"King of Tokyo" - The more interesting sequel to "Majority Elected Prime Monster of Tokyo"

"King of Tokyo" puts you in the role of a Kaiju, 
which roughly translates from Japanese into "sweaty rubber suit." Without ever using the word Godzilla, "King of Tokyo" makes you feel like a giant lizard thing slowly lumbering around Tokyo, occasionally being cast in terrible movie remakes in a desperate attempt to revive a boring franchise with no personality. OOP WHO SAID THAT

 

 Look at this dumb pile of trypophobic shit

We found this game simple to get into, both rules and strategy wise. There were two different ways to win. Either collect victory points, which you can get from hanging out in Tokyo as much as you can or rolling combinations on dice, or by knocking the poop out of the other players. Both the scoring track and health-iness meter are built into the sweet character cards that represent your hilariously cliched monster dude. To determine the actions you can take, you roll dice using a Press your luck mechanism, where you can keep the dice you want and reroll the others. Each die has 6 sides, three of them reward you victory points, one for energy collection, one for slapping the other monsters, and the last one for healing yourself.

Did the writers of Godzilla not have any friends? If I made some bullshit monster like this, I would hope my friends would tell me that I sucked

THE GAME PIECES ARE SWEET. It's Yahtzee with truly BADASS dice. That alone is enough to make you feel like a giant monster as you chuck a handful of boulders across the table. Score trackers are built into game pieces. The small green jello cubes that represent energy? Looks straight up like delicious sour apple / lime gummies. SPOILER ALERT: they have the texture of hard candy and taste like dirty people's hands.

  

OK so not all Power Rangers villains were cool.

I mean, everyone wanted to either be the giant bad guys from Power Rangers when they were a kid, but then you get stuck either being the yellow ranger or black ranger just because you were asian or black. 

Wut we learnt

That we both abhor the phrase "Victory points." With all the creativity in the board game / dice game industry, why can't anyone think of anything better than "Victory point"? It physically angers me now when games use this contrived scoring system. I can promise in our game, there will be no mention of "victory points" unless to ironically mock the ubiquity of the phrase.