After seeing the new forms, Gigantamax Charizard is kinda cool, Meowth is a funny idea, I’m not feeling the others as much (but it is nice to see Butterfree get something.)
Part of the issue is, as someone said earlier, these forms will be gone in the next main game, so why get attached to them?
Another issue is that, due to their size, you mostly see them with a camera that’s way below them looking up. I get that it’s to make their size more impressive, but, how are we supposed to appreciate their designs from down there? It’s like trying to appreciate the finer points of the architecture of a skyscraper from the ground, looking up at it. Like, you can appreciate the impressiveness of the engineering of it from there, but it isn’t the best viewpoint. Even the official art is posed like that, not just the in-game camera.
I do have to give props to the visual effects for the G-max attacks, though, those are still pretty cool for the most part.
Anyway, I’m still excited to see the new designs, but I’ll probably just watch live-streams of the game rather than get it myself.