Pandemic: Legacy – Season 1 (Blue Version)
The world is on the brink of disaster. In Pandemic Legacy, your diseasefighting team must keep four deadly diseases at bay for a whole year. Each month will bring new surprises, and your actions in each game will have repercussions on the next. Will you let cities fall to the diseases? Will your team be enough to keep the viruses at bay for a whole year? Craft your own unique Pandemic experience with Pandemic Legacy.
60m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 13+
adamscott
POTENTIAL MINOR SPOILERS Final Thoughts : This was a fun experience and I'm glad I played it. The story, while cliched and very minimal, was good enough, but not amazing. I think board games still have a ways to go with telling stories (other than Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective and the like which are not really board games in my opinion). I enjoyed most of the added mechanics, except I wasn't too enamoured with searches (although they fit perfectly with the story). The levelling up of characters and cards was great. We made quite a few rules mistakes, which was frustrating. The game wasn't complex, but the constantly shifting mechanics, etc meant that rules goofs are more likely to happen. On top of that, we obviously couldn't look ahead online for new rules because of spoilers. The ending was pretty anti-climatic. The main issue I have with this is the same as regular Pandemic : Sometimes the game is too easy/hard based solely on the order the cards come out. Games rarely came down to the wire unfortunately.
Admiral Fisher
Basically, it's all about what you do in the first few moves. Get that right and you are probably going to win. get that wrong and it will snowball against you. Pandemic is ok, but I am a bit bemused by the clamour about it. I'd much rather play Yggdrasil.
actiondan87
It's just Pandemic with more rules layered on each month. I didn't find the story or the altered gameplay compelling. Some might get excited about revealing new components and rules, but for me it felt like a homework assignment; just more things to keep track of.