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Skipping Through the Moors – Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor Review
It’s always interesting when good games are reimplemented. Will the new one keep the same quality or charm as the previous game? Will it make it better? Is it being designed to correct mistakes from the original? You get that with games like Dune… Continue Reading “Skipping Through the Moors – Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor Review”
The Silent Cockpit – Sky Team Review
One of the more recent tropes in cooperative games is the idea that players can’t talk to each other. This removes the alpha gamer issue and also can make the game more interesting. Sometimes, thematically, it makes no sense, but you can’t have everything.… Continue Reading “The Silent Cockpit – Sky Team Review”
Violent Conventions – Final Girl – Shriek Review
One of the cool things about how the whole Final Girl franchise (from Van Ryder Games) has come about is that each group of feature films is tied into a series, with the occasional vignette or special feature. That appears to be coming to… Continue Reading “Violent Conventions – Final Girl – Shriek Review”
It’s All Greek to Me – Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends Review
It’s amazing how many times a company can go to the same well, bringing up a game with all of the same mechanics and some slight variations in how those mechanics are executed, and still come up with a fun game that (maybe) surpasses… Continue Reading “It’s All Greek to Me – Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends Review”
This Ain’t About Burgers – The White Castle Review
Is that movie too old to reference anymore? I don’t care, but it is the only time I will make a burger joke in this review. Yes, even though it’s in my Top 50 boardgames of all time, I haven’t actually reviewed The White… Continue Reading “This Ain’t About Burgers – The White Castle Review”
Time Travelling Murder – Final Girl – The Killer From Tomorrow Review
The Terminator movies were such memorable movies, helped by Arnold Schwarzenegger as the very memorable terminator himself but also by the wonderful Linda Hamilton, scared shitless but tough as nails in the first one, and just a badass in the second one (we don’t… Continue Reading “Time Travelling Murder – Final Girl – The Killer From Tomorrow Review”
Cardboard Mob & Hot Spirits – Speakeasy Review
When many people think of The Mob, they are thinking of New York mafia types, or New Jersey ones like the Sopranos. But when it gets moved back in time to Prohibition and the gangster wars of the 20s and 30s, everybody can name… Continue Reading “Cardboard Mob & Hot Spirits – Speakeasy Review”
Dinner Battlefield – Food Fight: Reheated Review
Don’t you hate it when you’re having a peaceful Sunday brunch, and suddenly James’ bacon pulls out a machine gun and starts firing it at your burger, while Abi’s pesto linguini starts shooting rockets at both Vicki’s pizza and your tater tots? Meanwhile everybody’s… Continue Reading “Dinner Battlefield – Food Fight: Reheated Review”
Cuddle Bears of Death – Final Girl – Bad Times at Buddyland Review
Many of us have been to those amusement places like Chuck E. Cheese or Showbiz Pizza (that’s what they were called when I was a kid), where you have your video games, you have your dining areas where rambunctious kids are running around, throwing… Continue Reading “Cuddle Bears of Death – Final Girl – Bad Times at Buddyland Review”
Noisy Mummies – Clank: The Mummy’s Curse App Expansion Review
One of the best things a game expansion can do is to add some cool new stuff to the game, maybe something different but still fun to explore, and then get out of the way. Don’t change the mechanics greatly. Maybe the stuff you… Continue Reading “Noisy Mummies – Clank: The Mummy’s Curse App Expansion Review”