The Pokemon Legends: Arceus Legendary Fan Theory Doesn't Have To Be Right To Be Important

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In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Dialga and Palkia’s new forms have not been well received. Legendaries seem to be harder for Pokemon to pull off these days - rather than the simplistic yet powerful designs of the Kanto birds, new Legendaries have a more forced feel to them, like they have been set aside by the design team while a more is more is more approach is taken, rather than just ‘a bird, right, but on fire’. Gen 3 was the last time the Legendaries had a major impact on the fanbase, and even then you can see Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza moving into the overdesigned sphere. Admittedly though, those three are still better than the Regis and the Lati@s twins, so you have to go back to Gen 2 for a solid roster of winners.

Since Legends: Arceus is a continuation of Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, it needed to use Dialga and Palkia, but with those two being possibly the two most Digimon-looking Pokemon ever, the new forms were a chance to reinvent them as cleaner, more controlled creatures. That might have been more fitting for the era too, with Legends set centuries before any other Pokemon game in existence. Unfortunately, the game went in the opposite direction, making them even more complicated. Palkia’s original form is a weird horse-thing, while Dialga gets a lot of extra bumps at notches, looking simultaneously like it has swallowed a hammer and been battered by one.

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However, there might be a reason for this beyond the fact that the Pokemon team hasn’t created a legendary Legendary since Rayquaza. Twitter user @soodramd pieced together the two new forms, plus Giratina, and has been able to create a pretty good likeness for Arceus itself, as you can see in the