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Replayability
Customers are generally positive about the replayability of the expansion, praising its high value and character development. However, some mention challenges with random bad luck and complexity level. The game is described as engaging, fun, and a great blend of RPG and CCG. Some customers recommend learning the rules thoroughly for optimal play.
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Expansion Content
Customers have a generally positive opinion about the expansion content of Machinations Through Time for Arkham Horror The Card Game, praising its new characters, sideboard, and campaigns. However, some express disappointment over missing components and high prices for additional expansions.
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Quality
A definite improvement over the original core set, which was designed to make you buy 2, with all the wasted duplicated monster... Read More
Fantastic character development controlled by the players decisions and story changes based on failures and success make replay... Read More
2- before your first game, do some deck building the starter decks are not great, which makes an already difficult game even harder.
It’s bloated and has anachronistic elements that break even arkham’s 1920’s-1930’s aesthetic.
Price
If however you are just interest in the campaign/story part of it, you may come out a bit disappointed, feeling that its too li... Read More
Shipping
Delivered on time and in perfect condition.
Received fast and good, thanks a lot
Packaging/appearance
Package came a little bit damaged but nothing serious.
The game itself is great i would love to give it 5 stars but when i opened the package it looked like someone cut a square into... Read More
Competitiveness
If you want the “complete arkham experience” pick up the dunwich campaign and investigator boxes as well.
Already have dunwich and carcosa, which adds some investigators and investigator cards to give you options for deck building.
This means that as you get more expansions, you can replay them with different investigators.
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- This product had a total of 890 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 25 2024.
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This campaign however is relatively short with only 3 scenarios the first one being just a small introduction to the games core mechanics
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The story overall is not amazing its a straight path to an obvious conclusion
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This is punctuated by the lack meaningful decision making storywise and no branching paths
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Nevertheless the games mechanics does a great job to make it feel a bit more engaging though in the end it cannot hide the simplicity of the games story
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The replay value of this campaign spawns from its hard difficulty challenging even on easy mode which forces players to retry different party comps as well as different decks styles
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You should see this core set more of a teaserpreview of the real game that is offered through the expansion packs
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If however you are just interest in the campaignstory part of it you may come out a bit disappointed feeling that its too little for the price tag
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