Well, I hope you all had a nice Christmas with lots of presents and too much to eat and all that jazz. As I said yesterday, Andie and I had a nice quiet Christmas with just the two of us (and the rats) — I’d seen my parents shortly before Christmas, and we’re going to go see Andie’s family on New Year’s Day.
Not a lot else to say, really. There were presents, there was food — Andie’s first time preparing Christmas lunch, and it was great — and then there was sitting around doing not very much.
I got a couple of board games as presents, and we tried one of them out. It’s called Tsuro: The Game of the Path, and it’s a deceptively simple little affair where you take it in turns to lay tiles with lines on them down on the board, then move any pieces that connect to the lines until they can’t go any further. The aim is to be the last piece standing, either by causing all the other players to crash into one another, or to fall off the board. There’s some sort of mystical Chinese theme about it all, but it really doesn’t matter — it’s a super-quick, simple but very clever little game that will serve as an excellent “filler” on board game nights, either to start the evening or as a palate-cleanser after something more substantial.
The other game I got was Android: Netrunner, a two-player card game that was originally a Magic: The Gathering style CCG, but which has now been transformed into one of those fashionable LCGs. (For those who don’t know the different, CCGs are customisable card games, where you buy a base set and then add to it with blind booster packs and other expansions; LCGs are living card games, where everything you need to play is included in the base box, but there are also regular expansions — unlike CCGs’ blind booster packs, though, LCGs’ expansions always have the same cards in them so you know what you’re getting.
The game itself looks fairly complicated but enjoyable, and I like the cyberpunk/hacking theme — it looks like it’ll be an interesting and asymmetrical game for two players. Now I just have to make sure I can get people to play with!
On that note, it’s nearly 4am since I accidentally Final Fantasy XIV for a bit, so I’d better go to sleep. Andie and I are going to pop out and perhaps spend some of our Christmas money tomorrow — I’ve certainly got my eye on Super Mario 3D World for Wii U, and potentially some other things besides.
I hope you had a thoroughly pleasant Christmas and some peaceful time away from the chaos of everyday life. Enjoy it for a bit longer before it all kicks off again!
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