Treasures of the Sun, the latest Downloaded Content addition for Dungeon Siege III does everything I think DLC should do:
- Add new areas: check
- Add new enemies that aren’t just a “rare” version: check
- Let you increase your power/items/character level: check/check, and /check
Zones and Critters & Loot Oh My!
Everything in the Aranoi Desert is nicely themed around what you expect to find in a Desert setting. The Landscape is richly detailed with breakables, bodies to search, and Obelisks that unlock the new Ultimate powers depending on your Character selection. Travel through the environments is still pretty linear but with frequent splits and small nooks.
Side Quests have odd and interesting Boss Monsters, and the environments are generally more open visually. They also included new destructables, and chests. After entering the Aranoi Desert I had to spend a minute or two discovering just what is breakable and what I can search for loot. At least it’s not just a recycling of the same objects from the core game.
Loot in the Aranoi Desert has a distinctive flavor but about the same variance (Rage/Quickness/Swift, etc) as the original loot, along with some new Boss drop items in the Blue and Orange types.
