I repeat: A dude who morphs into a phantom car. Hidden demons, nightmare cheshire cats, werewolf transformations, a dude who morphs into a phantom car. Perhaps more importantly, everyone in its cast is achingly cool. This time around, it understands the difference between sexy and objectified. And yeah, the second season solves my sole real complaint with the first, which was the way it portrayed its female characters. With the release of this year’s second season, this has clearly - pardon me - exceeded BattleCON in nearly every way. When I first previewed EXCEED three years ago, I wasn’t quite ready to pronounce it the better of D.
You can read my review here, or a Two Minds About… writeup with Brock Poulsen over here. This is a far cry from the old woodsmoke reek of Victory Point Games’ laser cutter. That’s twenty-nine heroes, hundreds of adventures and quests and artifacts and blights, along with multiple difficulty levels, a larger map, and a totally unnecessary miniatures expansion (it’s better with standees), all bound together into one of the finest examples of how a single gameplay concept can be honed until it cuts with molecular sharpness.
More than that, they’ve been fine-tuned to fit together more comfortably than ever. Every one of the original’s many expansions have been included. They may be heroes, but they’re also scared, frail, and would rather hide out in a monastery than face the final baddie directly.Īnd nowhere is that more apparent than in the definitive Second Edition. Whether evaluating upgrades for potential combos, licking your wounds, or hunting the Necromancer for the final showdown, your characters’ limitations are no longer irritants - they’re an integral part of the setting. But on your own, in command of four randomly-selected heroes, the whole thing adopts an entirely different tone. With multiple players, your single action per turn tends to wear thin, especially when loitering around a haunted forest for a few rounds. I’ve always had a soft spot for Darkest Night, especially solo. More than the recipients of a fresh coat of paint, today’s victors are ones that perhaps I appreciated, but have been crafted into something better than ever. These are the games that were forged anew - remakes, definitive editions, new seasons, fresh takes on classics. At long last, it’s here! The Space-Biff! Best Week! is widely recognized by no fewer than eight people as the finest end-of-year list in existence.
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