So after beating the main story of the game and completing a lot of side content, I can reasonably say.....I'm disapointed, not because the game is bad, it's honestly pretty good, and it genuinely hurts to say because I'm a diehard fan of the first game, like it's literally one of my favourite games of all time and it's really sad to the sequel I was so excited for be kinda buns.

Bugs aside, one of my main issues with the game is the fact that they don't show you item stats, like I genuinely cannot fathom WHY they chose to hide them, it's like the game thinks you're a dumbass that simply can't understand basic numbers, it's rubbish!

Another thing is the artifacts, I HATE the artifact system in this game, because now, EVERY SINGLE artifact takes soul to use, ALL OF THEM!

The main point of soul in the first game was to balance out stronger artifact by requiring you to farm kills to use them, now that every artifact takes soul, soul is abundant and some artifacts are useless.
(Corrupted beacon, my sweet boy 😭)
Like I seriously dislike the new artifact system, because now in the early game, you barely get to use your artifacts at all, and in the late game, all you do is spam them because you basically get infinite soul and there's barely any cooldowns anymore, it's pathetic.

Now onto the health potion in this game. It sucks. Like really sucks. In the first game, you had to be careful with your heath potion, only using it when you needed, and you had to play smart while it was on cooldown or it was game over.
In this game, your health potion is literally just something you spam, since for whatever reason this game doesn't let you have more than 100 health (135 with trinket, still terrible) you have to constantly use your potion, and the game knows this, because the cooldown is much shorter. it's braindead, and got rid of whatever little strategy there was for it in the first game.

Now, the enchantment system I have mixed opinions on.
On one hand it can get rid of the kind of annoying and grindy RNG of the game
but on the other, it just feels kinda lame, not to mention the options are pretty limited, and some are just straight up bad, which is alright when you think about it, obviously some enchants are gonna be better than others, that's just the way it is, no matter how hard you try to balance something, in a game like this, some things are just going to be better no matter what.

(Now this might just be me)

My issue with that is the fact that once I find a good enchant, I'm just gonna stick with it throughout my playthrough, I never felt inclined to try anything else because I have a choice not to, because why would I go out of my way to use something worse? what's the point? why would I want to be weaker?

All in all, it's an alright game, just not what I expected, granted the expection might've been too high since I absolutely love the first game. as for if you should buy it? up to you. I personally wasn't a fan and god knows it's INSANELY overpriced, but still a good game.

As for me, as a diehard Dungeons fan
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my life is ruined.

TL;DR: do not spend your money on this game, at least until it's on sale.
I was excited to see this game come out, I even preordered it. I was completely and utterly let down.
For many reasons, I feel like this game was not my money's worth.

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Firstly, this game plays like a beta build, with many glitches and unpolished aspects, such as the bangles not activating for no reason
Second, lots of returning artifacts are drastically nerfed compared to Dungeons 1. What did they do to my boi Corrupted Beacon >:(
Third, the RNG aspect is almost completely removed/reworked. In Dungeons 1, you would grind the same level over and over, hoping to get a good item, then you would grind for gold, so you could reroll the enchants. Towards the end, you get so many unique items guaranteed with quests, so they just don't feel rare anymore. (You used to have to work for a Harp Crossbow)
Fourth, enchants themselves just suck. Only one enchantment per item is horrible, especially for weapons. I'm disappointed.
Fifth, where did the stats go? You used to have numbers on items and armor, showing how good they were to directly compare the damage and health. Now armor is almost completely cosmetic. Damage dealt doesn't scale correctly, so 50 damage at level 5 and at level 80.
Sixth, the blacksmith is far too simple. You can max out all your gear in one trip and a couple thousand emeralds. Sure it can be useful, but where's the fun in that?
Seventh, they removed the gift wrapper.
Eighth, the walking around is really mind numbing. Mobs just spawn in swarms, everywhere, making it take twice as long to get to my destination, just trying to clear a path. Sure, mobs are fun, but when you can't ignore them when they block your path, it starts to lose its fun.
Ninth What is that map? I get that you want to save room for DLC, but seriously? Over half of the map is blank!
Tenth, far too short of a game for that price. I beat it in ~20 hours, but some of that were dungeons, rifts, etc. Endgame has far too little to do.
Eleventh, capped level 100 is so stupid. Hitting it fairly fast, and it doesn't increase the difficulty at all like I was hoping.
Twelfth, the game is far too easy after a certain point (lvl ~60 for me), and the grinding aspect isn't nearly as fun as Dungeons 1, not rewarding. That final boss was so unbelievably underwhelming. It sucked so bad. I was on freaking hard mode and it took hardly a minute.

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That said, there are some good QOL changes, the graphics are nice, but yeah, hoping the DLCs make up for it.

Up to this point, i still have no idea how to find tons of positive points in this game.. i mean, there's a bunch, but when i think about it... i don't know if they really are enough. There's a couple quality of life improvements from the first one, farming for enchantments and the way to upgrade things such as gear isn't super exhaustive like in the first one (it's also way easier to get emeralds in this game) and well, things like combat and such are also alright.
The dialogue is tiring. I love dialogue filled games but this... this is just.. ugh.. i dont know? its tiring. Like.. theres so many things that seems overly exaggerated, details that dont really matter in the story.. i feel like the story would be much better if it was just presented with cutscenes just like in the first game. This also goes for side quests, its like you read a random text thing that happened and "go get this" or "go destroy that" and thats... it. Honestly don't even know if i would get through the game if i was playing solo.. part of the reason why i didn't give up on the story was cause i was playing with a friend so that helped with some good funny moments throughout the game.

Overall.. its a mixed experience, mixed feelings. it's a good game for what it is, if you like dungeons certainly this one won't be different in that aspect, after all Dungeons is fun, but i still feel like i don't have a strong positive feeling about it, but i also don't think it's much for a negative review.. its kinda in between.. i dont know. I really don't... it feels like it's incomplete.

Shame on you, mojang.. i was expecting more. But.. i finally managed to write this review after doing 100%... so this is my very honest opinion on it.