>>36335249I mean, based on the information we had at the time was it really an off base assumption? Remember we only had the shitty low Res Pokédex sprites. We didn't have the official artwork we do now. In the official artwork Bulus head armour is thing is clearly wood, but back then with what we had we couldn't tell that. Same for Tapu Fini. A siren is a creature that pretends to be a beautiful mermaid that lures people to their death, people assumed it was based on that. And if you look at the sprite it definitely looks like it's got a Mermaid tail in its shell.
It's very easy to claim the observations are retarded NOW with all the stuff we have access to, but back then there was literally nothing going against the theory.
In fact, another fond memory I have is when a couple of moves were leaked from the demo and we thought Aurora Veil, Laser Focus and Throat Chop were the starters signiture moves.
