Disney Villainous: Introduction to Evil features the same gameplay as Disney Villainous, but this game features only four villains instead of six — Maleficent, Captain Hook, Ursula and Prince John – in a version that features streamlined gameplay crafted to help first-time players.
In the game, each player takes control of a villain with its own villain deck, fate deck, player board, and 3D character. On a turn, you move your character to a different location on your player board, taking one or more of the actions visible on that space (often by playing cards from your hand), then refill your hand to four cards. Cards are allies, items, effects, conditions, and (for some characters) curses. You need to use your cards to fulfill your unique win condition, which sometimes involves overcoming the hero from your villain's particular Disney film.
Disney Villainous: Introduction to Evil was originally released to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Disney, with the initial box design featuring Ursula, lustrous movers, and platinum rainbow-foil packaging as well as a Disney100 sticker.
- Streamlined for first-time players.
- Features four classic villains: Maleficent, Captain Hook, Ursula, and Prince John.
- Lighter asymmetric game.
- Characters play differently with unique abilities and win conditions.
- New cool box design.
- Not very different in terms of gameplay for those who have played before, just a little bit of streamlining.
- Playing as Disney villains
- Asymmetric
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric powers — Each character plays differently with unique special abilities and win conditions.
- Villainous Play — Players get to play as the bad guys in the game.
Video topics + discussion points
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- This is a game that you know came out over 50 years ago at this point and so uh you know it's it's been around for a long time
- negotiation game if you want negotiation game if you want negotiation in your games well diplomacy is like the negotiation game
- if this is another one if you've if you've always wanted to try diplomacy well this is your new starting point here
- well gourmet popcorn dice adds in these colored dice to the game the first game that was all just these yellow dice well now they are different color Dice and so if you roll the same two colors if they have the same faces on the die well now you can get a bonus so there are bonus points for Rolling pairs of dice in the game