Ni No Kuni 2 Revenant Kingdom - Season Pass (DLC)

The Season Pass for Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom bundles two paid expansions released after launch, and knowing exactly what each one is will save you a purchase you might regret. This is pure supplemental content for people who finished the base game and still wanted more. If you are on the fence about the main game, the Season Pass is not the place to start your investigation. The first expansion, The Lair of the Lost Lord, dropped in December 2018 and centres on a new dungeon structure called the Labyrinth. The Labyrinth's design is built around escalating enemy difficulty the deeper you push, which makes it a genuine endgame gauntlet rather than a casual stroll. The antagonist here is the Prince of Wraiths, who has designs on destroying Evermore, the kingdom you spent dozens of hours building. Two new Martial Methods, Ding Dong Discipline and Gizmo Supremo, get unlocked through quest chains, and Roland's Journal entries add a fresh narrative layer told from a secondary perspective. The level cap also pushes up to 120, which means you will be farming better gear and chasing gold-rarity equipment drops well past your main-story hours. Community sentiment is split: players who found the base combat loop satisfying get a focused, difficult playground here; players who felt the base game's combat was already thin find the Labyrinth format amplifies that problem without fixing it. The second expansion, The Tale of a Timeless Tome, arrived in March 2019 and is the more narratively interesting of the two. It ties directly back to Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, revisiting an oneiric version of Oliver's world and the Book of Spells that drove the first game's plot. For anyone who played the original, that hook lands hard. New combat methods include spritecraft (leaning into the Pikmin-style higgledies the base game introduced) and the Wizard's Companion abilities, which fans of the first game will recognise immediately. The level cap extends further to 150. Story-wise, it handles character memories as its mechanical spine, weaving new backstory for Evan's companions into the dungeon structure. It is the DLC most people recommend as the stronger of the two, both for its lore payoff and for the variety of its new Methods. A few honest caveats. The story DLC content carries over a criticism levelled at the base game: voiced cutscenes are sparse, and some of the connective tissue between beats relies on text-only scenes that feel underbaked next to the main game's production values. The Labyrinth specifically drew complaints about recycled enemy types from the main campaign reskinned as bullet-sponge bosses. Neither expansion reinvents the underlying systems; they extend them. If you burned out on Evan's kingdom before the credits rolled, nothing here will win you back. If you cleared the main story and were left wanting more Martial Methods to experiment with, a harder combat ceiling, and especially if you have history with the first Ni no Kuni, the Season Pass earns its place. Monika, Scout Team