Descent: Legends of the Dark Unboxing

hello gamers welcome to zulu's board game cafe and i'm in here somewhere uh so on august 6th we'll mark the release of the next edition of descent legends of the dark and we have a copy here right now that's taking up almost my entire camera frame and we're going to go through and take a look at what else in this box because this is very cool looking and i am very excited to get into this descent if you're not familiar with any of its previous editions is a yeah descent is a dungeon crawling adventure game it's kind of like a dungeons dragon simulator where one person takes on the role of the narrator dungeon master and the rest of the group takes on the role of heroes adventuring through the various dungeons presented in the scenarios they are dungeon tiles all sorts of fun stuff i've only ever played previous editions i know nothing about this one so we're going to crack this up and see what's inside very excited all right so the first thing i'm going to take a look at of course is the box itself is an actual cube of a box which is uncommon for large board games it is one of the larger board game boxes out there it's not quite as heavy as a twilight imperium or glen haven still a whole lot of stuff going on here so let's put it up here so we can display everything start taking a look all right cover that right over there on top we have the lower guide so this means if you are entrenched in the lore and want to play it as more of a story type game that's available to you next up is the oh our quest has just begun information about the realms of terranoth that's where we continue our adventures see oh uh an assembly guide because we have 3d terrain here and some dials and things that connect to the bottom of the miniatures there you can see that's probably going to be something about hit point stats reminds me of uh excellent files for those and here is the big media rulebook 32 pages very large amount of data but that's great for a game like this you want there to be information again a little bit less than some of the bigger ones like ti angle david but hey fantastic about now classic the first way i want to make sure i get this facing the correct way up first round of miniatures this looks like whoops it's falling down it's eating up my whole zone all right this looks like we have various bad guys it takes about for you to take a closer look at kind of ghoul wraith type creature so we can focus in on it there very nice we've also got some dogs there on the side and some large archers and some sort of crazy chain necromancer there on the bottom whole areas really cool all right next is the long skinny piece some sort of winged demon creature there that all looks like pieces to assemble one massive demon here's the next tray of minis all right so a series more minis including the gray ones these look like they're going to be our player character heroes start with the one that looks hero here we have looks like a straightforward dwarf warrior hammer and shield doing the good stuff next we're going to go to the opposite end of the scale and take out the weirdest looking one which looks like it's going to be this i'll show it to you before i even describe it some sort of dragon goat man i have no idea what's going on here but i know i want to be this character playing this game and if nothing else i want to make a d d character based on this model because i love nipsey miniatures and these are some really really high detail miniatures i've opened a lot of board game minis and these are up there these are on par with miniatures for games like nemesis or some of the nicer 40k models that are out there it's a really high detail especially for ones that you don't have to assemble okay back there next up is our tiles so this looks like all of our tiles and terrain quite a lot going on there you can see and here's the other side and you can i don't know if you can see very well through the plastic wrapper in the glare but there are some 3d tile components here so this game you're actually going to build an entire set of terrain in addition to these beautiful minis these great well detailed tiles and 3d terrain so this is an entire like ready-to-go built adventure here in this box so is our bag of dice in fantasy flight tradition uh it is sixes eights and twelves all with funky symbols on them and not numbers i brought up those x-wing dials also a fantasy flight thing and these are the exact plastic plugs for assembling those dials so those are going to go very very similarly that's uh going to be good fun all right next up i have this bag of cards here looks like some sort of action card says rallying cry on the front it sounds like a fighter ability from some other fantasy dungeon delving game oh this looks like some items here i have rune of blades a mutation potion except oh this looks like the character cards it says bring on the front this looks like it resembles this one here this must be bren with this really epic hat that is that is something hopefully she has some sort of helicopter power that lets her fly around see there's not a lot in here so pop this one open take a closer look hopefully learn all the characters names a good look at their heart so that was brynn here brynn next up is varix oh this is fantastic this is the one i was looking at this is our dragon friend with the staff the big horns that is so cool looking oh oh next i didn't even see the miniatures for this this is chance and they are some sort of kitty cat herrick's rings he rings perhaps pronounced like sphinx because they're a cat critter with giant murder claws we'll just probably do all the videos for the player characters because they are right now what i'll probably do is just get images out and put them up in the corner there's cirrus a fire mage of some variety the human prodigy a pyromancer prodigy like it there many also quite impressive giant flaming bird coming up out of the ground going for them i would consider buying this just to get these minis to make d d characters off of even if i have no interest in playing the game i do have interest in playing the game like this new art excites me saw that dwarf apparently their name is kelly kelly and then we're going to come back around to a more tradition another trope character galadin galadin it's up to you how you pronounce it the elf huntsman is an archer and that art makes them look very gaunt and i guess the miniature makes them look very gaunt as well but you can look very gaunt and still look incredibly imposing in that forward stance with the bow knocked and ready to go with the actual bow string it's not very often you actually see a good well drawn bow string on a miniature so that is very impressive and it looks like the rest of that bag was just environmental tiles for lava water cave services so we'll go ahead and just box all that right back guys not a whole lot left in the box it actually looks a little bit shallower than i thought let's see we have some plastic bases in here not sure what that's for some sleeves we know what sleeves are for we love sleeves and another bag of items some more exotic sounding items dusk plate on this side and on the other side is something called a mud potion whatever that's for you drink it out of a spiral shell so it's exciting that's it for the top of the box oh but wait it's a segmented box so oh well there's a bottom part of the box that it's empty but what this is going to be for is once we've got all of our 3d terrain assembled and ready to go we'll be able to store it efficiently in the box so that we're not going to have to break down and reassemble all of the terrain every time we play so that's actually a really cool bonus feature make setup and break down easy because with big board games like this that's one of the biggest barriers sometimes is not only do the games themselves take 90 minutes two to three four five hours to play based on what you're playing but the setup time can be an additional one to two hours so if you're not ready to budget that much time it's hard to do these but if something like that means you have less setup time that's really great it looks like that's everything in here so thanks for hanging out while i take apart this box and we'll be real excited to start selling this folks it comes out on august 6th it'll be available here at zulu's board gaming cafe as well as on our website at zulusgames.com for more information and some more dipsy details about it remember to follow us on youtube instagram facebook twitter all those great places i'm mc square then thanks for hanging out with me y'all have a great afternoon you

Channel: Zulu's Games

Views: 2,654

Keywords: Descent, Legends of the dark, Board Game, Fantasy Flight, Unboxing

Id: lBYzphpwaws

Length: 12min 11sec (731 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021

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This is like, my 2nd one of these. Be nice, thanks!