Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

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  1. beemeg
    Mar 26, 2022
    7
    Game feels like a glorified DLC, the arrow guns are god awful. Story felt short and overall boring.
    The villain was so far is the only redeeming factor. Please wait until a sale for this game. I regret buying it at full price.
  2. Captiosus
    Apr 4, 2022
    6
    [Warning: Long]

    The campaign is fun and spells and melee weapons are a welcome change to the Borderlands formula. I vastly prefer spells over the grenade system. Will Arnett, Andy Samberg, and Ashly Burch bring their best performances to something any of them could have easily just phoned in -- Wanda Sykes, not so much. Ultimately, the game is short, overly repetitive, and way too easy    [Warning: Long]

    The campaign is fun and spells and melee weapons are a welcome change to the Borderlands formula. I vastly prefer spells over the grenade system. Will Arnett, Andy Samberg, and Ashly Burch bring their best performances to something any of them could have easily just phoned in -- Wanda Sykes, not so much. Ultimately, the game is short, overly repetitive, and way too easy even on the hardest difficulty level. Outside of the Dragon Lord, none of the bosses are even very memorable.

    The overworld system was initially really interesting but by the halfway point it simply felt like a chore designed to pad out the playtime. Fast travel being limited to the hub city, overworld, or points within the current map is a downgrade. If you fast travel back to Brighthoof, the hub city, and want to go anywhere else other than where you came from (because the game is nice enough to at least put a portal to your last location), you have to hoof it (pun intended). Even with the travel speed shrine increase it's annoying once the majority of the map is opened.

    Compared to the Borderlands franchise, the campaign is probably the shortest since the original Borderlands but that was the first game in an all new IP so it has a built in excuse. I completed the campaign, all the side quests, and all the collectibles (except the dice, still missing ~60) in 22 hours of game time. A good 6-8 hours of that was likely spent meandering around the maps looking for the aforementioned collectibles. The main campaign and all side quests alone is probably a 15-16 hour affair. I guess it's a bit longer than The Pre-Sequel but that feels like a backhanded complement since we knew TPS was a bulked up Borderlands 2 DLC.

    End game, the Chaos Chamber, is tedious and wears out its welcome after a few runs. It's a glorified version of the Circles of Slaughter from prior Borderlands games, only with random locales (and bosses) chosen from the various campaign areas. A standard horde mode with no major innovations to keep anyone invested for prolonged play. At the end game there's no reason to go back to the overworld map for anything other than picking up any collectibles you might have missed along the way; you can't replay old areas and farm bosses like older BL titles, those bosses can only be fought again in Chaos Chambers. No end game repeatable bounties. No end game randomness. Just the endless chambers.

    At higher Chaos levels, the balance seems utterly out of whack. If you're not using some kind of dark magic build to continually regenerate your health, I feel like you're going to have a bad time. Frost slowing and fire damage over time falls off fast once you start progressing (lightning was rarely good to begin with, poison is only slightly better). Dark magic is the least resisted magic type and the most potent for survivability regardless of class. And as OP mentioned, mob density is an issue. Either you have an Obelisk level where you're being zerg rushed, or you're in a map hunting down 1-2 mobs that spawned who knows where. The latter is especially annoying when you get a side-objective of "finish in X time".

    Why is there nothing to do with Moon Orbs other than re-enchanting gear? Why not have a Moon Orb vendor who sells rare, wonderous loot? I have most of my gear enchanted well for good class and skill synergy so I'm almost perpetually at max Moon Orbs until/unless I get a new item that replaces an old one. This feels like something they didn't think through.

    Although I enjoyed the campaign, it's not a game I'd recommend at full price. Feels like a budget Borderlands title and really should have been priced as such. If someone's on the fence, I'd say wait for a sale, especially if you're looking to get it on console. Chances are physical console copies will be on sale soon, as it seems a lot of releases these days have sales within a month or two.    … Expand
  3. AcerolaOrion
    Apr 5, 2022
    5
    Its a large DLC for BL3 at best. Its alright but far from a 60 bucks title.
    The big downsides are that very little of the clever charme that the Tiny Tina BL2 DLC had. The best these writers could do was spamming pop cultures references and acting as if its funny. Anthony Burch is still untouched.
    On the gameplayside its also just a straight downgrade of BL3. The endgame is much worse    Its a large DLC for BL3 at best. Its alright but far from a 60 bucks title.
    The big downsides are that very little of the clever charme that the Tiny Tina BL2 DLC had. The best these writers could do was spamming pop cultures references and acting as if its funny. Anthony Burch is still untouched.

    On the gameplayside its also just a straight downgrade of BL3. The endgame is much worse than BL3s Takedowns - just copy paste random arenas without any depth, there are almost no unique new weapons that do things that you havent seen in BL3 and even worse the weapon variety on average is jsut worse. Most guns feel the same.

    Spells for me are the big letdown. This was where they could ahve gone nuts with interesting effects but its hardly worth mentioning. The spells all behave like "around self aoe", "shot in line" "ground target aoe". Huge letdown on that front.

    Get it for 30 to 40 bucks - its still silly BL fun but if you havent played BL3 or didnt like BL3 this is pretty much just a significantly worse version of BL3.    … Expand
  4. Murphyslaw
    Apr 15, 2022
    5
    I would wait until this can be bought in a bundle with all the dlc on a sale. It's worth a casual play through at the stated conditions above. Otherwise I'd hang on to your money. Game needed more testing before release, VERY buggy. Not to mention needed and still needs more balancing. Weapons felt one note. You either rocked pistol or pistol. Everything else just felt weak by comparison,I would wait until this can be bought in a bundle with all the dlc on a sale. It's worth a casual play through at the stated conditions above. Otherwise I'd hang on to your money. Game needed more testing before release, VERY buggy. Not to mention needed and still needs more balancing. Weapons felt one note. You either rocked pistol or pistol. Everything else just felt weak by comparison, even some legendary guns. Spells were visually fun, but those also failed to feel diverse with only a few types feeling worth while. Classes also either felt over powered or weak in comparison to one another. This could be helped by the DLC, but a game should feel good to play all around fresh out of the box so to speak.

    Speaking of DLC, something was missing in this after beating it. More content or characters or story. Something. Upon beating it, rather than feeling like I wanted more, I felt like it was lacking. it NEEDED more. Whatever it is might be there, just chopped out of the main game and put into the season pass. Either way, base game took a hit for it.

    Story was ok, better than BL3, but that isn't saying much in my opinion. It's still no Borderlands 2. Voice acting was ok for the most part. Will Arnett did a great job and I did enjoy his character. Humor was ok. Expect some inner chuckles, but nothing laugh out loud great save for a couple moments. Visuals are good if you like the style (I do). Sound was also good. Character customization felt limited. A lot of what i found were just simple texture or color swaps. Nothing major like spike armor or fairy wings etc. There could be more I am missing, but I have no urge to farm for it past beating the game the one time sadly.

    I'm torn on Chaos mode. It has potential, but for the time being its just a room where you can trigger random overworld encounters, but with modifiers to make them harder for a chance at more loot. No bosses in them either as far as I could tell. I usually only like that stuff when a game is built around it from the ground up (an actual rogue like or rogue lite)

    TL;DR: Save your money for now, buy the bundle in the future IF it fixes bugs, balancing, and a lack of meaningful content which adds to the main story. Otherwise pass.    … Expand
  5. xPakrikx
    Mar 28, 2022
    5
    Full of bugs and coop basically not working, because of shift servers problems. Optimization also not so great. Game is fun with better writing than BL3, but i am little bit skeptical with add-ons and DLCs milking model.
  6. Psychologist
    Apr 11, 2022
    7
    Updated review.

    Nearly every major title I played in the last few years is either unplayable the first few days or contains game-breaking bugs, and I will lower my scores with every game where this is the case. I will update my review now the game is exactly playable from the rant I previously posted. I dit encountered game crashes on different systems, changing the settings to    Updated review.

    Nearly every major title I played in the last few years is either unplayable the first few days or contains game-breaking bugs, and I will lower my scores with every game where this is the case.

    I will update my review now the game is exactly playable from the rant I previously posted.

    I dit encountered game crashes on different systems, changing the settings to DirectX 11 does seem to solve most of the crashes, not many other bugs worth noticing.

    The game itself.

    This game is technically and visually better than any previous borderlands. The classes are fun to play, much better than Borderlands 3. The addition of myth ranks and chaos trails are fun, but I hope it doesn't make the rest of the game world absolute as we have seen in Diablo 3 where you only stand in the middle of a village porting to instances. But I do think/hope you need to farm specific mobs or bosses in the large dungeons for specific items.

    I like the "Overworld" an overhead view in a board game kinda style where you move from place to place. However, this does remove the open-world feel from the previous titles, it all feels very instanced.

    I would have preferred a more borderlands 2 setting and story, the theme does make it feel like a smaller title between major titles.

    The thing I maybe notice the most (also in borderlands 3) is the lag of a real writer like Anthony Burch who wrote Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel. Every sentence is a forced joke, with no good storytelling, totally out of balance.

    Another thing, I don't know why but they barely used any of the old NPCs, no Moxxi, no Hammerlock, no Marcus (not even on the vending machines). Apart from Tiny Tina I've only seen Mr. Torgue and Brick. This also detracts from the classic borderlands feeling and tradition. makes it feel again like a smaller title between titles.

    It's a fun game to play especially in a coop, it does feel like a title between titles, and I would love to see a real writer work on Borderlands 4, for a lot better storytelling and in the quality and amount of jokes.

    Updated review from:

    Another flawed release!

    The game is currently unplayable with friends due to SHiFT (The network system they use) not working.

    If playing with friends is an important factor for you, I would advise you to wait a few days and check if they finally got it working.

    Even solo players are experiencing problems due to these network problems."    … Expand
  7. Xerrostron
    Mar 30, 2022
    7
    This game has some of the worst dialogue that the Borderlands developers have ever created. It's an easy concept to nail; the game is just an imaginary world created from a board game. However, it's quite obvious the creators have never larp'd before. Just really bad story writing. It's god awful.

    However, the gameplay is great. I think this game does well in getting rid of a boring    This game has some of the worst dialogue that the Borderlands developers have ever created. It's an easy concept to nail; the game is just an imaginary world created from a board game. However, it's quite obvious the creators have never larp'd before. Just really bad story writing. It's god awful.

    However, the gameplay is great. I think this game does well in getting rid of a boring open world, and making more linear segments with nothing but action. There is a LOT of action in this game, and RIGHT OFF THE BAT, You get Ultra Vault Hunter Mode. The game is adequately difficult, you can have 2 skill trees at once, grenades count as an ability and they recharge....

    Build's are customizable and characters are customizeable. Any future Borderlands game needs to take in the changed made by Wonderlands to heart. Especially the bossfights. The bossfights in this game felt fun and intense. A proper dodge button will probably help the franchise and make it a good, unique mix of Diablo's dungeon crawler with Dark souls combat.

    But just to tell you how bad the dialogue is, i just want to turn off the game sometimes. You can't skip dialogue, and you can't progress the quest until an NPC shuts up. REALLY bad writing.    … Expand
  8. SDoomsday
    Apr 20, 2022
    6
    A good game but very short story, if you don't like the end game it's not your game.
  9. HEXBUN
    Apr 19, 2022
    7
    Tiny Tina's Wonderlands has a wonderful design and a very fun story with an excellent voice cast that keeps you intrigued in the characters around you. The main story is too short for a $79 game which is quite unfortunate as I was really enjoying the characters and was hoping for more time with them. Dealt with the odd glitches here and there, but I take it with a grain of salt as a lot ofTiny Tina's Wonderlands has a wonderful design and a very fun story with an excellent voice cast that keeps you intrigued in the characters around you. The main story is too short for a $79 game which is quite unfortunate as I was really enjoying the characters and was hoping for more time with them. Dealt with the odd glitches here and there, but I take it with a grain of salt as a lot of the development was done from home. I think the Wonderlands was a neat concept as a whole and I hope to see them continue with the IP, just hope they could adjust pricing or add more content to compensate for the quick main story!… Expand
  10. UwU_559
    Jun 9, 2022
    7
    IF YOU WANT AN ACTUALL GOOD REVIEW READ THIS ONE TRUST ME. Thanks

    I had fun playing it one time but i really don't have the feeling like in borderlands 3 where I played every Character to the Max. There aren't enough Legendaryies and even worse there aren't so many good Legendaries so everyone just uses purple stuff. And it's pretty unbalanced, Pixies are just destroying    IF YOU WANT AN ACTUALL GOOD REVIEW READ THIS ONE TRUST ME. Thanks

    I had fun playing it one time but i really don't have the feeling like in borderlands 3 where I played every Character to the Max.

    There aren't enough Legendaryies and even worse there aren't so many good Legendaries so everyone just uses purple stuff.

    And it's pretty unbalanced, Pixies are just destroying everything and other classes just don't have the same potential as the spellshot class.

    Also it's much shorter than borderlands 3, I think if I try hard enough i could finish the game in under 10 hours for sure. You have too grind between missions but not much which is good but it's really short.

    The bosses don't really have such an amazing design and attack which isn't bad but a slight inconvinience, some bosses you can't even replay so you can only do him once per story run and that's just ****

    The Chaos Chamber. Well at first I fought it would be better than the Slaughter Shafts in Borderlands 3 but It's really the same after a while.

    You have some different maps between stages, different enemys, maybe even small boss fight or some small secret events you have to do to fight a secret boss at the end.

    At first you think well that's so much better than the Slaughter Shaft but after 20 to 30 runs it's just lame.

    Yes you have secret boss fight, Yes you can choose your loot at the end, Yes you can get better loot if you choose the right gems.

    But eventually you beat the bosses all atleast once.
    But the secret bosses don't change, and they are just a living sponge with small raid mechanics, in wich you can kill them but without they just have too much health.
    But even though you can choose your loot, me and all of my friends somehow never get the loot we need and if you really want to get more loot or a higher chance to get loot you have to go throuh every map in the game and collect all dice to get more luck.

    The humor is also really bad in this one.
    I Personally think it's a downgrade too the earlier Borderlands games.    … Expand
  11. svonton
    Jan 6, 2023
    6
    it's a big discussion about this game is it a DLC or standalone game so lets find out. simple and fast answer its not a DLC it real stand alone game with it own story and gameplay elements that does not present in original game. another reason why i think so it because devs ask price as for standard game so yep its stand alone game =D.now long part as i said game has it own plot withit's a big discussion about this game is it a DLC or standalone game so lets find out. simple and fast answer its not a DLC it real stand alone game with it own story and gameplay elements that does not present in original game. another reason why i think so it because devs ask price as for standard game so yep its stand alone game =D.now long part as i said game has it own plot with couple of funny stories combined into one, and yeah several of mission is real fun. visual part stay the same as in previous game so no complaints on this part. but what really work bad in this game its connection if you play in coop. some async while shooting or melee combat and enemies positions (luckily this doesn't happen often). another disappointment its is level walls - if you are a lover to focus main quest that game definitely not for you because after some time game just say to you that you need farm lvl somewhere. random encounter on global map (probably another new feature that make that different from original trilogy) also seem very annoying also as repetitive dungeone. so who will enjoy this game ? probably someone who miss original trilogy or someone who love no matter how it looks =D… Expand
  12. Lizarino
    Jun 18, 2023
    6
    The game got a lot better towards the end and I personally really enjoy the endgame. I would change my review to positive if it wasn't for the price. it just isn't worth full price, if it was a £34.99 game it would be a lot easier to recommend.

    - Got a few more unique and usable guns / spells near the end which was more fun - Prettiest looking Borderlands game - Really like the    The game got a lot better towards the end and I personally really enjoy the endgame. I would change my review to positive if it wasn't for the price. it just isn't worth full price, if it was a £34.99 game it would be a lot easier to recommend.

    - Got a few more unique and usable guns / spells near the end which was more fun
    - Prettiest looking Borderlands game
    - Really like the classes
    - No driving

    I wrote this at about halfway through and stopped playing, I still feel the criticisms are valid so will leave it in.

    Review for first half of the game: I thought Borderlands 3 was bad but playing this surprised me, it's so bad I can't bring myself to even finish it

    Characters and story are unfunny, boring and annoying
    Quests are really boring, having to wait for long dialogue you can't skip all the time
    Spells are a big disappointment, not nearly enough types and most of them feel the same
    Same goes for the guns, this is the first borderlands game where there isn't really any guns I like. Feels like there's a lot less variety with weapons

    However, the classes are pretty cool and you can have two at once and the overland is kinda nice I guess    … Expand
  13. GarmaSword
    Jan 26, 2023
    5
    While the gameplay is still fun and chaotic, the game itself is becoming super polítical, from the character creator you realized something's off, then you meet the paladin and it gets worse from there, the game is a political activist's wet dream, and is very annoying.
  14. Burzyk
    May 5, 2022
    7
    Pretty nice and good looking game, but even though I am fantasy and d&d fan, I still preffer original Borderlands.
  15. KinimodYunmi
    Sep 6, 2022
    7
    Aus einer Idee die gut umgesetzt wurde entstand ein gutes Spiel.

    Ich möchte es nicht mit den Borderlands Teilen vergleichen, sondern als was eigenes sehen. Für dieses Spiel hat nämlich alles ins Konzept gepasst - Dungeons & Dragons in Borderlands Manier. Wenn man aber sagt, hey gutes oder schlechtes Borderlands, dann ja, der typische Borderlands Humor war nicht sehr intensiv, leider    Aus einer Idee die gut umgesetzt wurde entstand ein gutes Spiel.

    Ich möchte es nicht mit den Borderlands Teilen vergleichen, sondern als was eigenes sehen.
    Für dieses Spiel hat nämlich alles ins Konzept gepasst - Dungeons & Dragons in Borderlands Manier.

    Wenn man aber sagt, hey gutes oder schlechtes Borderlands, dann ja, der typische Borderlands Humor war nicht sehr intensiv, leider auch keine übermäßig viele Beleidigungen - dafür Ritterkram, der hier einfach passt und somit auch richtig platziert war.

    Wenn ich wählen müsste, dann ganz klar jedes andere Borderlands, die hatten alle eine viel stärkere und packendere Story, aber das Spiel für sich war sehr interessant zu spielen.    … Expand
  16. retroisback96
    May 10, 2023
    5
    Dead average looter shooter that leans way too much into the cringe side of borderlands rather than go all out on the fantasy

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 86 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 86
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 86
  3. Negative: 0 out of 86
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 19, 2022
    63
    Borderlands had its share of bugs, broken abilities and boring levels, but it always made up for it with humor and charm. Not anymore: Gearbox lost its best writers, so in Wonderlands it struggles even with established characters, and new ones fall completely flat. [Issue#260, p.42]
  2. Oyungezer
    Jun 26, 2022
    85
    Tiny Tina's Wonderland is not only a DnD parody, it's wonderfully mocked by the many universes and characters that exist. If you love classic Borderlans action and are interested in the world of FRP, it's a wonderland where you'll both laugh a lot and have a lot of fun playing.
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  3. RPG Fan
    Apr 25, 2022
    88
    It is abundantly clear that the creative team behind Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands are massive RPG fans who have crafted a joyous blend of Borderlands mayhem with RPG epic-ness. I loved the story, characters, gameplay, and production values of this game. I should also mention that while I primarily played this game single-player, multiplayer co-op is supported because looter-shooters and tabletop RPGs are more fun with friends. First-person shooter games are not my preferred genre, but after playing Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, I would be game to try out a mainline Borderlands game and Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep. For making me a new fan of something outside my wheelhouse, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands wholeheartedly earns a spot as one of my favorite games of 2022.
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