Boss Monster vs Super Boss Monster
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Last game day, someone brought Super Boss Monster. Super Boss Monster was released about a month ago and I’ve always loved Boss Monster. What’s the difference? Let’s go over it together.
Super Boss Monster introduces a new drafting system to the game that allows the players to have a little more control over what cards are added to their hand. Players will build their dungeons as usual but this drafting system makes it easier to tailor your dungeon and get a good engine going.
Super Boss Monster also includes a board, representing the town, to place your heroes on. This board will have a fixed number of slots before any overflow heroes have to be placed in one of 5 locations. (Temple, Stadium, Library, Hideout, or Tavern) Each location will have spaces to place your minion in order to gain bonus abilities. (Given there isn’t a hero at the location)
Super Boss Monster also introduces Minions to the game, as mentioned above. Minions can be placed at the different locations to give you one of the two different actions it offers, with the exception of the Tavern which you can only play your Minion of if there is a hero there. If there is a hero at any given location, you can still place your minion at that location to give that hero more health and send them to any dungeon.
Last but certainly not least, Super Boss Monster has capability for solo play and is backwards compatible with the original game.
Aside from new monsters, rooms, and spells I believe those are all the differences between Boss Monster and Super Boss Monster.
Which is better?
Personally I prefer Super Boss Monster for it’s action economy and potential for for consistent synergies. It also feels like it was more designed to feel like there’s more strategy to it for us strategy gamers.
If it’s that good, why would anyone still buy the Original Boss Monster?
As I said before, Super Boss Monster feels like a Euro game with more strategy and more opportunities to interact with the other players’ dungeons. However, with more interesting mechanics and strategy comes more complications and potentially longer turns thus longer games, even though Super Boss Monster says the play time is the same as the original. To answer the original question, the original Boss Monster still holds up if you’re looking for a more linear game without all of the extra strategy and possible complications to the game.
Overall, I enjoyed Super Boss Monster and will recommend to the owner that we carry it.
Thank you all for reading to the end of this, longer than usual, blog. We will be back next week with more and, as always, thanks for reading!