If you’re like me and you love both board games and video games, then PAX is the place to be, it’s your comic con. So let’s go over PAX East 2024.
Alright has anyone else seen Killer Klowns From Outer Space? Personally I love it, it’s so bad it’s good. The movie is exactly as it sounds, these clowns come down from space and trap people in cotton candy. Obviously there is more to it but, it’s still a must watch. I digress, why did I bring up a bad movie from 1988? Well because we’re getting a video game for it. Coming out this fall on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X, you can choose to be a clown or a human. The game is a third person ‘shooter’ with multiple maps (the one I was able to play was a carnival), for the humans you need to stop the clown-pocalypse and the clowns obviously want to start it and stop the humans from trying to stop the clowns. It’s a lot of fun, the graphics are clear, and the clowns you play as are the ones you see from the movie.
How about boardgames? Obviously there were tables everywhere and different testers that you could try. I decided on Dice Throne, while the guy was explaining it, it was easy and it sounded fun, there were different characters with beautiful designs. Season 1 has a Monk, Paladin, Ninja, Treant, Barbarian, Moon Elf, Pyromancer, and Shadow Thief. If you want to try it out but, don’t want to buy all eight characters at once they sell two packs with different characters which is nice. On top of their own characters, they also have a marvel set with Scarlet Witch, Loki, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Spider Man, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, and Thor. Personally I’m most excited with their newest set, available for pre order, X-Men featuring two of my favorite characters, Wolverine and Rogue, but, that’s all I’m going to say. However, I will mention that the characters from the different seasons are all different. Thor isn’t like the Barbarian, he has his own set of powers and so on.
Of coarse it is PAX and there are vendors everywhere selling cards. Thousands of Magic cards, there was a sprinkle of Lorcana cards, some Pokémon cards. Nintendo was there with demos of Pokémon Violet as well as detective Pikachu. Yes both are already out but, that would be because their newest games were already on the way to the stores. When I got home that day my Princess Peach game had even arrived.
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