You can command your winged, scaly beast to land, lock onto targets, and attack, but that’s it. It’s not a completely passive experience, a la Grand Theft Auto IV’s taxi rides, but it’s only a step above that. When you finally do, you’re probably going to be a bit disappointed. You don’t gain the skill to do so until you learn all three words of a new Dragon Shout, which happens at the end of the main quest. Dragonborn’s biggest new feature is arguably the ability to ride dragons. The scale of the story, during which you’ll search for Black Books and destroy Miraak’s elemental shrines scattered about the world, feels like it needed more time and more quests in order to properly convey its scope. Though simple and archetypal, it’s actually an engaging tale that feels rushed despite taking between six and eight hours to complete (sidequests add a lot more playtime, however). It will lead you on a hilarious sidequest.Īll that exploration, combat, and book collecting is in an effort to power yourself up and ultimately take down Miraak, the ancient, original Dragonborn – essentially the Bizarro World version of you – who’s not pleased about you joining his exclusive Fus-Ro-Dah Club.
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Pro tip: be sure to visit the Trisk Mead Hall and talk to – do not attack – the pack of Rieklings out front. Disgusting Seekers float around and confuse you by cloning decoys of themselves, while the goblin-like Rieklings sometimes ride wild boars and always throw spears at you. You’ll be fighting a handful of new enemies in them too, which helps. The aforementioned Black Book realms – festooned with tentacles, acidic seas, and eyeballs in the sky – make for creepy hunting, and even the usual Dwemer or snowy dungeons throw new puzzle wrinkles into their otherwise familiar formula. Solstheim’s dungeons are an equally fresh experience.
Its discovery will be a complete and utter surprise for the uninitiated – odds are you’ll stumble on it simply by making your way towards the massive erupting volcano to the south (sadly, you cannot actually get to it). To the south, for instance, is Tel Mithryn, a gorgeous overgrown Smurf village dominated by gigantic mushroom homes and stacked with interesting quests, like chasing down a fledgling spellcaster’s runaway magic summon-gone-wrong. While it’s still very Skyrim-y overall, some of its dungeons and locales set it apart from the mainland you’ve probably already spent dozens of hours living in. That’s largely because it’s set on the island of Solstheim, a land last seen in the Bloodmoon expansion for Elder Scrolls III. And also a little bit nostalgic.ĭragonborn – the second major expansion pack for the sublime Skyrim – takes many cues from Morrowind, the beloved third game in the Elder Scrolls role-playing series. When the tentacle reached out of the huge-even-by-medieval-standards tome – the first of Dragonborn’s collection of magical Black Books – wrapped itself around my level-31 Redguard warrior’s neck, and physically pulled me into the fantastical realm of Daedric prince Hermaeus Mora, I was hooked.
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