Yeah while I am enjoying the Champion's Ballad overall, to be honest I would've preferred if it was a new landmass to explore with new terrain and enemies, rather than new challenges in existing areas.

i suppose thats really my point. anybody who picks up the game today will have just that much more content to enjoy, which is great for those people. but for somebody who has already beaten Ganon months beforehand, it just doesnt hold up. it feels like more of an extraneous task more than anything else that doesnt have much reward. before the Champion's Ballad was released i heard rumors that the DLC Pack 2 could even have some post-game content and focus on Hyrule after the calamity was sealed, which i would have loved to see, but its just more shrines. im not mad at the content or gameplay, just the variety. 

for the price this is good. and I don't agree DLC 2 does not belong in the main story.

Releasing on the same weekend of Arms Party, Splatfest, Mario + Rabbids new mode and right after a few great games on the play. they could have waited January... but hey...

I was expecting more story but $20 for roughly 18-20 additional hours of content is far from the worst deal. Some games only last that long and charge you full price for it.

I haven't purchased the new DLC yet, but I'm getting that sort of feeling as well. The DLC makes BotW an even greater game when viewed upon as a whole, but coming from someone who has spent 150+ hours already in the game, there isn't much here that makes me want to go out and buy it.

More than likely I will buy this DLC when I'm ready to replay through the game once more, maybe next year or the year after.

Is this new DLC that long or are you including the Trial of the Sword as well?

Finished it yesterday and overall thought it was pretty solid. The highlight is definitely the final divine beast and boss, while the worst part was having to fight the previous bosses again with barely any alteration. I was dissappointed that there was no new environments and the story didn't reveal anything new, but overall the new shrines are some of the best inthe game, the added cutscenes make the champions a little bit more relatable and, as I say before, the new dungeon and boss are great!

That being said, I do have a nagging sensation that all of this could've been in the base game

I would have loved more "replayability" in this DLC (and maybe in the base game too). Something like new minigames, new footraces, new horse races (proper races with proper competitors, not just you VS the clock), maybe a full fledged coliseum... Even If you get the motorcycle at the end (which I don't really like that much, specially when the new horse gear fits the world nd the lore way better), there's not much to do with it at this point, and driving around Hyrule without a pourpose is nice but gests unappealing quickly...

I don't know, I'm still in love with this game (GOAT along Majora's Mask for me, btw), but it keeps making me feel that it gave space for another thousand gameplay and story possibilities that will never be fully exploited, and that makes me perceive it as if it has lots of unexplored potential... Like if it could be a more complete, round experience and it will forever stay "half baked" (even if it's way more complete and full of posibilities than 99% of the games out there!).

Then you haven't played enough great DLC, like the Knoxx DLC for Borderlands, Dawnguard for Skyrim, Far Harbor for Fallout 4, or Old World Blues for New Vegas.  Those are my favorite types of DLC because they add so much interesting content that goes outside the bounds of the original game.

Actually, Nintendo should have copied Elder Scrolls a bit more and let Link become a vampire.

It looks like people enjoyed the DLC. Good, i'll get to it when i'm finished with XC 2.