[Dark Sailor Mercury]

I totally agree with Steve. The game is immense fun.

As to the main beefs I've constantly seen:

1: THE ERRATA IS A PHONE BOOK OOLOL
It's 4 pages, much of which can be figured out with common sense anyway. It's a definite nesessity but it's not unmanagable or hard to come by.

2: Randomness ruins the fun.
It ruins it for some players true. It doesn't make the game bad. It means some people don't like randomness. I think most don't mind it tho or else how could we explain the success of Talisman?

3: The counters suck!
There over TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY of them. For crying out loud, if they had replaced them all with plastic figures the cost would have been insane and sorting them would have been a nightmare. Lots of players seem to really get a kick out of replacing the counters with figures of their own or finding pictures for the counters themselves. I myself have no problem with them.

In any case, this game, like every game (except for Eagle Games), is a gem in the right group. Don't be afraid to try it.