In terms of online play, this place was packed, I have been invaded about 10 times just before reaching the second bonfire, so get ready.

Even friendly npc phantoms are now bowing to you after a good boss fight if they survive. On the bright side, the highlight of this DLC for me was the fight with Jester Thomas, which introduced nice addition of gestures for npc invaders, so enjoy his mocking gestures after he fries you to death during his pyro barbecue party. Elana felt weak and boring no matter how many times i tried and the final fight with the dragon was a standard Souls-Dragon battle experience, not much new here, but not bad. The fight with 3 npcs might have been a lazy boss design, but still pretty challenging, especially in solo. Complex level design full of environmental puzzles, few nice surprises (ghost knights) and decent amount of challenge in places. While the value of 10€ for just about 3 additional hours of DS2 gameplay in one new location might be very questionable (should have been the While the value of 10€ for just about 3 additional hours of DS2 gameplay in one new location might be very questionable (should have been the price for the full trilogy) and some of it's content is kinda lacking (3 lazy bosses, lots of samey grey/green corridors, not much new story here and no new dialog npcs whatsoever.) It's still a very nice addition to the original DS2, that I enjoyed playing through.

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