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05 REM Wonderland's War Premium Chip Review by The Komputer Kidd
10 INPUT “Do you love Wonderland's War? Y/N?”
20 IF “Y” THEN GOTO 1000
30 IF “N” THEN GOTO 10000
1000 INPUT “Do you play Wonderland's War often? Y/N?”
1010 IF “Y” THEN GOTO 2000
1020 IF “N” THEN GOTO 10000
2000 INPUT “Do you really dig the feel of premium chips and tactical sensation they add to gameplay? Y/N?”
2010 IF “Y” THEN GOTO 3000
2020 IF “N” THEN GOTO 10000
3000 PRINT “The Wonderland's War Premium Chip Set is Right for you!”
10000 PRINT “The Wonderland's War Premium Chip Set is likely a luxury you don't really need.”
11000 END
My original idea for the Wonderland's War Premium Chip review was to write this cute little program in BASIC. Then I realized I haven't programmed in BASIC since I was taking a break from playing M.U.L.E. on my Commodore 64. After a couple of hours of “brushing up” and actually trying to make a functioning program I said “Screw it.” Even I have limits on how far I will go for a joke.
The first question “Do you love Wonderland's War?” is pretty easy to answer. If you are here, reading a review of premium tokens for Wonderland's War, you likely are at least very fond of it.
Wonderland's War is a game where you spend roughly one-third of the play time either pulling tokens from a bag or adding token to a bag (and that is not counting the amount of time you just stick your hand in the bag and rustle them around to ward off the bad juju). While the tokens included in the base game are perfectly fine, one does tend to worry about wear and tear over the long term. Hell, isn't the entire sleeving industry based on this? This leads to the second question you should ask yourself when considering the premium tokens “How often is this going to get played?” I can only answer that for myself and my response is “As many times I can bring this to the table and not face a rebellion from my gaming group.”
The tactileness of the premium chips is possibly the biggest attraction of this upgrade. Just the heft and feel of the chips resonates in a real and immediate way. Their layout also makes it simple enough to decipher if some of the quests or chip powers that are triggered by having different colored active chips have been met.
As with any expansion, storage is always a concern. The Premium token expansion is literally built to fit directly into the base box. Even with my “custom” speedy set-up (When I tear down a game of Wonderland's War, I prime the player bags for the next play by putting all of that characters applicable tokens, markers and cubes into the character bags), it still all fits in the base box with only a tiny bit of lid lift.
Of course, if you choose to pack it the recommended way, its fits flush.
The biggest barrier to picking this up is the price. At 69.00, it is literally the price you might expect to pay for an entire game. Deluxe Tokens are definitely a luxury. But in a game that focuses so heavily on the bag building element, it's one that ups the entire Wonderland's War experience.
A review copy of this release was provided by the publisher. Therewillbe.games would like to thank them for their support.
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