Week 2 Game Reviews

Love Letter

I really enjoyed this game, once we managed to understand the rules. Apparently we were supposed to take out two of the royals (picking the one that suited our fancy), but we accidentally played with all three royals in the game. I feel like this made things complicated but in a funny way. There were a few times when the remaining two players each had a royal. They either tied the round and each got an affection token, or they knew the other person had a royal, and forced them to discard so they could win. Act 1 was learning to play the game, and the first few rounds. Act 2 was starting to use strategy and actually playing the game. I thought we were going into Act 3 when Aaron had 3/4 necessary affection tokens to win, but Ronan managed to come back. The real Act 3 was when Ronan and Aaron each had three love tokens, while me and Luke each only had one.

Munchkin

Wow I absolutely hated this game. I couldn’t even tell you what the different acts were because we literally stopped playing this after a few minutes. Way too many rules to follow. I think we collectively gave up as a group halfway down page 2 of reading the rules and seeing there was still nearly four pages of rules left to read. We tried to play with what rules we had already read and just read the next rules as we went along, but the whole system was too convoluted to make that work. -1/10, would not play again ever.