>>58997018It's just a pisser most of the pokémon who got those megas were able to be caught and acquired in XY, isn't it? Almost as if XY2 was supposed to be an upper split like BW2 was and at the last minute, they pivoted to repurposing the megas for ORAS, huh? Being generous, there's only 10 megas they created specifically for ORAS (Fug, Kyogre, Groudon, Lopunny, Blaziken, Swampert, Sceptile, the Lati@s and Diancie). With everything else available in XY, it's kinda hard to definitively claim "they only happened bekuze ORAS", the shitmon were endemic to the region but the upper became vaporware and Game Freak do not fuck out good work from a bad project, so presto changeo. They don't deliberately desing this shit mid-gen, it's created at the start, then decided when to be added and implemented. Game Freak had started trying to offer a unique experience with uppers that weren't just "the same story and basic plot with some new routes and a different leggo as focus, BW2 was a sequel as well as a "let's retread the region but differently!". A new story with newly added megas ABSOLUTELY tracks with that mentality. That USM similarly went off-reservation from what SM did, despite also being a re-tread to SM is just more evidence in the shift in thinking at GFHQ when it came to upper versions (and then that was taken to its logical conclusion in Gen 8, ditching uppers, moving to DLC and being able to offer different places from base game and even entire different locations in the pokéworld to bugger around from Paldea in SV). Everything I see points to repurposed work after the upper project fell through. That Zyg-Complete was kept and added to SM and they even went back and did L: Z-A to finish that arc (and explain why it ended up in Alola and what the fuck happened it/what other powers it had) shows they valued the work done for XY2, even if they didn't value the project to see it completed so it's not out the realms of fantasy that they added it to ORAS instead.
