I put off playing the DLC forever, and came back to knock them out real quick before the release of Scarlet/Violet. I was kind of disappointed by the Crown Tundra, which I know was the one I was more looking forward to when the DLC was first shown off. I always liked the postgame legendary hunting in games like B2W2, and I was hungry to collect more at the end of the base game, but I expected that to be on top of a solid DLC like Isle of Armor. Instead, nearly the whole focus was just on the legendary collection, which tries to justify itself with the 2 new Regis and the new forms for the birds. But I found these quests pretty barebones for what they were, and the rest of the legendaries being stuck in Max Raid hell didn't help. Those raids were already very slow and tiring in the base game, so stringing 4 of them in a row does not help there (especially when you can only keep 1 per run). The "main story" here (Calyrex quest) was also far less engaging and endearing than Isle of Armor's, and I just didn't care much for it or the characters like I did for IoA. The actual new areas mostly being ice areas didn't help, as that's just not really my favorite. Again, the new old mons were nice though, including some favorites for me this time. Overall, definitely the weaker DLC and a bit of a letdown.

Reviewed on Nov 11, 2022


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