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You remark half blue half red and mythos...
That's more to do with Shiva being Blue in SMT lore I feel, though my Hindu mythos knowledge is lower than I'd like, I admit.
I have to ask you what you mean by "balance," because FE9 is sooner the least balanced than the most balanced the way I see it. Anyone with a mount makes anyone else superfluous. Like, Knights are almost never good, but in this game they are legitimately worthless because by the time they get anywhere the chapter is already done. Other foot units don't fare a whole lot better.
Legitimately just using any excuse I can to shoehorn SMT into conversations because I'm a shameless fan.
I don't see why you'd feel this way when Legendary trios almost always share a theme.
Except here's the problem: The deer of Yggdrasil, the eagle and Niohoggr are not tied to the cycle of life by any means. Their association with the trio starts and stops at their animal basis, and considering that Pokémon can just as easily use animals that aren't related to the mythology (ex. the Behemoth isn't portrayed as some sort of dinosaur), that's not a strong enough case.
So then, how do you rationalize Zygarde's other two forms that just happen to resemble Fenrir and Hel? Gamefreak didn't just randomly choose a Dog and a Giant for no reason.
The "Trimūrti" (/trɪˈmʊərti/;[1]Sanskrit: त्रिमूर्तिः trimūrti, "three forms") is a concept in Hinduism "in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified by the forms of Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer or transformer."[2][3]
that's moving the goalposts
Here's a link to the entire Pokemon Z discussion that took place yesterday if you want to know why I brought up the question.
And the Dog and Giant form? How do you rationalize this, because from what I can tell, these forms lend more credence to Norse than Hindo mythos.
Maybe it's because, shock and horror, they're not objectively bad games and people might actually like them?
it's not one or the other?
No, it's definitely one or the other. Gamefreak always goes for a single theme between its Legendary trios. It makes 0 sense if 2 are from Hindu mythos and one is from Norse. Zygarde is 100% based on Norse Mythos. The forms seal the deal.
Sonic's biggest issue aren't the massive trainwrecks.
okay i don't...
Firstly, Zygarde has just as much of a connection to Hindu Mythology as the other two, in fact, it has more since it's a snake, which relates to Vishnu and Ananta Shesha.
Zygarde is Norse, whether you want to believe it or not. It's not Nidhoggr, and I'm not saying that it IS Niddhoggr. What I'm saying is that it IS the spawn of Loki, Jormungandr.
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Apparently they thought it was the best part of the game, given that they assigned the same pinhead(s) who made the Unleashed night levels long to make the 3DS port of Lost World.
Not sure if joking or not, but Dimps' only involvement in Unleashed was actually the day stages of the Wii/PS2 versions.
I'm joking.
okay there's clearly a disconnect here
Gotcha, just checking since it's legitimately a common mistake.
Please.
Or it's based on other mythologies, multiple mythologies, or even none of them. Shutting down alternate theories doesn't make yours the only correct one.
I never tried to get into this point, but I will say that nothing 100% confirms the case, it's still a theory at this point. I can see where the idea comes from, but at the same time I could argue that it has a connection to Hindu Mythology as well since dogs guard the gates of Heaven and Hell (and served as Shiva's Vahana (vehicle)) and its human shape is reminiscent of the three gods' traditional forms.
We're giving alternate theories and possibilities for their origin, as I said before, Pokémon can take from multiple sources and that has been shown in many different examples across the franchise. Saying that Zygarde has to be only one is ignoring the possibility that, like others in the series, it took from multiple sources.
And I'm saying that Zygarde in all its forms is based on the spawns on Loki, that's what I've been saying.
I haven't played.
The only reason those were a bad idea was because you would look like a fool trying to play.
The Blue and Red on Zygarde 100% feels like too much of a reference to Hel. That wasn't a random design choice. If anything, Pokemon is very good at color-co-ordinating its creatures to get across the ideas they have for their creatures, so a random blotch of red and blue are very much not just there for show.
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Personally wasn't for me. Maybe it was because I was used to the first game. Maybe it's because I played a lot of RPGs in general. I think the only thing I was confused about was Overdrive.
Mind your surroundings. Unless you like the idea of enemies 30+ levels above you obliterating you.
You may very well be right, but that can also be explained by the fact that it refers to the other members of its trio. Red references Yveltal, Blue references Xerneas, there doesn't have to be another reason then that. Keldeo for instance has those feathers on its head that references Cobalion, Terrakion and Virizion in its Resolute form, and it doesn't have another underlying theme for those color's presence.