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I think it looks badass. I've always wanted a decent fire bird non-legendary, and I like that it actually LOOKS like a falcon or hawk. I like it even better than I like Braviary. I don't know anything about its stats, abilities, or moveset, but if I play X or Y, that motherfucker is going on my team for sure.
I've been wishing and hoping that they'd get back to more pokemon actually inspired by animals, and give us more cool pokemon that seem more plausible than TIME/SPACE GOD DRAGONS and shit.
hell, I even like Talonflame better than the crappy fire starter (because why do we need another fire fox?).
hell, I like it better than ANY of the new starters (they all look kinda retarded to me).
I like it better than any of the starters I've seen since 2nd gen! (same reason as above)
so no, OP, there's nothing bad about liking a successful design.