So not only is this another boardgame adaptation, but it’s a card game to boot. As much as I love card games, I’m getting sick of them myself so this will probably be the last one for a while. The good news is that I got a ton of expansions in one package when I got this, which would have been ruinously expensive to buy in physical form. The bad news is that this game was clearly inspired by Dominion but I think I still like the older game more.

This post covers both the Patient Zero mini-campaign for the 2016 game as well the free so-called Summer bonus episodes for a total of seven extra missions. All these reuse the same locations as the base game of course but they do change up the decor a bit and often depict the same area during a different time of the day. The Summer episodes are essentially more of the same in simpler form even, but the Patient Zero missions do change up the game mechanics a bit.

The last game in the bundle of digital versions of board games that I bought so very long ago is good, old, boring Ticket to Ride. This is one of the very first board games we learned to play in Kota Kinabalu. Given that it has dirt simple rules and that I would only be playing against AI, I thought I’d just briefly check it out. The good thing is that this version comes with nearly every map ever made for the game. With the slight rule variations on each of them, it still takes a little bit of time to give each map a test run.

I put the year of release together with film titles here because quite a few films share the same title and some have been remade so many times that it would be confusing to know which version I am referring to without specifying the year. I’m now wondering if I should do the same for video games as franchise owners have been rebooting and renumbering them. This post of course refers to the 2016 reboot of Hitman but then it’s not really a reboot since it takes place after Hitman: Absolution. Whatever, it’s all just for marketing purposes anyway.

By dint of its commercial success and huge cultural impact this is one independent game that I consider a must play. It was even voted as the best video game ever made which made some people really mad. I held off for a long while as I wasn’t sure how well I would be able to handle the combat and I’m not a big fan of these Japanese RPG-type mechanics. As it turned out, I did indeed love the story but had a horrible time with the combat even after doing everything possible to make it easy for myself.

It has been a long time since I played the first Injustice but I still fondly remember it as one of my favorite ever fighting game and one of the very few video games to have a truly awesome story. So it was with a lot of anticipation that I wanted to play this sequel. In fact I even bought a fighting stick for it, my first ever, though it is the cheap and small Hori Mini Fighting Stick. I had a lot of trouble pulling off moves that require a quick backward-forward movement on the thumbsticks of the usual gamepads and thought this might be better and it really did help a lot. Unfortunately while this sequel’s mechanics are solid, the story is awful and really spoiled the experience for me.

I hate the idea of leaving games in my library unplayed so I’m determined at least to give a whirl to every one of the titles I bought a while back in the boardgames bundle. This one however is a worse candidate than usual because it’s one of those super social subjective judgment games. It does have AI and even comes with a single player Story Mode but this is really the kind of game that ought to be played in person with your friends.