EARTHLOCK: Festival of Magic - Hero Outfit Pack + Soundtrack (DLC)

I will be straight with you: if you are still weighing up whether to pick up the base game, stop reading this page and go sort that out first, because this DLC does absolutely nothing without it. What you get here is a cosmetic-and-audio bundle aimed squarely at players who finished their run through Umbra and want to carry a little more personality into any future playthrough. The six hero outfits cover every party member - Bandit Amon, Princess Ive, Shaman Gnart, Paladin PAT, Konkylian Olia, and Flamedog Taika. The mechanic tying them to actual gameplay is light but clever for what it is: each outfit is unlocked by slotting an alternate origin talent onto the talent board. The talent board is one of EARTHLOCK's better ideas - a grid-based character customisation system that lets you swap abilities in and out rather than locking you down a fixed skill tree - so the fact that the outfits are gated behind a board swap rather than a simple menu toggle gives the cosmetics a small mechanical hook. It is not deep, but it is more thought-through than most costume DLC in the genre, which usually just charge you for a reskin with zero in-world logic. The soundtrack inclusion is the stronger half of this bundle for most buyers. Reviewers consistently noted that EARTHLOCK's audio was one of its highlights - the world map and boss battle tracks in particular drew praise - while the game itself drew mixed-to-warm receptions overall, with critics landing on "earnest retro homage" as the most charitable description and "competent but forgettable" as the honest one. If the music stuck with you during those grind sessions in Umbra (and there will be grind sessions, the base game is upfront about that), having the full OST as a standalone listening experience is a genuinely useful addition. The catch is compatibility. This DLC works only with EARTHLOCK: Festival of Magic, the original 2016 release. The skins are already bundled into the later standalone EARTHLOCK title, so if you own that version you are paying for content you already have access to. Worth double-checking your library before adding this to your cart. For the narrowly defined audience this targets - players of the original Festival of Magic release who want to give the talent board a cosmetic reason to experiment on a second run while keeping the OST in their music library - it delivers exactly what it promises. For everyone else, it is irrelevant. Monika, Scout Team