Knights of Pen & Paper 2

Tl;dr games really fun and funny, but ridiculous money grubbing Pros: It is really fun and easy to learn. There’s so many ways to play and all the class, race and player combos are great. It feels like no matter what I pick, it’s a good combo. It’s colorful and has great references and self aware humor! It makes a lot of out of character responses that you’d get while playing dnd. Being able to customize the play room is cool and unlocking new classes as you play means it’s worth playin through a couple times! Cons: Dungeons can kill you without you having a chance to respond if you hit a couple trap and monster filled rooms. A lot of times when you start a quest, the game instead ask you to buy something with real money and you need to go to the purchase screen, exit it, then restart the quest which is very frustrating. There’s a lot of grinding. The game has a lot of money sinks and some tend to be very unfair. Spending about 5-10k on an instantly failed dungeon due to traps in the first three rooms and losing money is common. Getting the premium money is impossible. Once your lvl 15 you do a daily dungeon for 15 diamonds if you beat it and is the only way to get diamonds besides paying for them. Unlocking everything is a couple hundred dollars of real world money!! Just unlocking 3 players and 2 classes is 60 bucks! And to get everything you need 4 or 5k in diamonds! And you get about 15 a day so.....

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This game used to be my favorite game on iOS, yet sadly I had to delete it to make more space on my phone. Now that I’ve freed up more space I thought it would be fun to download the game again. However, after a week of trying to get it to start after the screen would just fade to black and not change from that, I finally got it up and working and what I walked into was not the game I remembered. It asked me to create an account and then to buy gems once it started, and I was a little peeved but I was willing to overlook this. Then all the room pieces, dlc, and expansions, of which I had purchased and acquired throughout the game beforehand, cost gems, gems that cost real life money. Now restoring my items wouldn’t work and so I decided to overlook this too, hoping that the gameplay would allow me to breeze over that. Wrong. I started playing, and it was fine for the most part, until I took a wrong turn and was completely out of money. I had to fight the monsters there to get money to travel, right? However I stumbled into an area that was 12 levels ahead of me. With my heroes all dead, I had 2 options. A) Constantly revive the goth until I defeated one set of monsters and then speed away, or B) pay actual money to get gems to get coins. That was the last straw. I uninstalled the game on the spot. Sorry this was long, I just had too much frustration to vent. That concludes my TED Talk.

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This game was downright perfect. I cannot express how much of a masterpiece this game was. I’ve been a huge fan of KoP&P ever since I bought the first one (however I can’t play the first one anymore because it has not been updated for the current iOS, would really appreciate it if they could get on that). The gameplay was super fun and got me into DnD in the first place. I loved the character design that they builded on after the first game and it all just seemed to go together...then I took a hiatus..... I came back to play another run for old times sake and was greeted with a free to play version of the game. I thought it was great at first. It’s always good to see more players being able to play one of my favorite games and having the same fun I did. Then I realized how much of a money grab this game was. I didn’t have any of the DLC anymore and instead I have to buy the game AGAIN but for more this time. The gameplay is kind of the same more or less, but still doesn’t feel like it did before. This game went from perfection to a corrupted shell of what it was. I hope to see Paradox either revert these changes, or create a new game to the series that can be a happy medium between the money grabbing and the perfect game it once was. I wish the best to Paradox, but I can’t play this game anymore.

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The game is oriented about getting gold, and cashing it for trinkets and gear to increase the power of your units. However, when the enemies are incredibly more powerful than you, and always have the upper hand no matter how good your gear is, how versatile and well constructed your team is, that’s where the difficulty becomes too artificial and frustrating to keep playing. Sometimes your characters will die, and when they do, you have to spend upwards of thousands of gold to revive them, but there’s also a chance that you just don’t have any gold, you also don’t even have anything to sell because you’re just so dirt poor from all the gold you have to be spending in the new free to play era. Going free to play was just a sad and greedy whack at the new trend of developing a game that is completely designed around you emptying your wallet out to the Grimey devs who care less about quality. Shame on this game for using such abhorrid marketing strategies. Shame on the devs for not being talented enough to make a game that can generate enough revenue consistently. Please do not download this game, just buy a better rpg if that’s what you’re looking for. I recommend something from the dragon quest or final fantasy games. There exist plenty of them on ios

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This game was down right perfect when I started everything from game balancing to gold density was impeccable but now the game falls flat felling more like a massive cash grab, gems are incredibly expensive and everything that need gems cost several hundred of them and now it feels like in you first play though you HAVE to buy gold because gold is a pain to farm I’m currently at the temple of Brocken balance and I still don’t have a fifth adventurer because to do so mean spending several hours grinding low level mobs to work up the ridiculous 17,000 gold I need to do this But the problem I have most have with the game is that it keeps crashing on me I have an iPhone 6s and anytime I download the game it works fine for the first week and then says f you and any progress you’ve made and simply won’t launch the only way I’ve found to fix this problem is to delete and redownload the game deleting any progress I’ve made Finally Paradox please remove the gem system it’s stupid and dishonest to hide the real cost of your massively over priced DLC behind some premium currency just put the price on the item we love your game and are more than willing to buy the expansions but every time you do something like this it just another annoying nail in your coffin