Let me start off by saying that I don't blame the people who backed this game and are understandably angry about an incompetent roll out for a project they were passionate about and supported from the beginning. I personally cringed when I had all the expansions painted and ready to play before people who actually backed it got their product.That being said I definitely feel like that anger has partially infiltrated the reviews and general reception of the game.I will also say that the base game alone is a pretty hollow(no pun intended) experience. With only two main bosses to look forward to taking on, and no variety to the classes each run if you're playing with four players, the experience for me was playing one game to learn the rules, then playing it twice and having fun, but having little motivation to jump into it again.This gets into what is both a big pro and a con. Once you get the Darkroot expansion, and print out the sorcerer/dragonslayer mini boss, and add some mega bosses the experience is elevated immensely. The variety of enemies, additional class and items, in addition to a new final climactic challenge adds a lot more incentive for busting out the game as opposed to fighting identical encounters to fight either the dancer or O/S every time. Naturally the con here is that it requires purchasing additional product, but these are, for the most part, very reasonably priced right now.While my experience is limited with all these incorporated, I will say the mega boss we've fought was an awesome experience. The Stray Demon was a great translation of the in game fight, and its also great that SF made it a mini boss in the form of the asylum Demon as well. I will say is unfortunate the level four encounters incorporate a lot of the currently unreleased expansions, and the one that we could use from Demon was painfully easy with an endgame team as opposed to the massive and chaotic brawl I expected. It is great to be able to use some of the cool main boss items for these though.One thing that I think can be universally agreed that needs improvement is that the items have weird and often not thematic stat requirements- With many players you are able to dig enough to get to good stuff and jack characters up, but with smaller teams it can be an exercise in frustration.The grind I find to be a smaller issue. Once you are familiar with the rules you and your friends can breeze through trivial encounters easily.TLDR: The game is great and very thematic, especially when it comes to bosses, however you will need the expansions to have a reason to dust it off more than a few times.