Just as with "Dead Man's Switch", Harebrained Schemes' writing team has penned a pulp magazine-like story without a hint of self-importance but with plenty of self-awareness, filled with twists and turns. I won't spoil more than what little I had to say for my synopsis, but suffice to say, the title "Dragonfall" is appropriate in more ways than one. Needless to say, things turn out to be much more complicated and quickly spiral out of control, forcing you to protect yourself from a well-armed and mysterious faction with an unsavory but not quite clear objective. As yet another shadowrunner escaping from their past, you're tasked with helping with what's supposed to be an easy mission, a "milk run" as your associate and friend Monika Schäfer calls it. Shadowrun: Dragonfall takes place in Berlin, 2054, in what's called the Flux-State or F-State, a sort of anarchistic playground where corporations and political powers don't hold quite the same position of power as they do in the rest of the world. You can find my original take on Shadowrun Returns here. While the character progression, tactical combat, inventory and world interactions still feel a bit lightweight compared to both the slate of upcoming role-playing games and Shadowrun Returns' forebears, the vast improvements made, both in terms of content and utility features, make the campaign worth playing for anyone that enjoyed the original title. Shadowrun: Dragonfall is Harebrained Schemes' first and so far only expansion to 2013's Shadowrun Returns, and a definite improvement over the original decent-but-perfunctory campaign.
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