This review contains spoilers
I had a blast playing through this DLC and it was worth every minute I waited (since June haha) and every penny I spent! The moment I arrived on the pier the atmosphere was immaculate. Every area has interesting gimmicks (that I kinda cheesed due to having Averevoir Flight) and absorbing atmosphere (espicially the space area which brought to mind that one stage from Kirby and the Forgotten Land).
Gwen was a very intriguing character that gave off suspicious "hiding something from the player" vibes from the start. I'm not complaining, but I knew she was an Archangel from the moment I saw her. Her backstory with being conditoned by Morgante and Aleph to create the Infernal Engines out of humans was the highlight of the DLC for me. Gwenivar's design went so hard for me and my heart broke for her during the second phase of the fight due to her construcing stopping her from making more Infernal Engines as preventing her from having any friends as they all left her after The Alephgante Incident. I will gladly visit her at Brightside Pier again (well I kinda have to since I still have to find more tickets and record Umbrehella)!
Also, Joel Baylis strikes again with banger tunes ranging from the unsettling music box themes of the Pier to the guitar-shredding Infernal Engine battle themes to the melancholic piano of the second half of Gwenivar's fight. Truly a jack of all trades.
Two major complants I've seen about this DLC is that it's too short and Shelby Harvey has no vocals during the boss fights. IMO the second one is more of a QoL thing, I'm not sure if she was available to record vocals for the boss themes so maybe that's why she didn't appear. The first one was kind of expected as there was only a 4 month time frame between when this DLC was announced and when it was released, but just because it is short doesn't mean that it is bad. I feel like this DLC was a treat from Bytten Studio as part "thank you for supporting our game" and part "we haven't given up on Cassette Beasts just yet" considering that this is only the first DLC and the devs are working on multiplayer (as of when I'm posting this review).
Gwen was a very intriguing character that gave off suspicious "hiding something from the player" vibes from the start. I'm not complaining, but I knew she was an Archangel from the moment I saw her. Her backstory with being conditoned by Morgante and Aleph to create the Infernal Engines out of humans was the highlight of the DLC for me. Gwenivar's design went so hard for me and my heart broke for her during the second phase of the fight due to her construcing stopping her from making more Infernal Engines as preventing her from having any friends as they all left her after The Alephgante Incident. I will gladly visit her at Brightside Pier again (well I kinda have to since I still have to find more tickets and record Umbrehella)!
Also, Joel Baylis strikes again with banger tunes ranging from the unsettling music box themes of the Pier to the guitar-shredding Infernal Engine battle themes to the melancholic piano of the second half of Gwenivar's fight. Truly a jack of all trades.
Two major complants I've seen about this DLC is that it's too short and Shelby Harvey has no vocals during the boss fights. IMO the second one is more of a QoL thing, I'm not sure if she was available to record vocals for the boss themes so maybe that's why she didn't appear. The first one was kind of expected as there was only a 4 month time frame between when this DLC was announced and when it was released, but just because it is short doesn't mean that it is bad. I feel like this DLC was a treat from Bytten Studio as part "thank you for supporting our game" and part "we haven't given up on Cassette Beasts just yet" considering that this is only the first DLC and the devs are working on multiplayer (as of when I'm posting this review).