Pokémon fans experiment with playing as their creatures in Scarlet and Violet DLC

eurogamer.net:

The latest DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet lets players explore Paldea as their pocketed creatures, to some adorable and hilarious results.

The mechanic was revealed last week in a new trailer for The Indigo Disk. Now it's been released, players have been experimenting with what they can and can't do as their caught Pokémon.

As a sidenote, performance in The Indigo Disk is still bad, as Lewchube on X (née Twitter) discovered, and in some cases even worse than the base game.

I'll start with my absolute favourite addition from Gen 9, Toedscool. He's just a little guy! Running around on his silly little legs! He has places to go and fungis to meet.

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As other players have noted, speed scales with size. Joltik crawls and hops along extremely slowly, while Cinderace really speeds along if you get it into a full sprint.

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…fellas

What if I told you that this wasn’t a glitch, and you just had to push the control stick down.

I spent like 2 hours trying to get this and it was a button press all along https://t.co/12LXcTmGJi

Just look at those ears flap as he rushes around. Pichu is also slow like Joltrik, seeing as it's a baby Pokémon, it's very adorable to watch one paddling around in water.

You can swim with pichu. This is the best pokémon game