The first spinoff to the Borderlands franchise is a hit and run that met my expectations after the bar was set with Assault on Dragonkeep. After playing the Borderlands 2 dlc Assault on Dragonkeep, I was 100% ready for another fantasy installment from this franchise. And Tiny Tinas Wonderlands does just that, giving us an even more expanded look at Tinas weird and wacky imagination. Making my character a Graveborn and then making my other class a Spore Warden, I found my abilities to be very useful and really fun. I also enjoyed the spell aspect of the game, which you use throughout the game instead of grenades. This was better than grenades and made gameplay truly awesome. The new characters this game has is also a highlight, especially Dragon Lord played by Will Arnett. I do wish he was in this game significantly more as I think besides Tina, was a major highlight of this game. I really enjoyed all the humor this game has, I love the fantasy vibes; maps are super colorful and vibrant, lots of cool enemies to kill, and they even have a cool new feature called the Overworld where you transverse the Wonderlands looking like a funcopop. But there is one aspect of the game that I think ruins my perfect score for this game; the endgame material. The Borderlands franchise has been really good with its dlc releases, with some of these dlcs being some of my favorites! But with Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, it's the opposite. Me and my friend checked out the chaos chamber for awhile, and while it's definitely a time waster, it's ultimately boring. We made it to chaos level 19, only because at first, my friend wanted to try and see if we could get some primordial-grade loot, but we basically came to the conclusion it wouldn't be worth it because all we had to do was finish the boring mirror levels. Now, I forgot to mention the true disappointment of this game; the mirrors of mystery. There's 4 mirrors; each mirror has 4 "levels" to complete, and lemme just say; the storyline to these are trash. Everything about it was boring and half-assed. I of course love the gameplay and some of the cool locations, but it was boring replaying the same mirror 4 times. This truly wouldn't of been that much of a problem if these dlcs didn't cost a lot, but 10$ for one mirror is not worth it. So, on that note, I truly hope some actual decent dlc gets added to this awesome game, because it desperately needs to wash out this bad taste it left with mirrors of mystery.
In all, a great game that took quite a bit of hours from me. I maxed out my level to 40 and got to mystic level to 103 before me and my friend got everything finished and called it quits. Without the dlcs, this game is something truly special from Gearbox, and I hope they expand some more on this in the near future.
In all, a great game that took quite a bit of hours from me. I maxed out my level to 40 and got to mystic level to 103 before me and my friend got everything finished and called it quits. Without the dlcs, this game is something truly special from Gearbox, and I hope they expand some more on this in the near future.