Fallout 4: Far Harbor DLC (Xbox)

The first major installment for Fallout 4, full of mystery and misery. A new case for you and Nick Valentine, a whole new area to explore and new beasts to defeat.

A young girl has ran away from her family and her parents hire you to bring her back. She fled to Far Harbor after hearing of a synth refuge, as she believes she is a synth herself and she could live a safer life there.

Far Harbor is a huge and mysterious island. Filled with radiation, the townspeople use fog condensers to fight the fog and make it inhabitable. The Children of Atom, a religious cult also find their place in Far Harbor. A synthetic refuge also occupy the land, called Arcadia. All three factions want different things for the land, is it possible you could bring peace between the groups?

Arcadia is lead by Dima, an early sythn prototype, who has a certain relationship with Nick Valentine. If you want the best of of this add on, you should definitely take Nick with you. You can side with a faction of your choice or you can attempt to bring peace to the whole island.

This content is packed, there is a decent amount of story missions, there are loads of side missions and they're interesting too. You have new enemy types like Anglers, a ferocious sea creature and a new raider-type game called The Trappers. You can also get a new companion, although he doesn't seem as interesting as some others.

The Dima memory puzzles where easily the worst part, unfortunately they were during the story, so they had to be done. To make them even worse, they were done during the workshop screen and they just were boring and slowed it down. One of the most exciting quests was ruined when the whole screen turned black and there wasn't a proper fix, it was while you were hunting the legendary sea creature, The Red Death.

I had some great highlights to mention, the story had me questioning whether I was a synth or not, as you don't really know what happened to you. While roaming the lands, I came across a giant hermit crab, that had a wrecked car as it's shell, it was just so surreal and hilarious at the same time. Easily the best side quests was the robot murder mystery, but I'll leave that there and not spoil it.

This was a great DLC and one of the best I've ever played. This was a great release from Bethesda and shows why they're so popular.

4.1/5