>>52543022I can live with the fannypack (technically creative, but still silly), I can live with the buck tooth (they use that A LOT this gen for some reason), I can live with it being a golden surfer (genuinely only actual cool part of the whole design), but I just can't give the dreadlocks or the mixture of all these things a pass. If I wanted fucking Fido Dido, I would travel back to the 90s and drink 7up. But as a surprise to no one, I didn't want Fido Dido, I wanted a fucking pokemon. I don't want marketable mascots, I want monsters that look like they could appear in a cave or a meadow and think to myself "you know what, that isn't silly and out of place, that looks cool and like it belongs". This thing stains the track record of the ghost type with its existence, and unlike gimmighoul which is also atrocious, this fucker is actually good so people that like it get too entitled, you'll see it everywhere so more fanart gets made so you get the "it is growing on me" effect. Happened with incineroar, will happeb with this.
They've gone full circle from creating creatures so iconic that they can market as mascots to creating mascots that they force you to accept as creatures that live in the wild and there's a whole species of them.
