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Just finished Pandemic Legacy Season 0 (no spoilers) (boardgamegeek.com)
submitted 5 months ago by valen@lemmy.world to c/boardgames@feddit.de
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My wife and I just finished playing the last month of Pandemic Legacy Season 0. OMG, that was a great ride.

We'd played Season 1 with our son at the start of COVID, which gave us a sense of agency. This version is a prequel that takes place in 1962. You're playing doctors recruited to the CIA. Instead of disease cubes, you're trying to fight off Soviet agents. However, since an outbreak would send disease to neighboring cities, and Soviet agents don't work that way (that we know of), there's a new mechanic for bad stuff that happens instead. Each player has a passport for their character. Each passport has pages for 3 different aliases you can take (Allied, Neutral, and Soviet). You'll need to create and direct teams to complete objectives.

Highly recommended. If you're interested, here's the Shut Up & Sit Down review.

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[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am running through Season 1 with my wife currently going into March. We won the first to games and I keep expecting the game to ruin us with package 8 sitting there like an omen. I'd eventually like to do the other seasons with her as well.

[–] valen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It is so worth it. The best times I've had gaming were with Pandemic Legacy. Have fun!

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

My group beat Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (amazing) and Season 2 (great for the first 11 months but the last month was broken). We got half way through Season 0 before we quit. We we started off with more powerful characters but the game was also harder and kept getting even harder from there (more loss conditions and the win condition became much harder to accomplish). We got plenty of upgrades, but very few of them were interesting and many were very situational.