About Fossil Pokemon

They are bones

Fossil Pokemon have so much potential. There's just so many weird paths you could go down.

As a former linguist and a current museum educator at one of the museums featured in this video, I love this video SO much 👏 Very well done explaining the bouba and kiki effect. I adore your lineless art so much and the designs of your Fakemon!!

I ADORE the fact that gf decided not to give the water typing to Cradily and Armaldo just because they're marine lifeforms. I genuinely can't describe how much I appreciate that. We need more of it.

The crystal palace dinosaurs were actually reasonably good attempts at scientific accuracy for the time period! I've always wanted to see Pokemon based off of them. The likely inspiration for the mixed up fossil Pokemon is the inciting incident of the Bone Wars. Edward Drinker Cope showed his friend, Othniel Marsh, his new discovery: Elasmosaurus. Marsh took one look at it an immediately laughed at Cope, pointing out that he had put the skull on the end of the tail. This notorious incident kicked off their entire rivalry and I would think is the likely explanation for the mix'n'match Pokemon. I will die on the hills that Kabuto/ps are horseshoe crabs. They share so much more in common with them than they do trilobites.

I wish actual geology was taught like this hehe, nice and simple, and lots of interesting information, well organized, and just fun to watch.

I like how tripirt's name is a palindrome referencing how it's the same front and back but Halludrome completely abandons that naming scheme and it loses the symmetry. Very fitting evolution

Amongus reference made me jump lol

Showing your fakemons fossil instead of the regular silhouette like in the other videos was a really nice touch

As just sort of a word of advice - from someone making their own creature collecting game, merging the ground and rock type can end up being a bad idea in the long run due to type matchups - soft mud and a hard stone will resist and be strong against vastly different things and it can result in the Geo type being lopsided. I also tried to merge them in my game and eventually decided it was for the best to split them up for type matchups’ sake.

I totally agree with you that the 1v1 match up between a generation's fossils/exclusives shouldn't be the deciding factor. However I think it's worth mentioning that with Cradily and Armaldo's type match up, both take one of the other's type neutral and are weak to the other. Armaldo is hit neutral by grass and is weak to rock, while Cradily is hit neutral by rock and weak to bug.

Something that i very much like about the Hoenn fossil Pokémon is they really embody the land and sea theme of the story of Ruby/Sapphire. They're both Pokémon that lived in the water, but neither are water types. One can theorize upon how the decisions of Archie and Maxie and their teams of either expanding the sea or the land and how that would affect the Lileep and Anorith as they went from ancient to modern times. And where does the living fossil Relicanth play in?

When you realize that we had not just one but two missed chances for nonrock fossil Pokemon. The Tundra DLC has a sector where they didn't go extinct so could have had versions of them that evolved naturally and Scarlet is about time travel so could have had primal version of them plucked from the past.

I am currently in love with the Soft Piano Jurassic Park theme he used

The fossil pokemon are cool in that you look at them and wonder what they was like in the past. It was mentioned that the fossilization process is why they all share the rock type, minus the gen 8 fossils. I still love the gen 8 fossil pokemon for the mix-and-match concept. I do agree that I don't see it being repeated unless we get the completed versions of the fossil fragments. Your fossil pokemon look amazing and I love how you based them around brains vs brawn. My favorite has to be Halludrome because I love how bizarre Hallucgenia looks. It looks so alien that I'm surprised we haven't had an official fossil pokemon based on it. This is a minor thing to point out, but the type icons for Anodukes has the symbol for psychic instead of fighting.

Your designs were really interesting ! I like that those aren't just very popular dinosaurs but actually unknown yet interesting creatures. It won't stop me from wondering what a Pokémon based on parasaurolophus or ankylosaurus could look like, but I really like discovering new inspirations for designs.

this is dope. I love how your fossils put a spin on the "fast sweeper vs. slow wall" pattern, with one being fast but defensive and the other being slow but offensive. very creative!

The mix and match aspect of the Gen 8 Fossils are based on England’s Bone wars, where decades ago people really wanted to brag about how they had the newer and better fossils so they rushed to make “””new””” fossils by just putting different fossil bones together and calling them new

6:22 I love the picture of rowlet with the disappointed “gen seven had no fossils”

got a little sus at 4:20