Tom... It's quite strange, but I feel that you brought back some of the raw creativity of the first videos of SU&SD... And honestly, it's wonderful and fresh, thank you for that. :D
Yes, Tom somehow brings back Paul's subtle undercurrent of insanity which I feel was missing for the last few years. He's still not gluing limes to his face, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time... :)
Thanks for the video! Interesting thoughts on the impacts of the pandemic to game reviews, makes sense! Love Tussle Mussie and Sprawlopolis, looking forward to getting Food Chain Island, Ugly Gryphon Inn and Penny Rails through their recent Kickstarter. Spaceshipped, Antinomy, and now Liberation, are definitely on my radar!
I'd been through ButtonShy's website and said all looked a bit pants except Sprawlopolis and Agropolis, but this video has really got me thinking about Liberation and Food Chain Island... May grab both too eventually! You mentioned Food Chain Island is the only solo game on the list, but I heard Sprawlopolis can be solo? Haven't played it yet as it's on the way in the post
Also here is the list of Button Shy games on BGG in order of rank: boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/26991/button-shy/linkeditems/boardgamepublisher?pageid=1&sort=rank
Agropolis, create your own dirt ground mass lifestock nightmare :-p Wine or poisen, basically draw (plus exchange) sticks. I appreciate the effort really, but I ut I don't feel like I got how half the games actually work, what makes them attractive or not.
Tom, I must admit I was a little skeptical about you at first. But the latest videos you have been doing are excellent. I think I just needed time to adjust to the change. Now, I am very much enjoying your reviews. I am looking forward to the next one.
@@GerackSerack have a standing order in place for new kittens to be delivered from a kitten farm every 4 to 5 weeks to ensure a consistent kitten based reference system?
"nobody can review a game better than Paul and Quinns" matt shows up "nobody can review a game better than Matt and Paul and Quinns" tom shows up "nobody can review a game better than Tom and Matt and Paul and Quinns"
I’m mainly familiar with Ava through the podcast but they are the best of the lot of them! Their analysis is excellent and it’s great to see someone at SU&SD focus on big games like mage knight because the rest of the team have a penchant for lighter and quirkier games (which is no bad thing)
@@samhs101 yes! yes yes! Ava is the one member of the SUSD gang who's taste in games actually lines up with mine... I love the original boys, but they really like big social "performative" games where they get to be centre of attention, and that is SO not my tastes. Ava likes proper crunchy fiddly stupid euros with rules for building degradation and five different score trackers, and crucially they can explain the joy of those games better than I ever could... I genuinely love them!
Glad to see Tom's found his review style. I'm worried that his review style seems to be "mental breakdown of the fun variety", but I'm glad he's found it all the same.
This really was such a genuinely enjoyable half an hour of listening to someone talk. Tom you really are a mad genius. My favourite part has to be the perfectly told first-wine story.
If you want some random advice from a random stranger, which you almost certainly do, *Seasons of Rice* is the best 2p Button Shy game, sadly not featured here.
This is one of the best SUSD video imo, the style and comedic timing is soo so so good Tom. I love you, and thank you for reviewing one of the best game publisher that I've seen, I love their tiny games! I love Liberation the most, I think it's so cool
Tom's been great on the podcast and it seems like he's really started to find his own voice for his review videos. They were good before, but his past few have been more uniquely his own and have been REALLLLY good!
I was pretty sure that was from Street Fighter. Is it because the hat looks like M. Bison or something? Then why would he use Guile's theme? Maybe just because it's a good song and Quinns' favourite.
So glad to see Button Shy getting more coverage. They make so many great small games. In Vino Morte is my favorite because I feel like it gives all of the satisfaction of a much longer bluffing/deduction game into about 5-10 minutes. Also, it's basically the poisoned wine scene from the Princess Bride. If someone doesn't reference Iocane powder at some point, you might be playing it wrong.
I eagerly await the series of "Tom Reads..." with excerpts from morose things like "This Week in Plagues" or "Opening Sequences to Casualty that were deemed too grisly for the BBC"
I'm only seven minutes in and I've already fallen in love with this video. Reference kitten, Zelda music, and, relevance!, I actually own Sprawlopolis and its Beach and Points of Interest expansions and it's nice seeing love thrown its way
My God! His editing is soo good! Especially the suddle ones are very funny. like the mini zoom at "popedom" or the "alright" award makes me just giggle on the toilette.. Makes my day, really! It reminds me of the bon appetite - it's alive episodes with Brad!
Pope fact! The popemobile is the car that the pope uses, however, pope John Paul II requessted people stop calling his vehicle the popemobile, but nobody cared and the popemobile is called that way until present day.
It was a beautiful review of some lovely looking games encapsulated by a wonderful goodbye take from Tom that just felt so real and relatable. I like Tom. I also liked the review! Great job!
Now that's how you make a 35-minute video engaging! Amazing work Tom! I make videos on youtube for a living and can only imagine the herculean lift it was to write, film, and piece this thing together. It has a friggin' arc even! And there are just so many wonderful moments peppered throughout. It's a shame I can't give them all the shoutout they deserve, but I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the punch zoom that floored me at 15:26. This is hands-down my favorite video on the channel.
Tom... It's quite strange, but I feel that you brought back some of the raw creativity of the first videos of SU&SD... And honestly, it's wonderful and fresh, thank you for that. :D
Yes, Tom somehow brings back Paul's subtle undercurrent of insanity which I feel was missing for the last few years. He's still not gluing limes to his face, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time... :)
Little from column A, little from column B...
@@DrMcFly28 a matter of....lime?
Tell that to the plant.
That's it! There's a kind of quiet angry mania under a cuddly visage. And that's what Paul had too. Now I see it!
"it's just like opening a pack of trading cards, but instead of getting 10 useless pieces of paper... you get 18" dying
"Like a drunk EDM fan, you'll be searching for base until the sun rises" The best line of the review, cracking joke.
Bass*
All your bass are belong to us!
@@dustinvognild8128 Bayss**
"Drunk"
"Your move, castle-boy"
Any sightings of chess month long after its theoretical death all get a like.
Tom, you do such a great job man. Half the time I watch your reviews not even to watch the game, but to watch you. Love you man
Thanks for the video! Interesting thoughts on the impacts of the pandemic to game reviews, makes sense! Love Tussle Mussie and Sprawlopolis, looking forward to getting Food Chain Island, Ugly Gryphon Inn and Penny Rails through their recent Kickstarter. Spaceshipped, Antinomy, and now Liberation, are definitely on my radar!
Tom must be an assassin because he kills it every time
24:04 this sound effect, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, YOU'VE AWAKENED THEM
I'd been through ButtonShy's website and said all looked a bit pants except Sprawlopolis and Agropolis, but this video has really got me thinking about Liberation and Food Chain Island... May grab both too eventually!
You mentioned Food Chain Island is the only solo game on the list, but I heard Sprawlopolis can be solo? Haven't played it yet as it's on the way in the post
You can't sneak Guile's theme past me, Tom!
Also here is the list of Button Shy games on BGG in order of rank:
boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/26991/button-shy/linkeditems/boardgamepublisher?pageid=1&sort=rank
While these games aren't really my thing, I did really enjoy the way in which this review was presented
34:10 The way Tom's jackets hang on the back of his door looks exactly like an Easter Island head
Loving the chapters on this video!
That shower joke had me rolling
Awesome work Tom!
I like your style tom
Agropolis, create your own dirt ground mass lifestock nightmare :-p
Wine or poisen, basically draw (plus exchange) sticks.
I appreciate the effort really, but I ut I don't feel like I got how half the games actually work, what makes them attractive or not.
I need a tiny box of Star Wars Rebellion now
I thought about the concept of going upwards through time for far too long.
Most people have no idea how good wine can taste, because they consider it somehow fancy shmancy and sipped one time on a wine thats like vinegar.
Well done!
Tom, I must admit I was a little skeptical about you at first. But the latest videos you have been doing are excellent. I think I just needed time to adjust to the change. Now, I am very much enjoying your reviews. I am looking forward to the next one.
I approve the use of the new reference kitten
Love me a Tom review.
I really wanted to buy Skulls of Sedlic, but postage is basically the same price as the game when posting to the UK
Ngl, you having that "This is how I win." frame in your room surprised me quite a bit.
Tom I think they lied to you, Morte means Death xD
Wait hold a sec... 24:05 that IS a JoJo reference!
31:23 oooo you did a naughty!
I really enjoyed Palm Island
Don't listen to that basil plant, it's just jealous
You had me until you said Sprawlopolis was better than Circle the Wagons.
Why do you have a picture of Adam Sandler from Uncut Gems?
I'm sorry but Tom, is the implication that you ate the mean plant?
BRB tugging my way to popedom.
Wow never realized carcassonne could be so small...
"Distinct sense of melancholy" he said, as he torched a defenceless horned reptile, for the invented crime of enjoying life
Move over, reference pear, Tom's kitten is the new gold standard.
Don't let reference pear know.
What happens when the kitten grows up?
How dare you even think that the pear could ever replaced by a pathetic kitten.Don’t make me laugh.
@@GerackSerack have a standing order in place for new kittens to be delivered from a kitten farm every 4 to 5 weeks to ensure a consistent kitten based reference system?
@@GerackSerack everybody knows reference kitten doesn't grow up, everything else in the world just shrink. That's why it's a reference.
"beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep and then regretting it afterwards" absolutely killed me for some reason
Best bleep joke in the history of SUSD, which is really saying something! Tom looked at one of Quintin's favorite moves and accepted the challenge.
"nobody can review a game better than Paul and Quinns"
matt shows up
"nobody can review a game better than Matt and Paul and Quinns"
tom shows up
"nobody can review a game better than Tom and Matt and Paul and Quinns"
I'm gonna say it.
Nobody can review a game better than Tom.
I’m mainly familiar with Ava through the podcast but they are the best of the lot of them! Their analysis is excellent and it’s great to see someone at SU&SD focus on big games like mage knight because the rest of the team have a penchant for lighter and quirkier games (which is no bad thing)
@@samhs101 Well said, Person Whose Name Is Also Sam. Ava was a really good get.
@@samhs101 Pronouns- I thought Ava prefers they/them?
@@samhs101 yes! yes yes! Ava is the one member of the SUSD gang who's taste in games actually lines up with mine... I love the original boys, but they really like big social "performative" games where they get to be centre of attention, and that is SO not my tastes. Ava likes proper crunchy fiddly stupid euros with rules for building degradation and five different score trackers, and crucially they can explain the joy of those games better than I ever could... I genuinely love them!
10 minutes seems a lot longer than usual, maybe the quarantine is getting to me.
don't feel so down
@Dan M I love science!
@Dan M This is the only logical and rational decision
Glad to see Tom's found his review style.
I'm worried that his review style seems to be "mental breakdown of the fun variety", but I'm glad he's found it all the same.
I really loved "I'm editing your lines out as you speak" that was a good bit
"Alright, so we have a ton of small games, how should we go at this?"
Tom: "I am speed."
"We have lots of dinky quirky games to explain and review-think you're up to it?"
"I am a leaf on the wind..."
"in vino, morte",
I don't think that means what you think it means.
🤣🤣🤣
Yup. This was the line for me. 💀
Tom took the fourth wall, knocked it down, and rebuilt it using the Board Game Police's cut frames. So many editing jokes, I love it!
Ive only just begun the video, but I do hope a small kitten shows up inexplicably. That would really make my day.
The confetti pop after “Hooray!” made me laugh out loud.
My best friend RYAN sent me here! Shout-out to RYAN for introducing me to such an awesome channel!
Shout-out to RYAN!!!
RYAN seems like a cool guy
Im not your Ryan but he sounds like a cool guy
RYAN, what a pal
RYAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!
I love how Tom wasted no time when showing off his kitten
Me: Wait? It's all Chess Month?
Them: _Always has been_
I'm a big fan of Tom's Chaos Edit aesthetic.
"The Knight, a card labeled 6, can be placed on top of the dragon, a card labeled 9"
Thank you for your service.
Nice.
This really was such a genuinely enjoyable half an hour of listening to someone talk. Tom you really are a mad genius. My favourite part has to be the perfectly told first-wine story.
The Game Police dialogue was brilliant. One of the best-written sequences in SU&SD history.
If you want some random advice from a random stranger, which you almost certainly do, *Seasons of Rice* is the best 2p Button Shy game, sadly not featured here.
Seconded.
Framed Howie on the desk, you gotta love it
EDIT: not a desk lmao
15:24 That little zoom in after "tug your way to Popedom" as the implications flash across his face...I fucking lost it.
BRUMBOPOLEE??? Tom is a riot, what a brilliant addition to the SUSD team
Edit: holy christ the concert anecdote
1:27 The rest of the video has lost all meaning , need more info on Reference Kitten
I hope as we delve further into 2021, we can get some affirmative plant secret ASMR. You're doing great at board game reviews, Tom!
This is one of the best SUSD video imo, the style and comedic timing is soo so so good Tom. I love you, and thank you for reviewing one of the best game publisher that I've seen, I love their tiny games! I love Liberation the most, I think it's so cool
Tom's been great on the podcast and it seems like he's really started to find his own voice for his review videos. They were good before, but his past few have been more uniquely his own and have been REALLLLY good!
The Glasgow bit was rough, otherwise that plant is dead wrong.
I always enjoy this reviews, this guy Is really good, he should make More reviews
There was Guile’s theme, a JoJo reference, and a kitten. I am soothed.
I was pretty sure that was from Street Fighter. Is it because the hat looks like M. Bison or something? Then why would he use Guile's theme? Maybe just because it's a good song and Quinns' favourite.
Guile's theme goes with everything, even Glasgow.
@@kherubim1 Glasguile’s theme.
"Structure is a myth." Tom, you fucking sage.
LMFAO was 1:44 supposed to be that Simpsons episode where Homer finds a trampoline ad in the news paper?
In Vino Morte is such a fun little game. It's a great pub game, great convention game, great little game in general.
I wish Tom was there to announce every little thing in my life with this mixed sense of excitement and fear.
I spent 40 minutes watching this instead of doing the work I need to complete this evening and I have no regrets. More kitten though, please!
Tom won't be so cocky when board game SWAT is called in.
The difference in length between this and the oink review is 10* minutes
Damnit... SU&SD... are you on a personal mission to bankrupt me? Thats at least 2 more on my list of games I must buy you bastards!
Don't listen to that plant, your reviews are great. And don't listen to any dogs that tell you to kill.
Siiick editing and flow.
Juicy sound effects. Top notch. Toms on fire.
So glad to see Button Shy getting more coverage. They make so many great small games. In Vino Morte is my favorite because I feel like it gives all of the satisfaction of a much longer bluffing/deduction game into about 5-10 minutes. Also, it's basically the poisoned wine scene from the Princess Bride. If someone doesn't reference Iocane powder at some point, you might be playing it wrong.
Ya I’ll probably pick up Spawlopolis just to have a board game constantly on my person for university.
I eagerly await the series of "Tom Reads..." with excerpts from morose things like "This Week in Plagues" or "Opening Sequences to Casualty that were deemed too grisly for the BBC"
The "in vino veritas" story joke was truly spectacular.
And to conclude such a great story with the "punchbowl in hell" line... perfection.
I've watched SU&SD as entertainment for a long time, but this review really felt like it was turning into art.
I'm only seven minutes in and I've already fallen in love with this video. Reference kitten, Zelda music, and, relevance!, I actually own Sprawlopolis and its Beach and Points of Interest expansions and it's nice seeing love thrown its way
the plague has overcrowded the graveyard!
*oh really? have we? opens the news app*
My God! His editing is soo good! Especially the suddle ones are very funny. like the mini zoom at "popedom" or the "alright" award makes me just giggle on the toilette.. Makes my day, really! It reminds me of the bon appetite - it's alive episodes with Brad!
Pope fact!
The popemobile is the car that the pope uses, however, pope John Paul II requessted people stop calling his vehicle the popemobile, but nobody cared and the popemobile is called that way until present day.
Tom. Tom. Tom. Why are you so good at your job? Your Food Chain Island review had me in tears. Give this man a raise!
Bon Iver and Uncut Gems?
We're friends now. Deal with it.
What's with Adam?
....and “tug your way to popedum” will now need to be used every chance I get.
"Tug your way to Pope-dom" ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)
It was a beautiful review of some lovely looking games encapsulated by a wonderful goodbye take from Tom that just felt so real and relatable. I like Tom. I also liked the review! Great job!
...bye!
Now that's how you make a 35-minute video engaging! Amazing work Tom!
I make videos on youtube for a living and can only imagine the herculean lift it was to write, film, and piece this thing together. It has a friggin' arc even! And there are just so many wonderful moments peppered throughout. It's a shame I can't give them all the shoutout they deserve, but I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the punch zoom that floored me at 15:26. This is hands-down my favorite video on the channel.
Easily one of the channels best videos to date. Keep it up!! 💖
"In vino morte" means "death in wine", probably a parody of the latin "in vino veritas" meaning "truth in wine" i.e. a drunk will be sincere.
That's the joke.
@@BattleSpew I explained it 'cause in the video it's translated wrong.
@@BattleSpew What joke?
@@tedgovostis7351 SU&SD are well known for always giving blatantly bad translations. It's a running gag in their videos.
the board game police edit/geography joke is unbelievably good
This video is hilarious and hearing Antimony instead of Antinomy made me giggle every single time.
Showing the kitten was the best weird flex I’ve ever seen.
did you .. really just freakin burned that card?
I feel like Tom is the SU&SD I have the least agreement on games with but the most similarity sense of humor wise. He does the best bits.
Simpsons AND JoJo references?! You're speaking my language lol
For real, Tom's doing a great job!
Not to mention Guile's theme. It truly goes with everything.