With such a great fan-base lingering for a pharao remake for years now, the devs had a great chance to make something really good. I waited for 2 years for this game but I am a bit disappointed. Graphics are fine for me, voice acting is also very nice and nostalgic feelings are always there while playing the game. Music is cool too. BUT. User interface is uncreative - all of it from the buiilding menu to the overlays and so on. Could have been better. The game feels unfinished and unpolished, like the developers did not enough dive into the "soul" of the old games. Also its very buggy, had a lot of issues in the first 3 hours. Menus look shitty, you cant turn off pop-ups, no mini-map or map rotation. Also liked to have seen some additions like a planning / blueprint mode or more options for beautification (there are some options, but there definetly could be way more). Also some animations are as weird as in the base game, just with better sprites for the people doing the weird animations (e.G. the stone guys building monuments). Like that the shitty combat of the original was targeted, dont like the way they did it, now wild animals f*** up your city and you dont have an army to slay them. It feels like all the energy went into the artwork and music (aspects which the player base is divided about) and not in really remaking / improving the old game. Wasted opportunities on every corner here for me, very sad about that. Hope they listen to the Community and fix some stuff.
