Is Cacturne a bad design? I tried to retrospectively criticize older designs without the nostalgia bias.

Is Cacturne a bad design?
I tried to retrospectively criticize older designs without the nostalgia bias.
His limbs are just unfunctional simplistic blob outlines, the spines are just basic diamond shapes, I like the eyes and the shape of the mouth. But the lack of shape and details outweighs the goods.
This is a well liked Pokemon but I can't find objective qualities to call it a good design, it would even fit nu-Pokemon style more than many other nu-Pokemon.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No because it’s a plant and they don’t need to follow the fundamental rules of non-plant creatures

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nah, it's not a bad design but it does feel a bit lacking, but only in the way that middle stage mons feel lacking. There's more that could have been done with it but it's fine as is.
    But it's also a scarecrow cactus that evolves from a voodoo doll cactus so what more do you really expect from it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i don't dislike it but really his theme is barely apparent in its design, nothin wrong with subtlety but he should've had some more details

      honestly had no idea cacnea was supposed to be a voodoo doll

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >His limbs are just unfunctional simplistic blob outlines
    there is nothing wrong with this because it makes it look more like a cactus

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    its probably one of the best designs of gen 3

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >After spending thousands of years in harsh deserts, its blood transformed into the same substances as sand. It is nocturnal, so it hunts at night.
    what

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cacturne is so fricking cool.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      liquid silica

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Personally, I'd make his hat look more like a cowboy's

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's a damn cactus. I'd say it looks signinficantly more impressive than it should.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't use the word 'objective' if you aren't actually going to be objective. First define what it means to be a good or bad design.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The limbs are what cactus "limbs" look like.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Its spikes probably should be black to compliment its dark typing

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Zangoose, Seviper, Delcatty, and this guy all need something new.

    Regional form, evolution, Idk something.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    its a cactus scarecrow you weenie

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only thing lacking is animations.
    It should have have physical attack animation where its barges in with slightly bigger spikes

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    NOOOOOOOOOOO THE LIMBS ARE JUST SIMPLISTIC BLOB OUTLINES THIS DESIGN SUCKS

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it doesn't have plenty of unnecessary details like how nugen mons are like

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Literally my mom's Matcha-flavored gingerbread man
    Awful

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This isn't anything new for Grass types. Mons like Gloom and Vileplume are the same way.

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