by The Pokemon Company and developer Game Freak have announced Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet downloadable content “The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero.” It will launch in two parts – “Part 1: The Teal Mask” this fall, followed by “Part 2: The Indigo Disk” this winter.
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Players can use current save data from Pokemon Scarlet or Pokemon Violet to continue their adventure in “The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero”. In this new DLC, players will leave the Paldea region, the setting for Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet. In “Part 1: The Teal Mask”, a school trip will take players to the land of Kitakami, where they will join an outdoor study program organized jointly between their academy and another school. In “Part 2: The Indigo Disk”, players will travel to Blueberry Academy, a sister school to their own academy, as exchange students. While this story is split into two parts, they connect to tell a cohesive story
In “Part 1: The Teal Mask”, players will be selected to participate in a school trip organized each year in collaboration with another school. They will be taken to the land of Kitakami, where a large mountain towers over the land and the people live at its base. It is a place of tranquil natural expanses, with rice fields and apple orchards. The trip seems to coincide with a festival that is regularly held in the village of Kitakami during this season, so the village is full of various street vendors and stalls. Players will meet new friends and Pokémon as they unravel the mysteries behind the folk tales passed down in this land.
In “Part 1: The Teal Mask” and “Part 2: The Indigo Disk”, players will be able to encounter over 230 known Pokemon that have been found in other regions but have not appeared in Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet. This includes Pokémon that players will be able to bring to their games via Pokemon HOME or those received in trades. Players will also encounter new legendary Pokemon Ogerpon in “Part 1: The Teal Mask” and Terapagos in “Part 2: The Indigo Disk.” In “Part 1: The Teal Mask”, three Pokémon named Okidogi, Munkidori and Fezandipiti also appear. They are loved by the people of the village as heroes who protected the land of Kitakami in the past, and stone statues were made in their likeness to express the people’s gratitude.
Players who purchase “The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero” by Tuesday, October 31, 2023, will receive a serial code for a special gift: a Hisuian Zoroark with three special features. cannot learn through normal gameplay, along with Tera Blast, Bitter Malice, and Nasty Plot. It has the Charismatic Mark, and it has Dark as the Tera Type. The serial code will be valid until Thursday 29 February 2024.
“We are so grateful that millions of trainers around the world have chosen to explore the expansive Paldea region,” said The Pokémon Company president and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara in a press release. “In ‘The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero’, fans will take a trip to the land of Kitakami, where they will meet new Pokémon and interesting characters. I sincerely hope that trainers who embark on this new journey find the same excitement and joy they experienced when they met their first Pokémon.”
Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet is available now for Switch.
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