Enotria: The Last Song Deluxe Bundle (DLC) (PS5)

Let's be clear upfront: this is a DLC bundle for Enotria: The Last Song, not a standalone game. You need the PS5 base game installed before any of this content activates. What you get in the Deluxe Bundle is a weapon skin set, extra consumables, extra upgrade materials, a digital artbook extract, and an OST extract. It is cosmetic and convenience padding, not new story chapters or fresh bosses. So the real question is whether the base game deserves this kind of investment, and that answer is nuanced enough to be worth unpacking. Enotria: The Last Song itself is a Souls-like action RPG rooted in Italian folklore and culture, built around what its developer Jyamma Games calls a "Summer-Soul" aesthetic. Forget the grey stone corridors and oppressive fog of genre tradition. The world here runs on azure skies, golden sunflower fields, whitewashed coastal villas, and carnival masks drenched in color. It is one of the most visually distinct settings in the genre, and for players who have grown tired of yet another grimdark dungeon, that alone carries real weight. The lore involves the Canovaccio, an all-consuming supernatural play authored by godlike beings who have locked the world in eternal stasis. You play the Maskless One, a figure with no predetermined role in the script, guided by the Author Pulcinella to dismantle the corruption eating the other Authors from within. The story has atmosphere in buckets; whether its actual narrative coherence fully delivers on that premise is where critics diverged. Combat is parry-centric in a way that echoes Sekiro more than Elden Ring. Breaking enemy posture through parries builds a stagger meter, and landing a counter in that window triggers an Awakened state that amplifies your damage. The timing window is reportedly forgiving for standard enemies, but bosses demand much tighter execution and hit like freight trains in return. Beyond the parry loop, build variety comes from three swappable loadout sets, over 120 weapons across 8 weapon classes, 45 spells, 8 parry modifiers, and the mask system, where boss-drop masks and fragment-gathered masks provide passive abilities that can shift your playstyle without requiring a full character reset. The Path of the Innovators skill tree adds passive perks on top of that. In theory, this is a rich layered system. In practice, reviewers were divided: some found the loadout flexibility genuinely rewarding, while others found the volume of Italian-named systems and status effects front-loaded and confusing before eventually settling into a loop that felt more shallow than the menu depth implied. The Ardore mechanic, a stomp that staggers enemies and activates environmental platforms to unlock new traversal routes and hidden areas, was widely praised as clever but criticized for being used too sparingly across the game's three-act structure. For an RPG specialist like me, what matters most is whether the build variety and the world actually reward curiosity past the midpoint. Here, Enotria earns genuine respect for its level design, which consistently produces memorable set-piece moments throughout its roughly 20-to-30-hour runtime. The narrative and lore are intriguing even if the story's coherence wobbles. The mask system has the bones of something special, even if the balancing does not fully capitalize on it. There is also a Story Mode for players who want to experience the world without the genre's punishing default difficulty, which is a sensible accessibility choice. What the Deluxe Bundle does not do is fix any of the base game's structural critiques. The consumables and upgrade materials give early-game momentum a small nudge, and the weapon skins add visual flair, but if you bounced off the combat feel or the system complexity in the base game, none of this bundle content changes that equation. Buy the Deluxe Bundle if you are already committed to the base game and want a small head start plus the artbook and OST for the collection. If you are still on the fence about Enotria itself, try the base game first. The world is worth seeing. Whether the combat clicks is a personal verdict. Monika, Scout Team