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Hello. I am Husband. If you are reading this review stop reading and go build a deck outside using your hammer, nails, and some planks. I hope you enjoy it.

Here's my 14 hours played, got to lvl 10 on a shaman in Pantheon rise of the fallen review.
Manufactured difficulty. It's not hard because its hard.. it's hard because of stupid restrictions, bad UI, bad design (KOS deep red con mobs walking through pretty much every camp I ever found). I was all about a difficult MMO...and Pantheon can be difficult. But not for the right reasons.

For example at night time you can't target or see the name plate of mobs until you're right ontop of them. If i see a mob walking infront of me I can't target it to pull or to con until i walk into it's agro radius. Ontop of that night time lasts 2-3 times longer than day time for some stupid reason, and you can only see 10 feet infront of you.

Another example when grouping with a summoner his pet was the tank. I can't use the group window to target his pet to heal. I can't make a /target macro, can't tab target.. I have to click on the pet to target it to heal... and you all know how stupid that is especially when mobs have crazy big social agro ranges and you have 3 mobs you're trying to click through. (There's no target of target window)

Grouping (In my very limited experience) doesn't happen. At least not at low level. The server I'm playing on is usually at max capacity when I played and there's a TON of players my level running around, but they are all soloing. The whole idea of this game, I thought, was to force players to group and be social...At least at low levels this isn't the case, everyone can solo to lvl 10+ it seems. In 14 hours I had my LFG tag up (It's why i played a healer) and never had a full group the entire time.

Oh and when you do get a group there's no loot window or dice, you gotta right click the corpse.. There's no item links either so ♥♥♥♥ you to any classes that need to sit during combat for mana or dont want to be in the front line, you just don't get to loot...and who knows what stats that item the warrior just looted has.

They captured all the difficulty of classic EQ with none of the fun or charm...pretty impressive.

I REALLY wanted to like this game, I may give it another chance after some more updates or when it releases... But in it's current state it's not fun. Just go play P99 for the same experience, but with much more charm and depth.

Simple game, but a bit of fun to be had. It should be 5.99, not 15 bucks. Not a lot of content, but the difficulty makes it re-playable. Would still recommend if you go into it not expecting a lot.

3 steps for a better life:
1.) Stop reading these reviews
2.) Find a friend
3.) Start playing It Takes Two

Not....great.....

Don't expect perfection and you'll have a great time.

I was SO EXCITED to play the game that I actually took a half day off work. I purchased it seconds after it was released for sale today. I'm very sad to say the game is not good.

I would honestly rather play the alpha - it was more fun... The progression system has got to be the worst I've ever seen. There used to be Exp, and skill trees...You used to get random drops that were relevant. Now it's just about exploring and using the same 3 uninteresting magic items to open up doors or reach unreachable places. But it's also not about exploring since you get penalized for going outside the zone... It makes no sense and is not fun.

The only hope I have is for the modding community to make the game how it was originally set out to be how it was back in Alpha. Until then - I cannot recommend.

Such a missed opportunity =(

Abandoned...why is it still for sale when the devloper said it was unfixable and they were done trying?

Such potential! Such very much potential! I've spent way too many hours in this game, and even though the majority of the time it is enjoyable I cannot in good faith reccomend this game in it's current state. It's a game that requires multiple plays as its easy to make a game-ending mistake that you can never recover from. This would be fine, if most of the game wasn't so reptitive. This could be forgiven if the game was tweaked a bit. I've been on day 50+ on more than one playthrough and even on blood moons the enemies can't beat through my outermost wall.. I've cleared the forest and fully built/upgraded everything all the way to the portals themselves, and yet when I send my army of 2 Knights and 6 archers they get completely destroyed each and every time. I've sent over 10 sets of armies at one portal and it still stands. The game then becomes a stalemate as I have more gold than I can ever spend, yet still cannot destory a portal.

Suggestions to the dev team:
1.) Make it so your horse doesn't lose stamina while in the boarders of your village.would cut down on some of the reptitiveness.
2.) Have the ability to take an item away from a villager(Too many farmers? Would be nice to strip them of a couple of sycthes)
3.) Limit the number of bad guys that come from the portal while attacking it... I've ran around with a full coffer of coins and the bad guys never seem to stop coming..I've had 100+ dudes running around before losing my crown.

You've got a great game here if you're able to tweak it and balance it a bit better. Thanks for reading!

TL:DR - Balance issues, reptitive gameplay, from my experience either you lose or get to a stalemate. That being said....still a fun time waster. Try it out after a patch or two.



Addtional thoughts upon playing the game a bit more/after a patch;
I have changed to a yes to reccomend. Even though the game frustrated me I kept coming back for more and thought about better strategies when I should have been paying attention in meetings at work.
The most recent patch made the portals MUCH easier to destroy from my personal experience. Sending 2 or 3 waves seems to do the trick if close enough and/or correctly timed instead of 10+.
The devs seem to be very invovled and active both in the community and improving their game, so I'm sure any bugs or balance issues that still exsist will be dealt with in a timely fashion. I would, and have, reccomend this game.