This is a great first 3d printer. But to start, you need to understand low cost 3d printing is definitely still in its infancy, you should not expect everything to be super easy and awesome. You will need some patience and a willingness to learn. On to the review.The printer came packaged in a fantastic box, every piece was securely contained in a specific spot and it was all correctly packed. Unpacking was pretty straightforward, I recommend having a utility knife to carefully cut off some plastic packing wrap. Assembly is very straightforward if you have a good guide. I used the "Creality Ender 3 V2 assembly and pro build tips" video from Tomb of 3d Printed Horrors youtube channel, it is excellent and walks through the entire build process and helps avoid almost every pitfall. I say almost because my z axis motor mounted in such a way that the z leadscrew was very crooked. I ended up installing a little cardboard shim between the motor and mount to move it out and straighten the z shaft. It is definitely worth checking for this issue. The failure symptom is noisy clicking when it tries to move the z axis up when it is down near the bed. Once that issue was fixed everything worked great.The same youtube channel has a great video on bed levelling. Once my bed was level I printed the dog model included on the microsd card. It worked perfectly. I was shocked at the out of box print quality. It was fantastic.The first thing I noticed during printing is how quite it is. The new silent stepper main board is really great, it alone it's probably worth the price difference between the Ender 3 Pro and the Ender 3 V2. All the other little updates are great also. Strangely the little drawer on the front is one of my other favorite upgrades, it is just super convenient for storing the little parts. I like the PSU under the build plate, it just feels protected from stuff accidentally falling in our getting jabbed in by a child. Overall I feel like there design of the V2 is much more polished than the older Enders. I personally feel the V2 upgrades are worth every penny.I was also surprised at how few problems I had initially with adhesion, many people complain about prints falling off, but the included filament worked on every print I ran. Notably, when I switched to Hatchbox copper colored filament I had a number of problems and had to have my bed dialed in perfectly to get adhesion, I also need to clean the print bed with isopropyl alcohol between prints. I lost my first 4 or 5 small prints in Hatchbox PLA due to adhesion issues.For tools I downloaded the latest Cura slicer which seems to work very well. For high quality prints I use the custom cura setup from the above youtube channel for mini printing. It takes a little time to setup a custom cura profile, but it has produced beautiful mini prints as well as a functional threaded nut I needed for a broken fan.I found Cura is not great for generating supports, my prints come off with lots of surface flaws that really ruin the print finish. I am now using Meshmixer for creating custom supports with much better results.For my functional prints I have used Tinkercad, it was super easy to create the hex nut I needed, note plan to create threaded holes quite a bit larger than measured to account for plastic shrinkage.Obviously, this wasn't simple and I have learned a ton in 2 weeks. You will need to learn a variety of new skills and tools to get the most from your printer. If you are up for it this is a great printer.