Spore Creature Creator

I played around with Spore’s trial Creature Creator recently, and I’m not 100% convinced that it’s a great idea.  As fun as it is to make my own hideous monstrosities, one of the main points of the actual Spore “game” is the progressive evolution of your beast as it moves through evolutionary phases.  Handing me the keys to the kingdom so early seems like it risks eliminating one of the few real reward systems the game has.

I’m also not sure whether or not some of the game’s lack of functionality is due to the fact that it’s a demo or not… but the painting seems like it lacks some basic options around color gradation and pattern selection, and it’s surprisingly difficult to mold the basic body shape into non-traditional forms, outside of simply lengthening or shortening the spine (for that matter, what happened to invertebrates?).