There's free COE33 DLC!
I've played through a fair amount of it - apparently being level 99 on every character might be a little overpowered even for a DLC.
The DLC brings with it a number of new enemies - I found a Chromatic Nevron on a floating island that I had either just never happened to see or might have been added.
The main event, though, is a large new area east of Lumiere called Verso's Drafts. It's decidedly more colorful than Renoir's Drafts, even to the extent that it might take you a moment to adjust to the insane color palette of this region.
The exact nature of the place is a bit of a spoiler for those who haven't finished the game, but basically, think of the kind of playground that a little kid would come up with, filled with children's toys and candy.
The area isn't, as far as I can tell, terribly linear, with a lot of challenges and new enemies to fight. Again, though, having just idled around in Renoir's Drafts trying to farm the chroma to buy everything in the game, my entire party is level 99, which is pretty overpowered except for what I assume is the DLC's final boss.
There are new weapons, new Pictos, and lots of new costumes. Hey, were you also kind of sad Monoco never got a Baguette costume? Well, turn that "whoo" into a "whee," because they've got you covered.
I suspect there are a lot of hidden things here - there's a simple game of hopscotch you can find to get a costume piece for Verso, but then in another nearby area there are hopscotch squares hidden around, and I suspect you'll get another piece if you can find them all and hop onto them in order.
I've faced what I assume is the DLC's final boss (if only because there's a lot of buildup to it and it has an elaborate cutscene) twice now, both times getting it to the end of its second phase, at which there's an evidently very precise Gradient Counter you need to pull off, which has insta-wiped me both times.
Expedition 33 released this the same day as the Game Awards (yesterday as of this writing) when it basically swept the awards, winning Game of the Year as well as several other awards. While the highlight for me regarding the announcements was the trailer for Control Resonant, I really love Expedition 33, and I'm happy to have an excuse to jump back into it. It's crazy to think that I only even found out about the game earlier this year - it kind of came out of nowhere to take the gaming world by storm (and has, of course, provoked a bit of a backlash to its popularity).
Anyway, I'm a big fan of free DLCs, even if we can't expect them to be, like, Shadow of the Erdtree-level big and complex. Even if it's considered a "small" game, Expedition 33 feels big and expansive, and like one of those games you will always be able to dig a little deeper into and find a little more. Now there's an invitation to continue that exploration.
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