Pandemic Rising Tide
Aug. 11th, 2018 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI tried playing this for practice with the rules, though it is a minimum 2 player game so it don't count properly. I screwed up the shuffling a couple times in ways that made it easier and one time in ways that made it harder, so it isn't a good test of difficulty. Also I think I made one move that was not permitted one time, which was a big help so that's an oops. And I need to read the rules more thoroughly. And I think I might have chosen the two most helpful cards to try first?
But
I won :-)
And it seems like an interesting game, with scaling difficulty levels and extra targets once you've got the hang of things.
Which I have not, as noted above, too many errors to really count.
But it's fiddly to set up, there's 50 things to put on the board before you remove 9 at random, and you need to divide the cards into smaller piles and then shuffle them and put them back together, and if you shuffle in the wrong order or forget to deal your character's cards before you start to play it goes very poorly and honestly you should start again but I was too annoyed. Do things in the correct order and it works fine, it's just a lot of little pieces.
But then you move and remove the little pieces and that's a lot more fun.
I like cooperative games, I have three now, this, pandemic, and ghost stories. It seems more civilised to all try and beat the game together. But then when you are feeling backstabby there's munchkin. So this is a good collection.
I shall take it to games night next month and maybe science fiction group next week.
... these currently constitute the lion's share of my social skills, but that's kind of working, so *shrugs*
Plenty good, does what the games shop guy said it would.
But
I won :-)
And it seems like an interesting game, with scaling difficulty levels and extra targets once you've got the hang of things.
Which I have not, as noted above, too many errors to really count.
But it's fiddly to set up, there's 50 things to put on the board before you remove 9 at random, and you need to divide the cards into smaller piles and then shuffle them and put them back together, and if you shuffle in the wrong order or forget to deal your character's cards before you start to play it goes very poorly and honestly you should start again but I was too annoyed. Do things in the correct order and it works fine, it's just a lot of little pieces.
But then you move and remove the little pieces and that's a lot more fun.
I like cooperative games, I have three now, this, pandemic, and ghost stories. It seems more civilised to all try and beat the game together. But then when you are feeling backstabby there's munchkin. So this is a good collection.
I shall take it to games night next month and maybe science fiction group next week.
... these currently constitute the lion's share of my social skills, but that's kind of working, so *shrugs*
Plenty good, does what the games shop guy said it would.