One of the recurring sidequests that pops up in Pirate’s Booty involves you finding hidden treasure maps that lead to some of Captain Blade’s lost equipment and diary entries. Speaking of which, this, of course, has tons of it. You’ll be killing a lot of generic guys with guns, sure, but when you run into new enemies like the Cursed Pirate (a skull-faced adversary that drains your hit points) or the Anchorman (unfortunately not of the “Stay classy, San Diego” variety), you’ll have to change up your usual tactics in order to survive long enough to see some of that hot new loot. But the DLC’s pirate theme is thankfully not ignored when it comes to most of them. You’ll see a handful of familiar monsters (hopefully you like Stalkers and Crystalisks), and a few obvious reskins of normal humans. You get loads of new content in this pack, in addition to the main and sidequests, that help toward making this all feel new. This is just as obvious as saying it’s funny, but Pirate’s Booty provides the one thing every Borderlands fan is looking for: more Borderlands. Then you’ve got the ending, which I won’t spoil here, but I will say it’s a delightfully “screw you” of an anticlimax that has a considerable amount of fun at the player’s expense.
#BORDERLANDS 2 SCARLETT PLUS#
With her and Shade, plus a bratty teenager who hates her grandmother and a porn-obsessed robot, Pirate’s Booty features some of the funniest characters in all of Borderlands 2. She manages to maintain control of her pirate crew, her weirdo stalker, and the Sand Pirate’s Union all while keeping a straight face when she repeatedly reminds you that at no point will she stab you in the back. Scarlett is one of the more competent denizens of Pandora’s desert. Her “response” goes pretty far in arguing in favor of Shade being the craziest inhabitant of a planet where everyone is crazy. A particularly highlight is when he sends you to find an engagement ring and then propose to a long-dead woman on his behalf. But as you do more and more quests for him and you meet more of his “friends,” you realize it’s less funny than it is super-creepy. When you first meet Shade, his assurances that everyone in Oasis is still alive is fairly funny.
#BORDERLANDS 2 SCARLETT SERIES#
It feels like a given to say that something related to the Borderlands series is funny and well-written, but the two primary characters in the DLC, Shade and Scarlett, are consistently just that. It’s all impressive, and I never got tired of taking a step back and marveling at how well Gearbox managed to create a world that tells so many stories without needing to say a word. It also has a lighthouse built on top of a giant mountain (that used to be an island), which is almost as omnipresent as Pandora’s moon or the dozens of ocean liners suspended in the air. It’s a massive base housing a handful of unsavory sailor-types, a fair amount of cash and ammo-filled treasure chests, and various other things you’d expect to find on a high-seas vessel … except this one is hidden in a cave and hovers above the sand. Take, one of my favorite areas in the game: The ship owned by the titular Captain Scarlett (and her titular booty). This allows the developers at Gearbox to kill multiple tropes at once and tell story that’s part Jack Sparrow and part Jabba the Hutt. The campaign and sidequests are pirate-related, asking you to explore shipwrecks and kill bandits that swap their traditional white masks and machine guns for Jolly Rogers and cutlasses, but it all takes place in an area with barely a drop of actual water. This is actually one of the most clever conceits of the whole DLC adventure. It turns out that everyone else was either killed by pirates or lack of water when the vast ocean that used to cover the area dried up.
Well, at least that’s what the only living resident, a man named Shade, wants you to think. Pirate’s Booty officially begins when you visit Oasis, a picturesque beachfront resort town where absolutely no one has died of dehydration (I swear).
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