The Wonder Weezel wrote:
I love it too.... i think its one of the coolest pet colours on neopets, actually...
however, i DONT like it when you cant ONLY tell a maraquan pet by its FACE.... look at this turtle. If it didnt have that face or horn, you would NEVER know it was a shoyru.... they are getting WAY into just taking the head or face of a neopet, and sticking it on a random sea creature... these are what im talking about:
i think there are a couple more....
its just either a face, or a head...... if the buzz didnt have those eyes... if the grarrl didnt have those eyes, if the moehog and kyrii didnt have their faces, we would NEVER have known what type of specie it was!
i think they need to do what they originally did with the maraquan paintbrush.... take a neopet, and then take attributes of WATER things, and apply them to the PET, instead of vice versa.... like these:
they take flippers, or tentacles, or fins, or something relating to a water creature, and apply them to the neopet.... this is what I like to see! does anybody else agree?
Just skipping the whole "OMG Neopets is ripping off Pokemon" argument...
Personally, I think that the way TNT is doing the Maraquan pets now is how they should've been doing them all along. Sure, in some cases (like the Blumaroo), the distinction between the Neopet and the real-world sea creature is almost obvious, but in others...
The best move they made was taking the existing sea creature and applying the features of a Neopet to it. As strange as it may sound, it gives those pets a more "natural" feel. Just look at the Kyrii... it looks like it belongs in the water, and that should be the whole point.
Doing it the other way - taking the pet and adding features of a sea-creature only works sometimes, like in the case of the Draik, Krawk and Scorchio. Most of the time, however, the pet comes off looking not quite right... like the Kougra and Chomby (both good concepts, just could of have been done better). Or it comes out looking entirely ridiculous, like the Mynci and *shudder* the Gelert.
And that's my 2 cents...