Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s The Indigo Disk Breaks a Franchise-Long Tradition

Modern Pokemon games have constantly tried and succeded to reinvent the classic formula that has been used all the way since Pokemon Red and Blue, and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet might have done so in the most astounding way. While Gen 8 games and Pokemon Legends: Arceus experimented with the open-world formula in different ways, it was Pokemon Scarlet and Violet that broke this tradition first, offering a fully explorable region with close to no separate areas. Gen 9 has done even more than that, however, and it has broken plenty of franchise-long traditions along the way, and it seems like The Indigo Disk DLC will this prove once more.