Dungeon Fighter

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Product Feature
- A unique, fully cooperative, dexterity-based dungeon-themed board game
- or 1?6 players, and playable in under an hour
- Includes a four-piece target board, a cardboard tower, nearly 150 cards and reference sheets, and more
Product Description
FFGHB05 Dungeon Fighter GameBy Fantasy Flight Games
Dungeon Fighter: A Game of Dexterity, Adventure and Humor!
Dungeon Fighter is a fully cooperative board game for one to six players that combines dexterity, adventure, and a healthy dose of humor. Players take on the roles of heroes venturing deep into a three-tier dungeon. Along their way, they explore the dungeon, search its many rooms, and face endless hordes of vicious monsters. Where Dungeon Fighter stands apart is in its unique dexterity-based elements. Players take turns throwing dice at a colorful target board, often from several feet away. What is more, randomly drawn dungeon effects may dictate that a player must throw his die behind his back, with his eyes closed, under his leg, or under any combination of (often hilarious) restrictions. Keep a steady hand a clear mind, and your team with emerge victorious.
Dungeon Fighter Review
Pleasantly surprised to find the general quality of the game to be extremely high.The cardboard pieces and extremely thick and well formed, though we did experience a couple of the tower sections splitting when building the tower for the first time. It seems like it will probably hold, regardless, but perhaps some slightly stronger tabs at the sides there would prevent that.
The printing on the cards and character sheets are amusing and bright, though the difference between green and blue (And no I'm not color blind) are hard to differentiate. Not a huge deal once you figure it out.
The only real problem we had was the instructions.
I've have never, not EVER read instructions so poorly written/translated.
I say translated, because it's a German game, and must come to the conclusion that the formatting and order of rule detail in the game manual is this poor due to a direct translation problem from German to English.
There's typos and explanations not on the pages that it tells you to turn to. The correlation and descriptions of what pieces do are random and wildly illogical, and have you returning to the instructions to read through again and again.
"See table on page 6" only to find it on page 7, etc etc...
If you've ever had the rules of a game related to you by a 6 year old kid, you'll know how they fixate on the first random thing that comes to mind, only to notice another piece/card/rule and then go on about that for a while, leaving you unsure what the hell the game is even about or how it basically functions.
This is how the instructions read back to us, and I can imagine it killing the game for some before they've ever been given the opportunity to give it a chance. It isn't even as if they're poorly constructed sentences. It's as if someone took all the sections of the game book, stirred them up and pasted them back in the order that they looked the nicest in, killing any logical flow.
It's something that could have been solved with a brief synopsis right at the beginning on the booklet of how the game works in a play by play scenario (even if it skipped various rules) and THEN expand on specifics by breaking them down into more effective categories.
It seemed the writers didn't know how to simplify, and so expand on EVERYTHING at it's first mention, which not only confuses, because at the stages you're reading of these specifics, you don't know how they correlate to the function of the game, but also because it's near impossible to find that rule you remember reading when you return to the (12 page) book when you need to refresh your mind about a specific rule.
That said, if you get past it, it's fun. It's REALLY fun.
My kids absolutely loved it, and I can see us going back now we've broken through the learning curve. For a while there though...If it hadn't been recommended to us I possibly would have sent this back.
I have to take a star off for the instructions. It was a near deal breaker, and I'm hoping this review might make people aware that behind that brick wall you hit when starting out, there is a decent and fun game to be had that really isn't that complicated, and doesn't require that kind of instruction book.
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