>>50875883I didn't like it because it felt like such a cynical regional form. I understand why it exists, but I feel like the only reason they went ahead and created it was because they didn't want to make a new unique unicorn line and instead just doctored up this one with all the features they knew would make it popular for marketing. It just seems like if you boil down all the things wrong with modern Pokemon design, it comes out as Galarian Rapidash. I would have much rather had a unique Pokemon. And that goes for a lot of the other regional forms, especially the ones that only change the elemental typing of the Pokemon or exist "just because." I liked most of the original set from Generation 7 because a lot of them made sense from a lore perspective, but now it feels like the last two batches of regional forms just exist because they know it's going to drum up hype. Most of the Galarian and Hisuian forms seem way more contrived and forced, rather than natural. And back to my original point, this Pokemon 100% speaks to that through and through. There is absolutely nothing about Galar that is so radically different this Pokemon needs to exist in this form. And before you say oh there's this magical forest that's why it's this way, what do you think really came first? The Pokemon or the forest? It doesn't feel like they designed the region around this lore of magic and fantasy, they just sort of slapped that stuff in there even though it totally made sense to make it the whole game. Versus Alola, which was entirely tropical and an island so it entirely made sense to have the regional forms it did.
>TLDR this thing exemplifies why regional forms are becoming a cancer on the franchise 