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significantly better than dawnguard, actually feels like a DLC. going to solstheim feels like going on holiday to the outer hebrodies when you're already scottish. different enough i'm sure, but still notably scottish. interpret that as a compliment or a criticism, i dare you!
anyway i'm very sick right now and had to cancel our trip to the zoo because of it. boo! i'm also sick of going to apocrycha all the time, am i right!? fr tho the final dungeon encounter and fight with miraak wouldve been better if that was the only time we went to apocrycha, the actual dungeons themselves were kind of lame and empty feeling. they didn't feel mysterious really because all the creatures are just hostile. something dawn guard got right is that there are people to talk to in the soul cairn, and apocrycha shouldve been the same! it shouldve had weird scholars and ghosts to tell us unknown and creepy histories, really lean in on the forbidden knowledge of it instead of the surface lovecraftian vibe. Hermaus Mora also fails in this bc while he doesnt have a concrete design the way other daedric princes do, he repeats the shame crap as the rest of them "you will serve me, kill my last champion as he has displeased me" and for the guy who's supposed to be the cthullu of books its a bit like, boring tbh? especially bc he is the one who kills miraak at the end like, why didnt he just do that all along? i would've preferred more meaningful interractions and choices about how to deal with miraak and more, choosing to side with one over the other, or neither. miraak as one of the iconic dragon priests who betrayed the dragonic cult is a cool idea! shame he has 0 sauce and flavour! thats about as much as i have to say about the plot
the island is fine! it feels different enough to skyrim to be fun and its cool to have loads of dunmer have different politics to talk about, about the high houses of morrowind. as someone who hasnt played morrowind this was neat! seeing the silt strider was super cool! theres not too much of it but it added to that feeling of feeling away from home. the dungeons and gameplay are as boring as they ever were, but the DLC is short and sweet and that's nice enough i suppose