Posted on: November 27, 2022
Pendr4z
Verified ownerGames: 193 Reviews: 3
Don't understand the hate for it
I am giving it 5 stars. Why? It delivers exactly what it promises: - Mini campaign for low level characters, 8-10 hours seems fair for the content in it. - Two companions will join you, they are relatively well made/written and will offer completely different perspectives/options on how to proceed at specific times during the adventure. Yes you are forced to take them with you and you can't let them die as they are an integrant part of the story. Can't see what's wrong with it. There's the 3rd DLC for those that don't want any NPCs in their party. - It's a survival style DLC. There won't be a lot of roleplaying during the usual point/click action, but there will be multiple "book narrated" events that will allow for some interesting choices. Not very impactful, but adding flavour to the flow of events. - Played it on Core difficulty, it offered as far as I am concerned, the perfect level of challenge. It has been one of those few instances in this sort of games where I found myself having to judge whether each encounter was worth my resources/risk. - Maps and encounters are relatively well designed, exploring feels interesting and rewarding as you can really use whatever you happen to come across, and there's lot of room for different approaches to the fights or ways to get past them. The few puzzles for once were not annoying and quite straightforward, feeling like a nice occasional diversion from combat without requiring you to look for a solution online or decide not to even bother with their nonsense. Only reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is: - Cliffhanger final/part of the plot not being properly explained - Stealth mechanic is a bit barebones. This DLC would have really benefitted from a rework of the stealth gameplay. Even something similar to the Pillars of Eternity would have been a nice to have.
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