This style of dungeon building is similar to how in some PC dungeon crawlers you will have games where the levels are random and have a random pile of bad guys that spawn at different times (Arcade mode in SDE), or, as in Classic, the dungeon that you are running through has per-determined enemy spawns.
In Arcade mode, while “building” the dungeon, you can place any monster on a monster spawn point, but in Classic mode it is more structured and certain monsters must spawn at certain times. One thing to differentiate the different modes is that in Classic mode the Heroes enter the dungeon last, versus the Heroes entering the dungeon first in Arcade Mode. Once your dungeon is built you would place the start location. The setup varies slightly between the two modes (Classic and Arcade), though the basic dungeon setup is random, based on rolling of a D6, so dungeons are rarely, if ever, identical. Once we got the hang of it though, the Heroes can be set up and things on a roll in a quick 10 minutes or so. The first game took longer, naturally, as we were reading the directions of the Arcade mode (more on the two modes later on) and needed to familiarize ourselves with the rules and setup. Setting up does take some time, but no different than say, setting up a quick new campaign in a round of old-school tabletop D&D. I would even say that the care taken into story and lore in Super Dungeon Explore is just as good as any mainstream RPG found on gaming consoles/computers. Honestly, after my first game I could not help but be amazed at how fleshed out the world actual felt. For those that are interested in immersion and lore, I STRONGLY recommend you read the 20-page Explorer’s Handbook as it lays out the history of Crystalia as well as the major players and the whole “why” of the game. Included in the box are three books, the first is the explorer’s handbook, then the classic mode instructions manual as well as the co-op arcade mode rulebook. The real weight comes in the form of the six fully illustrated and very sturdy double-sided dungeon tiles, 150+ game tokens (plus another 150+ double-sided tokens), all are made out of the same sturdy cardboard. The miniatures, of which there are 58, are fairly standard in size (25mm to 45mm in height, with some taller and some smaller) and add to the heft weight.
When I first received shipment of Super Dungeon Explore I was almost confused here was this large box that weighed what felt like a metric ton, yet looking over the materials it just does not seem to computer.
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