playing the mass effect board game

As a Mass Effect fan, and I am very grateful that my wife gifted me the (relatively new) board game Mass Effect: Priority Hagalaz :) I am completely smitten with it! You can tell so much thought and love went into it by a huge fan who knows their stuff. The gameplay was translated so well to this format, and the characters and their abilities stay very true to the games. Nothing feels weirdly renamed, missing, or wrong, or too vague. Nothing feels like they had to compromise. All materials are beautifully printed on thick, glossy paper with amazing artwork, consisting of three spiral bound booklets and separate character and scenario sheets to track stuff on. The dice feel great, the tokens are sturdy, you have five character minifigs that are nice, two card stacks that look and feel high quality, and you get a little sack with the Alliance symbol on it and a marker pen with the Mass Effect label on it. Just feels like they went the extra mile with some little details they knew fans…