Tuesday, April 12, 2011

No. 168: Ariados

This one is weird.

Like, weird even for Pokemon. For one, it has two legs on its back. They - they're not doing much, just kinda chilling there.

Legs don't go on the back, Ariados, what are you thinking.

Then, it abandons the butt face (bad move) in favor of... two spots and a stinger? I guess it still kinda looks like a face, but only in the way of "hey look two things and then another thing sad chair is sad lol" that only stupid shitheads think is entertaining.

And it keeps the horn and mandibles, managing overall to look just enough like a spider for us to go "That was once a spider? Oh god where did it all go wrong." So in that sense, it totally works. It looks alien and "other", and that fits for a creepy bug thing.

So actually, while I prefer the cute little Spinarak, and would like to see a more literal interpretation of a spider, Ariados does what it set out to do: Creep us the hell out.

Overall: 8/10

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