Borderlands 3 Guns, Love, And Tentacles DLC Hand-Waves Major Issues With Lovecraft’s Work

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With the release of Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright & Hammerlock, the second story-focused DLC for Borderlands 3, I figured that now would be the best time to jump back into Gearbox’s latest entry in its first-person loot shooter franchise, seeing as I hadn’t found an opportunity to do so since writing GameSpot’s Borderlands 3 review. The Borderlands franchise has typically had a decent track record when it comes to post-launch campaign expansions after all–so I figured, “Why not?”

However, I wasn’t particularly enthused by my time with Guns, Love, and Tentacles, largely because Gearbox’s interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s work incorporates some of the problematic parts of the author’s worldview and then does nothing to address them.

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