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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.
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.
ande9249
played through and I am ready to give my final evaluation. the sense of discovery is wonderful. Now if only we didn't have such large rules accumulation because of that discovery. The ambition of this game is that you won’t have the same priorities or pace/ark in a game. Every action on the action card that you have built through the game is used in the last month, but how you evaluate the actions, and your resources, fundamentally change. And so I very much argue that this game should NOT be played real time. When you spend a month away from a game, you rely on more vague memories of the rules. When you take a year to play, you look for the similarities more, instead of just embracing the changes as they come. I will absolutely buy season 3 when it comes. but this was definitely a step back from the mastery of season 1. Or at least my experience of trying to play it in real time was a mistake compared to the “binge” play I did on season 1
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)