Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

Suprisingly good execution of the fantasy take on the borderlands formula. Whilst I didn't get as invested into the characaters as in Assault on Dragon Keep the story was still engaging enough to play through multiple times.

Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this game. After only a few hours of playing, I have been put in the several copy/pasted arenas with the same type of enemies. It becomes boring very fast. The loot is total garbage, with bosses dropping white and green items, occasionally blue ones. All of them suck by the way. The addition of a spelling book sounds interesting at first, but then you soon realize you can only have one spell book active at a time with just one spell. Spamming the same spell over and over again does not do you any service. Sure, you can change the spell book which changes the spell (not all of them, some spell books just offer better stats with the exact same spell), but as I mentioned earlier, the loot is a total garbage and I only found one spell book in 4 hours of gameplay worth of equipping. The tabletop map reminding you of DnD games is actually kind of cool and it is a positive aspect, but the thing is, the tabletop map is there only for you to transverse through the map itself, it does not offer any meaningful gameplay besides walking, which is painfully slow and I became irritated as soon as I realized pressing Shift for running does not do anything. Coming from Borderlands 3, the Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is downgraded in all, and every way. The zone maps are worse, the combat arenas for side quests are the same, the variety in enemy is lower and the skill tree is downgraded. In Borderlands 3 I had 4 full skill trees which elevated the gameplay in terms of variety. If you got bored by certain skill sets, you could simply reset them and re-stack them to get different kind of boons and stats. Here, when you choose a class, you just have one skill tree and that's it. Again, boring. I honestly cannot see myself finishing this. Maybe, one day.