>>32936043Gamefreak Exec: Okay, the scope of Gen 3 was the biggest so far, threatening a great deluge or scorching drought that would destroy the ecosystem. What's bigger in scope than land and sea?
Other GF Exec.: What about time and space?
Gamefreak Executive: Sounds good, let's-
That kid whose dad works at Nintendo: GOD'S BIGGER THAN ALL OF THAT! LET'S MAKE GOD! HE CAN BE ALL OF THE TYPES AND HAS THIS SUPER COOL SUPER POWERFUL MOVE THAT DESTROYS EVERYTHING LIKE "BLOOOOOSH!" HE'S STRONG IN EVERY WAY AND IS THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING AND ALL THE OTHER LEGENDARIES ANSWER TO HIM. OH AND I ALWAYS WANTED A LLAMA OR GOAT POKEMON, SO LET'S MAKE GOD THAT!
Gamefreak Executive.: It's a good thing today was bring your kid to work day. Great idea, son. Let's get to work.
(1 generation later)
GameFreak, designing the next legendaries: Fuck.
Arceus' biggest problem is the kind of expectations it betrays. The creator of the pokemon universe, maybe even multiverse, can be captured by a 10 year old kid and will obey without question if they have 8 little trinkets. It also let them run around with items capable of containing them. It also just created the universe and does basically nothing else, only intervening in cases where they run out of legendaries in the Hoopa movie. Hell, Giratina, who's banished, intervenes in Gen 4 before Arceus does, so that role is already filled. Arceus is a powerhouse among legendaries and certainly can lay a smackdown on cover legendaries, but for, you know, GOD, it's kinda underwhelming. Rampardos and Slaking are
more physically strong than God, Swellow and Electrode are speedier, etc.
Also, I just beat God with a Magikarp thanks to Baton Pass. There's a sentence nobody's going to mind. Arceus fans, please elaborate... It was number 2 behind Greninja in the popularity poll in Japan, so I know it counts as popular.
