Kingdom Two Crowns

Played through all three included campaigns in coop. Simple concept and difficult at times, but incredibly fun with a great atmosphere.

Love these games. Obtuse and hard, but not in excess.

First and foremost, 2 stars are only because the pixel art is indeed as pretty as on the trailers, and the music is fine, everything else is just SO badly done. The game pretends to be strategy and adventure, the first is almost non-existent, and the seccond barely there. You can make each unit o equal numbers or just follow your gut, you most likely will succeed regardless. The actual gameplay is simplistic to a fault, you will only run from left to right on your mounted animal, picking up coins produced by your subjects, and spending them on literally whatever, specially if you make quite a bit of farmers you will cap your coing bag VERY fast and throw most of what you make to the river, because you can only spend it on so much. This simplicity affects the contros on having both throwing coins to the grounds and using for purchases on the same key, the down arrow. This is problematic because you are never told that the only way to differentiate the former with the later, by holding down the key for 1-2 secconds and releasing. There's absolutely no reason for these actions to overlap, the up key is perfectly free to be used for anything, like purchases. Having to run from left to right starts as just a normal task, and turns into a horrible chore, because you will spend most of your time running from one extreme to the other. And this is agrravated by your mounted animal interrupting you very often on a semi invisible stamina system, it recovers by letting it rest for 2-3 secconds so it eats grass (but won't recover without it), which innitially seems like a neat realistic detail, but becomes a horrible drag as you keep traveling the entire island again and again, from one extreme to the other. I can only imagine this game working as mobile clicker type of game, as those games are meant to alliveate the anxiety of multitaskers. But as PC/Console game where all your focus is on it, it's just plain boring and frustrating.

I love the minimal 2d composition of this game and beautiful atmosphere and music.

Every Christmas with my sister, we have blast playing