I bought this game when it first released, had damaged components, got replacements from iello, and the game collects dust.
One gamer friend liked this as a game to play with his son. My wife hates it (finds it boring), my daughter is never interested in playing it, and to be perfectly frank, I've only enjoyed maybe half of the games I've played (ones where the dice were more friendly, and more cards/decisions were able to be made).
As it is, for a dice rolling game, sometimes it DOES become a bit too rote. I see it as similar to Fluxx in that way, some games can be decent enough fun when they breeze through and the mechanics have a chance of all coming together.
Then there are those games where nothing comes together, and you are just rolling dice that seem to be against you, with the ability to do almost nothing.
This one went down as my biggest purchase regret of 2012. We all enjoy Zombie Dice and Cosmic Wimpout once in a while (if we want a dice rolling fest), or Farkle (kid has a deluxe farkle tin set). They are much quicker and more to the point than King of Tokyo.
Honestly, I think the main draw that people have to King of Tokyo is just the cardboard monsters/theme. Some people just like to stomp and say "RARRRRH" and that's enough for them. For myself, and others I played with, it tried to appear to be more than it really was (with all the cards and such), when it's really just LCR/Yahtzee.
I will admit, I expected more since there were cards and Richard Garfield's name was behind it. I blame myself for that, but the design of the game did initially look like the cards would affect gameplay much more than they do, on a regular basis (this of course, before the game actually released).
One gamer friend liked this as a game to play with his son. My wife hates it (finds it boring), my daughter is never interested in playing it, and to be perfectly frank, I've only enjoyed maybe half of the games I've played (ones where the dice were more friendly, and more cards/decisions were able to be made).
As it is, for a dice rolling game, sometimes it DOES become a bit too rote. I see it as similar to Fluxx in that way, some games can be decent enough fun when they breeze through and the mechanics have a chance of all coming together.
Then there are those games where nothing comes together, and you are just rolling dice that seem to be against you, with the ability to do almost nothing.
This one went down as my biggest purchase regret of 2012. We all enjoy Zombie Dice and Cosmic Wimpout once in a while (if we want a dice rolling fest), or Farkle (kid has a deluxe farkle tin set). They are much quicker and more to the point than King of Tokyo.
Honestly, I think the main draw that people have to King of Tokyo is just the cardboard monsters/theme. Some people just like to stomp and say "RARRRRH" and that's enough for them. For myself, and others I played with, it tried to appear to be more than it really was (with all the cards and such), when it's really just LCR/Yahtzee.
I will admit, I expected more since there were cards and Richard Garfield's name was behind it. I blame myself for that, but the design of the game did initially look like the cards would affect gameplay much more than they do, on a regular basis (this of course, before the game actually released).