>>36336663???
The point isn't necessarily that they're monstrous, but that they feel like animals that you're taming. Giving a species a pre-determined personality totally undermines that. I can't, for example, imagine seeing a group or even a pair of Dartrix, or Primarina, it'd have the same odd sense of doppelgangers that seeing two of the same person would prompt. For me, Rowlet, Litten, Torracat, and maybe Popplio all still feel like species, rather than characters, but the rest of the starter lines all feel like characters. Not even in a person-in-a-fursuit way, but more like if every Meowth had the Team Rocket Meowth personality. I miss when Pokemon was about exploring the wilderness with a party of "animals" that you were training, instead of about you building an RPG party of friends and touring a Pokemon Theme Park of challenges, which is how the games, especially SM, have felt, partly because of the designs.
