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Following last week’s Bloodborne The Board Game Unboxing (which you can access by the link below) today I will be doing a Bloodborne board game review where we are going to talk about the rules, the setting, comparisons between the board game vs the video game and some with Dark Souls Board Game and check the pros and cons on the latest kickstarter campaign from cmon games.
Bloodborne: The Board Game Unboxing – https://youtu.be/yFul7TLe2n4
Chapters
0:01 – Intro
1:06 – Game overview
2:55 – Enemies & Combat
4:20 – Character Upgrades
5:03 – Difficulty & Bosses
5:37 – Board game/Videogame
7:07 – Playtime & overall impressions
Hope you enjoy!
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Hi!!! I enjoy a lot your videos!!! Which would you recommend more Dark Souls or Bloodborne?
The minis look to be of higher quality than Dark Souls, would you agree?
I am late to the party and would like to start with either Dark Souls or Bloodborne – which do you recommend more. Now that both have an expansion galore to choose from it is even harder for me to decide. Any tips appreciated:) I can found nice offers for allin for both games – time to decide. Oh i play solo, 3-4 times per week, love dungeon crawlers (descent2 is my fave one), i also like games like folkolre the affliction. Help!:)
Question: this or dark souls board game?
Thanks for the review, really useful and informative as always. I enjoyed the video game so bought the kick starter core box plus 3 expansions, as yet unopened but I enjoy owning hem 🙂 I will be playing this in time so a how to play video would be really welcome if you have the time, I am also really interested in which expansions you feel add the most to the experience as I know there are more expansions beyond the first 3 but as yet I have not bought any of those, you did a 'which expansions should I buy' video for dark souls which i found invaluable 🙂 again if you have the time another one of those for this game would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all the excellent content. take care,
I am interested in tutorial video.
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My view on difficulty that you bring up around 5:20, Dark Souls has been not only much easier, but I feel I have more control over the RNG in that one. For the record, I'm currently 25 plays in with BB, have lost five times. In comparison, I'm at one defeat in Dark Souls out of 139 plays. Out of those five losses in BB, three have been purely off tile stack RNG, for which there is no mitigation. Other two to boss attacks, again, bad RNG with the right cards for the Hunter not either being in hand or not even showing up in the Upgrades during the game (Hunters with no 3-speed slots really need Indomitable, Poised and/or Tactical).
Since it is fresh in mind, today's game was probably the best/worst example of RNG just going "screw you, you're not winning this one." One of the Missions was to kill Hunter Mobs, yet with the tiles that came up and how the enemy cards ended up on the Hunt Board, there was but a single Mob out on the first six tiles! Granted, could've grinded that Mob after each reset, but it wasn't the only enemy within reach, plus it was on the wrong end of the board for the rest of the stuff I needed to do. Secondly, the lynchpin tile to the entire chapter was the very last tile (it was needed for an Insight Mission and the Hunt Mission). So now I'm almost at the third reset by the time it finally shows up. Worse, this is only stage one of the Hunt Mission, there was another tile I needed to get to after it. However, that other tile had come up as the very first tile, so now I'd need to get from A to B and there's four tiles between the two! Wasn't the first time such a thing happened, pretty sure won't be the last, and there is nothing available to mitigate it. You might try just running like a madman, reveal tiles and keep dying, but if no other lamps show up, you'll be respawning back at the starting lamp and making the trek on foot again to get back there, through all the enemies once more.
Boss fights are another aspect where DS > BB for me. Could be just coming from DS, where movement and positioning is so important to mitigating RNG of the dice, but in BB, there is barely any of that. And you can't even learn the boss patterns. You might see the entire boss deck in BB, but since it is shuffled every time it runs out, you're playing a guessing game and hoping to get lucky. I will say that the Witch of Hemwick boss fight, while not all that hard (then again, as per video game, it shouldn't be) felt very thematically accurate, rest of the fights have been "stand next to boss, spam R1, hope it drops before you do."
I would say that for me, BB highs are perhaps slightly higher than the best DS highs, but the lows are also way lower than any lows I've experienced in DS.
Thanks for the review!!! 👍
A how to play video would be highly recommended, especially if the rules don't have any good explanations on more than 1 player.
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