You know, it’s funny, I like side quests a lot even if they’re just menial “show me this Pokémon” or “use an Electric move on this holovator” tasks, but I sigh and groan whenever a side quest turns out to just be a Trainer battle with extra steps.
Unrelated to that, I’m finally at the point of the game where I’m taking on Rogue Mega battles, and so far I think they’re a really fun, strong iteration on the boss battles from Arceus. Pin Missile has never felt as threatening as it did during the Rogue Mega Beedrill battle.
Similarly, I had a pretty good time grinding up the ranks for Greninjite. The four-way free-for-alls are a little repetitious and not particularly strategic, but still, it’s an entertaining few minutes of chaos lol.
I’ve opened up several more Wild Zones, and was pleasantly surpised to find a snowy, icy one. Maybe they aren’t quite as uniform as I thought they would be. Although… it is a little disappointing that there’s only like 5-8 species in each one max, and that that’ll never change. This game could perhaps use a bigger Pokédex, I feel.
Did *anyone* in ORAS see Mega Rayquaza besides you and Zinnia? Because maybe it's not really common (or academic) knowledge that Rayquaza even evolves.
No one else
sees it, but at the very least, the Devon Corporation has some knowledge about it due to their research on Infinity Energy. After the Delta Episode, one of the scientists there will explain to you about how Rayquaza’s mikado organ enables it to Mega Evolve due to its diet of meteorites, and mentions that the Pokédex has been updated with that information.
For what it’s worth, there’s a couple of bits of dialogue in Z-A that allude to Mega Evolution originating in Hoenn. I’ll have to dig them up later*, but it’s definitely a part of the lore that GF are keeping in mind. I’ll be curious to see if the DLC gets into that at all if Rayquaza and the Primals return.
* Later is now. There’s an NPC with a speech bubble above their head that says, “Didn’t Mega Evolution first start far away in the Hoenn region?”, and in the datamined
Diancie event, Emma says, “I just remembered that AZ mentioned something else. He said during his long journey searching for Floette, he saw a phenomenon in Hoenn that may have been the beginning of all Mega Evolution! That’s what got him always thinking about the bonds between people and Pokémon.” That’s a reference to ORAS, where we learned that AZ was present in Sootopolis during Rayquaza’s first Mega Evolution.
