Just adding here my review of this game/DLC I did for Pokémon Violet, as it's basically the same and I played both:

Whatever they say, this was fun! C'mon. Of course, it should be included in the base game and not as DLC but having finished, I can tell it was a good closure for Gen 9 games. One merit: the level of the difficult double battles! Damn. That made it both fun and annoying (one gets used to beating everyone so fast in Pokémon games). I like the story and enjoyed the funny Epilogue at the end, coming back to Kitakami. The new monsters are cool, Terapagos and the extra paradoxs pokémon. OHH and I appreciate they included Meloetta! First time I had the chance to catch this mythical pokémon by myself besides Pokémon GO (the other Meloetta I owned were from official events therefore not caught by me). I also like the idea of the Terrarium and all the references to Unova. What can I say, GEN 9 wasn't perfect by any means but I had a lot of fun.

Reviewed on Jul 02, 2024


2 Comments


2 days ago

I know I shouldn’t defend the practice but whenever people talk shit about Pokemon DLC I can’t help but think “man but we have it good now, back in the old days they’d make us buy Pokemon Indigo for the same price as the originals and play through most of the same game again to get to the new story chunks and gameplay bits”

now only Atlus gets away with that for some reason

1 day ago

Yeah, you're right! At the beginning I didn't like the idea that from now on we'll only get DLC's, I was the guy who always bought the third game (Yellow, Crystal, Ultra Sun/Moon, etc.) and kept it as their "main game" among the series. But well, the way it works grew on me, it was great in SwoShi and now with Scarlet/Violet, a fantastic extra pair of episodes to finish the story and have more fun. Now, probably the problem is that they actually "finish the story". Otherwise these games feel a bit incomplete (although I do have a lot of fun with them). I guess the best would be to have them with a real, decent ending and then get the DLC as an extra part and real-real ending lol. Anyhow, keep 'em coming! Can't wait for the next game :)