Knights of Pen & Paper 2 ٩+

This feels like a D&D game but you can choose what you want and choose what to focus on and with a five party group. You can choose what to select but some of the classes you find and makes the game more interesting. Yet the twist of the one who is across from the table aka the DM being the final boss was such a twist and well….. there’s one side quest that made me question about what just happened. If you know you know. Even so, GO CRAZY! But now we’re waiting for Knights of Pen and Paper 3 to arrive to mobile soon. Until then. Prepare for that.

Here’s how to be an evil corporate money hungry joy destroying game developer, in three easy steps: 1: Find a great indie game made with love and skill that has a devoted fanbase for their clever, well-balanced, and genuinely innovative gameplay devoid of micro transactions which respects the player at every level. Then buy them out with a small portion of your cruelty-infused corporate raid stash of money. 2: Retool the game to be “free” and a micro transaction nightmare, destroying game balance, any sense of fun or reward in playing the game, and any shred of respect for the player. Rake in the cash in the transition period where the game’s good reputation gradually gets replaced by hate reviews, tanking the game’s reputation so much it gets booted off the App Store. Good job so far, you’ve already pocketed ridiculously amounts of cash just by being ruthless, but wait, there’s more! 3: invent a new game company, whose only product is this zombie of a game, and put it up on the App Store again, raking in yet more cash from the game’s lasting good reputation from the before times. If and when it gets booted off the App Store again once players get wise, rinse, repeat, and make more of that sweet sweet con man money. Congratulations! You are now rich, although we recommend a vomitus bucket next to your bathroom mirror for those moments when what you have left of a soul peeks through your grimace of success and the heaving starts.

I don’t usually write reviews, but for this game I just felt like I had to. I started out a few days ago and have been playing it like crazy. I love dnd and I love the style of this game, the gameplay, the humor, it’s all good and had been for hours now. My biggest issue though, is the difficulty spike once you hit level 10 is INSANE. On previous levels, the fights always felt fair and just fun. It was all about how you played and what gear you’ve gone for and I really enjoyed it, but now for a level 10 I am fighting enemies that will do most of heath bar in no more than 3 hits (usually less from how often they crit) while if I focus on one monster and hit them with all 4 of my parties best moves, their health won’t even be a quarter of the way through. And to make matters worse, it was about this time that I started to get BOMBARDED with deals for pay to win packages.

In short, the game was great on lower levels, but once you hit about level 10, it feels pay to win. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone in the state it’s in now.