In this article I’ll share my impressions of the game, discussing the rules and how they felt in play before finally issuing a verdict on whether or not I think this game may be worth your time. In that time I was able to experience most of the game’s rules and get a feel for how the characters in play were meant to operate.

I had the opportunity to play one full game in which four players worked cooperatively to defeat Matthew Patel, the first Evil Ex. Based on the art and story of the graphic novels, this game is a deckbuilder where the players either work cooperatively or competitively to take out one of the infamous Evil Exes.

Instead, we broke out some video games and board games to try out together, and one of the games we tried was Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game. Ordinarily we play tabletop games, but one of our friends is still in college currently and with all of her major projects coming up due for the end of the year, she couldn’t make the trip and so we held off on tabletop shenanigans this time around. I still hang out with quite a few of my friends from college and this past weekend we had one of our monthly get-togethers. In college a lot of my friends enjoyed it too, so every now and again we’d all get together for a viewing, and naturally our conversations and discourse were full of references to the movie…along with pretty much everything else we’ve ever watched together. But whether I enjoyed it as a celebration of video games and dorky jokes or as thoughtful criticism of the way nerdy guys think about and interact with women, Scott Pilgrim is a film I’ve enjoyed throughout my life. Ironically (or perhaps not), it took well into my adult life to recognize that Scott Pilgrim levels some well-placed criticism towards the very nerds it celebrates. I perceived myself as a bullied outcast because of my hobbies and interests – completely ignoring that I was an arrogant prick to all the people who “bullied” me – and so seeing anything in pop culture that seemed to celebrate my subculture felt like a big deal. When I was a teenager, I loved any movie that somewhat acknowledged nerd culture.

Card game with little man