The Cursed Expedition was one of my favourite expeditions, so of course I'm redoing it.
The constant drain of the Anomaly Suppressor and the harassment of the Boundary Horrors lends an incessant pressure. That first dash to the ship with an underpowered Boltgun and no Elixirs at hand is reminiscent of a Permadeath start.
I think the slightly reduced targets of the Redux version make it a little less grindy.
And of course, the trash talk…
Not well. The Worlds II update Amara to have introduced a bug that prevents you from activating the portal for the third boundary. I got stuck here on my ps5, tried everything I could think of to get past and when nothing was working I decided to try on my Steam save. Same thing, got stuck at the same spot.
On steam, you can select experimental branch (code is "3xperimental", if I am not mistaken). That fixed the bug for me.