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Jurassic Park: Danger!
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Ravensberger just put this out. Target exclusive, $24.99. I’m a lifelong dinosaur kid and a JP fan, so I couldn’t resist and picked it up.
It’s really cool! The production is really great for the price and it’s clear that a lot of love for the first JP movie went into it. They managed to give some personality to the 10 human characters, everyone has their own unique deck and they have a personal goal they need to fulfill before escaping, but you can also play as the dinosaurs, which is always important.
I need to play it some more, but I can say there’s more gameplay here than I had anticipated, it’s seems pretty balanced between the humans and dinosaurs, and it should be pretty replayable between the modular map and how each character plays a little different.
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Odd that it is Forrest Pruzan but a Ravensburger imprint.
I’ll review it next week.
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My daughter started with Lex Murphy, the gal who ended up re-starting the computer system. So her goal is to get to the control center.
I started with the blood sucking lawyer, whose goal is to not be attacked, and whose special card is to 'run away' better than anyone else. there is definitely some decent strategy with moving the dinosaurs around and when to turn the fences on/off.
I really like how the game has you refill your hand. As you play cards, you place them in the discard pile. if the dinosaurs attack you (or attack you multiple times in around) and you run out of cards in hand, your character is dead. But to take your discarded cards back into hand, you need to 'burn'(take out of the game) the cards that are left in your hand, making for a neat push your luck bit. So burn some cards now for a short term gain/safety, but have less cards available over all for that character.
There is some reading for the humans, so my son played the dinosaurs and did a good job corralling the humans away from the places they needed to go. The special dinosaur actions help to make the 3 dinosaurs you control feel different. Raptor being really fast, Dilophosaur spitting into adjacent hexes, and the Rex being terrible if he attacks you at the wrong time. Overall, I like it as a fun family game
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Shellhead wrote: This looks like a perfectly decent game. Nice components aside from the meeples, special objectives, and separate decks for each player. I think it would be reasonably fun, and the price is extremely reasonable. But it doesn't look like this game does anything special, and seems less innovative overall than Escape from 100 Million B.C. I would totally play this game, but reluctantly pass on buying it.
This is pretty much my opinion after a play. I dig the Gloomhaven-esque hand management system, but there's not much else in this game really bringing me back to it over something else. Would much rather play anything else on my shelf in this weight class.
I also am not a huge fan of the combat just draining your hand a specific amount. It could use some more drama in that regard.
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