07/17/2024 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Budget Fantasy Borderlands

Gearbox has found their bread-and-butter with the Borderlands series. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands started life as the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep before being fully fleshed out as its own stand-alone game. That being said, while Dragon's Keep was certainly entertaining, stretching that out as an entire game doesn't capture that same feel and while there are some things that Wonderlands does right, there is much more it fumbles and those in the tabletop gaming business knows what happens when you roll a few too many ones in a row.

Looks and Stuff: Wonderlands doesn't stray too far from the Borderlands formula - keeping the same cel-shaded animation as the previous games and still giving you plenty of quip-happy enemies to destroy along the way. Instead of raiders and skags and th...

Rating of
3.5/5 

02/27/2024 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Just Like Tabletop…

“Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands” (“Wonderlands”) began life as an “Assault on Dragon Keep”-style DLC expansion for “Borderlands 3”… But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and threw wrenches into nearly everyone’s business. “Wonderlands” suddenly shifted from a typical Gearbox development cycle to being entirely remotely developed. In the process, the project allegedly exceeded its own parameters, thus the powers that be at the studio decided to release the game as its own stand-alone product… with DLC of its own. Unfortunately, the problem with remote development is that everyone is phoning-in their work… and there are large parts of “Wonderlands” that definitely feel phoned-in.

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Visually, “Wonderlands” doesn’t look appreciably different...

Rating of
3.5/5