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+
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.
Allenthar
I like how the map slowly expands as you play, but I feel like the core mechanics of the game don't change enough to keep it exciting while playing the many games necessary to complete the campaign. If you really enjoy the core mechanics of Pandemic, this would probably be quite enjoyable. (Only completed ~6 games of the campaign)
Alycat
Another excellent Pandemic legacy game. I preferred Season 1 but this was also very good. Pick your teammates wisely as you can only play this once and it will probably take a couple of days to finish.