Primal the Awakening: Discussion
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- In the world of Monster Hunt- I mean, Primal; gigantic monsters need to be slain so we can live on the continent. While more monsters still need to be hunted, here we'll talk about Primal.
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They actually originally did have a damage modifier due to Elemental weaknesses (this was also in the original TTS mod before it was updated). I believe a significant part of the issue was two-fold.
1. Players needing to constantly remember to apply the damage modifier when applicable, but more importantly...
2. That it would require the developers to decide if they needed to balance the Monsters health and damage with the expectation of players of players focusing on taking advantage of Weaknesses, versus those that either don't, or simply don't have the right elements of gear available (based upon either previous Monsters fought, or what they've decided to built).
As it is, I honestly appreciate being able to add (only a few builds will likely remove cards, such as an Ultimate Burst Mirah) more cards I wanted into the deck. Either to shore up weaknesses, or focus on strengths (such as more Offensive cards for the Dual Blades, Karah, to trigger Blade Dance more easily). Also, sometimes, you really just want one more card of a given type, and it's nice to not have to be so choosy. Particularly if your Deck Upgrades are adding multiple cards of the same color that you like. Well, and more cards can be viewed as slightly more health, due to fatigue damage from deck cycling (outside of the two Masteries which ignore Fatigue damage).
I'm biased, though, as I quite enjoy deck construction, and believe it has more mechanical impact than minor damage modifiers would have (even if the damage modifiers might technically have made your character stronger).
To the above, it's impressive that, while the Deck Upgrade cards are often an upgrade over the Starter cards, it's usually more due to a build synergy, rather than them actually being 'stronger' than the Starter cards. Many, if not most, of the Starter cards still feel like 'must-add' cards to most decks, even after picking up an upgrade or two. Having to choose if you take them out as you unlock more Deck Upgrades can be tough.
Waiting for my copy in Europe, thanks for sharing the video - looking forward listening your thoughts, thanks for still doing this, some of the best game discussions on yt are from your channel.
Thank you very much! I’m glad you like the content!
This game looks super interesting. I missed the KS and hope that they make a reprint.
Reprint is already confirmed for later on in the year.
You should have got dividers for all of the monsters/heroes with the core box.
Oh really? I very much did not. :/ Were they in the core box or in the packaging?
Yeah mine came inside the core box
@@BoardGamesUnLocked only if you ordered the additional storage box. No dividers for core box only owners.
@@brettspielmeta That is not true. The monster dividers should be in the core box. I certainly got mine and I didn't order the sleeve box. The dividers are even listed in the components list in the rulebook.
Oh and when talking accessible boss battlers. If you dont need miniatures there are actually some great card based ones. My favorites would be Astro Knights and Sentinels of the Multiverse. But there are several others like Aeons End, Marvel Champions and so on :)
Both Aeons End and Marvel Champions are great options!
If you did see world ending super attacks in monster hunter you didnt get to end game. All the upper difficulty monsters in master rank have big finisher flashy moves.
I just wish I could’ve gotten this with the monsters as discs, and I’m not a “mini hater” or anything, but it just seems like they could’ve had the entire game in a single box like that, and it’s already decently abstracted.
Since you brought up wave 3, are you going to do discussion for the Gamblers Chest?
That’s a good idea. A “standee” version would’ve made so much sense for this game.
We are! We’re currently in the middle of a campaign for that so once we finish it, we’ll do a discussion for wave 3
Havent gotten to play Middara yet :D But in Gloomhaven one of the worst aspects were the boss fights in my opinion. We have started frosthaven and have done the first boss fight so far which was much more interesting than anything in Gloomhaven so hope they keep that up.
For something that has dungeon crawler gameplay but feels more boss battler ish in how enemies are unique you should look at Sword & Sorcery
Yea, the boss fights in GH and FH weren’t anything too special but I didn’t mind them too much. Middara takes the cake on horrible boss fights though. Lol
I’ve played Sword and Sorcery years ago and despised it. Granted, it’s been too long I don’t remember many specifics. Lol
Would be interesting to hear more about the difficulty level of this game. And have you checked out the nightmare deck, which is intended for more challenging encounters?
And needless to say: I like listening to you guys: gamers passionate about games talking about games less in a thinky way but more in a "is it fun or not" way. Sets you apart from most channels out there. Continue with what you are doing.
Once we finish a campaign, we’ll do a second discussion talking about our overall finalized thoughts so that should cover your difficulty topic!
Also, thanks for the compliment! Hope you continue to enjoy the channel
How did you feel about token management and having to constantly remember peril/objective/stance effects?
It wasn’t too bad but I wish they had a little token organizer like Oathsworn has. That would’ve helped a ton when needing to grab specific tokens
My understanding on advancing the campaign is that you could fight 1 boss or all the bosses (missions), available at that time before advancing to the next chapter. Is it really just 1 boss per chapter?
@@vipergecko03 I’m actually about to start a series for this funny enough but to my understanding, it was one boss per chapter
@BoardGamesUnLocked just looked it up on fb, apparently it is only 1 and done.
you said its not best boss battler and i am currious what is best now :-D.
@@7onyga I think I can do a Top 10 boss battlers so maybe keep an eye out on that one! ;P