Over Easter we had our grandchildren come over for the ritual Easter egg hunt, and eight year old David bought his brand new game he received for Easter for us all to play.
He enjoys anything with monsters and of course chose Gigasaur as his monster.
In King of Tokyo Monster Box, you play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens—all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. What’s not to like! The game mechanics are not much more than a slightly more complicated version of Yahtzee, but still great fun as you beat up other monsters.
At the start of each turn, you roll six dice, which show the following six symbols: 1, 2, or 3 Victory Points, Energy, Heal, and Attack. Over three successive throws, you choose whether to keep or discard each die in order to win victory points, gain energy, restore health, or attack other players.
The fiercest player will occupy Tokyo, and earn extra victory points, but that player can’t heal and must face all the other monsters alone. Something we learned very quickly was not a terribly viable tactic.
You can also buy special cards purchased with energy that have a permanent or temporary effect, such as the growing of a second head which grants you an additional die, body armour, or a nova death ray. Mwahahaha!
In order to win the game you must accumulate 20 victory points or be the last monster alive in Tokyo.
Nanny was the last one left standing in the first game with her “Cyber Kitty” due to the grandchildren trying to whack everyone in sight with lots of fun and laughter as one by one we went down. Queen Kitty of Tokyo!
Grandpa’s “Pandakai” was the first to to get whacked. The big whimp!
In the second game I swapped the wimpy panda for the Quark quark quark (pun intended) of “Space Penguin”! Grandpa’s strategy of staying out of Tokyo as much as possible and accumulating victory points worked with “Penguin in Spaaaace” crowned King of Tokyo by reaching the 20 VP just before “son and heir”!
This is an hilarious game that was easy for our 6 and 8 year old grand rug rats to pick up the rules and have lots of fun. It is sure to be a family favourite for a long time.
Highly recommended at about AU$70.00,
that dice-push mechanic is a fun one I’ve seen in other games (e.g. in Zombie Dice there are basically no other rules!), and is easy for kids to grasp. Just the right sort of mayhem for a monster stomping game.
Yep. Easily picked up by both rugrats!
I can attest, it’s a great party game and kids usually love it! You can also try King of New York which adds a little more complexity (plus more monsters to play with!).
Agreed and have purchased King of New York