Proper
Simpler
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Mini-Boss: Pikmin 3 has the Shaggy Long Legs, Burrowing Snagret and the Bug-Eyed Crawmad, which are a lot simpler than the game's proper boss battles.
Source: Video Game / Pikmin - When the series proper started and the animators needed to have an episode out each week, the fights instantly became much smaller, with those same characters now struggling to overcome a handful of those same enemies and relying on simpler techniques.
Source: Big Budget Beef-Up -
And of course, there is the intro; we start with a scene animated in a 'flat' simpler style that's clearly trying to replicate the original shorts, and cut to the movie proper, which of course is mostly Live Action as well as having much more intricately shaded animation.
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