The King Is Crowned

Ah, the bustling city of Tokyo!

It was just an ordinary, monster-free day until Godzilla (Matthew), King Ghidorah (Nathaniel), and Megalon (yours truly) showed up for an epic smackdown! Our first foray into Godzilla: Tokyo Clash involved a lot of head-scratching over rules ambiguities (Do you have to discard a defensive card when you block an attack on another monster's turn? Can you block the damage suffered from being thrown into another monster or just the damage from regular attacks?) and fumbling around for effective tactics, but it was an enjoyable experience nonetheless.

The best part came when Megalon threw Godzilla into a skyscraper, and then King Ghidorah and Godzilla proceeded to throw Megalon back and forth at each other. It was like something out of a Three Stooges routine! 

Ultimately, Matthew had a lot of bad luck attempting to damage the other monsters, so it ended up a two-way race between Nathaniel and myself. His kaiju, King Ghidorah, squeaked past mine by one point to end the game as the king of monsters!

Happy New Year!

Good riddance to 2020! I'm glad to have started the year off right with a couple of new board games, courtesy of my amazingly awesome (and awesomely amazing) team at work. Thanks to their lovely holiday gift, the boys and I will be exploring Godzilla: Tokyo Clash and Santorini: New York. 

Godzilla: Tokyo Clash

The title sounds like a movie that Matt and I would've rented from the local Blockbuster during our Jolt-fueled doctoral studies in Rochester. As it stands, Godzilla: Tokyo Clash is a board game that delivers monster mayhem a la King of New York, but with gameplay that more closely approximates the action of kaiju films. I'm thinking about picking up a copy for the boys for Christmas, but this game has one major flaw: there's no Gamera. Come on, he's the friggin' Friend of All Children! The lack of Rodan is also problematic. Maybe they'll show up in a future expansion set...