THE STAKES HAVE BEEN RAISED!
It's game time in the ole Countdown to Halloween. I picked up this fantastic board game sometime around January but what could be better for October playtime? Special attention to this post needs to be paid by a certain Cheeks DeBelly and FaereMoon because I'm expecting to play this game with YOUSE ghouls before too much longer! I hope to post a video up there of the gameplay so you'll get the hang of it! After those historical cerpts Halloweeny games like DOORWAYS TO NIGHTMARE and NIGHTMARE: THE GAME (Where is the olllllllllllld one?), HORRIFIED is set to take its place in the Halloween Hall of Fame. The actual Universal Monsters are featured (with the studio's OK) which you as player are supposed to defeat. The nice part is that this is both a single player AND a multi-player game; with more than one player it becomes a cooperative game; meaning that all players work together to defeat the monsters.
From the back of the box: "The village is under attack! Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, his Bride, and more are on the rampage, and your team of heroes must defeat them!" Each player gets to choose to be one of a number of "heroes" like The Archeologist, the Professor, etc.
Which monsters you fight is your choice; the more monsters, the harder it is to defeat them. There are also villagers you must save and items you must collect to defeat them.
And each monster is defeated in a completely different way. If you choose to fight 3 monsters at a time, you will need to complete a different set of tasks for each monster to be defeated! It never gets boring as the combinations are endless. Yet another plus is the fact that the game will only last an hour or so because, if you don't defeat the monsters by that time, they defeat you! I've seriously not had this much fun with a board game in about 20 years! I know this was a hot ticket among monster lovers and was hard to get a copy for a while but by now I think it's readily available.
5 comments:
Sounds quite interesting, but I would need someone who already knew how to play to help me through it.
Sounds like a plan!
That's kinda true. Reading the instructions makes it seems a lot more difficult than it is; it's actually straight-forward and easy. Youtube is filthy with "how to play" and "full game play" videos (like the one I put above) which actually make it easier. The best, of course, would be someone who already knows how to play showing you, as you say. But the closest to that is the youtube videos if no one like that is at hand.
Looks like a fun game.
It is a fairly simple to play game that's quite fun. We bought this a few months ago and my 8 year old enjoys it. I like cooperative multiplayer games quite a bit as the more experienced player(s) can help the newbies. The only downside is that it is very easy to have one player who is the most experienced basically dictate what other players do. We played this with 5 players fighting 3 monsters recently (my wife's parents came to visit) and it was quite fun. I believe there's another version coming out that focuses on American cryptids and urban legends.
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