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Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep, the Borderlands 2 expansion that doubled as a loving parody of Dungeons & Dragons, came out in 2013. That was a year before fifth edition revitalised interest in Dungeons & Dragons, two years before Critical Role premiered. At the time, jokes about Dungeons & Dragons seemed pretty niche.

It was a surprising move for a shooter expansion, but it sure did pay off, hitting an untapped vein and quickly becoming everyone’s favourite DLC. In 2022, though? D&D is popular as it’s ever been, approaching cultural oversaturation, and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands returns to a well that’s close to running dry.

I spent most of my time as a Spore Warden, a kind of fungal ranger

While it looks like a bouncy fantasy-comedy, it plays like . Specifically, . Some of the guns shoot crossbow bolts and the grenades have been replaced by spells, but moment-to-moment it’s typical – you