Managing the Crimson Curse is a major part of the new expansion. Once you pop the seal on the Courtyard, new and potentially devastating enemies start springing up in each and every one of the game's randomly generated levels. Of course, you'll want to dive in right away: both to reduce the strain on your employees and to see the new stuff. This new zone comprises the bulk of new content specific to The Crimson Court. The solution is to enter the aptly named Courtyard to burn out the mosquito nests therein. In a game where too much stress can cause your party members to go off the deep end, that's a very frustrating development. These literal and figurative buggers put a dent in how much stress your returning spelunkers regain in-town each week. The expansion’s new horror begins on week five of a regular Darkest Dungeon campaign, at which point the Hamlet-your home-away-from-horror-is beset by mosquitoes. That's not to say Crimson Court is inviting. Either that, or the new, vampire-centric Crimson Court is just that tantalizing. Maybe I'm more like my friends than I thought. So when I learned that The Crimson Court's addition was more extension than expansion, I was worried I wouldn't be able work up the nerve to commit to the game again from scratch.
I was plenty happy to beat the grueling game once and walk away. I've got a friend or two who have been more than happy to play Darkest Dungeon to completion multiple times since it left Early Access in 2016. You either need to start a new campaign or use an existing save where you don't mind turning that balance inside out with new enemies, objectives, and dangers. The Crimson Court DLC isn't self-contained, which presents the expansion's first structural hurdle. Managing time, resources, and a revolving door of adventurers is a delicate balance that players either learn to walk or bow out of altogether. In-game time passes when you send bedraggled squads into the depths of different dungeons. That's not just a pun on the expansion's extreme difficulty, either, although there is plenty of that here.įor those new to the game-and perhaps looking at The Crimson Court as an excuse to hop aboard the crazy train- Darkest Dungeon is a brutal turn-based dungeon crawler.
Platform: Windows (reviewed), Xbox One, PS4ĭarkest Dungeon's first-ever DLC, The Crimson Court, is going to be a hard sell for many players.
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