Takashi Ishida’s Magical Athlete is a quirky game about a cast of misfits in a foot race. First released in 2003 by Z-Man Games, its oddball nature and prototype-level production resulted in a large shrug from audiences. It was the typical Tanga title, dumped on a deep discount website and banished to the shelves of…
Spooooktacccular. An amusing name to wail? Right-o. Killer movie poster box cover? Absolutely. Asymmetric player powers that inevitably draw a negligent comparison to Root? Hell yeah. Level 99 Games is known for their eccentric lineup. Millennium Blades is totally mad. Argent: The Consortium is likewise ill. Bullet♥︎ and Empyreal and many others fit this unconventional…
It’s 1710 and the world is in turmoil. Maybe. I’m not sure, as the Company and the state of its affairs are sprawled out on a massive table on one end of the room, and I’m at the other surrounded by my peers. My family. Good Hastings men and women. It’s loud and chaotic. I…
Somewhere, Matt Leacock is walking around, chained to a big goose as gold as the sun. For the love of God, someone let this man design something other than Pandemic. Not today. While not betrayed on the cover, The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is described as a Pandemic System game. And…
Prospero Hall is back. I’m sorry, that’s a lie. 2001: A Space Odyssey the Board Game is not a Prospero Hall title. It’s a Phil Walker-Harding design courtesy of Maestro Media. This fits right alongside quirky board game cuts like The Warriors, Fast & the Furious: Highway Heist, and Rear Window. I almost don’t trust…
The Old King’s Crown is beautiful. It’s a lavishly illustrated craft with peerless style. This charisma reverberates in the game’s excellent writing, with passages leaping from the page in order to set the scene of a King Lear-like situation with a vacant throne. Expectedly, the gears of the work are likewise dashing, powering the entity…
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