I’ve been playing this game with my wife and kids and we like it. I am slowly painting the minis and they look awesome. I have a lot of these games so I actually appreciate that it doesn’t look like a D&D manual. I do the set up and while it does take a while, the game length is long enough and the table presence is good enough that I think it’s worth it. I agree the rule book is a bit tedious being split in 2, the tutorial book is only used the first time so I don’t hold that against them. I like the combat, it’s a dice pool combat system where your skill number is how many dice you need and you are counting successes. I like the variety of abilities. Because we are playing with 5 we are using Alastair from Assassins Creed. We are also using these modifier cards called “nightmare” cards that make the monsters different each time in various ways and also give them more loot when you kill them. I think this helps with a sense of variety. I feel like there is actually a lot of variety in monsters, there are three factions with two types of minion in each and then 2 types of lieutenants and probably 15 special characters. I didn’t feel like we only fought the guards other than 2 of the factions are human. I guess different expectations explain the different takes but we liked it and I intend to finish it.
@GamingWithSantanas5 ай бұрын
Joey looks to be in the light side, and Tom on the dark side 😂
@puchar1334 ай бұрын
Something else that helped our group.....we split up the work. I was the book guy. We had a clock guy. We had a map guy.
@AdamJorgensen5 ай бұрын
Glad I passed on this, got enough great games in this space that I don't need a so-so one.
@Rodfather_Prime5 ай бұрын
Been waiting to see this one reviewed.
@shanefrancis345 ай бұрын
It’s funny that the Dice Tower did their top 10 Dungeon Crawlers and I disagreed with about 80% of their choices. I have this, just busy painting up the minis before digging in.
@rabidpickle5 ай бұрын
Lighting has been weird in a few videos. Thanks for the review!
@nshaw12995 ай бұрын
0:30 This is a game that is an adventure game, but is really... a crate. A big ol' crate.
@robkanngiesser54635 ай бұрын
Love your review videos. Is there any way to add a little graphic at the start or end that notes the player count and time to play from the box?
@michaeldilisio5575 ай бұрын
0:19
@robkanngiesser54635 ай бұрын
Thank you. I watched an earlier review of a game that didn’t have it and so made a comment on this one because it’s the most recent… but I hadn’t watched it yet. 🤦🏻♂️
@inwyrdn36915 ай бұрын
Well shucks, another cooperative dungeon crawl. Can there FINALLY be a spiritual successor to Descent 2nd Edition? Sorry to gripe but the board game hobby is drowning in these things nowadays.
@puchar1334 ай бұрын
We played this on a lazy Susan which helped quite a bit with the vision issues
@thedicetower4 ай бұрын
Nice idea!
@arcaderunner21884 ай бұрын
I agree with the DT. I played the original NA and it had some cool moments but setup/teardown was a pain, and the game was too convoluted for the payoff.
@pluvia335 ай бұрын
I had ordered the original version of Nova Aetas after its sci-fi sister game Sine Tempore was the first big minis board game campaign that I ever backed on Kickstarter. I got them both in, tried to learn them, they sat and sat unplayed as the rules were way too convoluted for me, and I eventually lost all interest. Ended up throwing out/recycling everything from both games except for the minis which I plan to repurpose as Pathfinder/Starfinder RPG minis. Never played either of them a single time. Doesn't look like this new implementation of the system is enough to bring me back with the story/adventure campaign elements that were added. I did at least get their Black Rose War game played (once) and it is still in my collection, for now.
@edwindrood28165 ай бұрын
This game seems unnecessarily fiddly
@crazyvolucris5 ай бұрын
It’s a great game. Watch a playthrough and you get it fast 😎 and again who really loves Dungeon Crawler should not watch DiceTower reviews🤣 don’t get me wrong, you do great reviews… when it’s not a Dungeon Crawler😂🤣🙌🏻
@NotedEel5 ай бұрын
what are some things you think they got wrong about this one?
@AdamJorgensen5 ай бұрын
Uhuh. And yet they loved Oathsworn and Tom enjoyed ATO. I think your criticism basically boils down to "I'm not happy they didn't love a game I do" which is just not the best critique.
@pluvia335 ай бұрын
Yes, the guys who don't love dungeon crawlers recently did a Top 10 of their favorite dungeon crawl games....
@muzaq65 ай бұрын
@@AdamJorgensenTo be fair, Oathsworn and Aeon Trespass aren't dungeon crawlers.
@AdamJorgensen5 ай бұрын
@@muzaq6 yes, I realised after wiritng that that it may not have been clear that what I meant was that they're not averse to the kinda of experiences provided by big games with big rulebooks :-)
@arcubal4 ай бұрын
Boo. Lame complaints that apply just as much to games DT adores but chose to single out here. Boo.