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I was starting in on Breloom, but when I glanced over and saw that he evolved from this disappointment, I had to change gears.


"Look at me. I am grumpy. And adorable"
Shroomish here is on loan to Nintendo from Pac-Man. Namco worked extensively on its 4 ghosts and in the process created a lot of duds. You may have heard of abandoned characters such as Clinky (grey), Shrinkey (white), and Chad (some awkward and pointless color). Well, this was Shroomy (brown). Namco charged Nintendo mighty highly for this dud and Nintendo gladly paid, eager to make money off Namco's classic game. This story is totally untrue. Nintendo is just scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I mentioned in an earlier review that "blushing cheeks" is really lame and that I hate it. Shroomish's blush has evolved to measles levels. Still lame.
Is he walking on his tumors?
You can kinda tell that he was modeled after a bulb. But they were careful to disguise the link to Bulbasaur, a godly Pokémon they invented 10 years earlier. So they made Shroomish look like a doodle of a prophet.