To power their actions, characters have a unique deck of 10 cards, each with two different effects. Players who want more of a challenge can even start the game at a higher rage setting. Every time a leviathan’s deck runs out of cards it’s shuffled again, but not before the creature’s rage level goes up, making threat cards even nastier. Players must avoid damage, using their small size and speed to evade a leviathan’s awkward attacks. Players then have the opportunity to try to avoid or at least manage those attacks by taking actions - a smart way of simulating the giant creature’s slow but powerful movements. They indicate what negative effect will happen at the end of that turn, which can take the form of the player who’s highest on the leviathan taking damage, or the leviathan attacking the areas where players are currently positioned. “Even though we’re trying to help it, it is not entirely of sound mind so it’s going to be trying to kill us the entire time while we’re trying to heal it,” Kemppainen said.Įvery leviathan has its own deck of threat cards, and one is played at the start of each player’s turn. But the leviathan becomes increasingly agitated by the heroes’ presence. The crystals are represented by blue and white six-sided dice, with the number on the face indicating the crystal’s current strength. The goal is to use climber-shaped meeples to move around the leviathan and remove the binding crystals that have driven it mad.
The striking art from Moon Crab Games creative director Sam Shimota, who previously worked with Kemppainen on World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - A Pandemic System Board Game and Pandemic Legacy Season 0, is divided into a grid with different colored frames indicating types of hazards. On the table, leviathans take the form of a two-page spread in a spiral-bound book. The animation shows how players move and jump between different locations on a leviathan. I found Leviathan Wilds to be a fast-paced but satisfyingly fiddly experience that rewards teamwork, but one that doesn’t require quarterbacking. The other two characters are the tank, Hazard, and Mystic - a spellcaster who uses powerful ranged attacks often at the cost of their grip. Kemppainen handled the healer, named Fix. I played Kestrel, a highly mobile skirmisher who’s perfect for selfish players who want to focus mostly on their own moves. In our first battle we faced off against The Sage, a relatively chill, turtle-like leviathan designed to provide an introduction to the game’s mechanics. Polygon played an early alpha version of the game via Tabletop Simulator. From two to four players can take on the roles of adventurers brave enough to climb onto one of the creatures to try and heal it before they lose their grip, are crushed by the flailing beast, or succumb to the same blight afflicting the leviathan. After generations hiding from the rampaging creatures, humans have finally devised a way to cure the leviathans of their madness.
In the lore of the game, humanity once lived alongside gentle giants known as leviathans, but a slow-moving corruption caused them to begin wreaking havoc on the world around them. While Shadow of the Colossus tells a tragic story of misunderstanding and destruction, Leviathan Wilds takes a much different tone. An early prototype of Leviathan Wilds laid out for four players.
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