Where A New God feels a little less forgiving is that it expects and assumes that you mastered every type of puzzle style from the main game and are eager for more. I found some frustrating but also understood that I would require some skills obtained later in the game that would help me complete some puzzles at a later time. I liked the puzzle aspects in the main game from those in the Vaults to the those scattered around the world.
Where ‘A New God’ disappointed me, the most is in the gameplay which completely doubles down on all the puzzle mechanics of the main game and does so in a way that does leave you wondering if nothing Fenyx did to save these Gods countered for anything if this is how they choose to test his/her worth. Even interactions with the Gods in terms of dialogue is very minimal once you have spoken with Zeus to begin.Įven if you used a save to bring your progress into this DLC, none of your armours or weapons are useable, instead you are given default armour with the chance to unlock new armour to aid you in the trials, but if you had a particular favourite armour or cosmetic look sadly you will not have them in this DLC but how your Fenyx looked and sounded will, though at the start you are given the chance to change the appearance of Feynx before jumping into it. There are no places that require climbing or long glides to reach them which is actually rather sad for me, the exploration was one of the things I loved most about the main game and I had hoped for a new area to be able to do the same but this is a DLC that is very focused on just doing the trials themselves as the main activity to do. Olympus is just the setting with the four gods situated in its four corners where Fenyx will visit them to begin their trials but exploration is no longer a factor here as you simply follow the very clear paths to each of them. Instead of the massive and beautiful setting of the Golden Isle, we now find ourselves in the equally beautiful Olympus but with one drawback, no exploration. But impress them the player must one final time we must and this is perhaps where this DLC experience differs so much for me from the main game experience I loved. In order for Fenyx to complete their journey and earn a place in the inner Pantheon, and something that is a little confusing for me, they must first once again impress the four Gods they saved from Typhoon in Ares, Hephaistos, Aphrodite and Athena and earn their final blessing which is a little on the nose considering what Fenyx went through to earn their blessings in the main story whilst also saving them from ultimate doom. Where the main game allows you to do it all again, A New God will see Zeus offer Fenyx the opportunity to join the Gods in Olympus as one of them but there is a final twist and challenge for Fenyx. Fenyx has saved the Gods and the world of man from Typhoon and has become a true hero in his/her own right. If you have completed the main story then you will know that the game ends with Fenyx embracing her new powers and is settling down as a true hero whilst coming to terms with the reality that he/she is the child of Zeus.
So this is your spoiler warning….if you have yet to finish the main story, why are you here, go do that then come back and look at the DLC ok?!? Thankfully this DLC is outside of the main game so much so that it can only be accessed from the main menu which then takes it to its own menu, though you can use a save file to bring your progress across, this is very much stand alone compared to the main game. It really needs to be pointed out that ‘A New God’ is very much “play me after you have finished the main story” content, so if you have this DLC via the Season Pass and you have yet to complete the main campaign, do that before even looking at this DLC for it will reveal how the game ends and unsurprisingly does find Fenyx at the end of his/her journey.
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