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Review Ignores Game's Terrible Production
My biggest problem with the review is that it ignores the terrible production of the game. I mean, c'mon, the game has something like 20 pages of errata. At least half of the scenarios are entirely broken when you receive the game. It's impossible to play the game, even with an experienced group, without getting into some argument about the rules.
Add on to that the fact that most of the card board chits are plain chits with text on them. No pictures, and thus no atmosphere.
I don't like the randomness of the game either. The one game I played I got one turn before I stumbled into a spider web where I was stuck until I was killed. That's no fun, and it was a waste of an hour of gaming. However I think that is nothing compared to the terrible, terrible job that Hasbro did of producing this game.
I'd give it a 2 or 3 for Style, depending on if I decided the room tiles and such were nice and evocative enough to offset the awful job done on the rules. And I'd give it a 2 or 3 for Substance. There are considerably better "storytelling" games out there, among them the aforementioned Shadows over Camelot.
Shannon
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