Monster Pack #4 Cybertooth

The Cybertooth monster pack is a great expansion, and I'm very glad to have it. The berserk mechanic makes it the final "necessary" expansion I feel I need. Without it, it can feel hard at times to deal more damage than people heal. This doesn't make it easy to deal a lot of damage, as you need 4 attack in one turn to use the berserk mechanic, but just having that as an option opens things up a lot. While "Wicked" is my fav and the most important expansion to get imo, "Power Up" is an amazing expansion (and most people's favorite) as it actually makes the characters unique. I highly recommend it, but once you have it, I highly recommend this expansion. "Power Up" really emphasizes an issue with KoT that I think the Cybertooth pack fixes. "Power Up" adds rewards for healing, so while you're trying to wear other monsters health down with no reward, they're gaining bonuses for just undoing what you spent your turn doing. Playing to kill can feel in vain sometimes without this expansion, and while this expansion doesn't neutralize the luck required, it at least offers a reward for that playstyle.

Starting from where King of Tokyo left off King of New York has a very familiar feel. Choosing monsters, rolling dice, trying to hold on to Manhattan (Tokyo). However, there are some quite significant differences that mostly lead to an improvement over the original. Pros - The board is now necessary, this may seem like an odd thing to say about a board game but players of it's predecessor will know what I mean. The board of Tokyo only had 1/2 players on at any one time and the majority of players character's would be sat off of it. Now the boroughs of New York beyond Manhattan offer an interesting array of additional actions that I shall come on to later. They have removed the 1s, 2s, and 3s from the dice! I found this one of the most unsatisfying elements of the original and the least interactive. These options have been replaced by stars, destruction and ouchs. The latter two involve the addition of buildings in all boroughs, even Manhattan. By rolling the destruction icons monsters can now destroy buildings, doing so will reveal a military unit. On later turns these too can be destryoed. The ouchs can cause you and/or other player to take damage from these units. The stars are my least favourite as they essentially have the direct result of victory points but nowhere near as easily as rolling 3 3s does in the original. Cons - Set up time is now increased due to having to setup these piles of buildings, a minor point but worth mentioning as these games are often used as fillers between longer games and you would therefore not want a lengthy setup. That being said the setup is still minimal. Due to the slightly increased complexity I have found individual turns now take slightly longer as people have to spend more time thinking about what their next action will be, this is obviously more subjective a criticism and depends greatly on the group of people. Summary - I struggled to pull out any negatives and there are many more positives I did not discuss, If you enjoy King of Tokyo I can see no reason why you wouldn't love this game, that being said I wouldn't describe it as an essential 'upgrade' as personally I do not own a copy of King of Tokyo and if I had probably would not have purchased this, at least not right away. For those that have played neither I would recommend this game over King of Tokyo as the main issues I had with Tokyo have been fixed which in turn leads to more player interaction that in my opinion is where the fun lies!

New dice very fun

Great character and rules expansion for King of Tokyo and King of New York. Must have.

Excellent expansion, recommend looking though all cards since cards could appear to conflict with rules, it helps to be aware of them so you don't get something wrong. Quality components.