Rain World: The Watcher

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Posted on: April 15, 2025

SpannedCread

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Games: 62 Reviews: 1

Mixed on launch, patches improved

This DLC is very different from Downpour so if you've played that you should come into this one with a completely different mindset. The devs are evidently trying out a lot of new game mechanics, most of which had good intentions even if the execution wasn't initially the best. I tried to make this review as spoiler-free as possible. Some of the new mechanics: - Watcher takes place in an entirely new world with 20+ regions, and you'll have a new way to travel between areas. Almost all the regions are fun to explore and have great visuals, but may feel a bit disconnected. It's easy to get lost and have to backtrack, and may be a little convoluted to check your progress. - A couple of issues that everyone's reporting are foreground objects (if you played vanilla you'll be familiar with this issue). There are also a couple of maps that were so dark that I decided to turn up the contrast on my monitor. - There are quite a few new creatures; some are really fun, one or two are awful... you'll know when you encounter them. Hopefully the patch mediates most of these issues. - Instead of ascending or carrying something, your goal is to find a recurring character which will move throughout the world. It's admittedly not very fun when you have little indication as to where the character is and have to backtrack A LOT (like a lot, a lot), but this issue is only really serious in midgame and when you're getting the second ending (yes, there are multiple endings!) - There are a few issues with the travel points, with some of them being buggy or bringing weird enemy spawns. The good thing is many of the issues are being worked on even now, so hopefully they'll be resolved in future patches. I've done each campaign in downpour once, and my first playthrough took about 20 hours (for the first ending).

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Posted on: August 30, 2025

Gante_Gato

Games: 39 Reviews: 3

It's... different

This DLC is a completely different beast to the original game, and you should not go in expecting to have anything close to the same experience you had with the original, or with downpour. If Rain World's base campaigns put you as an observer to the glory of a world long past its prime that was not yours to fix, and Downpour actually gave you the means to play a part in the larger scheme of things, in The Watcher you are, appropriately, just an observer to people and phenomena much larger than you. Unlike in the original, things are unfolding before your eyes, but unlike in Downpour, you really have little say in how things go. As far as gameplay goes, regions are not organically connected anymore, and instead you go through these gates that lead you around in both space, and possibly time. This is a bit of a bummer, as the natural environment changes were one of my favorite bits of the original, however it allows you to experience landscapes so vastly different that they could never have been implemented normally, even if a few are just clearly the same singular area chopped up into a couple because it got too big. There's a ton of new creatures to go along with the new ecosystems. A few are just... bad design, but most are very visualy and mechanically interesting, and it's a nice change of pace from Downpour mostly just reusing what was already there to begin with. All in all, though this DLC is not perfect, and at launch it had a couple more bugs than I would have liked to see, it captures that Rain World kind of exploration, frustration, and wonder far more effectively than anything I have seen since the original game, and far outshines Downpur's fanservicey feel with its very own new way to make you feel small and insignificant, even if it's different to how the main game did it

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