Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) Lost Legacy Second Chronicle Vorpal Sword and White Gold Spire Board Game

**If you found this review helpful, please hit the YES button as it helps me a lot! Thank you!**Lost Legacy is no Love Letter. While it shares the 16 card structure, it is a more complex, but also deeper game. The decisions matter that little bit more, and the broad additions of the investigation phase and ruins are excellent, really improving on the Love Letter formula.Neither Vorpal Sword nor Whitegold Spire share the brilliant elegance of Love Letter, but they don’t need to. These are gamers’ micro games. If you’re new to the hobby, I don’t recommend Lost Legacy. The fun here is in forming clever plays and thinking through your decisions and what everyone else is doing. The complexity of the rules and of what you are trying to achieve is too much to call Lost Legacy a gateway game.For gamers, however, you have two very interesting, very different puzzles. There is still the luck element, but so long as you are only playing with one module, the game still plays quickly enough that any luck averages out over a full play through. Add to the fact that you are getting two games in one box, this is definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for a meatier experience than Love Letter can provide. Just enjoy it as a 4-player game…

As competing mage you place bets on a fantasy Battle Royale. Will your dragon or skeleton be the victor? Of course as a cheaty mage you play cards effecting certain monsters in the fight or even to change the judge of the fight. Cheaty mage is a great light card game where you compete to make the most money by the end of the rounds. For those that like an oriental art style the art is also a plus in the game.

The positive about this game is that it has the streamlined mechanic of Love Letter (which is a marvelous little game and if you don't have it, go buy it right now) with some extra depth that lovers of the original will probably be excited about. What hurts it in my eyes is the lack of a cohesive story to drive the game. There is a story, but it's not really clear or interesting to me. The characters aren't intuitive. The art isn't compelling. It's enjoyable enough to play for a couple of quick rounds, but I honestly don't think it'll stay in our rotation long. If you adore Love Letter and are looking for the next microgame in your collection, try Coup.

I gave this game a chance and I have to say it is not as good as it's predecessor (Love Letter).The game borrows the same mechanics but adds a twist: find the lost legacy card. The way it works is you draw a card and between the two cards in your hand you play one of them (like Love Letter). But the actions you make in this game don't feel like you can make any real progress. When I play the cards, most of the moves allow players to hide a card, discard a card, switch cards between players, show your own cards, and guess guess guess. This seems like a lot of choices, but in the end the choices you make on your turns don't provide a lot of knowledge about where the Lost Legacy card is nor do your action make any impact on the overall game (unless you have the Lost Legacy card).It might sound like I'm being harsh, and maybe I am. But I expect a game based of an already successful one to have the same success, if not better. If its worst than the original, then developers are clearly not making the right moves and have to know. Maybe they're just trying to milk more money out of this genre, I'm not sure. But sure seems that way.TLTR; Choices you make in this game just feel unimportant and turns here feel like time fillers. The only purpose of taking your turn is to reduce the draw pile until it gets to the end of the deck so players can start guessing where Lost Legacy card is.DERP! DERP! DERP!.... here's the Lost Legacy!I'm glad I played Love Letter first because I if I had played this game first I wouldn't have given Love Letter a chance.

It took a few plays before getting the hang of this game. I still prefer love letter, but this game seems fun enough. The dragon deck seems more fun than the grail deck.

Great game in the love letter series. Same game play but totally different. Build custom decks or play with a double deck.In have four LL decks, all an instant hit.More nuanced and subtler than the love letter skins. More options for deciet and double dealing.My son and friends are all in their early 20s and they enjoy hours of play, often for the entire evening

Love the game