Buffy doesn’t accomplish that though – it seems perversely determined to make sure you understand its fractured gameplay. The general city scape bag ground of the board is a little lack-lustre but most of the board is taken up with the locations so this isn't too much to deal with. The event cards are, again, very generic and lack a deep sense of theme - one card restricts movement to a certain number of spaces without much of an explanation as to why, others stop the special abilities of locations again without explanation or thematic description. Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer brings Buffy, Willow, Angel and Spike into the Unmatched universe. Now, to celebrate 20 years since the show’s premiere, we gamers are once again sinking our fangs into the Buffyverse.

It provides no bonus to damage, but using it on a vampire has the added effect of driving a vampire up to 10 spaces away (your choice), the exception being that you can't move them into sunlight.At around the midway point of the life tracks, the color lightens up, showing that the characters are wounded, and more vulnerable to stakings and sirings. Sunnydale has an impressive number of cemeteries which attract helpless townies like cheese in a mousetrap.

The Judge is the only villain that doesn't start the game in play, but all three of his minions (Spike, Drusilla and Vamp X) move every turn, until they find the Arm of the Judge and take it back to his start square, where he is reformed. What’s odd is that I’ve questioned these people as to whether or not they like other lighter co-op games like Pandemic and the answer is almost always yes. Buffy is good at fighting, Willow can do more with magic than anyone else, Xander can help others and so on and each of these special abilities makes choosing the characters that you play interesting and something to consider if not everyone is in the game.The rules are simple enough that a reasonably bright child can play, but not so simple that the game becomes boring. But importantly while I don’t think the game has the proper crescendo and finale that it deserves the puzzle that lies at the heart of the whole thing is simple yet wholly appealing, with an almost Pandemic flavor to it.