Pokémon Scarlet/Violet: The Teal Mask review: diminishing returns

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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's first DLC, The Teal Mask, doesn't do much to fix the base games' most pressing issues.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Teal Mask MSRP $35.00 Score Details “The Teal Mask contains your average monste- catching fun, but it doesn't do enough to address Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's biggest problems.” Pros Cons While there have been a plethora of Pokémon games over the past decade, each of which twists the RPG formula in its own way, it’s a single DLC that sticks with me most.

Cultural education The Teal Mask is the first part of a larger DLC story titled The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, which will conclude with The Indigo Disk. As a setup for a grand story, Teal Mask isn’t much of a part one. The four-hour story barely hints at the larger tale Game Freak is weaving here, instead focusing on what feels like a fairly self-contained adventure. Fortunately, that story is charming.

More performance issues With a less engaging adventure to latch onto, Teal Mask lays Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s shortcomings bare. I didn’t realize how much I valued the choice-driven structure of those games until I was locked into a fairly linear, uneventful quest. Without that choice, the open-world structure of the base game feels much less freeing.With my mind less occupied by a wealth of things to do and see, technical issues stuck out to me even more than they did in Paldea.

 

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