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Pandemic Legacy - no spoilers
Apr. 18th, 2016 06:38 pmWe decided to blitz Pandemic Legacy this weekend, and played about 5 hours on Saturday and 7 on Sunday to finish the game. Tempting as it was to extend the experience, I was finding that it was eating my brain. I was thinking about it ALL THE TIME. I was dreaming about it - dreaming about game set-ups, that is, not about hideous pandemic situations. It was keeping me awake as I post-mortemed our past games and planned strategies for the next one. (This is an entirely futile process, since you CAN'T plan, not until you see how the starting cards fall.) We decided to end it in one solid, intense, immersive and memorable weekend.
I will not post ANY spoilers about it, not here. I am, however, writing a series of spoiler-filled posts in which I write-up the whole campaign. Absolutely nobody will want to read these, but I'm doing it for my own reference.
In my opinion, this is a truly awesome game. I can see why it's been winning awards and rave reviews across the internet. I found it simply stunning.
Who should consider playing it?
- People who like board games, obviously. However, it's not actually that HARD a board game. Unlike some games that come with a 40 page rule book and take hours to explain, the basic game can be learnt within minutes. Yes, new rules and twists appear, but only gradually. Rule-wise, it's not that daunting, and you can use the board to play the basic game as practice before deciding to start the Legacy game for real.
- People who can assemble the same group of fellow gamers (2, 3 or 4 players) for session after session.
- People who can and are willing to pay c. £50 for a game that can only be played once. However, this "once" will give you dozens of hours of gaming time (including planning, strategy discussions etc.) very probably spread over weeks.
- People who can cope with the terror of a game in which everything can collapse into chaos so very quickly, and Bad Things in one game have implications for future games.
I will not post ANY spoilers about it, not here. I am, however, writing a series of spoiler-filled posts in which I write-up the whole campaign. Absolutely nobody will want to read these, but I'm doing it for my own reference.
In my opinion, this is a truly awesome game. I can see why it's been winning awards and rave reviews across the internet. I found it simply stunning.
Who should consider playing it?
- People who like board games, obviously. However, it's not actually that HARD a board game. Unlike some games that come with a 40 page rule book and take hours to explain, the basic game can be learnt within minutes. Yes, new rules and twists appear, but only gradually. Rule-wise, it's not that daunting, and you can use the board to play the basic game as practice before deciding to start the Legacy game for real.
- People who can assemble the same group of fellow gamers (2, 3 or 4 players) for session after session.
- People who can and are willing to pay c. £50 for a game that can only be played once. However, this "once" will give you dozens of hours of gaming time (including planning, strategy discussions etc.) very probably spread over weeks.
- People who can cope with the terror of a game in which everything can collapse into chaos so very quickly, and Bad Things in one game have implications for future games.
