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Sonic Prepares for Another Run, Commanders Fall on Planets, and The Witcher Is Unmatched | BoardGameGeek News

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Board Game: Sonic Roll

• Los Angeles-based Kess Co. has released a few titles based on video games, such as Mega Man Adventures and Contra: The Board Game, and in Q1 2024 it will add Sonic the Hedgehog to its catalog in the form of Sonic Roll, a game for 1-4 players from Anthony Thorp:

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Sonic Roll is a semi-collaborative multiplayer game in the style of 16-bit classic Sonic. Each player chooses Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, or Amy to play as they make their way through four classic Sonic Zones. You can challenge a single Zone or adventure through all of them in campaign mode.

Board Game: Sonic Roll

As you traverse these iconic Zones, you can save the woodland creatures the evil Dr. Eggman has captured, using character-unique abilities to roll dice and take out obstacles in your path. Place dice to run through Zones; collect rings, power-ups, and Chaos Emeralds; and defeat the Badniks that stand in your way. A Zone isn’t complete until the players face off against one of the bosses from across the Sonic franchise, where they must try to score enough hits to defeat Dr. Eggman and his army before time runs out!

• In other video game to tabletop game news, at the end of November 2023 Arcane Wonders released Age of Wonders: Planetfall, a 2-6 player game from Stepan Opalev based on the Age of Wonders: Planetfall video game from Paradox Interactive:

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The heyday of the Star Union has come to an end. Setting off massive gravity bombs designed to create spatial rifts to new worlds led to the Collapse, and many planets were cut off from the rest of the Empire.

Board Game: Age of Wonders: Planetfall

The surviving factions began gradually rebuilding civilization and rediscovering lost technology. Being once part of a single state, they will have to meet again and find out who is worthy of succeeding the great power.

In Age of Wonders: Planetfall, you are the Commander of one of the six surviving groups that have set out to explore the once-abandoned parts of the Star Union. Your expedition will explore seven planets in search of valuable resources and technology, battle hostile units, and seize landmarks. Will you be able to create a new world from the shards of the old Empire?

The game is played over seven rounds, and a new planet is explored each round. Each player may conduct two explorations on every planet. The players will gain Empire points by defeating units, studying technology, claiming landmarks, and running operations on those planets. At the end of the game, players score Empire points for meeting certain conditions listed on a particular goal sheet. Whoever scores the most Empire points wins.

I remember reading articles back in 2012 about Lindy Hemming’s design of Bane’s coat in The Dark Knight Rises (such as this one), and that style lives on here.

Also, given Arcane Wonders’ licensing of this title and World Wonders, publishers around the world might consider using the word “wonders” in their title to ensure a future U.S. partner.

Family: Game: Unmatched

• In 2024, Restoration Games will release two Unmatched sets based in the world of The Witcher video game — “Steel and Silver” and “Realms Fall” — with each set containing three playable hero decks and two unique battlefields. From the publisher: “In addition to the White Wolf himself, fans of The Witcher will be thrilled to: lead Ciri to her destiny as the Lady of Space and Time, quaff a Tawny Owl potion, and race across the battlements of Kaer Morhen to stalk your foe.”

• In 2024, Steamforged Games will release Dark Souls: The Board Game – The Sunless City Core Set, a 1-3 player standalone co-operative game that can be integrated with 2017’s Dark Souls: The Board Game to have up to four people at the table.

What’s new in this edition of the game? Says the publisher, “Six years on, this new core game reimagines the original Dark Souls: The Board Game experience with refreshed rules driven by community feedback, including a new campaign and encounter system.”

Board Game: Dark Souls: The Board Game – The Sunless City Core Set

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