Highlights

  • The Indigo Disk DLC in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet introduces BBQs, which are quests that offer BP as rewards for players to unlock content and evolutionary items.
  • Players will need to complete many BBQs and grind for BP in order to access all the content and features in the DLC, making it a necessary but tedious task.
  • BBQs could be improved by offering higher BP payouts and decreasing the prices of certain items, making them a more enjoyable and manageable experience for players.

There is a lot of content to uncover in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Indigo Disk DLC as players explore the new world of Blueberry Academy's Terarium. While catching all the new and returning critters added in The Indigo Disk is a huge part of the DLC experience, there is also a new quest for players to follow that involves taking on the BB League's Elite Four. In order to access everything the Indigo Disk has to offer, players will likely end up taking on Blueberry Quests, or BBQs for short, which never quite seem to reach their full potential.

After Pokemon Scarlet and Violet players participate in their first class at The Indigo Disk's Blueberry Academy, they will gain access to BBQs. These quests are simple enough, requiring players to complete tasks like catching a Pokemon or picking up 10 items off of the ground, and completing 10 unlocks a red quest that is usually a little more complicated but offers greater rewards. For completing BBQs, players can earn BP, which is a currency that is vital to unlocking everything in The Indigo Disk, so working to complete the DLC in its entirety involves a lot of BBQ grinding.

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The Indigo Disk's BBQs Are a Great Idea that Suffers from Tedium

Since BP serves as the primary currency at Blueberry Academy, players will want to tackle as many BBQs as possible in order to access all the content in the DLC. Players will need to spend BP if they want to access the trials necessary for facing the BB League's Elite Four, but it is also necessary for spending on important evolutionary items at the school store. It's also useful for donating to other clubs to unlock features like wild starter Pokemon spawning in the Terarium's different biomes. As such, it's likely players will spend a lot of their time in The Indigo Disk grinding BBQs for BP in order to progress.

In theory, BBQs are a great idea for an open-world game like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet since it allows players to tackle simple quests that they would likely complete just by exploring the world around them. The addition of online co-op allows players to work together to complete BBQs for even more BP, making it another great activity to participate in with friends. However, the pitiful amount of BP that BBQs award combined with the expensive price of unlocking everything in the DLC means these quests end up being a chore for many players, even when reaping four times the BP from online play.

How BBQs Could Be Improved in The Indigo Disk

The biggest drawback of BBQs is how paltry the amount of BP they award players is, with most quests not being worth the time it takes to complete them. Most quests earn players between 20 and 40 BP per standard blue quest, 100 and 200 for red quests, and up to 600 for Union Circle exclusive gold quests. However, compared to the cost of some rewards, like the ability to unlock wild starter spawns in all biomes costing a total of 12,000 BP, these quests can be a massive time sink for players and ultimately detract from The Indigo Disk DLC's overall experience.

Instead, BBQs should have offered greater payouts of BP for completion, even if that means increasing their difficulty a bit. A fun way this could have been implemented would be to give players the chance to earn a massive amount of BP for imposing certain challenges upon themselves, like defeating a trainer using only one type of creature or even finding a shiny Pokemon. Aside from this improvement, decreasing the BP prices necessary to unlock certain features would have made grinding BBQs much more manageable and likely resulted in them being a more enjoyable experience for players.