Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s The Indigo Disk expansion, which will serve as the second part of The Hidden Treasures of Area Zero DLC, will be released on December 14, 2023.
This new expansion follows Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s The Teal Mask expansion that launched back in September and will take players to the Blueberry Academy, which is a futuristic school in the middle of the ocean.
Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk launches on December 14!
Adventures await you at the Blueberry Academy, Trainers! #PokemonScarletViolet ❤️💜 pic.twitter.com/IljDHdTUeq
— Pokémon (@Pokemon) November 2, 2023
You will visit the Blueberry Academy as an exchange student and will soon learn that most of the school is actually under the water and not just on top of it. The curriculum you will undertake will not be so much about learning about math, history, or science, but it will instead place a huge focus on battling.
We don’t know a ton more about the expansion yet, but it was previously confirmed that it will see the return of all the previous starter Pokemon from across all the mainline Pokemon games. Additionally, it will introduce a new Legendary Pokemon named Terapagos.
We here at IGN hope The Indigo Disk fares better than The Teal Mask, as we thought it fell short of what it could have been and was another example of the many techincal issues that have been plaguing recent Pokemon games.
We said in our The Teal Mask review that it is “yet another step in a slow quality downslide for this series: it runs terribly, looks ugly, feels predictable, doesn’t offer any of the freedom Scarlet and Violet’s main story did, and falls short in so many ways compared to just about every other Pokemon game and DLC I’ve played,”
We loved so much of the base games of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, but the whole experience was brought down by technical issues that just are too many and too glaring to be ignored.
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