With the DLC launch home windows for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet quickly approaching, a current leak has come out suggesting that one of many characters featured in The Indigo Disk DLC will play an necessary position within the franchise’s subsequent entry. It’s uncommon however not remarkable for the sequence to function a returning character between video games, however many gamers anticipated the story of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet to be wrapped up with the discharge of the DLC. Nevertheless, this rumor might maintain some water if the character in query seems in a time-traveling title much like Pokemon Legends: Arceus.
This Pokemon DLC leak comes from Riddler Khu, probably the most infamous and dependable leakers within the Pokemon group, however till particulars in regards to the subsequent entry within the sequence are confirmed, followers ought to nonetheless take this data with a grain of salt. Riddler Khu not solely means that certainly one of these DLC characters will play an necessary position within the subsequent recreation, however implies that the sport will both be a remake or a Legend: Arceus-style recreation. Whereas followers can solely speculate as to what in retailer for the sequence after Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, the success of and precedent set by Pokemon Legends: Arceus might level to a different recreation the model is on the horizon.
The Pokemon DLC Leak Makes a Lot of Sense within the Context of One other Pokemon Legends Sport
There are a number of situations of characters making a return look in Pokemon video games after their preliminary debut, comparable to Grimsley from Pokemon Black and White showing in Pokemon Solar and Moon, or Looker making a number of appearances after Pokemon Platinum. Nevertheless, except Looker, most of those appearances are easy cameos and never tied to the larger plot of the sport. Riddler Khu implies that this character from the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet DLC will play a a lot bigger position within the plot of a future title, suggesting it will not simply be a one-off cameo.
The sport with arguably the largest plot related cameo within the sequence is Pokemon Legends: Arceus with the looks of Pokemon Black and White‘s Ingo. Whereas Pokemon Legends: Arceus options many characters who bear a hanging resemblance to beforehand established characters within the franchise, these people are meant to be ancestors to others within the sequence on condition that Legends: Arceus takes place far up to now. Nevertheless, Ingo is the exception as a result of he is the very same character from Pokemon Black and White, having been transported to the previous seemingly by the identical power that transported the participant.
Ingo acts a form of the lacking hyperlink to elucidate why the participant was transported to the previous, placing him in a pivotal position within the recreation’s overarching lore past simply being a warden for the Pearl Clan. If Riddler Khu’s leak is to be believed, it seems that the character in query will play an identical position within the upcoming Pokemon title and lots of followers are speculating that this entry might be a brand new Pokemon Legends recreation set in Unova’s previous. After Pokemon Legends: Arceus took gamers to Gen 4’s previous, it will make sense {that a} sequel would comply with for Gen 5.
Whereas Riddler Khu has precisely supplied particulars about previous titles like Pokemon Legends: Arceus and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, this newest leak does not verify something and its cryptic nature leaves loads of room for hypothesis. Nevertheless, there are loads of indicators pointing in the direction of one other Pokemon Legends recreation coming sooner or later, and these rumors appear to be supported by Riddler Khu’s leak. Till Pokemon Scarlet and Violet gamers get their fingers on the DLC and get a greater really feel for its plot and characters, it will likely be arduous to invest additional on the subsequent entry within the sequence.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet can be found for Nintendo Change.