Are you ready to get your Hunter License? Then you’ll need to work with your friends through an epic gauntlet of enemies to earn it! Develop your skills, use your reflexes wisely, and strategize as a team in order to succeed!

What Is It?

Cooperative – Players will work together and win or lose as a team

Dice Rolling – Players fight enemies by rolling dice to complete challenges which will give them rewards such as re-roll tokens, reflex tokens, experience, and more

Variable Player Powers – Each character has unique dashboard abilities they can activate with their dice, and unique skill cards they will gain as they earn experience

Who Is It For?

  • 1 to 4 Players – Seems fine at any count
  • Ages 12 & Up – Gameplay is approachable, rules are fairly light
  • Fans of the anime, to connect to the theme
  • Fans of dice chucking co-ops

PROS

  • Aesthetics – Nice art, vibrant colors
  • Components – Nice quality overall; I like the dual layer boards. All the cards, tokens, and dice are good
    • There are way more tokens than you need, but it’s nice having extra
  • Flow – Gameplay is smooth round to round
    • Dice rolling is simultaneous which is nice
  • Rules are well written
  • Good variety in characters and enemies

CONS

  • Luck of the dice. The reflex/re-roll tokens help mitigate that, but it take a bit to get those from the enemies, and sometimes they still aren’t enough if you roll poorly
    • Similarly, I wish you started with a few more dice because it often doesn’t feel like you have enough, especially when you have to take wounds for healing them. It might also help to start with some reflex tokens, alternatively
  • It’s a bit long/repetitive for what it is

Final Thoughts

It’s a fun dice chucker! It, of course, comes down to a fair bit of luck, which can be frustrating for longer games (this runs from 45-90 minutes depending on players), but it also has room for some light strategy in which enemies you’re fighting and which/how many dice you’re rolling. You want to conserve dice a bit, to avoid wounds as long as possible, but you don’t want to risk not defeating enemies by rolling too low, at the same time, so it’s a balancing act there.

I don’t think you need to know the anime to have a good time, but knowing it will help the theme come more alive for sure. If you like dice chuckers and co-op games with some variable player powers, check it out!

Additional Information:
My Final Rating – 6/10

Designers – Michael Grothe, Alex Kessler
Publisher – Kess Co.
MSRP – $49.99
Buy at Barnes and Noble now, Amazon mid-summer,
and local game stores late summer
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*I was provided a copy of this game to do this review*

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