![]() 10 of our absolute favorite places to spend a day in Tokyo 6 views.Our lonely reporter goes searching for Japan’s search-for-a-spouse vending machine 13 views.Insert images: Neoseeker, Bulbapedia, Twitter We say drop it on a deserted island with that gangly weirdo from Cloverfield, and let’s see who’s left standing (our money’s on the pokémon). “If you actually used it to battle another pokémon, it’d wind up destroying everything in the surrounding area.”ĭespite the inevitable collateral damage, we’d still like to see Morita’s Venusaur in action. “It looks like it could break out of the pokéball anytime it wanted to.” Morita tweeted the image to his followers, garnering the following reactions. So, the CG artist decided to take a swing at reimagining the classic cover. ![]() ![]() Morita felt the original illustration failed to do justice to the powerful Venusaur, a bruising pokémon with the ability to spew poison at its foes. ▼ You’re supposed to send this adorable guy out to fight for your entertainment? What’s next? Bare-knuckled baby brawling? After all, you can only do so much to toughen something up when it starts off as a cute little reptile with a flower growing out of it back. Still, even having reached the zenith of its power, Nintendo’s version of Venusaur isn’t exactly intimidating. Pokémon Green’s original cover features Venusaur, the most evolved version of the leaf-type pokémon Bulbasaur. While Morita isn’t part of the Pokémon development team, that didn’t stop him from reimagining the cover to one of the series’ two original titles, the 1996 Game Boy release Pokémon Green. Morita, undoubtedly inspired by the creativity of video games and computer graphics, now works as a CG artist. Nintendo’s Pokémon franchise has been around long enough that many people have literally grown up with it. In other words, they should look something like the frightening CG image here. Pokémon should look like something that could take on Godzilla. From a design standpoint, they shouldn’t look like Bambi’s woodland friends. ![]() But at the same time, those rolly polly creatures do battle with each other by unleashing lightning storms, fireballs, and tornadoes. Sure, on the one hand, most of the pocket monsters the player controls are drawn with chubby cheeks and eyes whose size is equaled only by their cuteness. When you stop and think about it, the Pokémon series of video games ought to be terrifying. ![]()
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