UPDATE at the end.
I enjoyed the main campaign so far. After latest patches (pre-VoH) i thought the game improved a lot, improving the endgame.
But now, with VoH, im like… meh.
The plot is being really boring and uninteresting for me to follow. Prava now is somehow good-er, and there is this new “spirit realm” full of poweful spirits wich is not Hell nor Heavens, but a sepparate reality worshiped by jungle (Nahantu) people. It somehow dilute the lore so much, as it seems there is a full multiverse out there (Tree of Whispers also hinted to be “from another world”, and while the “lot of realms/dimensions/universe” may seem cool at first, i think it “dilutes” and removes depness from the lore as “nything and everything” can be forced to fit into the lore.
More of a personal taste, the chamanic-tribal aesthetics and tone of the DLC aren´t exactly appealing to me. Still may main gripe is about the uninteresting campaign story: You look for Neyrelle, you find her, you have to do stuff to try to save her and stop Mefisto. Well yeah, that argument was expected, but its executed on a so straight and generic way that is just a chore, a boring task you have to mark as “done” on your task list.
About the revamp and new mechanics… idk anymore. I was happy with latest changes making items simpler to check, with less affixes and more specific and clear (straight bonuses to useful things instead weird conditionals and verbose stuff) but having a new revamp wich renders obsolete your gear -again- seems like bad precedent for the future.
All extra stuff, like runes, mercs, citadel, and so on… im somehow undecided about it. In one hand i think they are cool additions and new and “more” stuff is always welcome…
…But in the other hand it feels like they are shoving lots of extra stuff to keep you bussy with somehow generic random extra content/mechanics just to “fill holes”, like they are throwing “stuff” into players just to make “the banquet table look full of food”, but once you try it nothing is really tasty.
Idk, I guess i got hyped and somehow regret getting VoH. Is not that is “terrible”, but I think it underperforms. Maybe time to move on to any other games or even give it a go again to good old D2 (but Resurrected)
Just sharing thoughts, thanks for reading!
Eit: (update after finishing)
Wow. Just Wow. I can belie how bad the story turns out to be, ending with that “to be continued” cliffhanger.
I wonder, What does the DLC really adds that couldn´t be just a patch? Well, guess the new class, and maybe the mercs (citadel and such could be added the same way as the pit)
The extra story chunk doesn´t move the story ahead at all. Its just a bad waste of time, a excuse to make you buy the “next iteration of the story” without really moving it. From a narrative point of view, its just “generic filler” and it ends when it should start, (if any)
Done with D4, not spending a cent on it anymore, and may think twice before buying any other game they should launch in the future.