ALL OF THE POKEMON LEGENDS ZA DLC MEGAEVOLUTIONS ARE AWFUL!
I don’t understand how people get so mad at me for disliking the Pokemon Legends ZA Mega designs when Mega Dark Cry exists. This is the Mega. This is its existence and design. It is completely indefensible. It is completely irredeemable. And it has maybe the most disgusting animation in all of Pokémon. Like and and every aspect about it is a failure. It’s like, ooh, it looks like an eye. But then Dark Cry literally gets out of it through what can like only be described as a fractured butthole. There there’s no elegant way of saying this because the design is so awful. And the thing is, Mega Dark Cry isn’t the only bad Mega design in the DLC or Pokemon Legends ZA. that this is just a small part of how Game Freak has completely failed with the new mega designs and also just game design for the Pokemon Legends series. Also, this crispy gameplay is from Sirloins’s video, so you can watch the full fight and just kind of see how again nothing about Mega Dark Cry is something that can be defended in any way. Like, oh, it looks horrific, therefore it’s going with the nightmare theme. Or you could actually just make a a scary dark cry that actually resembles dark cry and isn’t horribly designed. Dark cry gives you nightmares. That doesn’t mean its mega design must be a nightmarish eye anus that it gets squaltched out of. And I think that’s another problem that people don’t understand about the mega designs or like just the weirdos that get upset over valid criticism of just pretty much all the megas being bad. And there’s objective arguments from a game design point of view if it isn’t just an awful design. Garchomp did not need a mega. No one was asking for a second mega Garchomp. Garchomp doesn’t need any more representation in Pokemon and especially competitive Pokemon is already a well- reppresented beloved Pokemon. So it getting a mega deprivives another Pokemon of that which actually seems to be a blessing for Pokemon Legends ZA. But that’s besides the point. Mega Garchompz Z’s very existence is bad for Pokémon, which is why I can’t comprehend the morons that get upset at me for not liking it because like really Garchomp, another Garchomp with the pointless Z mega evolution feature, which is also something I want to do its own video on cuz again it it brings nothing to Pokemon and now it makes no sense cuz there’s only three of them. Oh, but DLC 2. Cool. So, five of them with whatever 80 90 megas we end up with by the end of this. And you can only choose one of them. And Pokémon are still going to be left behind because we had to get Mega Dark Cry and Mythical Pokemon and Tatsugiri, which is actually more awful than I thought for my original like reaction to all the new megas. But I also want to just talk about how Mega Garchomp Z’s design is also just bad. Like these spikes don’t make it. This was made by AI. People are like, “Oh, these designs are so bad. Game Freak could have used AI to at least get a better concept.” No, like these spikes are AI. They don’t make sense. Mega Garchomp’s design has actually improved in my eyes because Garchomp Z is so bad. Like, okay, yeah, it is unappealing to have the jaw from Garchomp and its existence doesn’t really work at all because it’s a competitive downgrade and it’s also weird how its hands melt into sides. But I think regardless of the design being weird for Mega Garchomp, it captures the essence of what Mega Evolution is. It is not supposed to be a pleasant thing. And then looking at Garchomp’s design, like, oh, it actually makes a lot more sense because the sites cut both ways. You can slash out, you can cut in with it, and it at least goes into Garchomp’s theming. Spikes on the slashy part don’t make sense. You don’t put nails on one side of your long sword. And also, this is anatomy that didn’t really exist with Garcho. Garchomp had like its one weird claw hand kind of thing. But now it’s multiple claws that got spread out over the scythe. Like they they should have just not kept this and tried to go for more dragon arms and then the design would actually be a lot better. So much like how the jaw and I the scythe melting arms is also has al also been weird to me. And that’s not just enough on the body. It’s like, yeah, it’s all weird. Mega Garchomp, this is why we didn’t need another one, cuz this design, like this design doesn’t even save it. So much like how the jaw ruins Mega Garchomp, Garchomp Z’s arm wings actually don’t work. This isn’t like a Mega Salomon. And this isn’t even an expansion of Garchomp’s lore because Garchomp has already been very established and supported as a jet shark Pokemon that flies through the air. It It doesn’t need to Mega to accomplish that. It It already has it. and then augmenting that does literally nothing for the Pokemon’s concept. So like and then now it even makes less sense than regular Garchomps has all this like unnecessary stuff. And then uh they couldn’t do anything like this is just Garchomp with spikes on its arms for no reason. And then they just had to add extra things to make it not look like basic Garchomp. So I mean maybe if you’re 10 it looks kind of cool. You know, they put a red stripe on his belly and they gave it like yellow rings, which again, I guess is kind of cool if you’re a child. But base Garchomp is just so welld designed that it’s actually, as we’ve learned, it’s really difficult to make a good mega design for Garchomp that justifies the existence of a Mega. And if you can’t justify it, then it’s a failure because Mega is so special and exclusive. man, just spending all my time on Garchomp. But again, it captures like all of the arguments against me and people just like, “Oh, all you do is hate and be negative.” Not my fault. This is objectively bad design. And then there still aren’t many good spots that are salvageable or existences that can be justified inside a Pokémon. Like the what I will give is like, okay, the bottom half works, but then it clashes with the rest of Garchomp. So, they need to like completely overhaul the design and then it could just get kind of too weird and uncanny. I don’t know. This Pokemon is a mess. And again, just like captures how no one can be honest about valid criticism in Pokemon. They’re just like, “Oh, you’re just rage baiting or you’re just hateful and negative.” And it’s like, “No, being toxic positive about actually bad things in Pokemon is much worse than having valid criticism against bad design like Tatsugiri. This is worse than I thought.” And I thought like each Tatsugiri form had a mega and was just like one of its own standalone pieces or like only the center one, but no, it’s all three as the mega at the same time, which makes no sense. Now, at least the bottom part doesn’t just look like Splooge, but the mega symbol, what what’s the point of it? It’s a completely unnecessary design that doesn’t make any sense. And I guess it’s just for the dumbest of people to point Wojack style and go, “Look, it’s a mega symbol.” They put the megas cuz he’s a mega. Which is why I’m just so against the mega designs of Pokemon Legends ZA that it’s really that pop culture trend of everything actually just appealing to the lowest common denominator of people, the true midwits, the mentally underdeveloped manchildren. Those are the only people that can find these kinds of designs. appealing because there’s like one neat little thing like, “Oh, I get the fake grass in my sushi roll, too.” See, they did it. They did the thing. And now there’s multiple sushi cuz they’re all different. I have different kinds of sushi. And that ignores this design not making any sense for Pokémon. There’s nothing redeemable about it. Cuz like, well, it is just the same Pokemon, but all the forms on a sushi platter made of the Mega symbol. If you actually break down each design element of the megas, they make less and less sense and then get harder and harder to defend. So yeah, I guess like the center one and then the other forms just go to the side. Also, the main one has like row on its head or something. So I thought that like each of these were separate just going off of like the initial uh information from the megas, but you could actually see in the screenshots all three which does not work in Pokémon at all. So, I guess that goes back to like the sub90 IQ thing of different and new automatically being better even though it’s poorly implemented. Uh, next up we got Mega Heatran. And yeah, so we we get to see all of our boy now instead of just the picture. And it’s disgusting and awful. It’s literally melted. And if you think that that you can’t really tell from the picture, no, it’s literally melted. Also, is there something? Is it just me or does Heatran ZA model also just look bad? That it looks too tall and disproportionate. But it actually doesn’t have back legs anymore. It is just a blob. It is just a disgustingly melted ooze blob where whose jaw is broken and it’s just an open furnace of misery. This is objectively bad design that cannot be defended because of some flavor text or like one design element, but like but it’s so hot it melts. See, that’s clever. No, that means you’re an idiot. And then people getting mad at me for saying could have just been evolution. And it’s actually worse than that because when you look at the stats, Scoville could have just been an evolution. Mega Sko villain just goes up into normal Pokemon stats and the design is just a normal Pokemon. There’s nothing mega about this. People like, “Yeah, what’s in the name?” Some of the most incomprehensible people are the ones that condescendingly go, “It’s called Mega What? Oh, evolution.” So, yeah, you’re not making a point by saying this should have been evolution because that’s what it is. It’s point of megas. No, the point of megas is to give it an overloaded amount of power that actually severely harms the Pokemon and supposed to be very temporary and very special. There is nothing special or extra power or anything about it that like breaks the ceiling of a Pokemon to give it a mega evolution. See, that’s that’s the difference between a regular evolution and a mega evolution. The mega part. So, we’ve already gone through five of the new DLC megas, and there’s not one thing that can be defended about them. And then people are like, “Oh, you’re always negative. You were negative about all the other megas and just base ZA.” Well, it’s for all the same reasons that most of them could have just been evolution or form like Hawlawucha. There’s nothing mega about Hawlawucha. There’s nothing mega about this. And I mean, that argument could probably also extend to Garchomp. I could like this just works as a Garchomp form. other Mega Garchomp kind of makes sense because it actually like melts into its design. Like yeah, that that actually feels more Mega Garchomp. This just kind of feels like a form of Garchomp to not really present anything extra. Like there’s no more there’s nothing more about the Pokemon’s lore and behavior being conveyed through this design. And because we have we’re going back to Callus, so it must be Megas. All these designs are just bricked philosophically from Game Freak. There’s actually nothing to distinguish this design from Galisopod. So, it doesn’t work as a split evolution. It doesn’t work as an evolution either like a second stage or mega of Galisopod. Like, it gets extra arms that don’t do anything. And I guess it becomes gray because now it’s a steel type and the legs are unnecessary and don’t make sense. Like, nothing happened here. And 90% of it is the same. What? It’s It’s a complete waste and failure of a mega. All right, zero for six. Then what do we got? Well, we already have Pokemon I disagree with. Like the Lucario. I talked about this on the reveal. Mega Lucario is just better in every way compared to Lucario Shark Sona. And what is it with like modern Game Freak design where they just have to like put something weird into it for no reason? Like I get the skirt fur part here and making it more feminine, but like we don’t need this weird lock of hair and then the super long like braids or whatever is going on with that fur as well. Like it just gets disgusting growths. That’s what I don’t like about Mega Dragonite’s design. That’s just all unnecessary and doesn’t have anything defensive about it. against like the most midweight argument to go, but it’s like Dragon Air and they did it in the worst way possible, which is why it’s still a an objectively bad design that they don’t actually properly call back to its previous form in any way that makes sense. And it doesn’t even relate to how Dragon Air flies with its head wings or anything like that. And then they just have to like kind of do things. Why does its tail do that? I don’t know. Why? Why does it look like that? I don’t know. It just has to be Mega Lucario Oz. And then Absol, it’s just Mega Absol but black. And but that doesn’t work because then that’s even more I say that’s even more stupid, but no, it would actually just be hilarious if it was just black regular Mega Absol with like a small change, not this weird growth of a wing. It’s a red one wing. So that means it’s evil. It’s the bad counterpart one. Now, I will say the design concept works in the early 2000s with Shadow the Hedgehog because that’s the coolest, edgiest thing you’ve ever seen, not over two decades later when that trope has been played out and then they’re just lazily putting it into Pokémon for no reason again. Like, we didn’t need another Mega Garchomp. We didn’t need another Mega Lucario. We don’t need another Mega Absol, which means we don’t need Z megas at all. They just do weird things for the combat system inside of Legend Za. And now it’s just a 151 speed Pokemon which does weird things for Kab like so so the concept of Z megas is just stupid and breaks Pokemon for no reason. But then that means we have to give double megas to Pokemon. And then when you actually get down into it, none of the designs actually need to exist or make sense in a counterpart kind of way. So like only someone severely developmentally stunted could find this interesting or cool in the big 25, actually 26 now. And I think it’s another failing on Game Freak’s part where the designs just look like really cheap Chinese knockoffs. Like they didn’t even try. Chinese knockoffs try harder than whatever Game Freak was going for here where again it’s like oh we did a bare minimum thing and then put a gross design element on it. That’s our that’s our ZA mega and then croinable. What the mega star me like everyone knew that was bad and indefensible and now we just have more of that. Krabominable is one of the worst Pokemon from the generation 7 decks. It’s worse than all of the Ultra Beast designs because at least that lore can be just justified even though they have like really uncanny designs. And then this like, okay, where’s our Mega Lychen Rock? Where’s our Mega Tannon? Where’s the cool Pokemon that actually deserved a Mega? Instead, it’s one of the least liked Pokemon ever. But that also doesn’t mean it needs to get more attention. We don’t need mega monkeys for like the five people that actually like those Pokémon. Same thing with anything. Like if there’s a Pokemon so bad or so forgotten, you don’t try to revive it unless you actually do like a crazy design and you try to make up for the past mistakes and make it the coolest thing ever. But once again, uh we could just have a form for it and that could have maybe brought some life into this Pokemon or an evolution instead of a mega with a really stupid face and really stupid legs and everything and it doesn’t make any sense. And then Mega Starraptor kind of has that Garchomp syndrome, but I will say it’s a little better. Its design is actually really cool, but I don’t think it works for Pokemon. Like this is just too evil feeling for Starraptor. Again, trying to go way too over-the-top edgy. This is carelessly making something edgy. There’s like no heart to the design of Mega Starraptor, and there’s a lot of people that love Starraptor out there. So, like, you need to actually give an attempt to do right by the fans instead of just this. Like, I don’t understand the influence. I don’t understand how anyone could have just gone through with this and be like, “Yeah, we just made evil Starraptor and that’s the Mega. Enjoy. It’s It’s fighting, by the way. even though there’s really nothing to do that. And we put stripes on it and we made its hair even crazier. And then we gave it really, really mean looking eyes. And there’s your mega starraptor. Why it do that? No reason. And then we got mega meow stick. All of this again is just complete midwipit bait of like, wow, look at how clever and creative they were when trying to deal with the different forms. And see, we didn’t think it could have a mega because of the forms. They rectified that in a really elegant way. They did not, which is why this is a failure of design. They just they just like smashed them together and called it a mega. The problem with Game Freak subversion is that it only works once and then it never sits on the pallet well and you’re just kind of stuck with it. The real subversive like cool crazy thing to do is you give each form its own exclusive mega and then that’s like gender related megas. Oh man, that’d be a sick gimmick to actually throw in if you’re trying to put work into bringing back megas. So, we have to go through all this to bring back Mega Evolution and justify its existence again. And then we don’t get anything interesting out of it except for picks like, “Oh, you didn’t think we’d do another mythical mega like Zerora. Here’s Dark Cry.” Now, I won’t get mad at anyone that likes Mega Goolur. I think Golerk is a good pick for a Pokemon that needs a mega to actually bring it into some kind of relevance. I’ve just never been a fan of its design in general, but I’m also not against people that like Goler. I don’t like mech things. I think it automatons into Pokemon like this. You kind of need it cuz like that does exist in the world and it fills out the world. I find Clay doll to be more interesting and enigmatic than Golerk. But I mean like okay, yeah, Golem Pokemon. You just kind of say that and it sounds like something that makes sense. I think it just kind of slapped in there as like a reboot design from generation 5. Clay doll actually feels like it fits into the Pokemon world, especially Hoen and the desert and all that. Goler just kind of exists and now it’s Mega is that. But that’s actually Mega Energy. This is a mega representation of a Pokemon that isn’t some weird deck filler that got surprise competitive viability. It doesn’t have a lot of fans. But like for the people that like this, cool. Like I’ll give it that. I’m just like uh personal. On my personal level, I I I’m unimpressed by it and wish something else happened here, which when it’s like finally we got to one that I will say is defensible, but it took like all this other trash to where it’s like, yeah, that this doesn’t save the DLC decks. Uh Glamora, I didn’t even have like I thought this would just speak for itself where like we just had this Pokemon. It didn’t get an evolution. It didn’t get any kind of extra form. Like this could have just been split evolution somehow. And then you make the lore fit into that because we just went to the PA region. Which is also why I don’t like the generation 9 Pokemon getting megas when other Pokemon are getting overlooked. Where’s our Mega Miloic, Mega Flagon, Mega Lyan Rock, Mega any of these other ones, like so many other Pokemon that should just have a Mega. Instead, we immediately dilute the relaunch of Mega Evolutions with Pokemon that just came out and like in this case, the worst of the decks. Uh, Tatsugiri again, like it was already cool that we had sushi Pokemon. He didn’t really do anything. Was a competitive Menace because of Commander. So, like yeah, we got we got the little sushi fish. Neat. And now it’s a mega for some reason. That makes even less sense. So, Glamora, it’s just pedals. Where’s our Mega Goodra? We get Mega Back Excalibur and we don’t get Mega Jang Mo. Oh, so like how did we not just finish that out and tidy that up and at least make some cool designs from that because that was back when Pokemon were designed well. So instead we got Scoville Sushi and whatever this is supposed to be. Uh what was this one? Ah Mega Miraa. Why? Like Miraa already had all the design it needed, all the lore it needed. Mega does not make any sense and does nothing for this Pokemon. Especially because it like it was already so weird to get the ball in the exclusive forms and stuff. What does it do? What does it add? How is its design interesting? There’s nothing good about it that makes sense. Then that also goes into Mega Zer aura and Back Excalibur and all. Yeah, I didn’t like this the sword just stabbing it for no reason. I guess you just have to you just have to do that. This is just the laziest way of doing it and it doesn’t enrich the Mega Pokedex. And then we have Mega Zeraora. Instead of Mega Luxray, a Pokemon that actually needs like a big competitive update. Instead, it goes to the mythical Pokemon. And the design doesn’t really make sense. Like, okay, now it has like the two fur things splitting out of its shoulders, but it’s not really like wings. And once again, there’s nothing mega about this. This could have just been a form. This would be much more justifiable as a Zera form of some kind where it gets like a blue electricity power up and then that makes sense. Instead, like it just dilutes megas and doesn’t and takes a slot and doesn’t do anything and all it does is remind you like, wait, where’s our mega Luxray? That that’d be infinitely better. Instead, the mythical Pokemon gets that privilege instead of like Luxray megaing into looking like Zeror as its own cool callback. This just steals all from Lux Ray and then it’s like cool, we have we have gray zer aura. Like the pallet swap to gray gets tiring after a while and doesn’t immediately make every gray pallet swap peak. But as we can see from Absol, that’s what people think. And then it really comes down to the only mega I like that makes sense is Chimeco. This actually captures the spirit of mega Pokémon. Feels more Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapp. Why? Why wasn’t this an oras? This actually feels like it could have been an ORAS instead of like Mega Gali or something and that would have been just fine and it makes Pokemon better overall. All these megas, all the other megas though, complete net negative to Pokemon. And then taking everything into consideration, the Mega Raichu really do fall off. I saw a lot of hate early on when these were revealed. People were like, “Oh, they look so weird. Like both of them look weird. I don’t like the double tails. I don’t like the weird ear things going on here.” When I first saw them, I went, I don’t hate them. They are all right. I was like one of the few people that was defending Mega Raichu. I’m like, I’ll give these guys a chance. They actually look kind of cool. I like the Mega Raichu X with the X concept. Like that that works. Even though like two tails kind of weird, but I like the pudgy, stubby little Raichu. Like that is Mega Raichu. And if you’re going to be doing X, cool. But where they brick it is on Mega Raichu. Why? Because like you could just make Mega Pikachu. You already don’t have any regard for the existing history and cannon of Pokemon with Pokemon Legends. Legends Arus, horrible story. It’s just a fanervice fanfic that ruins the established history of Pokemon and the Cinno region for no reason. Legends ZA also does the same thing. None of it makes sense. story is only more confusing instead of actually giving us like a true Z version of the game that really makes Kos a more beautiful and better place. You just reccon that only fully evolved Pokemon can Mega and then you give Mega Pikachu and that also means Mega Eevee and who cares because those are the mascots of Pokemon so you can’t give them too much attention or special treatment. And then that means we have our normal Eevee Lucian. So that would actually be like really cool for Eevee’s lore that like it can’t evolve into just a normal type, but it can mega to kind of get the effects of that temporarily. And everyone still wants to see like just evolved Eevee, just normal type evolve Eevee. Put in Mega Peak. And then with Mega Pikachu instead of Mega Raichu Y, we don’t have to have these stupid ear things. You get rid of that. And that’s actually just all you need to do for Mega Pikachu. It has like the little call back to Raichu. like it mega evolves into still Pikachu but kind of Raichu and it’s just excellent or you do mega Raichu Y and then you just don’t have Raichu ears like you don’t have the double quadruple ear thing going on and maybe you just do something else to make these ears like bigger and and make the design work like that has the confidence and coolness of Pikachu taken to a mega form and then they bricked it and then they just had to do their cheeky stuff and now all the megas suck except for Chimac Echo. And people are mad at me for being honest and rational and actually having valid criticisms of the poor designs in modern Game Freak Pokemon. Whatever. Hope you guys enjoy the video. Hope you all have a nice day. Thank you very much for watching.
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