>>28925807The ONE thing that makes me have any shadow of doubt is the color schemes and ditching design choices in each 2nd stage.
Dartrix changes from the light brown to dark brown, while going from dark green to light, not to mention the bangs being nowhere near a hood motif. The eyes also seem to be going in a different direction than in the leaks (squinted vs glasses/calm), and the beak still maintains the orangey brown/white instead of getting darker. Why then would the final evo revert ALL of the color changes?
Torracat does a similar thing: Litten was black/dark red, and makes a change to black/orange. Again, why then revert back to the dark red? Why make the ears bigger only to then make them tiny? Why make the fur spike out on the top of the head only to then scrap it altogether again? The grey from the leaked evo seems really out of place here as well (then again Chesnaught was drastically different in colors from the second evo), not to mention that the fire sac starts as a bell around the neck and then just suddenly becomes a wrestling belt? I'm not saying GF wouldn't make that jump but it doesn't seem like a solid design choice considering that even in Torracat's cry the bell motif is utilized.
>>28925826This post helps connect the dots pretty well, but it still seems weird that so many new design choices are then just thrown out altogether instead of progressed upon.
Brionne has the same issue in color scheme changes. Popplio starts out a dark blue, then Brionne loses some white for a more light blue that (other than in the "hair") is lost in the final evo from the leaks.
If they're real, it's poor design choices. If they somehow turn out to be fake hopefully we get something better. I'm still not digging the Luchalitten design whatsoever; yeah the typing is fire/dark supposedly, but for fucks sake it's still a fighting-themed design and I can't see how anybody isn't tired of it already.
