Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Board Game Review
Year: 2000
Ages: 14+
Players: 2-8 (For the purpose of this review, there were 2 players)
Set Up Time: 1 Minute
Playing Time: Took us 8 minutes
Object: Take on the role of human or vampire in a battle for control of Sunnydale.
Review:
+ You can play this game with up to 8 people
- You don't get to choose your character, it's assigned at random (I want to be Buffy dammit!). Also every character is associated with a color, also at random, so you don't get to pick your colored pawn either. (Which made it very difficult for me who ALWAYS picks the red pawn to remember that I was the yellow one)
- All players get a day power number and a night power number which will either give them more power to beat their opponent in the daytime or at night. However (especially when playing with only two players) a problem with this game is that if you randomly get assigned a character with higher power numbers (The Master) and your opponent gets randomly assigned a character with low power numbers (Giles), the person with the low power numbers has no chance of winning.
Overall:
I think it's funny that the suggested age to play this game (14+) is higher than the suggested age to watch the TV show (13). Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my all time favorite TV shows and sadly this game really has nothing to do with it and took much longer to figure out how to play it, than to actually play it. Maybe having more players would make it more enjoyable but it was hard enough to find one person to play it with me let alone seven others.
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