Europa Universalis IV: Domination Review (Japoński Anon)
This DLC is not worth the 20 dollar price tag and undermines previous DLCs.
- Japanese and English missions don't add much to the actual nations and feel like free update content. Japanese missions give you a little bit more to do if you beat China and have a small Christian focus. Isolation remains a weak mechanic overall. English missions additionally undermine Rule Brittania with the Angevin Empire taking away content from the original mission tree rather than adding it (I should be able to have fun colonizing and doing stuff in mainland Europe if I win the 100 year war.
- Ming has unavoidable disasters every 20 years making your life miserable since you are never able to keep mandate up. This is an interesting idea, but it doesn't translate well into gameplay. Other Chinese successor missions don't add much either unfortunately. I am a big fan of the Enuch estate and the management of China
is a lot more interesting than it used to be, but it isn't there yet.
- Spanish and portugese missions don't add a lot to what already exist. The missions to build up provinces are rather uninteresting and the mission trees for expansion are rather dull. You get a free PU over Portugal in the 1550s in vanilla if you have a royal marriage so there is no reason to expand into them since they colonize for you anyhow but it is annoying how they block your mission progression into the more interesting PU over Austria and expansion into Morocco. There also isn't much in terms of fun stuff like Spain interacting with the HRE or the pope.
- Prussian missions add very little in comparison to what existed for Lions of the North
- Korean missions would benefit from being more like the Chinese missions introduced so they can play tall hermit kingdom. Though their new government mechanics give a lot of flexibility in play style so it evens out.
- Ottomans are a bit buggy but they are the biggest winner of this handsdown.
- French missions feel pretty wish the Ducal missions got expanded since the French minors are really fun to play as.
- Russia missions are pretty straightforward and linear and is a clear step up from the original tree though it still is boring. Mechanically their modernization gimmick is strange and does not work as well as decadence.