Yesterday me and my wife started a campaign of  Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic with another couple we regularly play board games with. In fact, we had played the first Clank! Legacy game with them. We all liked it a lot, which is why I then backed the crowdfunding campaign for the second game. Starting the new game was fun again, and we are looking forward to playing through the whole campaign.

Having said that, there is an obvious problem with the Clank! Legacy games, which is in the title: They are true "legacy" board games, which means that you can't play through the campaign without massively modifying the game in the process. Which then means that you can't play the campaign again, unless you buy a second box of it. It's a hundred bucks plus shipping, for 12 sessions, and then the box becomes basically useless. Technically you can play the game in its end state, but it is then static, and not much fun anymore. There is no way to reset it, and that also makes it impossible to sell the game second hand.

In fact, I am wondering what to do with the two boxes once we finished the second campaign. I kept the first box after the first campaign, but two boxes are taking up noticeable shelf space. Still, I would feel bad about chucking the boxes into the garbage bin. Probably it'll end up on the attic, with all the other stuff I never use, but can't bring myself to throw away.

Labels: Board Games

- posted by Tobold @ 1:08 PM Permanent Link