Pirate King: A Quick Review

In case you weren’t aware. Barnes & Nobel is having its annual clearance sale on the games they got in stock for the holidays. Most of them are crap, but Pirate King caught my eye. If you are jiggling your car keys as you read this, hoping I’ll get to the point quick so that you know whether or not you should race out to B&N immediately to snag your copy of Pirate King before they are all sold out, here’s the short version. If you like Merchants of Venus and Talisman, you will get your $17.50 (or $8.75 if it has gone down to 75% off) worth of fun out of this game. Go for it.

 
For the rest of you who are a bit more patient, here’s the slightly longer version…