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Something that's 100% unintentional but I dig anyway: Older members may remember this firsthand but back in BW2 prerelease many people believed they would introduce a new starter trio. This culminated in a famous fake leak featuring a cactus owl people dubbed Cactowl.
10 years later and we get Legends Arceus, whose mishmash starter trio is the closest this idea has ever come to being made real. A member of this trio is Rowlet, the grass type owl
10 years later and we get Legends Arceus, whose mishmash starter trio is the closest this idea has ever come to being made real. A member of this trio is Rowlet, the grass type owl
One small detail I like in the Z-A DLC is that Hyperspace Lumiose has all these little red, blue, and green particles floating around the sky and the edges of the space:
I like this because it’s consistent with the effect they used to show the warping of spacetime when Cyrus took control of Dialga/Palkia:
… which they also referred back to in Legends: Arceus, when the lightning would strike to drive the nobles into a frenzy:
I think it’s just a cool little detail to visualize their idea of certain spatial distortions.
Similarly, I like that the premise of the DLC involves a big, ominous distortion looming over the map’s iconic centerpiece. It contributes to my existing sense of Z-A being a thematic sequel to Arceus almost as much as it is a narrative sequel to XY.
Much as I like Mega Heatran design-wise, I really don’t get why it’s here when Kalos has its own dual-typed half-Fire quadrupedal cryptid with a 600 BST and an underdeveloped mythos that they could have pulled from. Gives Kalos another Mega + gives Volcanion a bit of spotlight for once + gives it something to match Mega Diancie and Hoopa Unbound
I like this because it’s consistent with the effect they used to show the warping of spacetime when Cyrus took control of Dialga/Palkia:
… which they also referred back to in Legends: Arceus, when the lightning would strike to drive the nobles into a frenzy:
I think it’s just a cool little detail to visualize their idea of certain spatial distortions.
Similarly, I like that the premise of the DLC involves a big, ominous distortion looming over the map’s iconic centerpiece. It contributes to my existing sense of Z-A being a thematic sequel to Arceus almost as much as it is a narrative sequel to XY.
Much as I like Mega Heatran design-wise, I really don’t get why it’s here when Kalos has its own dual-typed half-Fire quadrupedal cryptid with a 600 BST and an underdeveloped mythos that they could have pulled from. Gives Kalos another Mega + gives Volcanion a bit of spotlight for once + gives it something to match Mega Diancie and Hoopa Unbound