I'm really happy Village is coming out as a big box, as this is an excellent game thats been hard to get for a while. Especially the excellent Village inn expansion. I'm no fan of the graphic redesign, it looks like its been sterilized by a graphic designer who's using design principles to make it functional over making it engaging. But others seem to like it. Anyway, Village, neato game that shows euro games about medieval villages can tell stories, be fun and be good all at the same time.
I'm a big fan of the Port expansion. I find that it makes the exploration action so much more interesting. I wish more games had expansions that replaced rather than added.
Oh my goodness yes. I call this Tall vs Wide expansions, and I always prefer Tall. Ones that build the game upwards rather than outwards. Replacing stuff counts as tall to me because you are also removing stuff at the same time. Inn is my fav, mostly because i played with it a lot more than Port. Which took me ages to find a copy of here, so its only had like 3 plays.
I love Village! The time / death mechanic is really clever and makes for interesting choices. Sometimes your best bet is to kill your family off as quickly as possible and I find it quietly hilarious trying to do that and disguise it from my friends.
Never seen this game before. I was thinking how everything looked so quaint and gorgeous, and pretty much decided to buy the damn thing once you mentioned the big box edition. Then I saw the new artwork. Yeah, no thanks. Might get it if I can get my hands on the older version + expansions.
Upset at the visual changes to the big box, similar to the Iki reprint, but I can’t find Village anywhere and I can’t find it for a decent price so for a big box to also have the even more difficult to find expansions, yeah I’ll snag it and be a happy villager.
Great game! So glad I got this and the 2 expansions several yrs ago when CoolStuff was somehow selling them at clearance prices. Makes me want to pull this out again!
I got this on a good deal from geekmarket earlier in the year. Only got it to the table twice and haven't really clicked with or enjoyed it despite it sounding like a game I'd really like. Might be because it there was only two players. One day I will play it as the opener in a trilogy about a family and its wealth though. Village followed by Legacy: Testament of Duke de crecy (Terrible game name) then Last Will.
Village is one of my favorites. Great video but just one correction. At the well you can spend three cubes of a color to take any action as if you pulled a cube from there.
Yeah, I love village. A friend of mine hates it! The take a cube mechanism IS thematic! You learn skills or develop interests from doing things in the Village and that can help you do other things. But the expansions are essential.
I've not played Village, but I used to have My Village with was... fine, but not interesting enough to choose over similar games. I wonder if I'd like this one more?
I agree, much prefer the art of the old edition. Just one point about the review though: The well space doesn't let you swap 3 cubes for 1 of your choice, it lets you take an action in an area when there are no more cubes on that area, or when you don't want to take a plague cube but still want to take the action. Great review though. Love this game.
I put that error down to an absolute bone-tired baby brained dad been up with crying child malfunction at my end. So many little errors crept in during this period, really dumb ones.
Interesting. Last game I played we did a 3 block exchange to use a building with no more blocks available for that round and a coin to buy any colour block. Here you say 3 blocks exchange for 1 block. Damn I'll have to read the rules..
One of my favorites, and I don't have a copy so I was excited about the new edition. Although it's too bad about the art. Maybe I'll get it anyway for the solo mode, as I rarely get play any other way anymore.
Oh my goodness, the new board in the big box looks HORRENDOUS. How on earth can that be considered an improvement? The old one has charm, lucky I nabbed an old copy a while back. Now to actually play it! 🙃
If the price is already inflated, sure. A new edition will likely drive it down. But I also think the old edition has a charm that will keep it popular and desired. Especially once more people see the new version. I'm thinking of Castles of burgundy here as well, when the first reprint came out prices dropped on the original, and then people went "this reprint is ugly, i want the old one".
@@3MBG I’d like to learn it enough to see why it’s so well loved but boy is it dense as balls. There’s nothing wrong with the trend per se but it did get a bit bonkers. Arnak is a return to form maybe.
i spent more than I should have getting the inn expansion last year. I'd be kicking myself finding out about the big box except the art is not to my taste at all.
Well, that's not as extreme as i was thinking. And, because of exchange rates and supply costs. I think i paid like $45 USD for it new here. So not as bad as i thought
@@3MBG I hunted for quite a while until I found a price point I could tolerate. Still, it is rich for my blood for such a small expansion, but I definitely saw it going for much higher.
I'm really happy Village is coming out as a big box, as this is an excellent game thats been hard to get for a while. Especially the excellent Village inn expansion. I'm no fan of the graphic redesign, it looks like its been sterilized by a graphic designer who's using design principles to make it functional over making it engaging. But others seem to like it. Anyway, Village, neato game that shows euro games about medieval villages can tell stories, be fun and be good all at the same time.
Haven't played the village and this video got me jazzed to try it but I totally agree about that art.... it's awful 😖
I feel the same about the design so I'm holding out to see if the expansions for the first version drop in price.
One of my all-time favorite games.
Pretty sure its made my top 100 each year i've done it. Great game
Yay for Architects! So good.
Love it, own it, would play it any time if someone offered.
I'm a big fan of the Port expansion. I find that it makes the exploration action so much more interesting. I wish more games had expansions that replaced rather than added.
Oh my goodness yes. I call this Tall vs Wide expansions, and I always prefer Tall. Ones that build the game upwards rather than outwards. Replacing stuff counts as tall to me because you are also removing stuff at the same time.
Inn is my fav, mostly because i played with it a lot more than Port. Which took me ages to find a copy of here, so its only had like 3 plays.
I was excited... until I saw your picture of the new version. God damn. Do these producers have no conscience?!
I love Village! The time / death mechanic is really clever and makes for interesting choices. Sometimes your best bet is to kill your family off as quickly as possible and I find it quietly hilarious trying to do that and disguise it from my friends.
Never seen this game before. I was thinking how everything looked so quaint and gorgeous, and pretty much decided to buy the damn thing once you mentioned the big box edition. Then I saw the new artwork. Yeah, no thanks. Might get it if I can get my hands on the older version + expansions.
Upset at the visual changes to the big box, similar to the Iki reprint, but I can’t find Village anywhere and I can’t find it for a decent price so for a big box to also have the even more difficult to find expansions, yeah I’ll snag it and be a happy villager.
Its possible some second hand ones hit the market once the big box arrives
Great game! So glad I got this and the 2 expansions several yrs ago when CoolStuff was somehow selling them at clearance prices. Makes me want to pull this out again!
also excited for the big box
I got this on a good deal from geekmarket earlier in the year. Only got it to the table twice and haven't really clicked with or enjoyed it despite it sounding like a game I'd really like. Might be because it there was only two players. One day I will play it as the opener in a trilogy about a family and its wealth though. Village followed by Legacy: Testament of Duke de crecy (Terrible game name) then Last Will.
Legacy is a neat game too
Village is one of my favorites. Great video but just one correction. At the well you can spend three cubes of a color to take any action as if you pulled a cube from there.
An omission more than a correction. Time code gets in the way at times. I probably should have included that though but i can't fit every rule in
Yeah, I love village. A friend of mine hates it! The take a cube mechanism IS thematic! You learn skills or develop interests from doing things in the Village and that can help you do other things. But the expansions are essential.
How does it play at 2-player? Is anything lost compared to higher counts?
I don't think I've ever played it 2 player sorry.
Works well as a two player - has the benefit of less downtime for each player :)
I do prefer ‚My Village‘, came out later from Inka and Markus. Streamlined.
I've not played Village, but I used to have My Village with was... fine, but not interesting enough to choose over similar games. I wonder if I'd like this one more?
I think that one is a streamlined version
I agree, much prefer the art of the old edition. Just one point about the review though: The well space doesn't let you swap 3 cubes for 1 of your choice, it lets you take an action in an area when there are no more cubes on that area, or when you don't want to take a plague cube but still want to take the action. Great review though. Love this game.
I put that error down to an absolute bone-tired baby brained dad been up with crying child malfunction at my end. So many little errors crept in during this period, really dumb ones.
@@3MBG haha! All good, I've been there.
Looks like a theme I could get into. Honestly have never heard about it.
SU&SD did one of their early reviews on it, which gave it a lot of exposure. But that was probably 6 or 7 years back
@@3MBG 9 years ago! We're all very old.
Wow, that is a while back, lol
@@3MBG I just watched that last night. Very retro SU&SD!
Interesting. Last game I played we did a 3 block exchange to use a building with no more blocks available for that round and a coin to buy any colour block. Here you say 3 blocks exchange for 1 block. Damn I'll have to read the rules..
I got that rule wrong sorry
@@3MBG All good. You saved me having to read! tēnā koe
One of my favorites, and I don't have a copy so I was excited about the new edition. Although it's too bad about the art. Maybe I'll get it anyway for the solo mode, as I rarely get play any other way anymore.
I thought he said there was no solo mode?
Oh my goodness, the new board in the big box looks HORRENDOUS. How on earth can that be considered an improvement? The old one has charm, lucky I nabbed an old copy a while back. Now to actually play it! 🙃
Yeah, its a bit gross. I finally saw it in person recently and remain happy with my choice to keep the original.
@@3MBG lol Yeah I don't blame you. I really like old timey art like the original has in games like these.
Love this game as its responsible for drawing me back to the hobby after a long stretch where I was seduced by the dark side (Magic the Gathering).
Hahaha…why not both?
I wonder what will happen to all the older versions of Village.
I'll be keeping mine. There's some extras in the big box, but not enough for me to warrant getting a whole new set
Im not sure they will get that much cheaper to be honest.
If the price is already inflated, sure. A new edition will likely drive it down. But I also think the old edition has a charm that will keep it popular and desired. Especially once more people see the new version. I'm thinking of Castles of burgundy here as well, when the first reprint came out prices dropped on the original, and then people went "this reprint is ugly, i want the old one".
A very nice game from the age before euros went stupid complicated
Was gonna argue, but this is probably fair.
@@3MBG there are a few exceptions but it got stupid
I kinda like some of them *gestures wildly toward Anachrony* but yeah.
@@3MBG I’d like to learn it enough to see why it’s so well loved but boy is it dense as balls.
There’s nothing wrong with the trend per se but it did get a bit bonkers. Arnak is a return to form maybe.
i spent more than I should have getting the inn expansion last year. I'd be kicking myself finding out about the big box except the art is not to my taste at all.
Yeah, its pretty ugly. Still, Inn was going for way too much 2nd hand a while back
@@3MBG I paid $70 usd in a moment of pure FOMO
Well, that's not as extreme as i was thinking. And, because of exchange rates and supply costs. I think i paid like $45 USD for it new here. So not as bad as i thought
@@3MBG I hunted for quite a while until I found a price point I could tolerate. Still, it is rich for my blood for such a small expansion, but I definitely saw it going for much higher.
I think you successfully sold me on the Big Box, but I'm disappointed about the art.
That's probably fair. I mean, gameplay > Art. Otherwise terraforming mars wouldn't be one of my all time top games.
Can't stand this game, it's interesting mechanically. But the theme is just so boring to me.
I guess that's the beauty of the variation of board games and their themes, as the theme for this game was a massive attraction for me.