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Villains and Vigilantes:Great Bridge
Publisher: Fantasy Games Unlimited
by lackey [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/02/2024 17:05:03

A fairly typical V&V villain catalog, this one focused on baddies who operate in Japan, all with marked anime influence. Compared to earlier villain books in the series there are fewer whimsical entries (some of the older V&V villains could be downright goofy) but a bit less originality and variety. Out of twenty villains, quite a few are obviously lifted from anime - most of which was older even when this came out, 1990s and early Oughts - including a Knight Saber expy from Bubblegum Crisis, an evil Astro Boy, a Guyver, and a child Pokemon trainer who's wanted for animal cruelty. There are also some stereotypes including a vampire, ninja, catgirl, and no less than three different female cyborgs/gynoids with various memory and socialization problems. Villain levels range from 1 to 6, with a strong bias toward the 1-3 part of that scale. This gets a rating bump from me for the very strong B&W artwork, which is nicely evocative and has a distinctive style. It's a shame that the artist, Brian Delandro Hardison, doesn't appear to have done much other work in the gaming industry and none at all for V&V. He's arguably the best illustrator the game has had outside of Dee and Willingham, and he's giving Jeff a run for his money here.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Villains and Vigilantes:Great Bridge
Publisher: Fantasy Games Unlimited
by Sean H. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 07/27/2012 16:01:38

Great Bridge is a collection of Japanese supervillain from the files of Department 88. Primarily is it a source of anime/magna inspired supervillain and as such, it succeeds in it design goals. However, that is all it does, none of the characters are particularly innovative in mechanical design or background, which there are a few clever lines scattered the descriptions it does not do much to distinguish itself from any other such sourcebook.

As V&V is a fairly direct system, conversion to another superhero system should not be that difficult for any of these works. Each of the V&V books comes with a set of full color counters of the characters and bystanders (and sometime more) that can be printed out for game use.

Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/DriveThroughRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review.



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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