>>32392841I had already leaked the game all to myself, but even if I had gone completely blind, I feel like I would've still feel disappointed by it. Maybe not by power or type or anything of that kind because it still delivers in that regard, more than the other two at least, but simply by design alone, where it feels like it's pandering to everyone except me. The overwhelming need it oozes of looking cute and pretty in order to pass off as graceful to everyone, to show it has 'peaked' and how it became something people wouldn't have expected. I guess it makes sense given the performer theme, but it just makes it too bland and forced for me.
People keep saying it's the evolution that 'saved' Popplio, but if you ask me, I wouldn't have minded anything else the cute sea lion could have turned into that could have been lesser than what we got in terms of design. I didn't even mind Brionne, but Primarina feels like everything but a sea lion, with things put together to make it prettier to make it more graceful looking for everyone. In one minute, people have gone from drawing Popplio in a neutral manner to slapping frills, feminine eyelashes and bows in it just because the evolutions happens to have a cuter tone to it, which many people associate as feminine.
