Bleak Beach in Pokopia
A coastline stuck in permanent darkness, with the S.S. Anne still moored offshore.
Bleak Beach is built over Vermilion City, and it has one problem you cannot miss: it is dark. Not dark at night, dark at every hour, whatever the clock says. Walking in from a sunlit area and losing the light is the whole introduction to the place.
The S.S. Anne is here too, still sitting off the coast. It is one of the more direct nods to the old Kanto map anywhere in the game, and it is worth poking around properly rather than treating the beach as a straight run of sand.
Lighting the area up is the goal, which makes the Pokémon whose specialty is Illuminate unusually valuable here, and makes the beach a good place to test what a specialty actually does to a piece of land.
- Used to be
- Vermilion City
- Your job here
- Find a way to bring light back to the area.
- To gather
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- Shop items
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Materials you gather (15)
Plants and blocks (83)
Items found in the area (115)
Items inside Poké Balls (30)
Treasure (16)
Sparkling Ripples finds (13)
Shop items sold here (66)
Each unlocks at the area level shown.
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Frequently asked questions
- Why is Bleak Beach always dark?
- The darkness is the area condition rather than a time-of-day effect, so waiting for morning does nothing. Undoing it is the job the area sets you.
- Is the S.S. Anne in Pokopia?
- Yes. It sits off the coast at Bleak Beach, which is the stretch of map built over Vermilion City.
