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28th Feb 2016 at 4:01 PM
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If you haven't played Pandemic classic, I'd recommend checking it out before buying Legacy. The gist is that the players are the CDC and they are racing against the clock to cure 4 diseases before they end the world. Legacy adds a long game to the short game where things that happen in the individual game effect what happens in the larger game. Since you can only play Legacy once, knowing how to play Pandemic before you play is a considerable asset. I'm fairly certain that if you lose a certain number of months in a row you encounter an end-world scenario. But it is a great deal of fun and you get to get together with your friends in person a lot to play though the scenarios.
In a way I'm really glad we're grown-ups playing this game. If this game came out in college, I'm pretty sure we would've blown through the whole year in 3 or 4 giant sessions. But having jobs and families means that we're taking it 1 or 2 months at a time. I do miss having the 8 hour gaming sessions we used to have and the time to really get into the world of an RPG.