Pandemic: Legacy – Season 2 (Yellow Version)
Embark on an epic adventure to bring humanity back from the brink of extinction in this standalone follow-up to the acclaimed Pandemic Legacy: Season 1. Black and Yellow Editions have variant covers game contents are the same.
60m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
AlexFS
[i]6 plays - 4p No spoilers.[/i] It's still Pandemic, but inverted with pick up and delivery. There is a lot more asymmetry in cities connectivity, which has important strategic consequences. I'm way more interested than I thought I would be.
Ajax2112
I just finished the campaign with my dad. I won't spoil the game out of respect, even though the game has shown no respect at all to its players. The gist is: You have no sense of end goal/direction till OVER half-way in. The game punishes you for literally everything you do. And I mean basically everything. Once you do figure out what you were supposed to do you have no time to do it. I could go on and on. It's actually awful. Truely the worst game (Board & Video games included) I have ever played. What you do need to know is, if you manage to put up with the game don't expect to win. Seriously. I don't think Matt and Rob could have designed a more forced-to-lose ending if they tried. I was actually pissed and yelling when I read how you are supposed to "win". Trust me, it's rigged. Hated the game all the way through, will never play it again. Oh and story? Your leaders left and it's up to you to stop racism.
Akado
Incredibly tense, and the "your fate depends on the shuffle" element of vanilla pandemic is everpresent and even magnified. The overall idea and narrative is great, but some of the details are problematic. Overall, I enjoyed the play and would possibly recommend it to others (but not blindly), but there were some real annoyances while playing that could be dealbreakers. There are definitely points in the game where the outcome is completely out of your hands, due to the game not having many ways to mitigate luck of the draw, and the steep death spiral starts (and ends) quickly. There are ways to mitigate the luck, but that depends on how well your group is doing and it's possible to exhaust those methods, leaving future months more random. Oddly enough, I'm not sure that "fun" is the word I would use to describe it, because it feels almost like push-your-luck in trying to rack up achievements before time runs out. That being said, there are lots of fun moments talking about how Washington is threatening to infect the whole country.