Primal: The Awakening Review: Hey, Boss. Wanna Battle?

Tom and Chris take a look at Primal: The Awakening

0:00 Intro
0:56 Overview
10:27 Review
23:19 Final Thoughts

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[ElectricMetalMuffin]

Everything about this review was perfect for me. I fully understand and agree with the topic of bloat and giant boxes, but im glad to hear the positives are in what truly matter, the rulebook is good and the gameplay sounds fun.

To add a bit of context, Prima was made by fans of the Monster Hunter video games. This was my main selling point to back since im a huge fan too and even though there is an official licensed BG by steamforge, Primal looked and sounded way funner and actually less expensive. That said, everytime Tom mentioned how he felt playing as a hunter it was like describing the same feeling you get while playing the VG, AND THAT IS AWESOME! The devs clearly knew what made MH special and tried their best to replicate the same feeling. The cinematic gameplay with big damage turns with escalating stats for both hunters and monsters based on equipment is exactly how its played in the MH video game. I am so excited for my copy, happy hunting!

[ThorAxiun]

Clicked on this review after recently re-watching the "Top 10 enemies of gaming" And both Kickstarter bloat and massive boxes were mentioned on the list 😆

[brandobombchu]

A Top Ten Boss Battlers would be a fantastic top ten. Many of us love fighting a big boss together or controlling one.

[rb]

I would totally have backed this if they had put in a non-mini version with big discs represending the monsters. Its mind blowing to me how they would just ignore that market. Oh well.

[derekgarcia]

Great review! I need to get this to the table, and you've increaded my excitement. Hearing that they actually pulled it off AND its (relatively ) easy to teach and table. Thats impressive.

[denvergoudeau]

My copy comes in Friday, and I'm so pumped to play!!!!

[rgsniper]

Went all in on this campaign and have received the product. So far it's still in the box, but I have perused it and can't wait to get it on the table.

[mikeyortiz]

I love this game and I’m so so glad I got it. It’s giant and sits proudly on top of my shelf’s and painting the minis is so fun!

[pdbedlion]

I backed this and just got it in 2 weeks ago. I've loved playing it so far. I think a "Jaws of the Lion" style standalone set could do really well

[JakeRyneJohnson]

I think a small budget of this would work with even just characters being depicted as cardboard tokens and the monster being a top down view of a token. Yes, you lose some of the features but it makes it more clear where is front, flank, back if they were just big oversized flat tokens and you could still get scale seeing how small your top down guy is compared to the dragon. That would allow the whole game to fit in a normal size box. I went all-in and I'm pumped for the minis. But I could see making something like that to travel with and only using minis at home.

[joshuag]

I love the minis and they were by far the most fun thing I've painted, but the box size is a problem, I've brought 1 mini plus the stuff needed to play to a friends place before and it fit nicely inside an expansion box, I've thought about potentially getting some discs to represent the monster/hunters when traveling, but at home seeing the scale of the monster vs the hunters makes it feel even more epic.

[AzureRaiden]

Man.. This is a shame really. The size of this box, and the costs, put this out of reach of so many gamers, and the shame is that it sounds like a good game. I didn't back it from the KS because it's too big and way too expensive, and the giant miniatures don't do anything but spin on the table.

This is the type of game that I wish so much that they would've made an acrylic meeple variant of. It would've drastically reduced the size and cost of this game, and kept all of the gameplay in tact. I hope that they do this someday, because unless there's a massive sale on this, I'll never own it.

[defiantj]

I'm psyched to get to play my copy now!!

[AlBundytd]

2nd KS ever and the three year wait was worth it. Excellent game!

[rdot]

The game is absolutely amazing. Loved it and sold it. Had the gameplay all in and the amount of content was insane. The problem was all that content came in massive boxes. I had nowhere I could reasonably store it.

[JamesOrr]

Man, I chickened out of backing this, but was still very interested in how it is and would love it play it at a DT con etc, sounds fun, as Tom described it it makes total sense he would like this, as would I! I get it takes too much space but it's also kind of a thing to have big minis etc with this style of game, kind of comes with the territory.

[LunasaVT]

Really hope this system can be implemented in a cheaper more accessible game.

[AaronAndSusie]

I really thought I'd love this one but the price point put me off

[philthephreak]

Would be SUPER interested in a standee version of this game. I think we are at a tipping point where we will see that more. All the gamers, myself included, are out of shelf space! (And money)

Not to mention, isn’t it kind of irresponsible to produce all this plastic and ship this heavy stuff all over the world? Cost, space, environmental impact… standees are the future.

[lystic]

What do you guys think about the Terrain pack? Is that sort of worth it or kind of silly?