Once you have the curse, it’s incredibly easy to spread around to your other heroes. “FINE! KICK ME OUT! I’LL JUST GO PARTY WITH THE SIREN AND THE HAG! AND THIS GUY – SEEMS PRETTY COOL… Wait.”Ĭontracting the Crimson Curse is as simple as taking a hit from an enemy carrying the infection, which includes just about any monster inside the Crimson Court. He’s going to burn you to death, is what I’m saying, and he is a bastard to kill. The Fanatic is a wondering boss in infected areas outside of the Court and wants to purge the Crimson Curse. Lastly, if you have at least two infected heroes in your party, there’s a good chance that you’ll run into the Fanatic. You’ll also need to start hoarding “The Blood,” small phials of exactly what you’d expect, that sate the bloodlust of any infected heroes. Killing Gatekeepers is the only way to get access to the Court after the first mission, prying an “invitation” from its corpse. Each area also starts an infection level and, when it hits max, will spawn a Gatekeeper. Firstly, infected enemies start appearing in the other areas making it that much easier to be infected by the Curse. Assuming you survive the assault, your reward is unleashing the Curse upon everything surrounding it before having the gates to the Court closed off to you.Īfter the first Court mission, several things happen. “Mini-boss” is also a generous description, as it could easily compare to some of the higher level bosses from the other areas, it’s just not as powerful as the bosses you’ll face later on. An unavoidable mini-boss for the first Court mission will absolutely wreck your low-level party. Enemies in the court don’t scale with your level, they start somewhere around “Hero Devourer,” and stay there. It’s at this juncture that the dissonance between parallel-play and end-game content becomes apparent, as dealing with the Court is hard as hell. I mean, you’d think the Leper would be used to living with disease but I don’t think he’s comfortable around the adventurers foaming at the mouth for blood.
#Crimson court review full#
If you’ve got a roster full of champions then you’ll need to hire some newbies, and they’re going to have a bad time. This first area is a Lv.1 dungeon, meaning your high-level heroes won’t even touch the mission. Housed within are the aristocrats that enjoyed a hedonistic life under your ancestor’s rule of the land, now horrifically mutated and craving blood. Things are kicked off by the opening of a new area outside of the main four, that being the titular Court itself, which is a sort of manor garden if it were tended to by Vincent Price. This is largely through the use of the Crimson Curse or, as I’ve come to call it, “Sweet Jesus, not this shit again.” Really, Crimson Court is for players who believed the game wasn’t hard enough already.Īs much as I’d like to say that the Crimson Court should be played alongside the rest of the campaign, as it’s largely designed that way, it works better as end-game content though that also comes with its own problems. Darkest Dungeon is still very much both of these things, it’s just found new and exciting ways to embody them. None of this should be taken to mean that the game is any easier than it was, or that it can’t be called ball-breakingly unfair at any given moment. Besides those that have come with Crimson Court, the game has seen some updates that have changed things, added stuff, or balanced mechanics. I’ve reviewed Darkest Dungeon before (you can read that over here), so this is only going to be about the Crimson Court DLC. “You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial, waiting for the slightest lapse in guard to drop you, then kick you while you’re down.” Both have merit but are also fraught with problems, and so I’m left feeling somewhat ambivalent about this expansion. While enjoyable for its sadistic difficulty, I can’t really peg whether it should be considered content to be played parallel to the base-game, or end-game content. Keep in mind while reading this article that, for the purposes of this new playthrough with Crimson Court, I spent most of my time playing on easy mode. After trying to go back to my old save file and getting several of my high-level heroes murdered, I decided to go back to basics and start over from scratch. Like a battered lover, the only thing keeping me from calling the authorities is my belief that the things Darkest Dungeon does are out of love. Darkest Dungeon is such an excellent game in so many ways, and I’ve spent a disgusting amount of time with it despite the way it punishes me.
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