Kingdom Two Crowns: Call of
Olympus
This DLC enhances your original Kingdom
Two Crowns game with an additional playable scenario. It's
more-or-less the game you already know with a few new things here and
there.
I bought the DLC a few days after release and it felt half-baked. We
got about 10 hours of play time.
THE GOOD
- A game I can play co-op with a friend! Yay!
- The all-new graphics and music are really great.
- There is a new banner mechanic that lets you grab the banner outside
your outer wall and use it to advance your troops whenever you
want.
- There are new mounts and magical items with interesting new
features.
- It's still the same game you probably already enjoy playing.
THE BAD
- There is not much new in the game. If you are already very familiar
with the Kingdom series (as I am), then this game is very easy and there
is little new to learn or explore.
- Once you initiate the final battle (after you launch the Trojan
Horse) you cannot go back! The game forces you to
keep fighting the final battle again and again in a loop. Make sure you
enter with a full purse and good fighting gear or else you will get
stuck and have to restart the whole campaign from scratch!
- The final boss fight is hard to understand. It's not clear what your
objective is or what you're supposed to do to get there.
- There aren't enough gems to buy all the bonus items.
- When you lose something to the Greed, such as your dog or a hermit,
there is no way to get it back.
THE UGLY
- The final island has a lot of glitches related to the new challenge
(the snake). This challenge is really cool, but the glitches ruin it
somewhat. I often couldn't initiate an attack against the challenge (the
opportunity to pay didn't appear), and even when I could my
troops would get all glitchy. There were visual glitches where troops
would float all over the screen, as well as important glitches where
troops would stand around instead of proceeding to attack or build
things.
- There are many glitches related to co-op mode. Having the top-half
of your screen cut off means sometimes not being able to read oracular
text, see slots where you can pay for something, or see things dropping
down at you from the sky.