Princess Bride: Storming the Castle

  "Let Me 'splain..."

Sarah of Clackamas, OR, 12/26/2011

I normally do not buy "branded" games because they are often only good for a few plays before they become boring. In any case, my entire family loves "The princess bride". When I saw "Storming the Castle" as a game option on Exodus's shelves there was no question that it would become a Christmas present for my husband who is the biggest "princess bride" fan in our house!

We played "Storming the Castle" for the first time tonight. I am very happy with the durable quality of the cards and the pieces in the box, with one exception. The stand easily comes off the character, which could be frustrating during game play. We avoided the issue entirely by hot-gluing the stand to the character before play. Problem solved.

The instructions were well written for the most part, but left us confused on a couple of instances. But we decided to play the game anyway to see how it would play out. Most of our questions were figured out in this first round of play, we had fun, and laughed the entire time.

After tucking the children into bed, I went online to see if I could find answers the remaining questions about the game. As it turns out, "Storming the castle" was originally designed by Aaron Watson as a different game, but was re-themed to a "princess bride" game by the publisher. The game designer was not involved in the re-themeing process in any way. Most of our confusion arose from the re-themeing.

As far as those pesky questions go... I was able to find the answers, so our second play of "Storming the Castle" will make much more sense... and will likely be a roudy, competitive, all around good time.

4 Stars for a fun family game, it would have been 5 stars except for the confusion surrounding one particular card.