A damn impressive DLC, one of the best I've played. Although the base game made me very curious about a lot of the backstories that were explored here, I didn't realize how much I needed them until I finally played this. The story was emotionally fulfilling, the protagonist of this DLC is arguably a better character than Rex from the base game, and it gave a beautiful full circle moment to the best character in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Jin. The final cutscenes of this game had me shedding more than a few tears.

The combat was also improved here from the original, and the soundtrack came back again with some new songs that are absolute bangers.

It does have one glaring issue, where part of the main story is blocked off by doing what seems almost the entirety of the side quests in the whole DLC. It grinds the pacing to a grating halt and was very annoying, but overall shouldn't deter you from trying it out.