It’s very modern, highly stylized, and it has a very unique approach to telling its story with a narrator that describes what “The Kid” is doing in the game along with suggestive monologues that give background to the setting and events of the game. It’s definitely a homage to the SNES-style action-RPG (think A Link to the Past or Secret of Mana), but it’s in no way old fashioned or kludgy. I’ve only played about two hours of it but I’m kind of blown away. It’s the first of XBLA’s “Summer of Arcade” titles and it’s going to be a tough act to follow. Next week’s review will either be Underground or a two-fer for the new AEG expansions, Thornwood Siege for Thunderstone and Martial Law for Nightfall.īastion may be one of the best games of the year. There’s a couple of silly gamey elements like the highest player having to reduce their cards by taking a token, but it’s got a nice old style European game feeling. One of my guys died, the other petered out one step away from the summit before the game ended. K2 was pretty decent- it seems really easy at first but man, it gets grueling toward the end.
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I was totally lost for the first half of the game, but once I started seeing the combinations and how to plan the layout it made sense. Frank took over like 2/3rds of the map in our game on his custom board, that had a strange leathery look to it that kind of creeped me out.īarons is interesting, a simple-ish card game that feels like a cross between Irondale and Glory to Rome. I got completely destroyed because I couldn’t keep up with the pace of it and my flicking skills are terrible.
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It’s a full game on its own and it can also function as a big expansion for the rest of the line.Īscending Empires really is a cross between a finger-flicking game and Master of Orion. Small World Underground is more Small World with a couple of new features like Popular Places and relics- definitely a must-have if your group plays a lot of Small World. I’ve played a bunch of new-ish stuff lately other than Galaxies, too…most of which will turn up in full reviews but in brief: Expansions may help, but there’s got to be some advanced rules or something to make it worthwhile. There’s some really nice things about it, but as a whole it’s a letdown and I’d recommend that interested parties wait and see on it.
It looks great of course, and I defy anyone to see it set up on a table and not immediately want to play it. I don’t have the time or inclination for all of that, and I don’t buy a $70 game that’s a fixer-upper out of the box. The only people I can see this game really appealing to as-is are those who have no experience with better tactical space combat games, children, and people that want to spend a lot of time and energy continuing the development of this game with modifications, variants, and homebrew add-ons. But some things wouldn’t have been that hard to implement in a one or two page advanced rule set. It’s not hard to figure out why all of that kind of stuff was cut given that it’s those sorts of things that bloat rulebooks and Galaxies is intended to be a product that straddles the mass and hobby markets. Unfortunately, what was cut turns out to be the more important stuff like firing arcs, hit locations, facing, energy distribution, and other elements that really kind of define the tactical space combat genre. It’s actually a pretty fun one, and it’s built on a stunningly editorial design that works in some rather unexpected detail like boarding parties, personalities, and distinguishing ships by class and experience levels.
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