>>42542820This.
I’m actually enjoying Rotom in SwSh for the simple reason that he’s barely there. In SM/USUM there were maybe 2 neat interactions with Rotom to be had, where he asks if you want to be called by your name or by “Master,” and one other which clearly wasn’t interesting enough to stand out in my mind.
What DOES stand out in my mind is wading through wasted hours of cumulative “HEY ANON ISN’T IT A BEAUTIFUL DAY, WHY DON’T YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYES ANYMORE WHEN WE MAKE LOVE, HOORAY YOU DID THE THING YOU’VE BEEN DOING FOR 20 YEARS,” the fucking Lotto-Rotto animation, and hesitating to try opening the map after one too many times of being caught off guard and starting a conversation with the motherfucker when I tapped him at a time he felt neglected for not being spoken to for 30 seconds.
If I wanted to play tamogatchi, I’d buy a fucking tamogatchi. If I want to know how my Rotom was feeling I would open a menu and select “tell me how my Rotom is feeling” AFTER finishing a Pokémon hunt.
They had the potential to have a somewhat neat gimmick by allowing you to catch a Rotom to use in your phone and in battle, but it’s not even available in Alola. As it stands, the only thing they did right with it was demonstrating how asinine the comments you get are by posting photos to the Pokémon universe’s version of twitter or whatever—and that’s not even fun or rewarding, just an accurate reflection of real life, like a an ultra-HD picture of a turd. Sure you can make an artistic statement with that or whatever, but it doesn’t marry into gameplay.
/rant
