Atomic Heart: Enchantment Under the Sea Review (Marble)
This DLC is certainly the best one for Atomic Heart, the story is interesting and canonizes a single ending in the main game, which is fantastic. While I do have some strong negative criticisms about this content, I'd still recommend it for the story, and acting as well as scenery.
Many of the issues present in the main game/ other dlc's are also present here. The first being the dlc length. It's two hours long. The experience was incredibly short, even on Amageddon. That brings me to my next point, achievements are still jsut broken, they track incorrectly, sometimes for the wrong things and some just never pop at all. The achievements issue has been present since initial release, and still never solved.
Many of the arenas you fight enemies in, have little to no thought put into their design aside from just overwhelming the player through sheer enemy numbers or electrifying the floor, and giving you a grapple hook that can't keep you in the air long enough to both stay off the floor + kill enemies, the new tools felt clunky, and awful to use.. Though the new melee tool, and shotgun felt excellent and right at home.
Enemies don't coordinate with one another and just aim to knock the player down/ reduce your health to 0 as fast as possible, It's sad to have such interesting character and enemy designs be reduced to " knock down player, kill player" and none of them having any real unique combat interactions.
Hopefully in the last dlc the devs deliver something a bit longer, with less artificial padding via large enemy swarms.. It's not nearly as bad as in the main game, but the issue persists nonetheless.. Another issue is if you have upgrades from the main game, you as a player are move WAY too fast. The choice to not have walking and sprinting in this, but rather always be sprinting is bizarre and makes the general mechanics feel bad just like in the main title nothing bothered me more in the main game, or Annihilation Instinct than the fact I couldn't just walk, or sprint by my own choice. Otherwise the dlc is fantastic, the story is solid, voice acting is great, and the setting is gorgeous. The story, and performances made up for how awful combat can feel in this game.