It’s a credit to the thought which has gone into The Twilight Garden, as the power-ups you receive don’t completely break the main game (remember the unlockable Wumpa fruit bazooka in Crash Bandicoot 3?). The levels increase in complexity for each new additional ability added to your repertoire, culminating in the final area’s puzzles and boss fight, parts of each which left me genuinely stumped for minutes at a time. One of these new skills allows you to charge up Quill’s weapon, so that an energy projectile can be fired from the blade to switch levers or hit enemies. Quill will acquire new weaponry and armour across the challenge dungeonsĮach of the three new areas to explore lead you into caverns designed to further test your wits and reflexes, and also collect new items and abilities which can then be taken back with you into the main game. Moss still looks beautiful (and the wholesome Quill is always as sweet as a sugar mouse as she waves and points directions to you, the VR player), but these levels are focused on larger spaces rather than the perfect miniature diorama-feel of building interiors found elsewhere in the game.

Less a gripe than a passing thought, but they don’t have the same clear sense of identity or place as iconic moments from the core game - instead taking elements from previously familiar areas and twisting them in new and unexpected ways.

That aside, The Twilight Garden levels are a treat, but I’ll admit that I wasn’t as drawn in by the new locations as I expected. However, you will need to play through the whole game to find them all, as the chapter select scene does not highlight where the new areas can be accessed, and even then, the different entrances to the Twilight Garden aren’t necessarily on the landing screen for each chapter. These doorways are signposted with green lights which you need to activate to open, and are pretty hard to miss - especially when knowing that you’re looking out for something new. The update scatters three glowing portals across the story, which Quill has to activate to enter the ‘Twilight Garden’, a hubworld for a series of trials designed to prove your worth to the elder spirits (begrudgingly guarded by a crotchety toad).

The Twilight Garden DLC takes a different approach, and may disappoint those who have already completed the tale. When we think of DLC these days, the general idea will be of independent bolt-ons, new areas or stories to enjoy alongside the main game, such as those available for Spider-Man or Horizon: Zero Dawn, as two recent examples. New characters are introduced to guide you on The Twilight Garden's three levels

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