Pokemon Scarlet/Violet's The Indigo Disk DLC brings flight mechanics, Legendary and Starter Pokemon from previous generations, all-new quests, snacks, and more.
Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's Indigo Disk DLC Takes Flight, And Cranks Up The Difficulty With Double Battles
21.11.2023 - 16:07 / gamespot.com / Steve Watts / Pokemon Scarlet / Scarlet
The second half of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's expansion DLC takes you to a high-tech academy with some of the toughest opponents yet.
By Steve Watts on
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet introduced some of the most radical changes to the mainline Pokemon formula in years, most notably with a wide-open world to explore and free-roaming Pokemon to capture. For the first of its two-part expansion, The Teal Mask, you ventured away from the massive landmass of Paldea and into a new, self-contained biome--a sort of miniaturized version of the open world. Based on a brief hands-on, the second part, called The Indigo Disk, seems to echo this approach, albeit with more challenge for experienced Pokemon masters.
The Teal Mask introduced us to the land of Kitakami during its Festival of Masks, where we uncovered a long-buried secret about its culture while befriending two of the locals, Carmine and Kieran. Though it wrapped up its own Kitakami story, it also ended on a cliffhanger for the second half of the expansion to pick up. In Indigo Disk, you're a visiting student at Blueberry Academy, where Carmine attends school.
Blueberry Academy is a high-tech, expensive-looking place attended by the best and brightest trainers, and its major feature is a massive terrarium at its center. This is essentially a wild area with free-roaming Pokemon, but it's notably denser than the open world found in Paldea. To capture the variety of biomes, the terrarium is separated into quadrants with different environment types, like snow or canyons. These quadrants are separated by glowing gates that look like Mario Kart's Rainbow Road.
This means that if you're still on your quest to catch 'em all, you can easily explore a wide variety of environments and their own matching Pokemon types without a lot of legwork or fast-traveling. The snowy landscape is only a quick jog from the beach, so it's easy to traverse between different biome types in a snap. The terrarium includes at least some regional variants and is also said to include every starter Pokemon from past games, in case you still need to capture a Bulbasaur.
Blueberry Academy specializes in double battles, as an homage to official, real-world Pokemon League battling. That means that your trainer encounters will be two-vs-two, adding an extra layer of strategy and complexity to the usual battle types. Nintendo promises you can invite trainers from the Paldea region to come battle you at Blueberry Academy as well, which could mean new variations with double battles for them as well.
Trainer battles at Blueberry are meant to be late-game content, so the Pokemon tend to be in the level 70-80 range. To make things even more difficult, Blueberry also has its own Elite Four, and since they too
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