Berny Marcus said:
Ever Black and White I feel Nintendo has been running out of ideas for the designs of pokemon. I'll point to two pokemon as examples.
Trubbish: Seriously? A pokemon based on garbage? That's really, really bad imo if Trubbish wasn't a sign of how many ideas they were running out, I don't know what is.
Klefki: A key chain like Pokemon, uhh what?
I know not all pokemon designs have to be based on sometype of animal..but a garbage bag and a key chain as pokemon? Seriously Nintendo you can do better.
This is just my 00.02
Edit: And this is not about every design just a few specific ones that look awkward.
I'm not seeing how that argument is different from the pile of sludge which is muk, the pokemon that are shaped literaly like animals with no really variation and named thusly (ratatta, ekans), the ball pokemon voltorb (and in reality is just a pokeball with some eyes and and its evolution which is shockingly just a flipped over bigger pokeball with eyes and now a mouth), or the host of terrible designs they've been doing since the first gen. Such as:
<spoiler=The 8 lb duckface water head baby magmar>http://www.serebii.net/Pkmn_Red/126.gif
<spoiler=the downsy charizard>http://www.serebii.net/Pkmn_Red/006.gif
and
<spoiler=The constipated Mewtwo>http://www.serebii.net/Pkmn_Red/150.gif
not to mention how god awful green sprites look now.
Besides, looking at klefki, if I understand his inspiration correctly he's pretty cool. Its about a keychain that was abandoned for a century and was given life through so minor god/goddess type deal and no goes around collecting misplaced keys and sealing something away while doing so. If thats right thats kinda badass.