Pyramid Review
When Darkness Comes: The Awakening
Published by Twilight Creations, Inc.
Written by Todd A. Breitenstein and Kerry Breitenstein
Illustrated by Dave Aikins
boxed set; $29.95
Although Twilight Creations might be a new name to you, their designers should not be. Todd and Kerry Breitenstein already have a hit under their belts with Zombies!!!, the game they created while working as part of the Journeyman Press design team, a division of the United States Playing Card Company. When they were let go, the designers decided to strike out on their own, and although they have since gained the license for Zombies!!!, they have also continued working on designs of their own. So, hot on the heels of Zombies!!! 2: Zombie Corps(e) (the first expansion set for Zombies!!!) comes the first all-new game from Twilight Creations, Inc.
That game is When Darkness Comes: The Awakening, described as a "Modern Day Horror Setting" for the "Variable Tile System." There are two things that you initially notice about When Darkness Comes. The first is its weight, and the second is the attractive gruesomeness of the box art. Like Zombies!!! and its expansion set, When Darkness Comes has been fully illustrated by Dave Aikins; if you consider that Zombies!!! won the 2001 Origins Award for "Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game," it should tell you how good it really does look. In fact, the art may well be better, as Aikins has to provide a greater range of illustrations and is allowed to do so to a . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: August 30, 2002
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