Teaching an old dog new tricks
BANG! LEGENDS
Designer: Emiliano Sciarra | Publisher: DV Games
Have you got what it takes to become a legend in the Wild West? 2024 finally brought us another expansion to the original in the iconic BANG! series of hidden role games. BANG! Legends is an add-on to the original game, giving you access to upgraded characters and a few more interesting things to do on your turn.
Legends introduces ‘Feats’, a series of objectives and actions that are revealed over the course of normal gameplay. During your turn, you have the opportunity to ‘boast’ about the feats and complete them. These include actions you may have incidentally already done, such as damaging a certain player or using a certain card, but also include small tasks such as choosing to discard cards or lose some life. Completing feats lets you discard your new ‘Fame Tokens’, which is where the exciting part of the expansion comes in. Removing all your fame tokens causes you to flip your character card over and play as an upgraded version for the rest of the game. Legends comes with double-sided versions of each of the classic 16 BANG! characters, the flipside showing full art re-imaginings of the pencil-sketch originals, along with a significantly upgraded ability.