On top of that there’s quite a few unique items to find lying around the place, usually buried somewhere in a barrow or cave, just waiting for you to hunt ’em down or earn by slaying some big baddie that has an unhealthy obsession with introducing heavy metal objects to your face at velocity. Of course Bonemold, Chitin and Stalhrim are all available for players to forge and improve as well, increasing the already impressive roster of available gear for you to create and enchant.
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Needless to say there’s full suits of both the light and heavy versions of the Stalhrim armor adorning my house back in Skyrim. Stalhrim is a sort of incredibly hard ice that gives any armor and weapons crafted from it a lovely, slightly translucent, blue color, and so any item made from it looks absolutely beautiful. Speaking of which what would an expansion pack be without some new gear for you to play with? Dragonborn packs in a fair amount of new stuff to add to your ever-expanding collection, with the new Bonemold armor being the first you’ll encounter when you reach the town of Raven Rock. Not long after that you’ll probably run into the Chitin armor as well. But the real star of the show is the new Stalhrim element, which unlike Bonemold and Chitin comes in both armor and weapon form. On that note one thing I do advise should you decide to purchase the DLC is to run through the quest line for Raven Rock’s steward as that’ll give you access to a house of your very own to store all of your garbage in.
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Not counting the story there’s probably a good 6-8 hours worth of content to be had just exploring the island and its various dungeons and interesting locations, such as a patch of overgrown mushrooms that are home to some magic users. Of course there’s plenty of new enemies to beat the snot out of as well roaming the island, such as creatures made of ash, to keep you on your toes. There’s just one town called Raven Rock, which is fairly small, to act as a save haven for you, but the rest of the island is your virtual playground. It got so bad that I took to carrying around large quantities of Nordic Ale so that when it all became a bit too much I could drown myself in alcohol – my character also carried a couple of bottles as well. Color pallete aside, though, the island is a considerable size and packed full of dungeons to delve into, castles to explore and cool locations to find, each having awesome things to discover or side-quests attached to them that lead you on fantastic little mini-stories. It’s amazing how those things can sneak up on you. As such Solstheim is a bit of a visually boring place: the large majority of it is buried in a layer of ash and the rest of it in snow, so the predominate colors are grey and white, making for a bleak and sort of depressing environment to wander around like a kid that lost his parents in the supermarket. Long time fans of the Elder Scrolls should recognize the name of Solstheim as it appeared in the Bloodstone expansion pack for Morrowind, but now its covered in ash having been the unfortunate victim of a volcano.
Instead, let’s delve into the island of Solstheim where the Dragonborn DLC takes place. We’re going to get back to dragon riding later, though, because it almost feels mean to kick off this review with the single worst part of Dragonborn. Oh, dragon riding, you could have been great, you really could have. That’s all on paper, of course – back in reality the Dragonborn DLC, which sports a rather hefty price-tag of 1,600MSP, delivers on some aspects and fails miserably on others, by which I mean dragon riding. On paper Bethesda’s latest expansion for Skyrim has a lot going for it: a brand new island to explore, dragons to ride, loads of quests to undertake, new weapons and armor and an epic showdown with the first Dragonborn. Thanks to Bethesda for supplying a copy of Dragonborn to review.
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