I like how Pokémon Legends Arceus handled box legendaries, by making all of them available in the base game.

This duo is genius. They could also kind of represent different personalities, where Affersora is the intuitive thinker while Effortore is the pragmatic/practical realist

never realized ultra necrozma was on the box, blew my mind

I love how you've drawn the super-simplified versions of these legendaries. They look like how icons for large monsters are drawn in Monster Hunter World, it's great.

I also like how Rayquaza is a LOOONG skinny boy to contrast with the more stout and rotund Groudon and Kyogre.

Me just learning that the box arts for USUM make Ultra Necrozma

Seeing as your own art style is so different from Pokemon's, I was so not ready for such good renders of Lugia and Ho-oh closer to the official style. Really impressive to nail two distinct styles so well. (the others are really good too, but I was actually ready for those)

I like both of these legendary designs. Can't wait to see their trio master.

One thing that I’m somewhat surprised goes unmentioned is the Kiki and Bouba traits of Zekrom and Reshiram. There designs aren’t as the best and they do get a mention, but their names support this theory. Zek-rom and Reshi-ram have both hard and soft pronunciations and syllables, with Kyu-rem being a blend of both.

its always so fun to imagine you as a professor teaching kids about the creatures, especially with the recap at the end if the professor trope character isnt a self insert that would be such a missed opprotunity. Looking forward to STEMA and i hope the new year is filled with good vibes

Have you considered making designs based on power plants? e.g. Solar panels (fire/electric or steel), wind turbines (flying/electric or steel), dams (water/electric or steel)

11:59 ACKCHYUALLY Ho-oh and Lugia had 3D cutscenes in HGSS before that

I love your artstyle

5:10 Point here, in some ancient cultures, rainbows were depicted as having 3 colours; Red, Yellow and Green.

tbh, I got sun and moon as my first pokemon game and then Ultra sun and moon then my dad (I was around 10 at the time) wanted to get a photo of me and the boxes, so we put US/UM right next to each other and I immediately pointed out that there was two eyes and a silhouette years later I feel accomplished by doing that

passion and logic are such good ideas for a legendary duo, and the designs are so well made, i would've thought they were official! amazing work and amazing video

My major was in neuroscience, so i love your box legendaries.

Did not expect your legendaries to be based on the Nervious system. The dendrites to be exact. This is so cool tbh.

the duo you made is incredible, i adore anatomy and dichotomies, so i feel like you perfectly represented something as complex as the nervous system. seeing how the two could play off of their own strengths and weaknesses sounds super entertaining as well!

If they made Zacian stand on his hind legs to use the sword while Zamazenta remained on all fours, I think it would have been better. And it would have worked somewhat even better after coming after Sun/Moon’s lycanroc’s midday and midnight forms

13:30 aged terrifically, we are so back

Great video! It was amazing getting to finally see what some of your own 'legendaries' would be, and it's cool to look at Pokémon's legendaries through your own style

Now this was a BANGER video, it's so interesting to see the evolution of box legendaries, and I LOVE the STEMA legendary duo! The concepts and designs are so intricate yet easy to comprehend (Also you're so close to 100k OMG!!!)

I will never understand why so much people prefer Dialga over Palkia

Let this guy be on master chef because he absolutely COOKS

I think one this to keep in mind is that the legendaries need to look a little uncontroversial. You can't go for any outlandish designs that niche groups will like. Doing that at other points in pokemon is great as not every player needs to like every pokemon and having such a variety of tastes can bring a larger variety of players. But the box legendaries are insanely difficult to design, you need to somehow, between just 2 pokemon, create a pair that almost every single player will like at least 1 of them.

As a child at heart I love how you used "blurple" to describe my favorite pokémon :³

Saw you working on it yesterday and gotta say that’s one absolutely amazing thumbnail.

Man its great finaly seeing your box art legendaries, I remember you showed a sneek peek of them in one of your streams.

S & V handle the legendaries in my most favourite way You get to be *friends* with them!! They help you though your *entire* journey. I formed such an attachment to koriadon. It really feels like they're iterating on things introduced earlier in the series- and they're doing it *well* some things could be better. (Side eyes the performance issues & bugs) but my love of the stupid bike dinosaur is worth it. I really hope you continue making things you're proud of!! And I hope Pokemon listens to their fans, next time.

when i saw those silhouettes of your box legendaries i thought they would be based on Infrared and Ultraviolet light

Can't wait to see the probably amazing box legendary/legendaries nortist will cook up

Your videos are always amazing. Too bad that I haven't kept up with them since halloween.

The box lengendaries look cool in your art style. As for your created box legends, they look amazing. I love both the similarities and differences that Affersora and Effortore have. I really look forward to your personal project and what is in store.

Dude, the music you used at the end when you revealed your legendaries! Epic music. BUT DUDE AFFESORUS IS SO OVERPOWERED WTF, truly the meaning of Legendary.

i love the glowing patterns in their designs!!!

one of the best youtubers i’ve seen on this platform. so much effort in the videos. explaining pokémon while showing the art you made of them.

I always love these videos! Your breakdowns of designs are always on point. And it's always great seeing your own design that ties into to the video's theme. Keep up the good work!

I'm surprised nortist forgot about the most iconic box legendaries: pikachu and eevee! No but seriously, something I've noticed with box legendaries is how they always seem to have a warm/cool contrast (except maybe palkia which skews more pink than red). Nortist touched on this with solgaleo and lunala, but I imagine this color combination keeps getting used because it ensures that there's something for everyone. And even though no one asked, I think groudon and kyogre nail the legendary vibe best out of all the box legendaries. I wasn't even raised on ruby and sapphire, but their body patterns just feel so esoteric and cool, like some kind of ancient writing. My favorite design overall is probably yveltal though.

Another cool thing about the Gen 4 legends and Arceus, is the Greek influence in their design, which enforce the fact that they are Gods and not like the others

As a medical student it was really cool to see Effortore and Affersora! Something that might be cool to explore is a taste-receptor based penta-group (5 mons instead of a trio) based on the 5 different types of taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, and Umami! Fun fact: Spicy is not a taste because the molecule responsible for the sensation of 'spice' (capsaicin) actually binds to pain receptors (nociceptors), and there is a pokemon named after this molecule in Gen 9, Capsakid!

Your art and style is REALLY impressive i love it

OMG that Ultra Necrozma bit in the cover just blew me away, I didn't even realize that! That was a genius move! 👏

WOO YEAH ANOTHER BANGER NORTIST VID i love Affersora and Effortore, and the explanation leading up to them was really concise and well done

The concept for your legendaries is SO GOOD!

I love the Thumbnail ❤

13:31 This aged well

I genuinely love those designs sm

Man i still can’t that my when it is released favorite creator collector is on my favorite game engine while i’m working on a project myself. Tears of Joy

I've never watched a video of yours in my life but those original designs/concepts are amazing

I cannot accurately express how awesome these videos have been. I have every intention on showing every single one to my sons when they are in grade school. Not too long now

i love the monster hunter icon type Pokemon icons in some of his thumbnails

I'm excited for this game. I think it will be a great monster collector because of how you share your work and the inspiration behind it.

Mannn these thumbnails so CLEAN

Bruh that art of the legendaries in the thumbnail is sick

Now we can know what those two pokemon are in your first video!

Oh this is gonna be a fun watch sub legends all already intense but special ones are another level

This is why we have THIS guy cook

I like that you used “they” to refer to the legendaries. I’ve always felt that there were multiple of each especially after the Arceus event in HGSS that let you create one of the Sinnoh Legends. I’d love to explore the Sinjoh Ruins in a Legends Kanto/Johto (Tohjo?).

13:30 until AZ… (We can only hope Zygard is the box legend)

The explanation for the legendaries is so cool

I think an important part of the Box Legendary is the philosophy. The legendary is very important to the game and the legendary tells us something very important about the game. In typical Pokemon Legendary dichotomies, if we stretch your theming, your legendaries could represent Knowledge and Action.

At 18:43 you can actually see the Temple of Sinnoh on Mount Cornet, so it's amazing that something so small can spoil the entire end of the game

Can’t wait to see where this project goes in the future :)

I really like the redesign you did for the mimic drawing based on the box art

I love, your thumbnails and just your art, I'd love to have them as a wallpaper on my pc and phone

The posing of your art reminds me so much of monster hunter I love it

I really like the Monster Hunter -esque simplified legendary designs you showed off.

Fun Fact about X & Y: The 3 Legendaries are named after the letters X, Y & Z. These 3 letters are used in coordinates. X is horizontal, Y is vertical, Z is forwards and backwards. Xerneas walks, and Yveltal flies, Zygarde probably teleports.

I really like your videos, thanks to your research I could figure out how to make my game better!

As a medical doctor, I'm pretty hyped by these legendaries! Good stuff. :)

WOAH I’ve never seen that necrozma in the boxes before that’s so cool

Your Ho-Oh drawing was sick

They look great! The renders of official legends almost looked official themselves!

it should be noted that palkia and dialga's new design in Arceus can be frankensteined together to make Arceus. That's why they look like horses

These drawings look great!

God I wish teachers engaged their class like this, using common interests like video games to introduce or relate topics to them. Pokémon is what made me fall in love with biology and the ecosystems of the world. Also I adore these legends!! Your analysis makes me want to reconsider my own legendary ideas, as none of my Fakemon legends are traditionally “native” to my region. The analysis will help me develop their designs into something I will finally like

i love the monster hunter icons in the thumbnail holy crap

Thumbnail looks awesome

I can not wait to play your game

Your art is so cool!

Hmmmm, now I'm kinda curious if the Stema tertiary legendary will be based off of Interneurons, facilitating communication between Affersora and Effortore?

I how despite having removed the bug-type, this duo could be bug-type and thats good because we need more bug-type legendaries. Never thought about Lugia being ocean currents but that would explain why it normally lives beneath the waves. Its strange how we have 3 groups of legendary Pokemon with a weather theme (birds, gen3box, genies) and 2 with the theme of nature and technology (gen5 and gen9).

POV: you just clicked on the video because of the ASTONISHING thumbnails!

I actually had no idea that necrozma was in the box art, that's actually so smart on game freaks part

“Bort bort! The doggos are here to save you!” 😂

I love this channel 🥺❤️

This video is amazing. But the way he said “BLURPLE” was too funny 😂.

The thumb nail art 10/10

The Dialga/Palkia statue was intended to LOOK LIKE BOTH. It was shown in a Manga and in BD-SP that it was a statue of Dialga and Palkia MERGED as one form.

I never knew the ultra games hid necrozma like that in the box art, thats so cool

If STEMA is published one day, I'll be its first ever player! I love all the research, concepts and efforts ever put in this series

Love your art ❤

Something intriguing about the first box legendaries, Lugia and Ho-Oh, is both of them doesn´t seem to have a direct relationship with each other. Just to compare: Groudon and Kyogre: Enemies who almost destroy the world while creating it Palkia and Dialga: Rivals of sorts who also created the world Reshiram and Zekrom: Siblings born from the same dragon Xerneas and Yveltal: Embodiments of the cycle of life Solgaleo and Lunala: Sexual dimorphism of the same species Zacian and Zamazenta: Friendly allies who saved Galar from an evil entity Koraidon and Miraidon: Different evolution stages of the present Pokémon Cyclizar Unlike all those there is nothing that make Ho-Oh and Lugia being part of a duo, the only things in common is they both had two special towers and each lead a trio of legendaries. Some sugest it was Lugia who destroyed Ho-Oh´s tower, and ashamed of the act it dwell under the sea so it cannot hurt others anymore, but nothing official has confirmed that,, just fan speculation.

I can't wait for your game! I have huge interest in the sciences and my mom even used to be a STEM teacher!!

Something i think is very important that every box legendary follows is looking poweful. They always look like a beast that can destroy the world, but with enough hard work, can be your friend. I actually feel like this is missing in your designs. Their necks and heads look thin and weak. I know slim legendary designs exist, but in this case I think they need to be beefier.

13:34 “It might seem crazy what Im about to say”

Thumbnail looks amazing

your thumbnails slap every time

I always thought, I was predominantly drawn to the blueish box legendaries. That was until very recently, when I checked and it was pretty much a tie: Blastoise (in absence of Venusaur), Lugia, Kyogre, Palkia, Reshiram, Xerneas, Lunala, Zamazenta, and Miraidon. This video helped me figuring out, it was the bouba aapect, I like, not necessarily the colour.