It was game night on Saturday, which is always a lot of fun. This week we tackled another new game, Marvel: Legendary, a deck-building game. Deck-building games have become one of my favorite types of games to play. They start out simple, everybody has the same base cards and then they use the resources those cards provide to acquire new cards and hopefully build some great combos. Where Legendary is a little different from the other deck-builders I’ve played is that the game has a cooperative element to it. You’re still trying to build yourself a great deck to try to amass the most points to be declared the big winner, but there’s a scenario involved. If you lose the scenario, then nobody wins. I supposed the person with the most points is the smallest loser of the bunch. The games play relatively quickly, we managed to play two complete games with a store-run in between and we finished before midnight which is FAST for us.

The downside to the game is that unless you want to play the exact same scenario with the exact same hero and villain selection, you need to take time between games to sort out all the cards that were used and then build a new scenario. The setup time for each game was actually a big detriment to my enjoyment. You’re trying to pick random heroes and villains but there’s no way of doing so elegantly with the elements included in the game. What would have been really nice is a card for each character. You shuffle them and then draw as many as you need. Then you get the cards out corresponding to each and build the hero and villain decks accordingly. I had the genius thought AFTER setting up the second game, “Gee! I wonder if anybody made a randomizer app for this?” Lo and behold there were two! One that was free but which only included the elements from the base game (I already bought all the expansions because I’m a nut like that). The other one I found included all the expansions and cost only 1 dollar. Sold! It may sound crazy, but I think the app is almost a necessity. It makes setting up so much easier. The next thing I need to do to speed things up even further is to get more separators for the cards and label them to make it easier to find the cards I’m looking for. And this is something that will be worth doing since my gaming group really seemed to enjoy the game so it’s a sure thing we’ll be playing it again sometime soon.

In other news, I finished the Ranma mash-ups this weekend. I’ve got a one-shot idea for the next theme. I’ll have to see what I can do with it.

Finally…I’m really starting to get annoyed with my computer. I can’t play games on it anymore because it’ll just shut down. I can’t watch Youtube videos on it because it’ll just shut down. Today I wasn’t doing either and it shut down. There’s some serious overheating going on. I really don’t want to lock myself into another big expense right now. If this continues, I may have no choice though.

So that’s all for this week. I’ve been typing this fast hoping that my computer won’t overheat and shut down in the middle (It’s shut down twice today as I was in the middle of drawing but to be fair, I was doing some multitasking as I was doing so). Have a good week all!