Lady of Ships and Birbs

That I can more or less agree with you on. I think what they were trying to go for was the same look that quite a lot of colorful beetles (and other insects) have. But for whatever reason, they just couldn't get them to look as good as the real-life insects (time or budget reasons, Flash limitations, etc.). I think what they did with Ocellus by using fewer colors and keeping things simple was the better way to go with this sort of thing.