by Russell McKinney
Another week in the books! We managed to get quite a few games in this week, so that was very nice! Nothing really of interest to report, so let's jump right in!
SUNDAY:arrowE:
Plague Inc.: The Board Game(Part of my 10x10 Challenge)MONDAY:arrowE:
Stone AgeTUESDAY:arrowE:
Betrayal Legacy(Part of my 10x10 Challenge):arrowE:
Sushi Go Party!WEDNESDAY:arrowE:
Dinosaur Island(Including Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid):arrowE:
Tobago(Part of my 10x10 Challenge)THURSDAY:thumbsdown: A day without games! :cry:
FRIDAY:arrowE:
Caverna: The Cave Farmersx3SATURDAY:arrowE:
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition:arrowE:
Caverna: The Cave FarmersWe've not been playing
Plague Inc.: The Board Game with the
Plague Inc: Patient Zero Pack up to this point for some reason, so I think I need to toss that in. I'm still really enjoying this game, but I do feel as if there is something missing from it, but I can't quite put my finger on what. Every time I finish I game I find myself thinking "That was fun, but it needs something else to make it even better." If I figure out what that is I will let you know, but for now, the Deez Nutz disease will continue to try to eradicate the entire planet.
Then we have
Stone Age, with [user=omfg its vico]OMFG It's Vico[/user] still trying to beat me. After that first defeat in the previous week, he wants his revenge. :D
If there's one thing I love in games with a traitor mechanic, it is being the traitor myself. I think I'm in the minority, but I just love being separated out from the group to work out devious plans of sabotage :devil:. Well, during this week's
Betrayal Legacy, I was finally the traitor. Unfortunately, it seemed like the worst possible scenario to be the traitor on. Without spoiling much, I was essentially completely useless, and that was lame. It was still fun watching everyone else in the group sweat as they tried to figure out what sorts of nefarious deeds I had planned though! Maybe next time I will be the traitor and actually get to be more evil!
Somehow all of my friends had thought that I had played
Sushi Go Party! before, despite me never having touched it. So, as we waited for the
Betrayal Legacy group to arrive, we gave it a spin. I liked it! I don't think it's as good as people make it out to be, but it was certainly enjoyable and cute! Definitely a great filler party game!
Dinosaur Island and
Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid are still just... so much fun. Good lord I love these games so much. I don't know what it is, but I can't help but be super happy whenever I get to play them. Maybe it's the bright colors and nostalgic theme, maybe it's just how playful and fun everything is, who knows, but I don't think I would ever turn a down any offer to play these games!
Tobago was a lot of fun this week. Not a whole lot to report with it, apart from us managing to get what has to be our longest treasure map so far in the game.
A game that I really love, but hate getting out to play, is
Caverna: The Cave Farmers. That's why we played it so many times at once, because we wanted to keep playing, but not have to put it up and bring it back out again. My God, there are so many little baggies. I have to get some kind of insert for this game or I am going to lose my mind. Apart from that though, my little cave dwarfs were very happy, and made so many babies while cuddling with sheep. I don't really know how that works, but who am I to judge!
Finally this week, we have
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition. I have the first edition of the game, but my friend [user=arito]Arito[/user] has the second edition and has been wanting us to play it for a while. He loves the game, but he has also been wanting to convince me that not all board games that use an app are trash. While I have to agree that this was about the best app integration into a board game that I have seen, I still firmly stand behind my belief that board games should not use apps or websites (or, at the very least, not
require them, so
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition definitely got that part right). I don't know, I just like keeping board games analog. I'm the same way with RPGs. Yeah, I can get all of the books on PDF, but there is something very pleasing about being at a table with a stack of books, paper, and pencils. Maybe I'm just weird, who knows.
Well, that's going to do it for this week! I am going to try to start integrating pictures into these posts, because I feel like that will break up the walls of text a bit and make them more interesting to read. We'll see how it goes!
Until next time!
