And while I did have a little trouble at first, it wasn’t long before I was pretty comfortable with where I was. On one condition: when it's all over, and Apollo has the ammunition he needs to protect Olympus, she and her sister will be allowed to leave. This is how you get into position for battles and claim territory for the scoring phases, and there’s really not much more to say about it. Moreover, it didn't have any real understanding of what a city was or how it was supposed to work, and instead the city it created just superficially resembled one, with chaotic and nonsensical placement or proportions of the buildings with a random number of rooms which attempted to become real regardless of the God's efforts.

Neither expect infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize, nor for the complicated fire that burns the moment she looks their way. Neon Gods should play fairly quickly once you learn all the rules; supposedly a full game of nine rounds should take 1-2 hours, and with a good group there’s no reason why that can’t happen. Each time you open the box you’re resigning yourself to a solid 5-10 minutes of just separating out all the pieces. The thing that took me by surprise the most in this book were the incredibly sweet moments between Hades and Persephone.It is a powerful deity embodying the concept of a city and the desire of humanity to feel connected and stick together with others for as long as possible. I love its ancient monuments, destroyed and cast again in metal, to be destroyed again and recontextualised in the future.

Mimi is a coffee addict who usually spends her days working on her PhD dissertation in American Studies (or at least, creating ridiculously awesome procastination playlists while pretending to be productive). Since the city lacked a sewage system, the city quickly began flooding and soon the buildings and their electronics ceased functioning. Robert knows how to craft banter that will keep your eyes glued to the page but dare I say, in Neon Gods the dialogue was almost next level?This book tells the tale of Hades and Persephone with a modern lens where they are not gods or goddesses, but rather the name is a title. I started this blog back in 2015 to be a place where I could be creative and share things that I love.