However, the dreadful method of narrative progression is enough of a turn-off for those not willing to sink in the time to engage with it. Furthermore, its locking of the new fantastically designed bosses adds greater insult to injury. Here’s hoping the following two DLCs don’t suffer from a similar grave failing when I experience them.

Trials of the Dragon King will appeal to the most hardcore action RPG fans, but not have much to offer the rest of the fans. This would have been fine if Trials of the Dragon King had been promoted as a brutally hard new challenge for dedicated players and if it was sold on its own, but it's part of one package and its content is going to be off-putting to people who enjoyed Stranger of Paradise on the lower difficulty settings. The brutal difficulty, the lack of new content, and the forcing players to replay stages from the base game to see the slivers of new content means that the Stranger of Paradise Season Pass currently isn't worth buying.

Quotation forthcoming.