Flawless

You can’t change perfection

If you look you can see things like the “3D” effects around the black “eyes” of the mask, the change in color/size/shape of the belt buckle etc. these are minor and iterative design changes most likely brought about by newer hardware allowing more accurate and realistic reproduction of character design. Going back to Doki Doki Panic (aka Mario 2) shy guy has remained largely unchanged, only updated incrementally as graphics improved- so I am not saying that the design isn’t awesome. To the contrary I am merely saying that there are two technical points I disagree one: shy guy has had minor updates for graphical improvements over the years, and based on that: shy guy has been pretty much unchanged in design since 1987. So it’s actually a much longer streak than Yoshi’s story.