Recent reviews by Clerical Terrors

Get this game on sale and play it co-op or for multiplayer. The singleplayer isn't worth the full price. It looks neat at first but a lot of fights are frustrating to do solo and it becomes repetitious (every bossfight is so nice they make you do it twice) which isn't great for a 10-hour game.

The only good story ever set in the Borderlands universe. This game will trick you into thinking the Franchise has an interesting setting with fun, layered characters. Then you will play the other games, you will be disappointed, and you will hate this game for deceiving you. But it doesn't deserve that because it's a genuinely fun story game.

I played this with a friend, which let me ignore how dull the shooting and the weapons are. And how ♥♥♥♥ the story is. Get this on sale if you hate yourself.

Amazing Elden Ring Ahead! But you don't have the right, O you don't have the right...

I keep having to uninstall this game, because every time I play it again I lose sleep.

I really enjoyed my time with Dawntrail, and I think it's a worthwhile expansion. It has some of the best fights we've had in years for normal content, and some amazing Extremes, not to mention the new Expert dungeons. There are more mechanics, they happen faster, and healers have to be more on point to deal with incoming damage. Even in normal dungeons the bosses are not boring tank and spank bosses like some in Endwalker were. But while the fights are great, the classes are either unchanged or even more simplified and homogenized. Not to the point where nothing distinguishes a Summoner from a Red Mage anymore, but the Tanking jobs especially just feel like they all work the same now with VERY small differences.

The new jobs, on the other hand, are fantastic. Pictomancer is the standout as a tough but satisfying caster, and Viper, while seeming complicated at first, is a satisfying melee DPS with amazing animations and sounds. I have never been a melee DPS guy, but I might start maining Viper for those crisp animations alone.

The new zones are the most beautiful we've had in the game, and the graphical update is really putting a lot of work in to make them stand out. Compared to even Shadowbringers' zones this is on a whole different level. They are also a lot easier to navigate and this makes it very fun to just roam around in them doing FATEs or sidequests. And if you're tired of land-based travel: it's much simpler this time around to unlock Aether currents and be able to fly.

The music is as good as we've come to expect, with lots of good variety and a few standout tracks for the second and third trials of the expansion. There is your standard heroic fantasy stuff but we also get more rock and folk inspired music, as well as some more techno and lo-fi inspired songs. Compared to Endwalker this new OST feels like a fresh of breath air, or better yet, a return to the more daring soundscape of Shadowbringers.

Where it really stumbles is in one of the main draws: the story. It is not bad per se, and the back half is full of exciting and emotional moments. But the first half feels slow, spending a lot of time on building up this new world and its various cultures and places. I think the raising of the stakes that happens halfway through wouldn't be nearly as effective without it, but don't go in thinking you're going to be on the edge of your seat right away as you might've been in Shadowbringers.

Characters are the main weak point. Your enjoyment will depend entirely on whether or not you like one of the main characters of the new story, given how central she is to everything. I do not think the overall voice performance of the character is bad, but she falls short in critical moments where an delivery really needs to be emotional, and the fact that she is so central to the story really amplifies this problem.

Aside from her there are also multiple moments where well-established characters give...extremely strange performances, to the point where I sometimes wondered if the voice actors were replaced halfway through. I can only assume there are issues in voice direction, as all of these actors have solid track records, and the VAs for new side-characters completely knock it out of the park.

Personally, I was also disappointed how two very important characters, Krile and Erenville, really did not get the screentime I felt they deserved. Both have very touching stories that are core to the overall plot, but we never really get a moment where our main character speaks with them one-on-one, or where they get to show how their struggle affects and changes them. On top of this the game insists on constantly bringing back the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, who have no story arc and barely do anything, except for moments where they are *suddenly* critical to the story. It really feels like the writers were told to bring them back, since they are fan favorites, but didn't know what to actually do with them.

I think this expansion is worth the time and money, if only for all the cool new stuff. The story underdelivers compared to the absolute peak stuff we've had before, but I didn't come away hating it either.

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I have not slept in days. Please help.

Most fun I've had playing an MMO in like 10 years or something.

It sorta feels like the logical evolution of the classic Visual Novel style, it uses the good parts of 3D to way better effect than most "2.5D" VNs do. It's also a simple but effective story about death and loss. Short but worth the money.