I just finished The Descent.
Bottom line: I didn't exactly dislike it, but I liked Jaws of Hakkon *much* better.
Good points: tons of new lore, fantastic-looking areas, good NPC interaction.
OK points: some effort at a story. Not impressive, but at least there. Higher-level weapons schematics.
Bad points: absolutely **** annoying fighting. New mysteries, no answers. General vaguery.
Apart from the fighting, which I got sick of less than halfway through with everything having the hitpoints of a dragon, my main complaint is that the story feels like it's made to be irrelevant. No real answers to anything, just more vague somethings and hints of more connections of the type "something" between X and lyrium. In typical fashion, the writers refuse to commit to anything just in case they might want to retcon it later. As for being irrelevant, the Titan sleeps again and likely won't ever come up again as a story element, which is ok since we already have enough gods as actors in DA, but that also extends to Valta who can be conveniently forgotten as she's taken up her new role as the Titan's something. The ending is thoroughly unsatisfying.
Most of the story was presented in character interaction, which is a nice change from the main game, with Codex entries adding to the picture. talking with Renn and Valta was almost always interesting. Companion contributions were somewhat rare but at least present and noticeable. The inconclusive outcome removed much of the satisfaction though. Big revelations? Didn't happen. There is such a thing as a Titan? Well, we knew that right from the start, almost. It's very different from other lifeforms? Well, I don't know about others, but I saw that one coming from afar and even knew about being within it before I got my Inquisitor to say it. If it had been less strange, I'd have been severely disappointed. However, *what* is it? What is its connection with lyrium? Will mining lyrium affect it? What is it to the dwarves? How does it connect with the Stone? Is it connected to the origin of the dwarves? Answers? Nope, just general vaguery, and since it won't come up again as a topic any time soon - we're left with more questions than answers. Again. Really, I don't mind if parts of the world remain mysterious, but there should be a balance between answering stuff and piling up new questions. Also, just when we get down to a beautiful new underground area, the story ends and we can't explore it. What the hell....grrr...
Did I enjoy it? Two thirds of it, yes. Until I got so sick of the fighting that I just wanted to get things over with - and I played on Casual. I don't mind having paid 15€ for this, but it was the weaker of DAI's two story DLCs by a significant margin. Playing time was somewhere between three and four hours, which includes enough exploration time to find all but four of the gears.
Modifié par BioWareMod07, 13 août 2015 - 01:49 .
Mod edit for inappropriate language.





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