Sentinels of the Multiverse - OblivAeon DLC

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I am honestly thorn about this expansion. While the new heroes are strong and the enviroments are unique and more or less fun, the new Game Mode is something you either hate or love. From my opinion it is more to hate. While OblivAeon is a bit like Arthas the Lich King from WoW and so something you should hate and want it really hard to feel it worthy as the final fight against the battle of the earth, I feel like it is to hard. You really need to cheese to use a specific scion to have chance to win and that you can only use five enviroments in the game where you have to win before 3 of them are destroyed to not get the apocalypse is really putting the fun out of the game. Why do yo even can to choose between all over three dozen heroes in this fight to show everyone is working together to survive when you can not even get to use most of them in the fight? It would have been way better if the fight is lost when your last enviroment is destroyed or all heroes are defeated. So I would really wish there would be a mixed review on Steam but because there is non I give a Not Recommend Review because I would not recommend to buy it outside of the Season Pass 2.

It's rare that a DLC deserves its own review. However, given that this expansion is so far away from nature of the core gameplay, and given that the strengths and weaknesses of this expansion are perhaps counter to the core game, it is worth an reasonable review independent of the core game. If you're reading this, it's worth assuming you are familiar with the core gameplay. The OblivAeon expansion adds a few new environments and heroes - which are good - but it is hard to say that they are the core of the content. If you spend $12 on a few new heroes and environments, you should feel ripped off. No, this is the big shiny expansion, with the new big shiny game mode that throws everything on its head. In the OblivAeon game mode, you are pitted against the horrifying OblivAeon who aims to destroy the multiverse. Like the rest of the game, the story is sort of flimsy and is mainly a backdrop for the mechanics. However, the mechanics are far more complex than the core game - there are a lot of tiny things happening all at once. Moreover, the difficulty of the fight is ridiculously high, and there are a lot of ways for things to go extremely wrong (or extremely right). This wipes away the strengths of the core game; the core game was best played with friends who you could discuss strategy with, and it would have been playable with a relatively unskilled player in the mix with a little bit of fine tuning. OblivAeon is ridiculously painful, and there's so many ways to approach him that agreeing on even seemingly minor decisions with a group might be hard. If you picked up a physical copy instead of the video game, then you should very very much give this a miss - this is definitely not something I would play with friends in person. However, the fact that the mode is so difficult makes it particularly rewarding when you actually do manage to beat it. It's far from easy, and the fact that you can get a challenge out of a game which is normally very casual makes the experience very much worth it - as long as you, personally, are not handling all the little tiny calculations. It's extremely satisfying to watch a pumped-up benchmark throw hundreds of missiles into Oblivaeon, or to pound away at him with a giant imaginary super robot which has been pumped up. It feels like all the seemingly dirty tricks one might use to power up your characters are necessary rather than optional, and this leads to an experience which is very much unlike the core game. This expansion is not easy. It's not for the impatient, and it's not for someone who can't stand an actual challenge. However, for someone who is fine failing at a game the first 3 or 4 times, it's definitely an experience worth having. It's definitely very different from the core Sentinels of the Multiverse experience. If you very much like the difficulty of the core game and the ability to play this with friends, this probably isn't correct for you. However, if you are stuck playing alone - say there is an apocalypse happening and you are stuck inside and you just happened to have a good chunk of the expansions for this game - then this is actually pretty satisfying to beat. Unlike the core game, this is best played alone, and as a video game.

The new heroes are fun. OblivAeon itself is just awful, a huge mess of cards and tokens and multiple villain turns. I pity anyone playing it with physical cards that had to manage all that stuff. Even with the computer handling it, you will sit there for a minute or more watching the computer play itself as you have multiple environmental and enemy turns.

I wish there was a "yes, but no" recommendation option. I do recommend it for the great new characters, which are all very innovative in their own way, but I don't recommend playing the 'Oblivaeon' version of the game. I've played many times in person, and a couple times in the game, and I keep coming back to the same conclusion: the first phase of the game (which can take 1-2 hours) is more or less completely random. Without getting too bogged down in detail, in order to drop Oblivaeon's shields, you have to fulfill two different objectives, but meeting those objectives always seem far too random, given that the cards the villains play can so radically change the battlefield at any given moment. For playing in person, I always recommend skipping the first phase, which doesn't actually make the game easier, since it gives players less time to gather rewards. For the digital version, this isn't an option. Imagine playing a regular game of Sentinels, but when the villain gets to 50% health, you flip a coin. Heads you keep playing as normal. Tails, you immediately lose. Stretch that experience over 3-4 hours, and you have Oblivaeon. However, if you're a Sentinels fanatic like myself, you'll eventually buy this just for the new characters and environments.