The Monster at the End of this Review: A King of Tokyo Monster Box Review

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Great read. Thank you. I was half expecting to see Grover pop out of my screen and keep me from scrolling.

So...

If I still own 1st KoT, Halloween, and Power-Up... I can skip this box. I may not get that cute baby, but I (think I) can live without.

Well, if you are rocking the 1st edition, you would also be getting Cyberkitty and Space Penguin from 2nd edition

Nice work. Still doesn't sound like it's for me, but it was a great explanation of both the box itself and the game.

I will continue to evangelize playing KoT without the Power-Up expansions. While on the surface having more "unique" monsters seems great, the way evolutions interact with the game are both unbalanced and tend to slow the game down. This knocks the fun out of game which is supposed to be about quickly chucking dice and yelling at them when they give you the opposite of what you want (or glaring at my wife, who always sits my left and will pick up hearts to try and roll more claws even if she's at 3 health). And while sometimes you do need to chase those hearts, any mechanic that rewards you for chasing hearts (aka 3 hearts for an evolution) again, SLOWS THE GAME DOWN. My group universally despised the evolutions when Power-Up first came out, but online discourse seems to make it the "default" way for people to play, so maybe it's just us? And this includes folks that are typically fun-murdering cube-pushers. One in particular loves the fact that the most important decision is picking your monster, which makes no difference in game play. Except for the Kracken, because the Kracken rolls more claws, I swear it...

cdennett wrote: I will continue to evangelize playing KoT without the Power-Up expansions.

Preach it, brother!

quozl wrote:

cdennett wrote: I will continue to evangelize playing KoT without the Power-Up expansions.

Preach it, brother!

As Barnes told me on Twitter when I was extolling the virtues of Power up "Sorry Wade, you are having fun the WRONG way!"

WadeMonnig wrote: As Barnes told me on Twitter when I was extolling the virtues of Power up "Sorry Wade, you are having fun the WRONG way!"

Eh, what does he know? He doesn't see the fun in Diplomacy.