Massive darkness3/16/2023 It's like the Darkness hired Prince (RIP) to be its interior decorator. This game should be called Massive Color Shortage. My big complaint about the production of this game isn't about the plastics, it's about the cardboard. It's a small thing, but it's still a thing. They look great, but you're going to end up fighting the SAME bad guys A LOT. While this was a Kickstarter game and there are some AWESOME KS exclusives out there, the retail version of the game only comes with 6 different Mobs, 3 different Agents, and 6 different Monsters. ![]() The minis are well sculpted, and the character design has the same cartoony charm as the Zombicide games. When a game company's name stands for "Cool Mini or Not", well, let's just say you'd better have some damn cool miniatures with your game. Everything is useful in the right circumstances, but some circumstances happen much more often than others. Overall, I've seen both be useful in certain situations, but that's pretty much what I've seen from all the characters. It's not a Wizard class, it's an accountant class! He shouldn't equip staves or orbs, he should have access to calculators or an abacus! HOW IS THAT FAIR OR BALANCED?!? One character breathes on people to kill them, while another is figuring out the exchange rate between Diamonds and Bams. You know, the ones that you don't have because instead of using XP to buy skills, you're out here using XP to turn Diamonds into Bams! In and of itself, that doesn't do much, but you can use it to trigger some of the Battle Wizard's more advanced skills which require 2 Bams. For the low, low price of 1 XP, the Battle Wizard can turn one of his rolled Diamonds, into 2 Bams. But, just like if you watched me play basketball against anyone, closer inspection of the characters will show you that not all of God's creatures are created equal. Occasionally, a little Bam(?) symbol will appear, or if you get really lucky, a Diamond, and those can be spent like currency to trigger special powers, like adding more Swords to your roll, or removing whole dice that your enemy rolled.Īs you take out swaths of enemies, your character will gain the bad guy's stuff, but more importantly, you gain XP! XP can be spent to buy new character skills or use your SIGNATURE ABILITY!!! Your character's Signature Ability is something you can use once per turn, as they supposedly have GAME BREAKING EFFECTS which is why they cost you precious, precious XP. I know it may seem like a small thing, but let me tell you, it was damn near mind-blowing when we first did it. Those of you out there who have played Descent know how much time that can save. Instead of rolling to see how many hits you get, then rolling for Defense, all dice are rolled at once. If you do find yourself in Combat, it is a fairly streamlined system compared to what I've seen in games like these. ![]() ![]() Well equipped warriors consisting of dwarves, elves, wizards, and rogues finding treasure and hacking through hordes of bad guys. This might sound like it would involve flashlights, torches, and candles lighting up rooms and fending off the literal dark (note to game designers: that's an unexplored theme for a game if I've ever heard one), the actual nitty gritty of it is notably more run of the mill. Based loosely on the Zombicide system, 1-6 players take on the roles of the Lightbringers, fighting against the ever encroaching, and abstract concept of, the DARKNESS. Massive Darkness is the latest cooperative dungeon crawl from CMON Games. That's where games like Massive Darkness from CMON Games comes in. I don't think this battle is going as planned. If there was a quest, we wanted to go on it! The heroic deeds, slaying goblins, finding magical treasure to help you in your quest, it all sounded amazing! Unfortunately, not all of us are well equipped for questing. Or maybe your fantasy awakening was caused when Bastion rode Falkor in Neverending Story, or maybe you thought the coolest moment ever was when Sir Orrin Neville Smythe fought Bryagh at the end of Flight of Dragons (that, sir, is a deep cut), but whatever caused it, the end result was the same. Maybe not the whole "Getting Your Finger Bitten Off by Gollum" thing (spoiler alert), but you know, the other stuff. Anyone who's ever read Lord of the Rings has dreamt of being like Frodo.
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