Base Game - 9/10
Its really good, much MUCH better than the first game.
And a large part of that is due to Handsome Jack. He is so well written and fun to listen to this obnoxious ♥♥♥♥♥ complain about the pettiest of things and doing evil acts with such a neglect. I love when my villains revel in being villainous, that's when they're the most fun. The other addition of great characters is Tiny Tina. She is so much fun to just listen to and hear her ramble about whatever. Everyone else is just who they are, many are serious, many are trying too hard to be comical, its a difficult balance to reach but thankfully we have these two.
Gameplay is a step up. There's more going on which is good, there's more places to explore, there's more quests to complete, there's more rewards for levelling up, there's more fun overall.
Art style is the same, it doesn't do much for me with how gray the game is. Maybe with higher resolution textures and more colourful areas it'd be more appealing.
But the Buzzards, holy crap the Buzzards spam in a select few areas that are required took so much out of the fun. I groaned and loathed when the Buzzards showed up. Its only one enemy type but they infinitely respawn and are a chore to deal with.
Base Game + DLCs - 7/10
Captain Scarlett's DLC - 7/10
It's good, more of the same except the story isn't as good and the Cursed Pirate enemy is ridiculous.
Torque's Campaign DLC - 5/10
Fine, I've never cared for Torque weapons so this didn't do anything for me. The Zeppelin fight was horrendous tho. Moxxi and Tiny are a great duo I want more of them together.
Sir Hammerlock's DLC - 3/10
Its not good, extremely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moment happened after the Jackenstein fight. I grabbed a bunch of guns to sell, fast travelled to sell them because there isn't a store to sell at for some reason, had to run all the way back through Candlerakk's Crag, found a energy wall that was blocking all the loot, went back to the lodge and finished the quest assuming it would open the wall, ran all the way back to the fight, re-fought him for the loot and the wall is still there and stays there. Just why, why is it like this. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ really.
Tiny Tina's DLC - 8/10
Finally some good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ content.
Tina is still great and the story gets weirdly real at the end, like genuine emotion. Locations are cool and the vibes are here. Couldn't imagine they fumble a full game of just this.
Bloody Harvest DLC - 6/10
Not much here, I like Halloween and its aesthetics.
Wattle Gobbler DLC - 5/10
For some reason the bigger chefs were super strong and one-shotting me. Grandma's stories were boring who cares.
Mercenary Day DLC - 7/10
Christmas is fun, boss fight had a move that launched me out of the map and I died for it so that's cool.
Wedding Day Massacre DLC - 8/10
I love that Moxxi hates Ellie as much as I do and I liked the 5 boss-type enemies you fight, collect their trophies and open the red chest and nothing in the game tells you this is there, a rare moment of letting the player discover things on their own.
Son of Crawmerax DLC - 7/10
Love the aesthetic and the boss actually felt fair? A lot of this games bosses seem to forget there's a lack of invincibility frames for any and all attacks so you don't get one shot by the boss and numerous enemies all at once.
Fight for Sanctuary DLC - 7/10
Its good for being the DLC to link Borderlands 2 and 3 together. New villain is whatever, not nearly as interesting as Jack. Seeing the Sanctuary in a new way was neat. Now the enemies need some work. Maybe it was the TVHM that was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up but these New Pandorian enemies were constantly killing me with a couple of shots and it would take a few magazines of my weapons to kill one of them, mind you I was one level higher than them. This was a constant problem and source of frustration because it came to the point where I had to treat the game more like CoD than Doom, less jumping and moving, more hiding and peeking.
