Sunday, January 20, 2013

In the Bag: Castle Panic


In castle panic, players work together to try to beat the game.  Players play cards to try to destroy the monsters as the spawn in the forest and move in towards the towers.  If they knock down all of your towers, you loose, if they are all defeated with at least one castle remaining, the players win.

Players can also choose to anoint a victor among them by adding up their personal kill points to determine the victor if they win.

Plays

So far, I have only played this one once.  We had a rough time near the middle of the game where we were swarmed, but managed to make it through for a victory.  I killed 3 of the bosses and a few trolls with some of the smaller monsters as well and ended up being the overall victor.

Pros

This is a really fun little co-op game with very little setup time and very little explanation time as players and quickly understand the mechanics.

The monsters will come out in vastly different ways leading to allot of variety of game play.

The players are forced to work together and stategize for ultimate victory.

Cons

The game feels a little light and that it might be a bit easy to beat.  This will work well for first timers and newer gamers, but might get a little ho-hum for more experienced gamers.  I've heard the expansion does wonders for this, though.

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