After an absolutely brutal battle in this new Fire realm, we port back to the base only to find it under attack. Now, new foes join the fray, and they seem to be much, much worse. The world of Aperion already has some tough denizens to deal with, and even with your most powerful weapons and armor, they are a lot to handle. It’s time once again to join the knights of the round in their battle against the mad god Macros. The game is even launching on PlayStation 4 with crossplay enabled, and a fresh matchmaking beta to go along with it.

Well, it turns out my prediction was right as this newest expansion, entitled Fire & Darkness, brings the literal heat, but with quite a few new quality of life, tweaks, boss fights, and upgrades that span the entire game.

Whether it was, as I speculated then, a hard launch date for the PlayStation 5, or just that the team hadn’t quite fleshed out their ideas for the world born of ash and flame, but it also seemed to spell one leg of the elemental combat system that got trimmed to make launch. When I reviewed Godfall in November of 2020, I mentioned that it felt like an entire element was missing - a fire world.

Your world will burn