Smaceshi's Castles DLC

Smaceshi's Castle is a great play on the show Takeshi's castle. I would pronounce is as sumaseshizu kaseru. The varied levels extend the concepts we learned in the base game. I appear to be one of the few who really enjoyed the physics and controls of the racing portion, so while I am happy to get some new time tracks to speed down, I am slightly disappointed at the lack of enemy drivers this time around as well as one realizing that you just hold the gas around the wide turns these levels become very easy to beat. The parkour levels are quite fun if not sometimes frustrating because of the difficulty in assessing elevation at certain angles. The gun levels are fine. I like the wave levels though I've yet to run into as fun a challenge as I had in the base game in this regard. I would have liked it if there had been an actual campaign played against ai, Takeshi's Castle style, eliminating the lower performing players at the end of each level. Even if we didn't see them performing, it would have been nice to see a table and compete against data that the game could randomly generate. As it is, the level progression in this game isn't terribly inspired. At the end of the day, I do recommend. If you enjoyed the game play of the base game, which is what I enjoyed about it, then you should find a lot to enjoy here.

I found this DLC very boring. It has no exploration and city at all. Weapons are cool but grinding are not.

The new bow is a very cool weapon. But this DLC has no story and no city to explore, so it's just grinding mission after mission. Stealth was my favourite part of the original game, but here it doesn't have any enemies and is timed, which isn't as much fun.