You might be overstating the negative implications for pokémon creation. You just need not to have standards too exacting, and you’ll be fine: if you’re willing to accept, say, a golden possum (maybe with red cheeks and black-tipped ears) as close enough, then it’s manifestly possible to create such a thing.
Well, you could start by looking at the cosmetic differences achieved by dog breeders as a lower limit to what it is possible to acheive by tinkering with a genome...
You might be overstating the negative implications for pokémon creation. You just need not to have standards too exacting, and you’ll be fine: if you’re willing to accept, say, a golden possum (maybe with red cheeks and black-tipped ears) as close enough, then it’s manifestly possible to create such a thing.
Well, you could start by looking at the cosmetic differences achieved by dog breeders as a lower limit to what it is possible to acheive by tinkering with a genome...