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Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed by this DLC. This feels like a filler or a horrible fan fiction to the base game. Pretty much nothing about this DLC makes me happy.
- The 3 new units are just so unnecessary, and they exacerbate the problem with the base game regarding redundant units.
- The crafting system is a joke and is honestly stupid unbalanced. Dodge gems just break the game completely. You can get 80+% dodge on your units no problem and just utterly humiliate your enemies, it's ridiculous.
- The cosmetic shop feels out of place. It's nice that some girls can get a different skin, but why does it act as a status modifier and why must it be purchased with an obscure currency not used anywhere else in the game? Also why do only some girls have a skin, but the others don't? Khulan doesn't have a cool skin to show off, but that brat Kamo does... what the hell?
- New game modes are absolutely terrible. Great fights are just a massive clusterfuck of nonsense and it's not enjoyable. Ambushes are now with a bigger army and you're attacked from both sides instead of just the front.
- The story is bad and does great disservice to the base game. We went from conquering and uniting the world, to going against Ah Cy's sister with an inferiority complex, waging a war against a fraudulent serpent queen, and then finally we go up against a sexually frustrated goddess that has overwhelming power, can mind control people and is unbeatable except under very convenient and contrived circumstances. It doesn't even feel like I'm a genuine ruler when this goddess can single handedly delete me and my whole army, but doesn't do so in exchange for sexual favors. Khulan was a way better final boss than this poor parody for a boss, defeating her felt earned and well deserved, and there was no pointless playing pretend. The MC is somehow insufferable in this DLC and breaks character on multiple occasions, ordering the execution of Ah Lam when he wouldn't execute any other girl for instance. Ah Cy also somehow manages to be more annoying than in the base game.
- Now as for sexual content, it does its job, but that's probably the only real positive thing about this DLC. The girls themselves are nothing special: Ah Lam is just Ah Cy's younger sister. Ah Cy is probably the most hated girl in the entire game, so I'm not sure what would you want to do with her sister, unless it's out of spite towards Ah Cy. Then there's Kamo... Kamo is just a weirdo, she starts out as a fairly collected guy pretender, then she gets exposed as a girl and has a 180 degree turn on her personality, instead becoming the most insufferable brat ever. Also, who the hell uses the word "dunderhead"? Nagami and Dyrga are just queen wannabes. Dyrga controlled Nagami for the most part so this isn't that surprising. I couldn't really be bothered to put up with their rubbish since they seemed so outlandish to the story with their unnatural powers and all. As a result, I really wasn't enjoying the last 2 arcs in the game (especially with the new shitty game mode) and wanted it to be over ASAP. It has also ruined my desire to replay the game.
TL:DR: Unless you want more sex scenes, don't buy this DLC, it's just not worth it.