DYSMANTLE: Pets & Dungeons

The Original game was fantastic, tedious sometimes but still fantastic. Many quests, lots of ways to progress and I can't recommend it enough. The DLC's on the other hand have been a bit hit and miss and this one is no exception. There are far too many 'tombs' which need to be found first by hoofing it around the maps then solved, and they aren't hard and present no real challenge, just frustration. Once you've done those and got your pets, you've got something to release and then you're done. There's no 'end' to this DLC, you just keep going until the few quests you had are done and you're left thinking, what's next... nothing is next except unanswered questions. You have a pet, nice, but its of no use in a game without anything to do. Bugs wise it has quite a few, from a pet that seems incapable of staying on land and serves only to push you off bridges, to a collection of graphics and quest issues which I'm sure will get fixed one day.

The idea, story and pets are well done. I especially enjoyed the Osiris conversations. The puzzles are mostly good - except the ones requiring speed: the controls aren't precise enough for those. The problems (all of which could be solved): - not all Pets work consistently. While most of the Pets react fine to the thrown bone-tool the Doomsday-Pets won't. They don't chase the bone/fish down. - larger Pets (Tiger, Panther, etc.) are often hindering your movement and/or combat, because you can (and will) collide with them. They occasionally even block your shots (beams). The constant collisions are unfun, especially in smaller indoor-locations. - combat-wise pets are quite mediocre. You use them only for the passive boni they grant. The damage of the occasional bite is neglectable - and since pets are turning slowly (the large ones even more so) the are mostly positioned badly towards the fast moving enemies and can't attack at all.

EN: A DLC that introduces us to our animal friends. And regularly adds two or three elements here and there. The puzzles are easy (as in the base game). FR: Un DLC qui nous présente nos amis les animaux. Et ajoute régulièrement deux ou trois éléments ici et là. Les énigmes sont faciles (comme dans le jeu de base).