Dracula vs. Van Helsing Review: Head-to-Head-to-Tooth-to-Stake
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- Joey and Zee check out this small game for two players (from publisher Mandoo Games) in which you must be savvy to defeat your opponent while you're under pressure.
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BGG Link: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3... 
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Sometimes you can sleeve tiles. I would double check the sizes and fit for the rack. I sleeved the Werewords characters.
Zee you are so right, this is such a creeper. I played it once on BGA and thought "meh" but my friend wanted a rematch and the more I played the more I liked it and now Ive ordered the physical copy!
Hey, Zee, cool review!
I'd like to add that this is not just a spiritual successor to Jekyll vs Hyde, but it also carries over the mechanic with the mutable card suits. D vs VH adds the trump suit, but otherwise it's the same.
The art of Jekyll is done by Vincent Dutrait, you were thinking it might have been Santiago Webster because he did the art for Bloody Inn, which has a very similar visual style.
Also, you made a mistake in the demo round - for the third district, the red card was stronger than your teal card, so you shouldn't have turned a citizen into a vampire, but take a wound.
I dont get it, the teal is a 5, the red is a 2? According to Zee’s explanation only if numbers are tied do you check which color is stronger, where red would beat teal in this demonstration.
This game reminds me of Raptor where the higher cards have more powerful abilities.
I love the Jekyll Hyde trick taking game... this one will be hard to ignore!
Dracula vs Van Halen is the game I want to play
I’m really excited to get this one..keeping my eyes open for preorders
* I've been playing this a lot online and loving it. I'm really disappointed to hear the cards are actually tiles though. Still going to get this, but I definitely notice little marks on components and that would completely ruin this game.
* Also, to respond to one little comment in the review: The first round shouldn't feel flat. Dracula is not indifferent to which districts he wins, even at the start. He wants to win the leftmost ones more because of how the rounds score. (I skipped the rules overview, so maybe this was mentioned there already, in which case, nevermind!)
My thoughts as well after seeing this review.
When playing this, I felt like it was a 2-player version of Silver with an area control element. If you like the main mechanic, it's basically the Silver card game (aka Cabo, Scram, Golf)
Théo Riviere, Maxime Rambourg and Weberson Santiago are so talented. This game is already on my wishlist.
Oh thank you, means a lot!
Game looks like a lot of fun
Excellent review, but you didn't address the number one question everyone's asking. So, did the evil scourge of vampirism overwhelm the city, or did the good and noble Van Helsing manage to drive a stake into the evil plans of Dracula, by, well... driving a stake into him?
This looks so cool!
Interesting game. Wish Joey would interject more.
having played this one a few times I feel like this one is pretty heavily weighted in Dracula's favor. Van Helsing has to average 2.5+ wins to win. Dracula has to only average 2+ to prevent van helsing from winning, and then if dracula happens to win a section 4/5 times then they also win.
"this game is REALLY good", 7/10?
agreed. They seem to like the game much more than their rates would suggest.
Great review. Hard pass for me on this one.
Keep us up to date on the games you haven't bought.