User blog comment:Legionwrex/Leviathan Review./@comment-1691295-20120901112607

I quite enjoyed the DLC, not my favourite, but I don't regret paying for it. I particularly enjoyed the sort-of adventure game elements of Bryson's lab.

My biggest issue with it is the same issue I had with Arrival, and to a lesser extent, Shadow Broker. The story just doesn't work if you accept that these events happened pre-ending. I know why this (unlike Arrival, where it was incomprehensibly stupid) has to be pre-ending, due to the way the game ends, but if I were playing for the first time with this DLC, the revelations in this story would feel completely out of place in the story.

That said, I am happy that they decided to tell this part of the story, and happier still that they didn't feel the need to force this into the main plotline, where it would've lead to an exposition overload in a game that already feels like it's going out of its way to wrap things up a little too neatly. It's just unfortunate they had to use the conceit of being set before the ending.

Another issue I had was the anti-climactic ending. We get this HUGE revelation about the Reapers, and then it just ends with us receiving a very lame War Asset, with the only reason for its lameness being that they can't rewrite the rest of the game if you get the DLC. I was actually expecting, right up to the last minute, to see a Leviathan emerge from the depths and grapple with a Reaper on the planet's surface.

I do think the backstory of the Reapers and Leviathans is super cool though, although part of me is disappointed that that mystery is gone so soon.