so they used more colors, but it was still relatively limited and the Pokemon were drawn directly into the game before Sugimori ever drew up official art for them. Starting with with Gen 3, the GBA was now advanced enough that the number of colors displayed on the screen was no longer a real concern. That meant that the designers started going crazier with the designs, you can see how they designed the Gen 3 Pokemon to have more colors and more garish colors at that. And because less limitations, they started designing the Pokemon on paper first, and although Sugimori still drew the final official art for them all, I believe he was no longer changing up the designs as much from how the other artists drew them, which means if other artists don't draw Pokemon as naturalistic looking as Sugimori does, then Pokemon in general are going to look less naturalistic.
