La segunda parte del DLC del Pokémon Españita. El rendimiento sigue siendo muy cuestionable y hay zonas con rascadas importantes, pero como voy a echar de menos a todos estos niños (incluyendo a Cass y compañía).

También me parece que acaba de forma algo apresurada para poder meter la gimmick nueva, pero en general lo he gozado un montón. Espero que aprovechen lo aprendido para el nuevo Leyendas y le den el tiempo que necesita, porque Escarlata y Púrpura podría haber sido un juegarral y al final se ha quedado a medias.

On one hand, this a total step up from it's 1st part. It has interesting stakes, a bunch of new characters to interact with, more diverse map design, and some actual difficulty to it. Sadly, the DLC also feels rather jam-packed, directionless, and aloof. I know these are weird statements to make about one single expansion to a game, but Indigo Disk is just kinda a good mess.

100% I am glad they upped the difficulty for this DLC. Every battle feels like it could be a threat, and if you don't come in prepared it certainly feels you can lose it all to a gimmick or a lucky move. It's honestly been a long time since Pokemon has felt like it's kept me on my toes, and I really hope they will start giving more options for difficulty because Pokemon is honestly fun to strategize. They even managed to make the elite four for Blueberry both endearing, and remember-able with their tests, battles, and design. I can't express enough just how much I love both the returning and new characters they introduced for this game. It really helps make Blueberry academy feel like an actual place compared to the boondocks village we went to in part one. Even the areas you explore feel far more fleshed out, and have interesting biodiversity compared to the main game, let alone Teal Mask's map. Just in a lot of ways, Blue Berry academy feels like a proper lived in area, and felt like a proper well thought out campaign.

Indigo Disk's full campaign tho? Does not feel that thought out. The ending part of the game feels rather tacked on at the end because they simply forgot about the DLCs name sake.I really can't stress enough how you finish the main plot of Blueberry academy only to be hit with a rather clunky "I BROUGHT THE INDIGO DISK LETS GO EXPLORE AREA ZERO AGAIN". Like it just feels very out of place, and while it's nice we get to explore with the main cast of characters for the DLC, I just keep forgetting about the teacher lady. Like it feels like they had something for her, but they never endear you to her; she is just there for plot reasons. Honestly, wish this game ended at the blueberry academy stuff because all the area zero revisit is nothing, and the main legendary is pointless. It's really weird to go to a hyper focused story about a legendary pokemon to one that is just there. There just isn't any finality to Indigo Disk the same way that Pokemon Scarlet has with it's Area Zero visit. I really wish we either went back to Kitakami for some closure or just left it for the final story batch of DLC. Indigo Disk has other problems, don't get me wrong, like Blue Berry quests being tedious, the forced circled map design that feels way too cluttered, but it's name sake really is the part that dampers it all.

Indigo Disk's biggest problem is just it's sense of progression and refusal of having a linear storyline. I really liked the vast majority of this game, but it's so weird that Pokemon went from far too linear to far too open world. I certainly hope this isn't a sign of things to come because I really did like Pokemon Scarlet, and I think they mostly did a good job with Indigo Disk. Pokemon DLC still manages to impress me, while I certainly don't think this DLC is quite as good as Sword and Shield, it is at least attached to the better game.If you liked Pokemon Scarlet, absolutely worth buying the DLC for more of it, warts and all.

Much better than DLC 1.
Although DLC 1 set the build-up, this delivered the rest.
Overall, the DLC felt more entertaining and engaging in general, not to mention how challenging it was compared to the base game.
The forced doubles format makes it so you can't just go and steamroll through everyone, you have to actually come up with good strategies.
The story was nice, if a bit anticlimatic regarding the BBA arc.
Whereas I didn't care at all for Sword and Shield's DLC 2, I completed this one in two days only

El mejor de los dos DLC, fácilmente. Más difícil, con más cosas nuevas y con historia y momentos más interesantes.

Sigue arrastrando las mismas cosas malas del juego base (mayormente a nivel técnico), pero también arrastra las buenas, así que es divertido.

Al igual que el primero, si os gustó el juego base, esto también. Si no, no os perdéis gran cosa.

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The best of the two DLC, easily. Harder, with more new stuff, and more interesting plot and scenes.

It keeps dragging the bad stuff from the base game (mostly on a technical level), but it also drags the good ones, so it's a fun time.

Just like the first one, if you enjoyed the base game, you'll enjoy this too. If not, you're not missing that much.

While being better than its predecesor I still feel none of the pokemon DLCs have been able to leave a lasting impression beyond introducing hot characters to jack off to (which they will refuse to add to the gacha game, to prevent me from emptying my bank account on rolling for Avery)

The map in this one is fucking atrocious (except for having the only decent cave in a pokemon game in the last 10 years) but I liked the focus on double battles and the trials were decently fun.

The story is just baffling though. I can stand most of it being about grade school shenanigans but getting to meet the professor without Arven around is bizarre, and so is the little fanfare that terapagos and Kieran's arc get.

If you're reading this, you already know the deal.
Same graphical issues, same performance issues. All that still hasn't been fixed and will never be fixed, so let's get to the content. (Huh... deja vu...?).

This is a very gameplay-heavy DLC. Lot of battles, double battles, lots of "competitive" plays (nothing too crazy though), and it really keeps you on your toes if you didn't overlevel. Massive pokedex, and the locations were pretty cool. The base game could get pretty tough, but some of these battles got me close to wiping and I had to actually make a proper team and think of strategies. I've literally never had to do that in Pokémon.

This is basically a Super Safari Zone DLC, but in that regard, it fails pretty fucking hard since it requires hardcore Multiplayer farming to actually unlock the starters.

Actually, that's the big problem with this. The hardcore farming. If you love Pokémon, and you love playing only one game, and you have friends that share the sentiment, spam farming BP to unlock the rest of the game's extra content is no biggie. Unfortunately, I don't have that luxury, and so I suffered like hell. Since that may not be a problem for most people, I'll skip ahead.

The conclusion to the story is weak as shit. I expected a hell of a lot more.
HOWEVER, all the bonus stuff to do post-game is crazy fun (after unlocking). Characters were the best thing about the base game and now you get to have them interact with each other, and learn a whole lot more about each of them, their connection to each other and the region, as well as a bunch of Unova lore if you like it. I seriously loved all this.

Grindiness aside, it's a cool DLC. I had a lot of fun. I got to remake my Gen2, Gen3 and Gen4 team, and rebattle the champions with them. However, I still don't think it's worth the price tag.

...oh and why is nobody mentioning Toby Fox ripped Bad Apple for the OST? Bah, whatever. Who reads my reviews this far anyway? Have some mochi. Mochi mochi.