Comments on: What do you think of the Rotom ‘Dex?

By: a Pair of Socks

a Pair of Socks — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:57:00 +0000

As someone who has played every single pokemon game, except Trozei and any PC / Console related ones, who has also grew up alongside Pokemon and plays the living hell out of each game my overall feelings on it are well… I love it! Its something new to do and interact with and play with and it sure as hell beats a static bottom screen with nothing at all or something like the PokePhone cx ( not saying that it was bad or anything 😛 )

It kinda reminds me of what they did back in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl and I really love Rotem Dex.. Only thing I hate is that recently RotomDex doesnt want to shut the f up about giving me “hints” even after Ive been doing the hints for a long time. Overall I love this feature and its something new that I really enjoyed and hope to see in future games!

By: XSoulbound

XSoulbound — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:18:00 +0000

The rotom dex is stupid. It’s an annoying mess. This is the “new advanced” dex, and it doesn’t even have a national dex. Not to mention that the one really helpful thing, the map with an objective marker, is constantly obscured because the stupid thing won’t shut up. And it’s not helpful talking, it’s just repeating exactly what was just said in the last cutscene. I know to go to the place, they just told me, how about you do your job and TELL ME HOW TO GET THERE!
Beyond that, there’s a camera function (which isn’t even a part of the actual dex, its an addon you get a little later) but there’s like, what, 5 places to use it in the entire region? I honestly forgot it existed because there was never a reason to use it outside of the one trial near the end of the game. The rotom dex is junk.

By: Davide

Davide — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:04:00 +0000

I understand that Nintendo wants to attract new and younger fans to the series and a Pokedex that’s actually a Pokemon is cute for the first and second graders Sun and Moon seem to be aimed at, but that being said I didn’t like RotomDex, it was another thing that kept holding my hand and beating me over the head with hints about things the game could have let me figure out in a less annoying and obvious way. This was my least favourite instalment of the series since Ruby/Sapphire, which with its Pokemon that looked like Digimon or Transformers, beauty contests and short length compared to the previous generation also seemed aimed more towards younger children than the 10-11 year-olds the generation I games targeted. Rather than fixing the issues we’ve been waiting to see addressed since G&S came out nearly 20 years ago in Japan, particularly the lack of a good post-game to make finishing the Pokedex less monotonous and provide more immersion, a more developed Pokemon League championship and features that use the game’s internal clock, Game Freak and Nintendo keep rebooting the franchise, as if they’re not sure what they really think Pokemon should be. In Black and White they finally gave us the closest thing to a sequel to Gold and Silver, but in generations VI and VII they’ve completely changed a lot of the things that made those games good and spun off in totally different directions.

One good thing about Sun and Moon is that in a sense you can finally defend your championship, although functionally it’s the same as all the previous games, the only difference being that when you redo the Elite Four you face a random trainer rather than your rival.

By: Natalie Gelardi

Natalie Gelardi — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:20:00 +0000

In reply to LI/bra. I LOVE rotom dex. And i mean, LOVE him. Like, in a crush kind of way. Hes cute and inspiring!

By: Matt Stahl

Matt Stahl — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:33:00 +0000

Hes much too nice. Rotom is supposed to be a trickster pokemon not a buddy. I think you should be able to remove him from the dex

By: IamTaum

IamTaum — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 08:53:00 +0000

In reply to Poketard101. That's a very specific situation haha

By: MrCoolViking

MrCoolViking — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:36:00 +0000

Having a full roster. Close to E4.

*whistles a happy tune*

Walks into Route XXX!

*bzzrt*

“HEY, LISTEN!”

x_x ‘

By: charzking

charzking — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 03:24:00 +0000

In reply to Pokemania88. lol yea i definitely remember seeing a charizard king before me

By: Pokemania88

Pokemania88 — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 02:32:00 +0000

In reply to charzking. Wait seriously? Well, either way at least no one will be confused XD

By: Gikie

Gikie — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:51:00 +0000

In reply to Galemcaedus. Since the symbol is a DNA symbol, I kind of figure it was a mutation where the pokemon [at hand] is able to express genes that it could not have normally express.