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Nov. 25th, 2019 08:27 pmFor my birthday, my Mom gave me a new board game: Horrified. We have just finished playing our first game. Mechanically, it's a lot like Arkham Horror, but it's a lot friendlier to new players, doesn't have a 60-page rulebook, and isn't too big to fit on my table. (I would play solo Arkham Horror a lot more often if I didn't have to play on the floor.) Also, it's about Universal Horror monsters. Two things that I find immensely charming:
1) The back of the board is the first thing you see when you open the box and written on it is a paraphrase of Edward Van Sloan's speech from the intro to Frankenstein, rewritten to be about this board game. That's fucking adorable.
2) So, there are seven monsters you can potentially be fighting in the game: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Bride, the Wolfman, the Invisible Man, the Mummy, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each of them has a unique way of defeating them. For Dracula, for example, you have to smash four of his coffins and then kill him. For the Creature, you have to move a boat token to find his hidden lair and then drive him away. For Frankenstein and the Bride, however, you defeat them by teaching them how to be human, after which they settle down and live peacefully with the surrounding humans. Why is this boardgame giving me feelings, you guys?
Really, the only thing wrong with this game is, unlike Arkham Horror, there will probably not be expansions with other, more obscure Universal Horror monsters and thus I will never be able to play against Kaye Caldwell or Marya Zaleska.
1) The back of the board is the first thing you see when you open the box and written on it is a paraphrase of Edward Van Sloan's speech from the intro to Frankenstein, rewritten to be about this board game. That's fucking adorable.
2) So, there are seven monsters you can potentially be fighting in the game: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Bride, the Wolfman, the Invisible Man, the Mummy, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each of them has a unique way of defeating them. For Dracula, for example, you have to smash four of his coffins and then kill him. For the Creature, you have to move a boat token to find his hidden lair and then drive him away. For Frankenstein and the Bride, however, you defeat them by teaching them how to be human, after which they settle down and live peacefully with the surrounding humans. Why is this boardgame giving me feelings, you guys?
Really, the only thing wrong with this game is, unlike Arkham Horror, there will probably not be expansions with other, more obscure Universal Horror monsters and thus I will never be able to play against Kaye Caldwell or Marya Zaleska.
