Let me start by saying I have no children but have been a Star Wars collector since the start.
The game play is simple as you’d expect. Turns consist of rolling the die and moving on the board. The spaces tell the you to draw a new card or fight. The “fighting” involves each player secretly selecting a card from their hand and then revealing them with the higher card winning. Each character also has some “special” cards in their deck that can do various things like drawing extra cards.
Your character’s health is shown by six, two-sided tiles that make a picture of the person. If you lose a fight you flip one piece over to the damaged side. Once all six tiles are damaged, you lose.
From a collector’s standpoint I’d say you’re better off spending your money on the figure packs if you like Galactic Heroes. I think the 2 figures in the game are straight repacks, so nothing new there. The game board does make a nice little are to display your figures though! The other components are decent and seem like they’d stand up to repeated play. I imagine young kids would probably enjoy the game a few times and would play with the figures outside the game.
It could be made into a travel game without needing the board and figures with a little rules revision.
Rating: 3 / 5
