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In battle, there are no equals.
Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer features four heroes. Buffy will hit you with Mr. Pointy or summon her Slayer's strength for a cartwheel kick. When it's time for backup, she'll take her pick between insightful Giles or reliable Xander. Spike, a relentless hunter, seeks the shadows and calls on Drusilla's Sight to let him know just where and when to strike. Willow, a peerless witch, dabbles in black magic and risks her darker self, potent but dangerous. At times, only Tara can bring her back from the brink of the abyss. Angel, once the Scourge of Europe, is cursed with a soul, conflicted by his victories and taking solace in his losses. Faith is there to make sure things stay "Five by Five".
Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise, but just when you've mastered one set, new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.
-description from publisher
Part of the Unmatched family — see Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze for the combined view.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- a totally standalone game you don't need any of the other sets to play
- Sunnydale High
- Buffy and her sidekick are melee characters
- Willow has a health of 14 and her sidekick Tara has a health dial that starts at 6
- three shadow tokens
- if Angel or Faith attack and lose combat you get to draw a card from your deck
- three copies of scourge of europe which is a value five attack
References (from this video)
- iconic IP at the table
- top-notch art by Heather Vaughn
- sidekick dynamics add depth
- accessible for new players
- Buffy IP crossover fighting game; iconic characters dueling
- Sunnydale High / The Bronze in Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe
- character-driven duels with sidekicks and evolving battlefield
- Unmatched (base game)
- Other Unmatched IP editions
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- asymmetrical fighters — each character has unique abilities and a sidekick that interacts with the core fight
- Hand Management — players manage a deck or hand of actions to play on their turn
- multi-stage battleground — two-sided boards (Sunnydale High / The Bronze) that affect combat
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer it's one of my favorite tv shows of all time so i cannot wait to get these iconic characters to the table and play Unmatched with them.
- you can play as the four major characters such as Buffy, Angel Willow and Spike.
- in addition each character will have a sidekick
- pandemic legacy season zero is the third and final installment in a trilogy, it will be out october 23rd
- you make an alias where you get these little stickers where you give yourself a mustache and a pipe
- this is the same calendar year playing for 12 months but we did shorten it
- you are jumping into the deep end that's easily the biggest game i've ever worked on
- we've hired ten artists on this game
- the biggest challenge was to combine these two rulebooks so it wasn't like here's all the rules you read for the competitive game and here's all the rules for the cooperative game