Could have been so good…
I used to play Talisman a lot as a kid and this is just like I remember; the brilliant characters, the beautiful art work and the simplest of instructions. Fantastic. However, the problem with this is that the dice roles are clearly not random chance. The amount of times that I fight an enemy - be it with strength or craft - and I get a one, and my AI opponent a six. Then I use a fate, only to re-roll a one again. Now, I’m not at all a sore loser. The fun thing about Talisman was always just taking your chances in a fight, but the dice roles are just too predictable that it does take the fun away and makes it more frustrating. It’s a simple thing to sort, I would imagine. It’s just a shame, otherwise I’d have given 5/5. Edit: Since writing this review I have played quite a bit more of Talisman to give it a chance. But ‘chance’ is what this game isn’t! It’s definitely fixed rolls. You lose all your objects - perhaps by being turned into a toad - and you can guarantee that before you get to your spot (in fact, very often the very next AI roll) another character rolls onto your spot and takes everything. If you try it yourself, the die just doesn’t give you your number. I played and experienced this many, many times. It’s easy to call what number will come up, both for your own and for the AI rolls. I have now dropped my initial score of 3/5 to just one star, because the game should be about ‘luck of the dice’, not ‘predictable dice’. Such a shame.
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