Claustrophobia vs Claustrophobia 1643 COMPONENTS Comparison + Commentary
Channel: Soundscapes, Music, & Stories with Michael Weaver
Date: 2019-02-02

This is pretty long, casual, rambling commentary/shaky cam video of me looking at the old/original Claustrophobia board game and comparing its components/bits with the new sequel/reboot/remake/second edition: Claustrophobia 1643. 

Written synopsis: Both are great in their own ways. I like most of the new stuff a bit more, but I miss having a lot of color on the cards and chitsa and wish that the new iconography always came with reminder/fine print right on/near it so that you didn't have to look up the iconography the first couple of times. I don't love how big the demon and warrior dashboards are now, but I love the new dungeon tiles, miniatures, rule changes, wound markers, threat tokens (materia) and three types of dice. I do want more color in some of the dashboard art, but the room tiles have a surprising amount of wonderful color. Having specialized miniatures for every demon, individual warrior (not just for type) and even though troglodytes is awesome.

Just to recap my components video regarding what's different with the new version:

Stuff that did NOT blow my mind:
-Plain cards
-Plan/simple chips/chits
-Even more table hog than before.
-lack of paint on miniatures (but fixable pretty easily. Let's face it. Original paint job wasn't amazing but certainly good for anyone who likes paint but doesn't paint themselves.)

Stuff that DID blow my mind
-New materia gems as threat points to replace simple chips
-New activation dice (both human and infernal)
-New cool skull wound markers (that are 3d and work for both demon player and human warriors instead of separate types)
-New combat dice
-New dice placement on individual demons
-New tile art and graphic design
-New miniatures: Their sculpts (mostly), their variety (for sure), their creativity (definitely)



UPDATE: I've actually done what you're not supposed to and combined bits from the old version despite some redundancy and added them to the new version, including: some cardboard chits/tokens, gift cards, item, and item cards.
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