So, me and a friend just finished playing this campaign in 2 players and while I really enjoyed it there are definitely some comments I've got. I'm making this a "discussion" because comments are listed to 1000 characters.

First off, the first scenario feels off with how it gives XP. There are so many locations to visit that you just might not be able to with how the boss spawns and enemy movement, it feels really swingy with how it currently is.

Scenario 2-5? Honestly, really fantastic.

Scenario 6 has a couple things that irked my group. Is it flavorful? Yeah. But the Mensis Puppets need a bit of a rework because if you end up with all 3 out on the Decimated Auditorium it currently reads as it takes 4 actions to get in there (one for your base move and 3 additional), even outside of that you're looking at minimum 4 actions to kill one if you don't have something like Spectral Razor in hand because of 2 to move in, 1 to engage, and another to hit. Much like the boss fight in the game, it feels like it just drags on after a while and stops being interesting.

Scenario 7's biggest issue is the starting location giving monsters surge. On a bad draw on turn 1 you're completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ from that if you fail something from a cultist draw or just take that initial setup turn like folks normally will.

Scenario 8 also feels like you're supposed to be going in with meta-knowledge on how to pace the encounter, because between the E;der Thing token being both -5 AND having the boss hit you no matter where you are (wtf?) along with the cultist tokens still generally giving failed tests the equivalent of surge, it can quickly spiral.

The only other real issue I've seen is the deck/board bloat. With the Hunters being random and them all giving an item (half of them taking up a slot with one taking up two different slots), the items I saw almost all felt pretty comparable to other items already in the game. There's also ALL of those story assets, just so many, between the sidequests and the main missions, there are just so many. I don't think XP would be a good substitute, but if we got relevant events or skills instead of assets that would be fantastic. Honestly it might be better to cut the story assets and break them out into an investigator expansion so they can be chosen to be used without feeling like we're losing our reward, that may be the best.

I want to love this campaign because you can feel a lot of love put in, but both the start and end of the campaign feel so bad. I seriously cannot overstate how much I loved scenarios 2 and 4, with 3 and 5 being a lot of fun, but 6-8 felt bad for the reasons above and one just felt a bit confused. Thank you for your efforts and I'm excited to see how you tighten this up.

Edit: To go with the concept of an investigator expansion it might honestly be better to cut the ally assets in how they are currently done and just have it be set up expecting people to be playing the investigators or have the encounters that want a specific ally instead need a trait so that the investigators can still take it if they aren't there. We lost Eileen in the opening encounter and there is so much story that hinges around her being alive that it just felt bad losing her to random chance.