I don’t know why there’s confusion on the fossils- there’s clearly 4 components, that being Fish Top, Electric Top, Dragon Bottom, Chubby Bottom. Fish and Chubby just happen to mesh well
Oh, you're right! Took me a while to realize that Arctovish actually had its head upside down! So there's four fossils with two being heads and two being bottoms. So that means there's four missing fossils which mean there should be 16 combinations:
Fish Complete, Fish/Electric, Fish/Dragon, Fish/Chubby
Electric/Fish, Electric Complete, Electric/Dragon, Electric/Chubby
Dragon/Fish, Dragon/Electric, Dragon Complete, Dragon/Chubby
Chubby/Fish, Chubby/Electric, Chubby/Dragon, Chubby Complete
Geez, maybe they should have kept it simple...
Mostly cause I have actually studied mythology, while japanese mythology is not my speciality I can tell you the difference between, say a
Koma inu and a Shisa, and sure you could say "Haterene is basen on tsukumogami" but
literally any manmade object could be a tsukumogami and while there are distinct tsukumogami, the
only distinct hat tsukumogami is the
Torikabuto which is a hat that looks and sings like a bird, Haterene does
not look like a bird much less a Torikabuto
so in short, I'm sorta familiar with japanese myths and that sir is not a japanese myth (or is
super obscure which is just bad marketing)
To be honest the Hattena family looks to just be based on a
witch's hat (which is a
pointed hat).
Honestly even if man-made object pokemon don't have deep-lore inspiration, who cares as long as they have good designs?
Yeah I don't get where this "object/mythical Pokemon have deep lore" is coming from. Because, they don't. They're just based on an object or a certain myth, that's all. Both have advantages and disadvantages when it comes to designing them and its up to the designer to create a Pokemon with these traits & limitations. The obvious problem with an object Pokemon is you gotta make a lifeless item into a living creature, however many objects are more than the sum of their parts and outside of the box thinking can give life to the lifeless. Pokemon based on mythical creatures have more of the problem of, since its based on a fictional creature, there's either no example to base on or dozens of interpretation so the designer more so has to dive into what is more written about the general appearance and ability of the creature and form it from there. What may seem like it having deep lore could just be the designer needing to dive deep into the basis of the Pokemon in order to find a creative way to give it form.
Also something that may have been overlooked is there's an interesting precedent broken with the SwSh fossil 'mons: None of them are part Rock-type. Also the Zolt ones are both semi-unique typing: Electric/Dragon was only on Mega Amphy and Electric/Ice is only on Rotom-Frost
Guessing since you're combining two fossils together instead of what you can scrape together from one fossil it's enough genetic material to make a "whole" organic creature. Like previously there was probably missing DNA so the fossil Pokemon we got were probably like 90% complete but needed the inorganic material it make it stable when revived. However what's going on here we're mashing together to parts of a fossil with each probably have over 50% of their organic DNA, thus more than enough organic material to revive a creature that doesn't need the inorganic material to be stable... it's just too bad the resulting creature is an absolute mess.
To me it seems like we're missing 2 parts. The Green T-Rex head and the Yellow lizard's bottom half. I'm hoping these show up in the other version of the game.
Judging by the Types, I think the "chubby blue body" is maybe supposed to be from an arctic creature as any head its matched with becomes part Ice-type. So maybe its supposed to be like a
pinniped (seal, sea lion, walrus).
Fish Head: Water-type
Raptor Head: Electric-type
Theropod Body: Dragon-type
Pinniped Body: Ice-type
These Frankenstein ancient Pokemon were never designed to come together in the first place. It's like fitting a T-rex head onto a Triceratops body and vice versa. They are intended to look awfully mismatched together.
I get that but I have another problem with them: How are some of them even alive?
Acrtovish is fine. The head is properly, if upside-down, attached to the body as you expect it to be. Even if the tubes are twisted around each other, it makes sense how it can eat and breathe. Plus the head and body is large enough to leave no innards exposed.
Dracozolt has a MAJOR problem with so much of the Theropod's inside being exposed! It would die from infection hours upon creation.
Arctozolt is confusing because where did the upper body and arms of the Raptor head go? Is it inside the body? Wouldn't that cause complications?
Dracovish shouldn't even be alive! They attached the head to the end of the tail!
I think the main problem with these fossils is that they tried to go "cute" and "silly" with them but went WAY too far. I'm all for adding the wrong dino parts together to make a dino abomination, but can it at least make a little sense? Also with so many potential prehistoric (or just in general extinct) animals you can base a Pokemon design on I feel they wasted a generation doing this. Like I guess the raptor is a unique part, and the fish head looks to be a Dunkleosteus... though I would have preferred just a fossil Pokemon of those animals instead of mismashing them together. Or at the very least if you're going to do this pick the more interesting prehistoric animals to do this with: Triceratops head, Sauropod head, Theropod head, Stegosaurus body, Pterodactyl body, Raptor Body. There, THOSE are the fun dino parts people want to play with!
The fossils are basically what happens when you have the power tonplay god but not the right pieces. They are abominations because irl paleotologists did stuff like this all the time, and if they tried to revive a dinosaur with those parts well...it would look like this.
This is likely based on the history of the Elasmosaurus, when it was first discovered by E.D. Cope and reassembled them as he saw fit, and due to his field of knowledge being lizards, which usually have longer tails than necks, he placed the head at the tip of the tail (the neck is longer). This seems like a homage to that whole debacle.
Neat little reference though I think they took the idea a step too far. If they wanted to show that, somehow, the reviving process restructured the creature so that the tail has become the new neck, the cut body has formed into a rear end, and now it walks around like that would be fine. But that's not what they did. The cut body still looks like a cut body, they might as well have colored that green inner circle white to be the exposed spine bone.
