Pokemon News #1 - Hoenn Megas???

Hello :)
Today I heard news of Mega Evolutions for the other two, Sceptile and Swampert, final evaluations of the three Hoenn starters, as Blaskin already received one in Pokemon X and Y.
In Pokemon X and Y the Mega Evaluations definitely benefited from having their sprites put into 3D models and even in the 2D designs and artwork many of the Mega forms of pokemon, such as Absol, are a welcome addition to both the pokemon themselves and in Gameplay, with only a few exceptions on design. (personal opinion :P )

I believe that Blasakin is definitely a Pokemon who benefited design wise in terms of it's Mega Evaluation. The contrasting Black and Red combined with the flames coming from it's hands definitely give it more of a fighting look and make it look a lot more fierce.

While there aren't any official art work or release pictures yet of Mega Septile or Mega Swampart the 'release' came through a CoroCoro leak along with others such as the redesigned trainers and the fact that Groudon and Kyogre's new 'forms' are known as 'Primal forms', think Primal Dialga from Mystery Dungeon Time, Darkness and Sky.

For me Mega Septile had a similar reaction as Mega Blasakin, this Mega form is a definite improvement and enhances the design of Septile and helps to make the pokemon look much more fierce and 'battle ready'. The new Mega Septile design has also made me look forward to seeing it put into a 3D model in-game.

However, on the other hand Swampert was one of the pokemon I hoped would get a Mega Evolution as it is one of my personal favourite pokemon, although I will admit I'm not the biggest fan of the 'Mega swampert'.
From the release picture I can see the Mega design for Swampert is similar to that of Abomasnow and especially Gyarados where it's simply gets bigger. Mainly Swampert's back gets a lot bigger and it can then use it's front two legs as fists, presumably to punch with. I think the reason why I'm not the biggest fan of swampert's Mega Evolution is because in the case of many Mega Evolutions like Blaziken, Charizard and Absol, they accentuate the best features (or add fan favourite ones in the case of Absol) of the pokemon and make them look, in a sentence, more epic, and swampert was a very almost elegant looking pokemon to begin with but I don't feel they have accentuated the best features. Though I'm sure the designers also had the fact that this is being designed for 3D now not for a 2D pixelated sprite as such so I'm sure we'll have to wait to see these in 3D or even in official art work to see how exactly they look and how their new designs can effect their fighting styles.

Hope you all liked my first review :)
From PokemonSpriteGirl