Season pass?

[ArkadeDMC]

Is the season pass worth it or is the base game already good enough?
I see a lot of discrepancy in the steam reviews and I can't make up my mind.

[jordyexists]

The season pass are essentially New Game+ with a few extra features, a few new jobs, bosses and a little bit of story lore. The base game is somewhat grindy, but the DLC is extremely grindy. You can play through the base game without the DLC if you don't like to spend hours grinding for loot and optimising your build, but if you really like the grind of other ARPGs and enjoy this game, you might like the DLC.

It's a LOT of grinding the base game content over again for Chaos difficulty, then Bahamut difficulty, then Gilgamesh difficulty and the Lufania difficulty; the extras are a small fraction of what you'll be interacting with versus grinding the base game content for gear on higher difficulties... So it is divisive for that reason; a good reason.

As for my own opinion on it, I'm about 300 hours in and doing the grind again in Lufania difficulty... and it's one of those love-hate-love relationships. This game resolves to a RNG lootfest in so many situations for such extended periods it feels like an abusive relationship at times where the effort you put in isn't worth what you get out of it, but I will say that the constant grinding forced me to get better at the game itself and learn a lot of its intricacies I would've never noticed... So... love-hate-love...

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by ArkadeDMC:

Is the season pass worth it or is the base game already good enough?
I see a lot of discrepancy in the steam reviews and I can't make up my mind.

Base game is good enough for story and streamlined gameplay.

Hold off on Season Pass unless you are into buildcrafting, willing to figure things out, and see yourself playing games after credits and the last achievement.

The first playthrough does not expect any grind or look at gear subsets. The Optimize button is sufficient to use at the next save point.

Post credits and the Season Pass are played on higher difficulties, which translates to "get more stats and use the mechanics presented." You have options to progress without learning more mechanics or investing in the ARPG.

There is also enough non-RNG progression to be evenly matched without a grind in a blind playthrough up until the last difficulty. Any mechanics that were being ignored, that last difficulty will want you to put it all together into a cohesive build. The game gives you a breadth of tools to become a demi-god, but will say 70% of players I've observed do not reach that conclusion and suffer or use Extra Mode + invincibility.

[ArkadeDMC]

Thanks for the answers, on the one hand I consider buying it more than anything for the extra content that I can play in the base as new jobs or weapons, but on the other hand I can't imagine continuing to play it after the final boss for everything you have told me.
The same thing happened to me with Nioh 2 that by doing all the side quests I got burned to pass the DLCs and it's a shame because it was a good game and didn't have as much grind as you tell me in this one.
Fortunately it does not mean a considerable price difference so I'll probably buy it all and when the time comes I'll see what I do just in case I end up loving the game.