Blood First Impressions - Who's Hunting Who?

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Blood is a Boss Battler game for 1 to 4 players. You will control a group of unusual monster hunters, each featuring their own customizable set of cards. Blood uses an innovative dice and card system to allow you to face the horrors of Vlad's Castle until you reach its powerful Master.
Each Raid will bring you face to face with one of Vlad's Champions, ready to confront you by deploying unique strategies varying based on the location where you encounter them, creating ever-changing combinations and situations.
At the end of each Raid, you will return to the village of Bran to build new epic weapons and learn new fighting techniques, to prepare for the final confrontation with the Prince of the Night himself!
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TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Introduction & Disclaimers
0:01:23 - Overview
0:05:05 - Ease of Play
0:07:13 - What I Like
0:11:30 - What I Don't Like
0:15:35 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:16:13 - Final Thoughts
0:18:33 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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Пікірлер: 34

@Sikkasill 29 күн бұрын

LMS did say they are aware of the iconography overload and have already began improving on this. They said next week I think they are going to show the improvement and reduced icons. I do agree that there are a lot of tests and that part could be streamlined for sure. Thanks for the impressions!

@AlBundy4td 29 күн бұрын

Had this on radar but you may have just saved me $400. With Primal just received and recent back of Dante and Grimcoven, may not have room for another boss-battler system.

@karaso0 29 күн бұрын

Wise man, I'm in a similar boat. Looks good but it's not really reinventing the wheel and the fact that I haven't even tabled some of my newer arrivals(with more on the way)and recently backed a few other boss battlers makes this a pass for me.

@crash331 28 күн бұрын

@@karaso0 I'm on the fence as well. I decided to stay on board for Grimcoven, but I am cancelling Unstoppable. With Brink, Tanglewoods and Kemet coming, I am not sure if I have enough room for Blood.

@karaso0 28 күн бұрын

@@crash331 oddly enough I'm on the fence with Unstoppable but I'm leaning towards yes and skipping kemet😅. Tanglewood I was going to pass on since I have the first set of 20 strong but I've enjoyed it enough I may in fact pick up Tanglewood.

@dougsealy199 28 күн бұрын

Was going to back GC but it got stale fast and what even is it! Saved more money not backing that!

@sanderschippers2708 28 күн бұрын

Blood is a waste of money.

@damiankomimasa3609 24 күн бұрын

Hi, thank you for your first impressions and this fnal comparison to Grimcoven. Great job.

@jcapo5 28 күн бұрын

Nova aetas has tons of key words and icons. They made a small handbook for just those and it helps speed up the process.

@BoardGameCo 28 күн бұрын

Their player aid is great and does help

@HellPet 28 күн бұрын

I played Voidfall at Spiel last year and I was overwhelmed by the amount of icons I had to learn. Is this comparible to Voidfall in terms of the loads of icons?

@john9801 28 күн бұрын

What broke it for me is that every attack deals 0 - 1 damage. I don't want super swingy, but some swinginess helps to get more exciting moments.

@robschmidt6464 28 күн бұрын

Would like to see Project Elite back in the background ;)

@thecomicreadern4344 28 күн бұрын

Already paid for grimcoven,so is this worth it?

@zimbo5521 28 күн бұрын

This game looks wicked awesome!!

@BoardGameCo 28 күн бұрын

Enjoy it :)

@derraldlosey1118 28 күн бұрын

Tempted but I think I will pass. Trying not to back much anymore. Particularly until I play through some of my campaign games.

@luenarturoho1385 28 күн бұрын

Thnks a lot

@califax512 27 күн бұрын

Looks like this game still needs a lot of work. I will wait for "Blood: Rebirth"

@TheLighterTheDarkerCo 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for the sound preview. I've always appreciated your honestly when it comes to what you don't like. The iconography seems a bit nauseating. It is a very beautiful looking game. Yet I don't love the carnival/clown theme. Especially as much as I do like the Vampire theme. Additionally the timing with Grimcoven isn't helping LMS.

@BoardGameCo 28 күн бұрын

Yep, many things I like but I definitely have to be transparent about what I dont

@TheLighterTheDarkerCo 27 күн бұрын

Do you overall like it more than The Breach?

@spider1234556 26 күн бұрын

I respect that you gave your honest opinion that was enough negative it could cause people to drop out. This while having professional ties to gamefound.

@mykepantera1228 22 күн бұрын

I think they're replacing some symbols with keywords already, so this problem should be addressed already. I'm fine with the dice rolling. I like the tiles and cardboard scenery. I believe I'll like it, despite it's flaws. We'll see

@Exozik 29 күн бұрын

The whole cards system look awesome. The fact that it add boss cards where immediatly resolve while the rest resolve in reverse order is something I would really want to play with. Also the objective you clear which give you more rooms to play cards sound like a brilliant touch to the system. But the attributes tests and the tons of dices rolling seems to break the fun of manipulating the system. I might have back this one but I will pass. Hopefully LMS will iterate on this whole and give us a real gem based on this cards system in the near future.

@john9801 28 күн бұрын

What broke it for me are how the skill checks for attacks work. Each "attack" is a dice check that either deals 0 or 1 damage. There is no space for feel good turns in which you deal more damage. I don't want super swingy combat. But it feels great when you get a perfect roll that is dealing more damage than expected.

@dougsealy199 28 күн бұрын

Blood, not Dark Blood

@roberts5647 29 күн бұрын

Lots of dice and icons... sounds like Too Many Bones.

@BoardGameCo 28 күн бұрын

It's got a lot of differences :)

@sirpoupadou 17 күн бұрын

I'm not into pure boss battlers but was interested to hear your opinion on it, the minis in this game look so good! I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on it, but i must say at times you talk so fast its hard for me to understand 😅 Cheers!