The core reason I’m unimpressed is because Gloomhaven brings together two mechanisms that didn’t need to be brought together. To be honest, I don’t want to be THAT guy, just unimpressed with Gloomhaven for the sake of age, curmudgeonliness, or standee-rage. At that point, Gloomhaven becomes not just a game, but a lifestyle, and one that we were unwilling to commit to. I backed Gloomhaven the second go-around on Kickstarter, but was put off by the size of the game in terms of the time duration, which is at least a year, according to most reports online. In the end, Gloomhaven is a good game, but there are just other dungeon crawlers I’d rather play. As opening boxes is one of the main appeals of a legacy game for me, I felt like I was waiting forever to do that in the game. The biggest miss was probably how long it took to retire your character and unlock a new one. While I loved the thematic elements of the overland and city encounters, many times the battles turned into a giant slog and took way too long. Yet as our campaign marched on, the game seemed to lose a lot of its shine for me. That being said, I was really excited to play Gloomhaven and enjoyed our early sessions. You could literally play this for 200 hours or more. Gloomhaven was an ambitious project from Cephalofair Games and I have to hand it to them just for the sheer scope of the game. There is a wealth of content in Gloomhaven and you can expect to put in 100+ hours if you intend to finish everything. The main part of the game is handled in a dice-less dungeon crawl that uses cards for combat abilities and also as a randomizer. The goal of the game, other than to beat the scenarios and advance the overall campaign, is to get your character to finish their personal quest, thus retiring them and unlocking new characters for you to play next. Gloomhaven is a legacy style, dungeon crawler board game that will have you controlling a fantasy character throughout their career. You may have heard about this behemoth of a game, because it not only costs $120, but it provides hours upon hours of dungeon crawling adventures. This time around, the BGQ staff went with a somewhat newer game in Gloomhaven. In our first installment of Quick Hits from the Vault, we tackled the classic card drafting game 7 Wonders.
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