Do you think pokemon are looking less and less like pokemon?

[Ti4558]

I feel like each new generation is looking a lot different from the first gen pokemon.

[blaze boy]

I feel like each new generation is looking a lot different from the first gen pokemon.

Then you would be mistaken as the Pokémon have always been the same right from the original gen 1.

[Ver-mont]

They haven't been looking exactly the same as Gen I, but they haven't been looking less like Pokémon either.

[Elnava]

No, I feel like the the vast majority of designs are great and feel right at home in the pokemon universe. The only time when I felt like I "wasn't playing Pokémon" was at certain points during my play through of BW due to the lack of familiar pokemon from the entirety of the main game, it was alienating. But that was fixed with BW2

[Will-powered Spriter]

I don't think there is a definition for what looks like a pokemon. They have a general style, but that's shifted slowly over the years.

The phrase "doesn't look like a pokemon" and its even worse brother just translate to "I don't like them and can't explain/justify why".

[Bolt the Cat]

They only appear odd at first because they're new, you'll get used to them after a while.

[SimH8]

Well no, because how would you define what a pokemon is meant to look like. There have always been vast differences in design from Gen 1 e.g Rhydon and Oddish. I'd say pokemon designs don't look like pokemon if they base them completely off humans and robots, but otherwise pokemon can look quite diverse.

[telivisionhead]

It would be stupid having the same pokemon though or loooking alike.
Pokemon look differant and they are all differant species,types and what not but it would be stupid having just a new pokemon that looks a bit like an old pokemon. (Im not talking about evoloutions or Pre evo)

[Endolise]

Since you can't really quantify how much a Pokémon looks like a Pokémon, no.

[red2000]

Agree to Disagree, certain Pokemon like the Kami trio, and Kyurem and its forms, definitely push the envelope on what we know Pokemon to be, others like Chandelure and Vaniluxe start to fit in with time

[Cutty]

If they are still called pokemon then they cant be something else...

New forms of a legendary are hardly an extreme change to its original pokemon look... Like moving Mewtwo's tail to its head or make Giratina fly.

[Navarch]

Nobody can ever really say that. All the Pokemon are different in each Generation, some more bland/creative than others. There are no rules on what a Pokemon can be.

[TheDarkKnightFalls]

Since you can't really quantify how much a Pokémon looks like a Pokémon, no.

This, in a nutshell.

[shadorai]

Since you can't really quantify how much a Pokémon looks like a Pokémon, no.

exactly what i would have said.

[AmbipomMaster]

I feel like each new generation is looking a lot different from the first gen pokemon.

But see, that's the great thing about Pokemon. There is no "generic Pokemon" mold. Every single Pokemon ever created was unique and different. Granted, they all share the fact that they were drawn by Ken Sugimori, but still. Milotic is extremely different from Gogoat who is also different from Bellosom who is also different from Alakazam.

So, are Pokemon looking less like Pokemon? No, because there is no definitive answer on what a Pokemon truly is.

[Pokemon Whisperer Natural Harmonia Gropius]

No, they're Pokemon, they're supposed to look weird. I think you think they're starting to look less like Pokemon because a lot of the Pokemon being introduced nowadays are more Japanese-related.

[ohjeezitskim]

And if pokemon all looked the same.. you'd complain too saying the same thing that GF is unoriginal and can't come up with new ideas.

[randomspot555]

Agree to Disagree, certain Pokemon like the Kami trio, and Kyurem and its forms, definitely push the envelope on what we know Pokemon to be,

Please don't try to pass off your personal opinion as some widely held belief.

[pokedigijedi]

a little bit but nothing too serious. each generation had it sucky designs and cool designs such as gen 5 having sucky desing garbodor and cool design cobalion. gen 4 had sucky design magmortar and cool design lucario. and those are just a few examples.

[ysmr97]

To actually answer the question at hand calmly, no, I don't think so