This was the game that kicked off my love of board gaming and I’ll always have a soft spot for it. A year on, and loads of games later, I’ll still whip this one out for a quick solo game. It’s light but there is still plenty of challenge. Disagree about Forbidden Desert though, I thought that added some clever stuff and I much prefer it out of the two now.
I remember playing this game several years before I became interested in board gaming as a hobby. I had never experience anything like it. I didn't know such a thing as a cooperative even game existed. I was amazed at how much tension it balanced with so much fun. Seminal in my journey in the hobby.
Defo still relevant today. I only bought this last year for the first time after my collection got out if control. Really enjoyed it still play it with my kids to this day. Digging the channel mate. You should do some solo playthroughs as well for us mob that dont hang out with a gaming group and just concentrate the camera on the gameboard. Great content tho 👍
@@BoardGameBollocks Aye, superb! As i said, really enjoy the content and it would just add more to the channel i think as by the looks of ot you have a shed load of games there 🤣 Maybe some city of kings as not alot out there or viticulture, spirit island. I dunno, anything u think works well solo. Maybe a good dungeon crawl? I'll let you decide as you have way more games than me 👍 keep up the good work though...i like the relevant in 2019 section. bought jamaica off the back of that vid and my 9 year old loves it, as do i. just simple fun so cheers for that. 😜
Just played this after finding it at a used store-had to make a chalice and a few of the player pieces since they were missing. We really enjoyed it. (The Ocean’s Chalice is upside down in the video-maybe there’s a reason?)
I absolutely love the theme of Forbidden Island. The fact that you get three moves per turn simplifies your total action space so much that the best short-term move is fairly obvious. The challenge level felt too low for my tastes. I could go extreme and start mathing out the probabilities, but then it gets to be tedious and boring rather than the somewhat light-weight fun thinking I expect from a relaxing board game. And it'll bore my fellow players. Forbidden Desert felt right to me, which is sad because although I like the theme, I don't quite love it the way I love the theme of Forbidden Island. My recommendation to everyone out there: try both if that's something you can easily do. Decide whether you want one, the other or both.
This was the game that kicked off my love of board gaming and I’ll always have a soft spot for it. A year on, and loads of games later, I’ll still whip this one out for a quick solo game. It’s light but there is still plenty of challenge. Disagree about Forbidden Desert though, I thought that added some clever stuff and I much prefer it out of the two now.
I remember playing this game several years before I became interested in board gaming as a hobby. I had never experience anything like it. I didn't know such a thing as a cooperative even game existed. I was amazed at how much tension it balanced with so much fun. Seminal in my journey in the hobby.
Did you play the video game Myst back in the 90s...pretty sure Mr Leacock used it as inspiration.
I did play that. And loved it. I spent hours trying working my way through it all. The connection would not surprise me.
Defo still relevant today. I only bought this last year for the first time after my collection got out if control. Really enjoyed it still play it with my kids to this day. Digging the channel mate. You should do some solo playthroughs as well for us mob that dont hang out with a gaming group and just concentrate the camera on the gameboard. Great content tho 👍
Will do mate...anything you wanna see?
@@BoardGameBollocks Aye, superb! As i said, really enjoy the content and it would just add more to the channel i think as by the looks of ot you have a shed load of games there 🤣 Maybe some city of kings as not alot out there or viticulture, spirit island. I dunno, anything u think works well solo. Maybe a good dungeon crawl? I'll let you decide as you have way more games than me 👍 keep up the good work though...i like the relevant in 2019 section. bought jamaica off the back of that vid and my 9 year old loves it, as do i. just simple fun so cheers for that. 😜
Thanks for that mate...we’re going to do some solo playthroughs soon
Just played this after finding it at a used store-had to make a chalice and a few of the player pieces since they were missing. We really enjoyed it. (The Ocean’s Chalice is upside down in the video-maybe there’s a reason?)
Easter egg
I absolutely love the theme of Forbidden Island. The fact that you get three moves per turn simplifies your total action space so much that the best short-term move is fairly obvious. The challenge level felt too low for my tastes.
I could go extreme and start mathing out the probabilities, but then it gets to be tedious and boring rather than the somewhat light-weight fun thinking I expect from a relaxing board game. And it'll bore my fellow players.
Forbidden Desert felt right to me, which is sad because although I like the theme, I don't quite love it the way I love the theme of Forbidden Island.
My recommendation to everyone out there: try both if that's something you can easily do. Decide whether you want one, the other or both.
Great caming game and it is so random