Playing A Game Borderlands 3: Director's Cut PC

Let's get an important warning out of the way, first: don't buy the Borderlands 3 Season Pass 2. It is an absolute rip-off.

If you bother reading into it before purchasing - which I, admittedly, didn't - it should be obvious why: this isn't a collection of extended story chapters, like the first season pass was (and like Borderlands 2's season pass was!). The majority of Season Pass 2's content is new skills, new cosmetics, new arena challenges, and new raid bosses; superfan stuff, which a superfan would already have via an Ultimate Edition or some similar bullshit.

The only new narrative content is a quartet of missions in the Director's Cut add-on, which sure doesn't seem like a "season" worth of content to me.

Alright, so, here's the good news: those Director's Cut missions are actually pretty fun! Moreso than the morose and melodramatic Bounty of Blood and Fantastic Fustercluck, these investigations on behalf of Ava's "Mysteriouslier" podcast demonstrate the kinds of irreverent humor and thrilling pacing that are peak Borderlands.

There's even a solid film noir aesthetic in its intro mission, which, well, is an instant "win" for me.

It's over relatively quickly, at about 2 to 2.5 hours, but "Mysteriouslier" manages to pack some pretty respectable quality into those hours.

Better than: Borderlands 3: Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck
Not as good as: Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock vs. the Son of Crawmerax
But, and I can't stress this enough: this content is not worth Season Pass 2's $20-30 price tag, or even the Director's Cut itself at $15. Just consider it a nice bonus if you've already bought "everything" for Borderlands 3.

Rating: Meh