I need to say what a great idea the King's Lead was. They took the boring mausoleum gameplay from the base game, added the level reward of coins to it, and created five unique encounters as a sort of puzzle boss! After you beat each one individually, you can also challenge them all in a row. It's a bit disappointing that your health regenerates after each fight, since I wish they could have tossed in something extra for doing it with one life, like a filter or something similar. They already added a reward for just beating every fight in the entire game with Ms. Chalice, so I figured they would have also done that oh well.
The chess gauntlet is just one of the new exciting things on Inkwell Isle IV. The other is a puzzle that leads to a secret boss. Pretty unique of a boss, but I wish we could rematch them or rank them like the others. After beating that boss, one of the new items from the DLC gets upgraded into a cursed relic. This takes your charm slot, puts you at 1 HP, and gives you a random shot each time you press the button or dash. If you beat a certain value of bosses with it equipped, it gets upgraded into a very powerful divine relic. Yeah, it is pretty broken with the amount of benefits it gives, but I love how you get it and build towards it. I really liked how they added so much to this DLC other than just boss levels, despite selling it for very cheap.
On top of these, there are also six new boss levels, some of which are some of the most creative fights in the game. You can also play as Ms. Chalice in place of your charm slot, but she has so many benefits that I really think she just breaks the DLC, let alone the whole game. She gets a dash parry, an invincible roll, a double jump, extra health, and one of her supers even gives you more chances of taking damage. You also get a few new items and shots, making the game a lot easier, which I understand is a choice, but it really seems like having both Ms. Chalice and these new items was not needed at all. It kind of sucks there's still an issue with trying to get just three parry moves in general, like Mortimer...
The chess gauntlet is just one of the new exciting things on Inkwell Isle IV. The other is a puzzle that leads to a secret boss. Pretty unique of a boss, but I wish we could rematch them or rank them like the others. After beating that boss, one of the new items from the DLC gets upgraded into a cursed relic. This takes your charm slot, puts you at 1 HP, and gives you a random shot each time you press the button or dash. If you beat a certain value of bosses with it equipped, it gets upgraded into a very powerful divine relic. Yeah, it is pretty broken with the amount of benefits it gives, but I love how you get it and build towards it. I really liked how they added so much to this DLC other than just boss levels, despite selling it for very cheap.
On top of these, there are also six new boss levels, some of which are some of the most creative fights in the game. You can also play as Ms. Chalice in place of your charm slot, but she has so many benefits that I really think she just breaks the DLC, let alone the whole game. She gets a dash parry, an invincible roll, a double jump, extra health, and one of her supers even gives you more chances of taking damage. You also get a few new items and shots, making the game a lot easier, which I understand is a choice, but it really seems like having both Ms. Chalice and these new items was not needed at all. It kind of sucks there's still an issue with trying to get just three parry moves in general, like Mortimer...