It's A Wonderful Kingdom Review - Different, But Not Better
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
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It's a Wonderful Kingdom is a standalone solo or 2-player game in a Low-Fantasy universe. Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor "It's a Wonderful World", this new game offers more interaction, a bluff mechanism and new challenges.
The game is played using modules, each different and offering mechanical twists. Each game, players will choose one of the different modules to compete against each other. The game is divided into 4 rounds. Each round having 3 phases.
Split & Trap
Players take turns placing their cards on two piles at the center of the table.
One player picks 2 cards from his hand and place it either on the same pile, or split it among the two piles. The other player chooses a pile. This step is repeated alternatively until the players have placed all the cards from their hands.
Furthermore, each player has 2 Trap tokens which can be used to place face down cards.
Planification
Each player chooses, for the cards he has collected, which ones to build and which ones to recycle in order to accelerate the development.
Sequential Production
Each player produces the resources of his Kingdom in a sequential way. The resources being produced in a certain order, it is necessary to anticipate the sequences to optimize the production and development.
At the end of the 4th round, the player with the most victory points wins the game.
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TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:08:50 - Ways This Is Better
0:09:53 - Ways This Is Different
0:10:53 - Ways This Is Worse
0:13:08 - Final Thoughts
0:15:07 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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Taste for the game itself aside, i find your approach of player counts matter a bit odd.
Sure, 5 is higher than 2 but very often, the wider players count games have an actual soft spot at 3/4 or 4/5 players. Lesser count affects the balance/mechanics and more can make the game drag on. IAW World itself is widely recommanded at 4 (while still ok at two). But when you're looking for a two player game is IAW World really better suited than IAW Kingdom ?
For me, classic drafting (in IAW World like in 7 Wonders) largely loose it's interest in 2 players games : you loose the "surprises" (you've seen all the cards of the phase on the second turn) and have no real struggle to get the cards. In Kingdoms like in 7 Wonders Duels, the different mechanics for the drafting parts bring back the surprise (unknown cards) and introduce struggle to get/keep the ones you want. And i'd say those two points matter a lot. Enough to compensate the flexibility of player count ? I don't know, but I know the "flexible player count" is not a "systematic" criteria. Just like a 5 doors car is not better than a 3 doors car by the simple virtue of having 2 more doors. Depends on what you're looking for, just like poeple looking for 2 players games probably don't care about a "higher player count" criteria.
I agree overall with the final results, but the way in which player count was used as a negative point in this review felt a bit out of place.
The wonderful world expansion took it from a 1-5 player to a 1-7 player game, which is amazing and makes it 1 of the just common games I play with my group of 6. Why is it so hard to find a 6 player game that isn't a party game. Happy for any recommendations!!!
check out Downforce :)
7 wonders
Great review. Thank you for your honesty in your videos! Keep up the content.
Can you explain why a bit? What disappointed you the most?
Thanks. Appreciate the redirect to Wonderful World.
Absolutely :)
Wonderful World is a great game and I would always prefer the flexibility to bring that to the table with a variety of player counts and not only two.
Why is the fact that this a 2p game a knock against it? You’d never do the same for 7 Wonders Duel would you?
Ty for the review!
I appreciate your honesty on these games
I like Wonderful World a lot but disliked the ‘bluffing I cut you choose’ in Wonderful Kingdom. I generally don’t like much negative interactions in games and this definitely made me cringe on my turns.
Wonderful World at 2p works fine and drafting is so much more fun at all counts for me.
Hm good thing I saw this review. I thought this would be right up my alley since 98 percent of the time my game group is my girlfriend. Almost bought this but now I guess I'll pass.
I need to start playing games from my self of shame. Easy pass for me.
This one was a huge letdown for me. The randomness of the bluffing and I split you choose just made building an engine a random mess. Sold it after 3 2 player games and a solo play. Wonderful World is still a keeper though.
I was very upset with WK...
You nailed the review in the title bar! Still watched your whole video though, lol.