The Starters should be acceptable right? Otherwise what are you playing with?

hey. monkey.

Well... Chimchar is okay. but then he sucks. 

When you first take a gander at him, you think, young monkey and fire. Not so bad. The fire seems like it was thrown on at the last second, but hey, Nintendo hasn't given a non-halfassed attempt at a Pokémon in a while, why should we be surprised? So at first he's passible starter.

But then you look more closely.

Is that pink eye-shadow? Or, are those the insides of its eye-lids? Thaaaats kind of weird.

And compare the size of the ears to the size of the eyes. Aren't they enormous? Aren't they wide endless tunnels into Chimchar's cranium? They make Chimchar look like a mouse. 

Now look at the hair. Chimchar has bangs and, to quote someone with better opinions than myself,  a turd on his head.

There's also a needless Cinnabun-swirl on its chest. The fire on its ass, the old gimmick, is explained in this Bulbapedia entry

A sleeping Chimchar - note the lack of a flame

So it has no tail, no stub; when Chimchar wakes up, its shiny red ass produces the fire. That's also weird. Its weird that they would even have that in Pokémon game.

In conclusion, its the details, the little things, that take Chimchar down from acceptable to awkward (five fingers, three toes?). No, I will not be having any Diamond or Pearl, thank you.

with thanks to SSlick, of screwattack.com