Massive Darkness 2 Hellscape

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Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape is a dungeon-crawler through-and-through. Its foundations lie in CMON’s Zombicide series, just like the original Massive Darkness. There are tons of dice, tons of loot, and tons of baddies. The core game includes a tutorial and 10 scenarios for players to enjoy, 6 heroes, 62 bad guy miniatures, and a host of tokens and cards. As they fight toward their goals, they'll gain valuable loot and level up as they work through the scenario. Without an overarching campaign-style game (which you can tap into with the campaign expansion Massive Darkness 2: Heavenfall sold separately), each session is its own self-contained adventure, and players will have to work in concert to achieve the various goals of a given scenario. The full contents of Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape. Image: CMON As you can see from these descriptions, each of the six heroes has a unique playstyle, and brings their own specific expertise to each adventure. Finding fun synergies, and maximizing the specific abilities of your chosen hero, adds an incredible layer of depth to the game. What Are The Quests Like In Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape? Sometimes, this isn’t a big issue for a game, but Massive Darkness 2 is supposed to be a premium product, so it’s annoying that the given storage system is poor. What’s worse, the game’s already lengthy setup and tear-down time is elongated by the poor storage system. This isn’t a deal-breaker, but it’s head-scratching for me to think about how easy Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion made its rather involved set-up with token trays and character boxes 2 years ago. Why couldn’t Massive Darkness 2 have been at least as good as that? The scenarios are varied and do a good job showing off the fun parts of Massive Darkness 2: enemies, bosses, items, and hero abilities. Some scenarios are shorter and some are longer, which is great because that allows players to choose a scenario that fits within their time constraints. While 10 may not seem like a lot, each scenario is different: some will see heroes wielding a cursed sword that hurts them more each turn, others will see heroes escorting a friendly summoner to the nearest portal.

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Though this is not a campaign game, the Quests in Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape do tell a story from adventure to adventure. The heroes are trying to stop the flood of evil coming from hell, and venture deep into the bowels of this forsaken realm to battle the demons that lurk within. The first quest sees our heroes attempting to open the portal to nether world, and they succeed in this quest when they've successfully stepped into hell. One of the big bad's of Massive Darkness 2, the Archangel Michael As with all heroes in Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape, the cards for the original Massive Darkness heroes will tie them to a specific class. These new classes each play wildly different from one-another. We’ll cover more about how exactly they work in an upcoming article. But suffice to say, the heroes will have much the same flavor as before, but upgraded to make them work with the new styles of play. I enjoyed this more as a 2-player game, but if you don’t mind some waiting, this could be a fun 5-6 player experience as well. Massive Darkness 2 scales well with the only downside of more players being a longer playtime. The difficulty felt balanced. Not so tough that it feels impossible, and not so easy that players never lose, although there were a few scenarios that felt particularly easy with the set of heroes we played with.

Review Summary

Once they've entered hell, quests will have them gathering shards to forge an evil sword, survive and complete objectives without the sword corrupting them, fight against the Archangel Michael who's been corrupted by hell, and so on. While many of these quests revolve around the collection or destruction of items and enemies, the flavor and varied layout of each board keeps things feeling fresh with every game. What Are Our Final Thoughts On Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape?

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Players play as Lightbringers, fending off Hell’s invasion, eventually taking the battle to the demons in Hell. Demons and spirits abound, but beyond some mildly disturbing images (a character’s guts are held in by an iron cage), Massive Darkness 2 doesn’t feel as dark as the likes of Dark Souls or even Gloomhaven.In the sequel to Massive Darkness, players take on the role of Lightbringers fighting against Hell’s hordes. Massive Darkness 2 add light and dark tiles to the game, which can grant players specific bonuses, Content Guide However, there is much room for improvement storage-wise for Massive Darkness 2. This is indeed a massive game, and as such, there should either be a clear storage solution, or the storage should be heavily customizable (such as the approach Fantasy Flight Games takes in Outer Rim and Imperial Assault, where they provide players with an empty box and a ton of bags to sort and store tokens). Massive Darkness 2 has neither of these. I had to provide 10+ of my own bags to store things properly, and even then, the box lid doesn’t close all the way, and you really can’t store this game on its side without mixing the components. Yup, you’re gonna need to put that table leaf in.