Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s DLC has a release date and a bunch of new monsters

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By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

After months of leaving everyone guessing just when exactly Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s two-part DLC would finally hit the Nintendo Switch, the first half of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero finally has a release date.

During today’s Pokémon Presents stream, The Pokémon Company announced that The Teal Mask, the first half of Scarlet and Violet’s major DLC drop, is set to debut on September 13th and will introduce a host of new gameplay features as well as multiple new pokémon. A new trailer for the DLC details how players will travel to the land of Kitakami as part of a joint school trip that coincides with a local festival celebrating the Loyal Three — Kitakami’s legendary trio — and Ogerpon, a new masked legendary monster.

The trailer also spotlights how The Teal Mask will introduce new characters like photographer Perrin, whose photo-focused side quests will send players out into Kitakami’s wilderness to snap shots of wild pokémon, and features like Roto-stick, which will allow players to take selfies from wider angles with the game’s built-in cameraphones. Interestingly, the trailer also explains how Kitakami is home to a variety of wild pokémon from older generations that can’t be found in Paldea as well as entirely new creatures like Dipplin, a new Applin evolution that resembles a candy apple while (presumably) still being a dragon type.

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While the trailer doesn’t go into detail about how Dipplin can be obtained, it does make clear that the species is a favorite of new trainer Kieran — one of the many students you’ll meet