Board To Death

Board games sort of suffered the same fate of movies in the sense that after years of being readily available and considered classics, they underwent a "remake" that was often nowhere near as cool. In board games sense, these often meant updating them for the modern era and making them electronic. Once electronic toys hit the market, board games had to do something to compete, so why not drag out old IP - one which perhaps the kids parents remember fondly so they'll be more inclined to buy it for their children - and redo it with electronics so it appeals to the newer generation? Easy money, baby. So, here we are, back again the seemingly unending well of "creepy building" board games. Between Ghost Castle , Haunted House and Haunted Mansion , I swear, as big a plethora of these exist as crappy B horror movies exist. It's ridiculous. In fact, I could probably just cover nothing but creepy building board games for the rest of this blogs lifespan and still ne...

In what is possible the lamest of all the haunted house board games we've covered here lately, Ghost Castle (yeah, even the name doesn't really do much for it), is about as bland as they come when compared to the others we've looked at. Okay sure, we've only looked at two others and okay sure one of those was based on pre-existing IP (The Haunted Mansion) but still!Ghost Castle is still the most childish and least visually entertaining of them all. That isn't to say it doesn't have its good points, though, because despite its massive shortcomings design wise it still has some pros to it. Let's discuss the artwork. While it's nowhere near as visually neat as Haunted House - because it lacks an actual model - and The Haunted Mansion - because, well, it's not the Haunted Mansion, it still merits some points for the artwork within it. Even though the "castle" in this sense of the word is nothing more than painted board pieces, those painted boa...

I was a weird little girl, into some weird shit, like taxidermy, taking photos of roadkill and horror movies, and because of this I often didn't have a ton of female friends (or really many friends at all) because the stuff I liked was just too "icky" and "strange" and "dark". Because of my strange obsession with all things macabre, it's very sad that I wasn't aware of Haunted House as a child, because holy shit would I have loved it. Just look at the graphics on this box, look at that ghoulish face in the little box at the bottom, and the beautiful black and blue combination of shading on the house itself. The font, the sky and sun. This is an absolute work of art worthy of being framed and hung on a wall. And the game itself, for a change, doesn't fail to live up to the hype the box creates! At least, design wise, as I can't say from personal experience whether or not this game is fun seeing as I've never actually played it. Rele...