DLC #92 - Sleeping Dogs - Nightmare in North Point

Not so Smiley Cat.

This DLC package adds Sleeping Dogs to the forever growing list of games that gets the popular treatment of zombie-themed game design, where North Point is over-run by a re-incarnated zombie horde led by Big Scar Wu AKA Smiley Cat.

The 5 trophies on offer are very similar to those you'll find in the main game's list, treading familiar ground with their requirements.

The "Can I Haz Banishment" trophy, awarded for banishing Smiley Cat, tops off the 7 mission episode, which should take no longer than a couple of hours to beat, with the same ease of challenge reflected in the gameplay as anything that went before it.

There is a small slice of additional content available from this list, including trophies awarded for completing a clutch of side missions and discovering all 10 hell shrines scattered around North Point, which are extremely routine tasks.

The "Cursed Gold" trophy, awarded for Achieving 5 Gold Awards, was the sort of trophy that was responsible for the challenge provided in the game's main list. None of the 5 new challenges are exactly tough, though they will require slight elements of grind in them to be fulfilled to gold standard. This mostly applies to the Vampire Hunter and Demonic Exorcism challenges, which require you to kill 200 Jiang Shi (the regular enemies in the game) and to kill 15 Yaoguai with the Peachwood sword (the less common mini bosses in the game that appear at random).

Not enough of each of these required figures will pop up throughout the main story arc alone, and you'll be required to parade around the city finding the remaining number of enemies during the end-game, which does ultimately become a slightly tedious exercise. It doesn't add too much time onto the package, but it ends up feeling like 2-3 hours too much, especially with the extremely limited combat system in full swing.

Overall, this is still a relatively straight forward package. The 7 new missions will only take a couple of hours to beat in their entirety, and the side content is enough to tag another 2-4 hours on top of that. There is a very slight grind element in a few of the gold award requirements, but nothing any more difficult to get through than what is present in the main game.