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agesboy posted...

Imo wait until you beat the game (or at least until you're thoroughly enjoying the base game) to get the expansion pass. $30 might seem like a lot but Torna is basically whole ass another game and you will probably be left wanting more after beating the game.

I'd agree with this. The DLC is emphatically worth the cost, but it's more of the same and expands on what the base game offers, so if you don't feel like you want more, it's not worthwhile. Even though it's a prequel, the "official" right time to play Torna is between chapters 7 and 8 (of 10) in the base game, since it was originally conceived as a playable flashback sequence and got cut because it would have thrown off the pacing, and playing it after playing most/all of the main game is generally going to be a much better idea than playing it first. The challenge battles are great, but they're very much a late-/end-game thing in that they really require you to understand and exploit the combat system to its full potential.

agesboy posted...

The extra blades you can unlock are mostly endgame or postgame stuff.

The non-challenge mode DLC blades are available right from the start, so you could make a case for recommending it early based on that. That said, while they're quite strong and it's nice to have guaranteed decent blades right out of the gate instead of having to get lucky, they're far from necessary to have a good time.

I would, however, recommend buying the DLC before you try to grind affinity to max out blades. It unlocks an item that's much, much better for increasing affinity than anything the base game has to offer, and if you're sufficiently invested in the game to want to max blades out, you're sufficiently invested for me to say that the DLC will be worth buying.