I designed the enemies and have partial credit for bullet boy, and i think this is an example of convergent evolution. my inspirations were Clippy from Microsoft Word and traditional old timey animation, exaggerating the hands and feet by making them just the only thing there. Rare games i think similarly took very traditionalist cartoon inspirations so we ended up in the same design space, i take it as nothing but a complement c:
Hmm i see, didn’t immediately thought about clippy but yean i can totally see it XD
Also true that the old timey cartoons did seem to have a thing for putting eyes onto objects so you’re right that’s probably where Rare got this inspiration in the first place :p
and you should your designs are great ^^