Sea of Thieves is one of my favorite video games, and the board game version is an impressively close adaptation to its digital sibling. Fans of the video game will find many mechanisms familiar, at least in spirit.
This is not how I would normally stage a review. However, Dragon’s Dogma 2 is utterly broken thanks to its scaling system, or rather, lack thereof. I find it impossible to talk about any other part of the game in isolation because the scaling issue impacts literally all of it.
Helldivers 2 is a team-focused co-op, third-person shooter about waging a galactic war against the enemies of Super Earth. Its moment-to-moment gameplay warps every match into a cinematic masterpiece unique to you and your squad. Every mission is filled with tense moments, epic climatic comebacks, and a ton of humor as you’re friend blows himself up because he held a grenade in his hands too long.
One advantage that board gaming has over other types of mediums is its tactile nature. The ability to hold the game pieces in your hands and move them around a play space. Some games lean more or less into this aspect, but Drop Drive goes all in on it.