For Clank lovers, things that are different from the base game: 2:21 - Lockpicks 2:35 - Exploring the dungeon 3:02 - Artifacts 3:45 - Treaasures 3:57 - Portals 4:07 - Shrines 4:20 - Ghosts 4:26 - Prisoners 7:20 - Market 7:44 - Prisoners II 8:15 - Ghosts II Let me know if I missed anything :)
Exactly. Everything about this new version seems better except the tile art, or lack of. Why arent there dungeon backgrounds on these tiles? These symbolic nodes with one color backgrounds takes away a lot of immersion, and just look terrible. Huge oversight.
Helpful tip. Do not dilute the Catacombs deck with your other cards if you have prior Clank. There are 16 cards that are very catacombs specific and the 100 card deck is 20 monsters, 9 devices, 7 gems, 23 companions and 41 other cards. Because of lock picks and manipulating the dungeon I would not dilute more than the 100 cards. 8 monsters, 1 device, 3 gems, and 4 companions are catacombs needed. So if you keep those you can mess with the other 84 from other sets. I have all the expansions and I leave out the cards that even mention curses or flooded caverns. The opposite is true of you play base clank or an expansion. Remove the 16 Catacomb cards The Catacombs is the better game. FYI if you have prior clank sets you will need to sleeve the cards as the coloring is different on the backs. New one is a reddish brown old cards a yellow brown
Part of me likes that this is so variable, which is great for replay. At the same time, part of me likes the other Clank games because it actually let me plan my route and plan ahead. This led to really zippy turns. I think with Catacombs, you'll have to think a bit more on the fly. Still looks good though, great review!
I feel like having no planned route does ruin some of the strategy in the game. But it's already not the type of game where the best player wins. So not sure, probably need to play it myself to see if the exploration is worth more extra time and less long-term planning.
You could just layout tiles before the game begins and bam! You can plan your routes on the days you are feeling analytical, and on the spontaneous adventurous days, play the game tile by tile
Can't wait for my pre-order. Hopefully it's early November, as I'm having 4 days of gaming at my house starting the weekend before Thanksgiving. And would love to get this to the table.
Tom plays many many games and has played many many games of Clank, Clank legacy etc... so something that adds a new twist anf mixes it up is of course going to appeal to him (and Roy for similar reasons). I feel like for most people if you own Clank and expansions already there really isn't a need to get this unless you've played it out and are tired of it.
Which version would you recommend if you've never played any Clank game before? Tom and Roy suggest getting this one even for total Clank newbies, but perhaps their views are a little skewed precisely because they've played a ton of the earlier games/expansions and preferring the novelty of this newer one (as you mentioned)
@@applewitheveryoneI'm pretty late to the party but I recently got into Clank! and decided on Clank! In Space. The general consensus seems to be that In Space is essentially Clank! but better balanced and with more replayability. There are also 3 expansions for In Space already, so there is a lot of room to grow if you want. Also, apparently the game length of the original Clank! can be really short if one player just wants to get in and get out ("rush strategy"), kind of ruining the game for the rest of the group. Catacombs presents an element of luck with respect to the board layout which is seen as a negative for people who enjoy the route/deck planning aspect of Clank! and Clank! In Space. I haven't played the original or Catacombs, though. This is just what my research has turned up. I'm super happy with Clank! In Space, for what it's worth.
@@ismount Sorry, i don't understand why you say Clank in Space is better balanced than original Clank! For me Clank! is well balanced.. i don't get the point. Also, original Clank! has, at least and if i'm not wrong, 2 expansions as well: the Mummy and Sunken Treasures.
That animated wall that rotates everyone's tile 180 degrees when it comes out. Can't that cause a player to get stuck in a disconnected loop? Or is it made in a way that all loops MUST have a teleporter?
I was going to ask if I needed to keep old Clank if I had this and I think I got my answer. I don’t know if I need to keep all my old clank stuff. Actually I was trying to find a reason to get rid of it so I can have that precious shelf space back.
How much space is Clank taking up on your shelves? I own EVERYTHING Clank, and have it all in the Core game box, and the Adventurers packs are only taking up a small corner of space. Toss that red insert out and you can easily fit everything into the core box.
I've played Clank and Clank Legacy and I love them - I would play Legacy again and I don't feel that way about any other legacy or campaign game. I bought Clank in Space and a couple expansions, and I think it fixes most of my quibbles with Clank. I'm still hoping for Clank in Space Legacy (or would that be Clank Legacy in Space?) If it ever comes out, I will buy or back it in a heartbeat. And with all of that, I'm sooooo tempted to pick this up. Maybe CiS is distinct enough to have both in active rotation, but Catacombs could easily win out just from previews and reviews.
I adored Clank! in Space.. so much so that I actually regretted aggressively expanding the original Clank. People I play with though tend to prefer the fantasy theme and boards over the SF ones. So far I'm not too impressed with this one - I like the gameplay change, but it also looks ugly and I think it might be a bit harder to teach. I guess I'll stick with Clank for now, maybe finally check out what that Legacy one is all about.... :)
im new to clank and am very interested in this but ugh why couldn't they add some flare to the paths to make it look like hallways or paths, not just lines so much missed immersion, would be an instant buy otherwise
I got into the hobby 2-3 years ago, and the original Clank has been on my must-get list the entire time, but I somehow have still never played any Clank (turns out there are A LOT of great games out there). The idea behind this one that the dungeon plays out differently every time, and you really are exploring a map where you don't know what's coming next sounds like it all but makes the original obsolete. Depends what you're looking for, of course; the idea of knowing ahead of time the optimal strategic route doesn't appeal to me at all, but for others, that might be the whole reason to play. I've got this pre-ordered at my FLGS.
There was never an optimal route with the original due to the random card market. The random tiles will probably make this version a little more luck based. Although, the portals probably help to reduce that.
Does it really add that much to Clank! that I need to pick this up? I try to be reasonable.... I own Clank! In! Space! and every of its expansions and haven't play all of them often enough yet. I think I will pass this time. But for everyone who is new to Clank! it might be a good choice to pick this up over regular Clank! Thoughts?
The starting hands are identical with the first Clank. But how about the other cards? Are they all new or is there some/many cards re-used from other Clanks? I have only the first Clank. It's really good but it would be nice to have new cards and that tile map might be good too.
This feels like it has a LOT more luck in it. Also, I use clank for when I feel like the few extra rules would be too many for a newer gamer. I would be concerned with all the extra rules here, this probably a little more complex than clank in space.
I played with some new people. It’s not to much. To me the tiles coming out is like betrayal at house on the hill. You draw one and orient it how you want. Simple. You play every card in your hand and get everything it shows. Buy power, movements and attack. People grasp all that pretty easily. You can just teach the tiles individually as they come out.
Yeah the tiles are really no big deal to deal with. The artifacts tend to spread out, and all players can usually discover a pretty similar amount of stuff to each other. What it does help with is players who have played 2000 times and know what route they will take.. it gets rid of that meta gaming stuff, which sucks for new players. It is no more complex than clank in space. All the stuff you draw, you just look up on a cheat sheet. You don’t even have to know what anything does until you come upon it
I wish all double-sided player aids came with two - so I can see the aid in its entirety between the two. Sometimes flipping the aid can reveal your intentions.
Man, I was excited about this, but I don't like that the artwork in the tiles is pretty much non-existent. To me, having some sense of immersion is important, and I feel Catacombs loses that. Also, it feels more random, as somebody else already said. Unfortunately, this is a pass to me.
Agreed. I think this game works best for people who have played one of the original Clanks a lot so they understand the change the best and can contrast it with their previous experiences; for newcomers the static board with lovely art might still have a much stronger aesthetic draw.
Yes! For the original Clank there are like, what, 8 maps? So repeatability is huge. So no need for a modular board. And those maps are so much more pretty than this game. This is more mechanics with no athetics. Big pass
I'll give it a try if I get a chance but I have serious doubts. Same kind of cards in the deck and no option to plan with these 'tsuro' tiles. Looks very random. After Clank in Space and acquisitions incorporated I see no need for this game. And withoud these in my collection would rather buy the legacy one.
Well it also makes it more of a real dungeon crawl. You pick a path and don’t know what’s gonna be there. Plus you have the choice on how to orient it to benefit you the most. Plus there’s a ton of transportation points tk be able to move around the map. Plus if you really wanted to, you could just make a custom board out of the tiles ahead of time and not worry about drawing more. Etc.
I love clank in space, but for how long the game is, it has lots of layers of randomness. And I enjoy luck, but clank pushes it really far. I’m not sure I want the board itself to be yet another layer of randomness. Not an instant buy for me.
And sadly the means of randomness mitigation that the designer & developers tout the most, are themselves limited by the very randomness they're supposed to mitigate
I would like to see the decks of cards first. I found that the deck of cards from Clank Legacy is more varied than classic clank. If this the case for this new game, I might buy it.
I always wondered why this game wasn't made this way in the first place. But now that I have most of the stuff for the original version, there's no way in hell they're going to get me to spend hundreds more dollars on a new edition. I'll just continue enjoying what I've already got.
With so much being the same as original Clank, I wonder why they don't also offer this as an expansion kit for the original. It seems like a money grab to sell this as a full base game to owners of the original again.
I've played Clank Legacy and it's absolutely worth it. It's SO much fun. Even though Clank Catacombs seems amazing, I don't think it will come close to Clank Legacy.
Clank! Legacy is totally worth it if you have a regular play group that you can play through 10 games with the same group. It was an awesome experience, and I've highly considered purchasing another one just so that we could play through it again.
How does this compare with Clank! Legacy? I had Clank! in Space (bought it because I heard it has better gameplay than Clank!) but didn't really enjoy the theme that much I sold it.
Component quality of the tiles and tokens is quite poor. Very thin and flimsy especially for the price tag , I believe this should have been mentioned in the review. Fun game tho' 😁
I find Clank! In Space is sooo much better than regular Clank!. Original Clank suffers from letting people be able to just go and get an artifact and leave fast which I find super lame. Space clank fixes that and adds a lot more interesting things/mechanics. Every time I've played regular Clank I'm just left feeling like it was a kids game. Not very fulfilling, Hoping this version is better as I like the idea of fantasy Clank but the original game is just too simple.
Some people like strategy more than tactics, others prefer tactics. I like both, but prefer tactics, so this type of gameplay would be my preference. Just depends on the person.
Exploration is about the unknown. Clank is about exploration. This is a better Clank. Of course, many will have bias to justify NOT purchasing, happens all the time. In this case I don’t think someone needs all the Clanks. But as someone new this series this looks like the way to go.
@@robertbouley7697 no clank is a race. Races aren't fun if no one knows where they are going. Name a non co-op exploration game that's rated above a 7.
@@grog3514 Clank is absolutely not supposed to be a race. That doesn’t even fit with its title nor the sense of apprehension for making noise and awakening danger. You CAN play the earlier versions as a race; which demonstrates why this game is better. Why are you talking about arbitrary scores for non-coop?
Every time a new game comes out Tom says the new game is a killer. This is cool but there are tons of other maps for the base game that changes the boards around. This to me is a lateral move from clank.
The shop is random, your deck is random, the dragon attacks are random. Now you want the map to be random too? Clank: roll a dice and see what happens game
I own original clank and all expansions. To me this seems like their way at a 2nd Ed . While I applaud 👏🏻 because it does feel like I totally got cheated . Like most 2nd Ed . Games .
I remember everyone raving about clank, buying it and ever my casual gamer wife finding it overly simple. We returned it. Have the other versions have more interesting cards / choices?
Sure there’s expansions and clank in space expansions that add more interesting decisions. But, you might be fooling yourself if you think your wife is both a casual gamer AND finds clank overly simple. I guess that depends on the definition of casual gamer.
I'm pretty sure most of his videos have always started at 20 secs, because for as long as I can remember, I've started by skipping twice and it goes right to his greeting.
My biggest worry that even with the tiered Artifact approach the game would become too luck-based. Admittedly the game was always a bit beer & pretzels, with random Dungeon card draw often having a huge impact on the game, but in this one it's now luck squared. Also.. I think it looks a bit too abstract and ugly. Clank! boards always felt a bit "busy", especially to non-gamers, but the extra art made the entire experience a bit more tame. This one just looks like an abstract mess.
PURPLE and BLUE are the colors they picked?????? Seriously? Those are TERRIBLE colorblind colors to pick. Red is by far the most common color blind issue, and as any preschooler knows, purple is just a reddish blue.
@@revimfadli4666 Most deckbuilding board games start all players out with the same hand of unappealing, garbage cards that each player has to try to slowly eliminate over the course of the game. The endless shuffling of small decks is also annoying. The only deckbuilders that have any appeal to me are those where the deckbuilding is done before you start the game (giving you a deck that you actually wanted to play). The repetitive similar beginnings of all of these is like forcing someone to watch foreign language soap operas for hours when they wanted to watch something else and slowly adding content they desired.
For Clank lovers, things that are different from the base game:
2:21 - Lockpicks
2:35 - Exploring the dungeon
3:02 - Artifacts
3:45 - Treaasures
3:57 - Portals
4:07 - Shrines
4:20 - Ghosts
4:26 - Prisoners
7:20 - Market
7:44 - Prisoners II
8:15 - Ghosts II
Let me know if I missed anything :)
The flow chart boxes and paths could have been made in to something more artistic to help with the theme.
Exactly. Everything about this new version seems better except the tile art, or lack of. Why arent there dungeon backgrounds on these tiles? These symbolic nodes with one color backgrounds takes away a lot of immersion, and just look terrible. Huge oversight.
Played this for the first time yesterday. First time playing a Clank game. Very easy to understand. Was a really fun game!
Helpful tip. Do not dilute the Catacombs deck with your other cards if you have prior Clank. There are 16 cards that are very catacombs specific and the 100 card deck is 20 monsters, 9 devices, 7 gems, 23 companions and 41 other cards. Because of lock picks and manipulating the dungeon I would not dilute more than the 100 cards. 8 monsters, 1 device, 3 gems, and 4 companions are catacombs needed. So if you keep those you can mess with the other 84 from other sets. I have all the expansions and I leave out the cards that even mention curses or flooded caverns. The opposite is true of you play base clank or an expansion. Remove the 16 Catacomb cards
The Catacombs is the better game. FYI if you have prior clank sets you will need to sleeve the cards as the coloring is different on the backs. New one is a reddish brown old cards a yellow brown
Hoping they release the expansions/mechanics from sunken treasures, Gold & Silk and Mummy's Curse as tilesets & cards for Catacombs
Part of me likes that this is so variable, which is great for replay. At the same time, part of me likes the other Clank games because it actually let me plan my route and plan ahead. This led to really zippy turns. I think with Catacombs, you'll have to think a bit more on the fly. Still looks good though, great review!
Yeah I agree, the modular board is a huge downgrade for me personally. No interest in this version.
I feel like having no planned route does ruin some of the strategy in the game. But it's already not the type of game where the best player wins. So not sure, probably need to play it myself to see if the exploration is worth more extra time and less long-term planning.
This is appealing to me: less up-front planning and more turn by turn decision making, fantastic.
You could just layout tiles before the game begins and bam! You can plan your routes on the days you are feeling analytical, and on the spontaneous adventurous days, play the game tile by tile
It makes the game more of a dungeon crawler by including some actual exploration.
Can't wait for my pre-order. Hopefully it's early November, as I'm having 4 days of gaming at my house starting the weekend before Thanksgiving. And would love to get this to the table.
Tom plays many many games and has played many many games of Clank, Clank legacy etc... so something that adds a new twist anf mixes it up is of course going to appeal to him (and Roy for similar reasons). I feel like for most people if you own Clank and expansions already there really isn't a need to get this unless you've played it out and are tired of it.
Excellent point!
Which version would you recommend if you've never played any Clank game before? Tom and Roy suggest getting this one even for total Clank newbies, but perhaps their views are a little skewed precisely because they've played a ton of the earlier games/expansions and preferring the novelty of this newer one (as you mentioned)
@@applewitheveryoneI'm pretty late to the party but I recently got into Clank! and decided on Clank! In Space. The general consensus seems to be that In Space is essentially Clank! but better balanced and with more replayability. There are also 3 expansions for In Space already, so there is a lot of room to grow if you want. Also, apparently the game length of the original Clank! can be really short if one player just wants to get in and get out ("rush strategy"), kind of ruining the game for the rest of the group.
Catacombs presents an element of luck with respect to the board layout which is seen as a negative for people who enjoy the route/deck planning aspect of Clank! and Clank! In Space.
I haven't played the original or Catacombs, though. This is just what my research has turned up.
I'm super happy with Clank! In Space, for what it's worth.
@@ismount Sorry, i don't understand why you say Clank in Space is better balanced than original Clank!
For me Clank! is well balanced.. i don't get the point.
Also, original Clank! has, at least and if i'm not wrong, 2 expansions as well: the Mummy and Sunken Treasures.
OK, so i've checked and original Clank! seems to have no more nor less than 5 EXPANSIONS.. .
My friends and I love Clank! and regularly play it. We'll definitely be picking this up.
Always awesome when Roy is part of a review 🤘🏽
Roy too!
That animated wall that rotates everyone's tile 180 degrees when it comes out. Can't that cause a player to get stuck in a disconnected loop? Or is it made in a way that all loops MUST have a teleporter?
yea i think u can stuck in this game, so player need to watch how many tiles left
i wish clank in space got the same level of expansions and new game iterations as base clank...that theme is much more interesting to me
There are many expansions available for Clank! In! Space!
@@MicroBIOS there are three that i'm aware of...a far cry from the number of base clank...but where's the clank in space legacy version?
I've had it preordered and I can't wait. I obsessively check every weekday to see if it's about to ship.
I was going to ask if I needed to keep old Clank if I had this and I think I got my answer. I don’t know if I need to keep all my old clank stuff. Actually I was trying to find a reason to get rid of it so I can have that precious shelf space back.
How much space is Clank taking up on your shelves? I own EVERYTHING Clank, and have it all in the Core game box, and the Adventurers packs are only taking up a small corner of space. Toss that red insert out and you can easily fit everything into the core box.
Very excited for this. New to Clank, but this looks significantly more appealing than other renditions.
Clank in Space is the superior Clank but this might be better than base Clank.
Really love Roy’s passion and energy when he review games
I have Clank! Adventuring Party for the original base. How well would that work (if it does at all) for Catacombs?
I've played Clank and Clank Legacy and I love them - I would play Legacy again and I don't feel that way about any other legacy or campaign game.
I bought Clank in Space and a couple expansions, and I think it fixes most of my quibbles with Clank. I'm still hoping for Clank in Space Legacy (or would that be Clank Legacy in Space?) If it ever comes out, I will buy or back it in a heartbeat.
And with all of that, I'm sooooo tempted to pick this up. Maybe CiS is distinct enough to have both in active rotation, but Catacombs could easily win out just from previews and reviews.
I adored Clank! in Space.. so much so that I actually regretted aggressively expanding the original Clank. People I play with though tend to prefer the fantasy theme and boards over the SF ones.
So far I'm not too impressed with this one - I like the gameplay change, but it also looks ugly and I think it might be a bit harder to teach. I guess I'll stick with Clank for now, maybe finally check out what that Legacy one is all about.... :)
Clank! meets Drakborgen. Finally!
im new to clank and am very interested in this but ugh why couldn't they add some flare to the paths to make it look like hallways or paths, not just lines so much missed immersion, would be an instant buy otherwise
I've been considering researching a good entry point for Clank recently. This seem like a good spot for sure. Great vid 👍
I got into the hobby 2-3 years ago, and the original Clank has been on my must-get list the entire time, but I somehow have still never played any Clank (turns out there are A LOT of great games out there). The idea behind this one that the dungeon plays out differently every time, and you really are exploring a map where you don't know what's coming next sounds like it all but makes the original obsolete. Depends what you're looking for, of course; the idea of knowing ahead of time the optimal strategic route doesn't appeal to me at all, but for others, that might be the whole reason to play. I've got this pre-ordered at my FLGS.
There was never an optimal route with the original due to the random card market. The random tiles will probably make this version a little more luck based. Although, the portals probably help to reduce that.
Does it really add that much to Clank! that I need to pick this up? I try to be reasonable.... I own Clank! In! Space! and every of its expansions and haven't play all of them often enough yet. I think I will pass this time. But for everyone who is new to Clank! it might be a good choice to pick this up over regular Clank!
Thoughts?
Do you have a newer opinion on that? I read that space is still the best clank. I haven't tried any clank yet
As someone who has played the original but not Acquisitions Incorporated, would you recommend this over that?
I want to try this out during the retreat!
This seems like it would make Clank a lot more random
I think the portals probably make it less random than it really looks. Tiles aren't actually as far apart as they appear.
How does this compare to clank in space? I like that Clank in space makes you take some time.
This game looks great, and I will be looking into this one! 😄
The starting hands are identical with the first Clank. But how about the other cards? Are they all new or is there some/many cards re-used from other Clanks? I have only the first Clank. It's really good but it would be nice to have new cards and that tile map might be good too.
I've played Clank a lot, and other than the starting hand and the yellows, all the cards shown in the video were new. It's likely they're all new.
This feels like it has a LOT more luck in it. Also, I use clank for when I feel like the few extra rules would be too many for a newer gamer. I would be concerned with all the extra rules here, this probably a little more complex than clank in space.
I played with some new people. It’s not to much. To me the tiles coming out is like betrayal at house on the hill. You draw one and orient it how you want. Simple. You play every card in your hand and get everything it shows. Buy power, movements and attack. People grasp all that pretty easily. You can just teach the tiles individually as they come out.
Yeah the tiles are really no big deal to deal with. The artifacts tend to spread out, and all players can usually discover a pretty similar amount of stuff to each other. What it does help with is players who have played 2000 times and know what route they will take.. it gets rid of that meta gaming stuff, which sucks for new players. It is no more complex than clank in space. All the stuff you draw, you just look up on a cheat sheet. You don’t even have to know what anything does until you come upon it
@@ericswearingenmusic9967 I agree. Plus if you play with the adventuring party and have assymetric powers it just makes it that much more fun too
Players: “Please, publishers, add a player aid!”
Publishers: “Okay”
Tom: “They probably should have put two in the box.”
One aid per person doesn’t seem too much to ask.
I wish all double-sided player aids came with two - so I can see the aid in its entirety between the two. Sometimes flipping the aid can reveal your intentions.
@@helixcom and sometimes flipping the reference back and forth is just plain annoying.
Wait. Did I just hear Roy say a space variant of a game wasn’t his favorite? Is he okay?!
Man, I was excited about this, but I don't like that the artwork in the tiles is pretty much non-existent. To me, having some sense of immersion is important, and I feel Catacombs loses that. Also, it feels more random, as somebody else already said. Unfortunately, this is a pass to me.
Agreed. I think this game works best for people who have played one of the original Clanks a lot so they understand the change the best and can contrast it with their previous experiences; for newcomers the static board with lovely art might still have a much stronger aesthetic draw.
Yes! For the original Clank there are like, what, 8 maps? So repeatability is huge. So no need for a modular board.
And those maps are so much more pretty than this game.
This is more mechanics with no athetics. Big pass
Those tiles look like early developer prototypes. Shocked the tiles don't have dungeon backgrounds. Yuk
I'll give it a try if I get a chance but I have serious doubts. Same kind of cards in the deck and no option to plan with these 'tsuro' tiles. Looks very random. After Clank in Space and acquisitions incorporated I see no need for this game. And withoud these in my collection would rather buy the legacy one.
Well it also makes it more of a real dungeon crawl. You pick a path and don’t know what’s gonna be there. Plus you have the choice on how to orient it to benefit you the most. Plus there’s a ton of transportation points tk be able to move around the map.
Plus if you really wanted to, you could just make a custom board out of the tiles ahead of time and not worry about drawing more. Etc.
I have and love Legacy! Is it worth to buy this one too? Do I need 2 Clanks? Is this different enough?
Does it still have the market clogginess typical among "Ascension clones"?
best clank game to buy for first time clank buyers?
I love clank in space, but for how long the game is, it has lots of layers of randomness. And I enjoy luck, but clank pushes it really far. I’m not sure I want the board itself to be yet another layer of randomness. Not an instant buy for me.
And sadly the means of randomness mitigation that the designer & developers tout the most, are themselves limited by the very randomness they're supposed to mitigate
We love Clank in Space. Not sure whether to get this one.
I would like to see the decks of cards first. I found that the deck of cards from Clank Legacy is more varied than classic clank. If this the case for this new game, I might buy it.
The playthrough that they did showed off a lot of the cards. Variety seemed pretty good.
I always wondered why this game wasn't made this way in the first place. But now that I have most of the stuff for the original version, there's no way in hell they're going to get me to spend hundreds more dollars on a new edition. I'll just continue enjoying what I've already got.
I thinking of playing regular clank with my son (8) as thought he could play it. For kids, original be better?
With so much being the same as original Clank, I wonder why they don't also offer this as an expansion kit for the original. It seems like a money grab to sell this as a full base game to owners of the original again.
Love clank and carcassone!
I still haven’t played clank legacy, seems like waiting for this is the better choice
I've played Clank Legacy and it's absolutely worth it. It's SO much fun. Even though Clank Catacombs seems amazing, I don't think it will come close to Clank Legacy.
Legacy is also double to triple the cost of catacombs
@@rawkyle9385 Absolutely worth mentioning.
Clank! Legacy is totally worth it if you have a regular play group that you can play through 10 games with the same group. It was an awesome experience, and I've highly considered purchasing another one just so that we could play through it again.
How does this compare with Clank! Legacy?
I had Clank! in Space (bought it because I heard it has better gameplay than Clank!) but didn't really enjoy the theme that much I sold it.
im going to have to get this
Component quality of the tiles and tokens is quite poor. Very thin and flimsy especially for the price tag , I believe this should have been mentioned in the review. Fun game tho' 😁
I will jump as a New CLANK player🤘
This looks really cool. I love Clank!
It looks cool but I'll stick with Clank in Space!
Gosh dangit… I just bought Clank
Wow! High score.
I find Clank! In Space is sooo much better than regular Clank!. Original Clank suffers from letting people be able to just go and get an artifact and leave fast which I find super lame. Space clank fixes that and adds a lot more interesting things/mechanics. Every time I've played regular Clank I'm just left feeling like it was a kids game. Not very fulfilling, Hoping this version is better as I like the idea of fantasy Clank but the original game is just too simple.
Want it 😁
But do you actually need it? ;)
£53.98 for pre-order....nah!
Seems like all the older cards should beable to work on this.
With tons of stuff for Clank, and with Clank Legacy, all in one box... I really don't see the point of this one. I'll pass.
lol this video feels Soooooooooooooooo sponsored :P
Don't Llama Clank
ehm, I mean Don't! Llama! Clank!
But... where is space???!
But part of the fun of clank is being able to strategize your cards to a path you map out. This eliminates all of that. I don't get it.
Some people like strategy more than tactics, others prefer tactics. I like both, but prefer tactics, so this type of gameplay would be my preference. Just depends on the person.
Exploration is about the unknown. Clank is about exploration. This is a better Clank.
Of course, many will have bias to justify NOT purchasing, happens all the time. In this case I don’t think someone needs all the Clanks. But as someone new this series this looks like the way to go.
@@robertbouley7697 no clank is a race. Races aren't fun if no one knows where they are going. Name a non co-op exploration game that's rated above a 7.
@@grog3514 Clank is absolutely not supposed to be a race. That doesn’t even fit with its title nor the sense of apprehension for making noise and awakening danger.
You CAN play the earlier versions as a race; which demonstrates why this game is better.
Why are you talking about arbitrary scores for non-coop?
Every time a new game comes out Tom says the new game is a killer. This is cool but there are tons of other maps for the base game that changes the boards around. This to me is a lateral move from clank.
This looks like what should've been introduced with Clank Legacy. But, maybe they were too worried to deviate from the Clank formula with that one.
Seems like if they took clank legacy and betrayal and they had a baby
The shop is random, your deck is random, the dragon attacks are random. Now you want the map to be random too?
Clank: roll a dice and see what happens game
Yet somehow the endings are always tight
Would've been better though with a much less cloggy market than Ascension-clone
I own original clank and all expansions. To me this seems like their way at a 2nd Ed . While I applaud 👏🏻 because it does feel like I totally got cheated . Like most 2nd Ed . Games .
I remember everyone raving about clank, buying it and ever my casual gamer wife finding it overly simple. We returned it. Have the other versions have more interesting cards / choices?
Sure there’s expansions and clank in space expansions that add more interesting decisions. But, you might be fooling yourself if you think your wife is both a casual gamer AND finds clank overly simple. I guess that depends on the definition of casual gamer.
I bet the game you would enjoy is Clank! In Space of The Hunger
Clank! In Space is what you want, then
Well if Clank is simple enough for you, how about Dune: Imperium, Arnak, Copycat, Paleoamericans, or Dominion?
@@revimfadli4666 we enjoyed dominion long ago. Loved arnak. Havent had her try dune yet...i enjoyed it.
15 seconds of animated intro, ooof. It's fun and gorgeous, but I'm not sure it was a good idea to make it this long.
Several of the old intros were longer and arguably less engaging. Why not just skip ahead if you don't want to watch it every time?
I'm pretty sure most of his videos have always started at 20 secs, because for as long as I can remember, I've started by skipping twice and it goes right to his greeting.
I quite liked it. 15 secs isn’t too bad IMO
@@olivigarden I sure will skip it, but my opinion is that at 5 or 10 seconds, I would watch it most of the time.
LOL I didn’t even realized there was animation because I always fast forward! But the animation is cute.
I disappointed that they use the same artwork on some of the cards.
Same here.
My biggest worry that even with the tiered Artifact approach the game would become too luck-based. Admittedly the game was always a bit beer & pretzels, with random Dungeon card draw often having a huge impact on the game, but in this one it's now luck squared.
Also.. I think it looks a bit too abstract and ugly. Clank! boards always felt a bit "busy", especially to non-gamers, but the extra art made the entire experience a bit more tame. This one just looks like an abstract mess.
PURPLE and BLUE are the colors they picked?????? Seriously? Those are TERRIBLE colorblind colors to pick. Red is by far the most common color blind issue, and as any preschooler knows, purple is just a reddish blue.
Roy looks so out of place in Tom's 90's studio. Great review though!
Thanks for the review but I'll pass. Deckbuilder's have zero appeal to me.
Why? What do you find unappealing in them? Which one do you dislike the most?
@@revimfadli4666 Most deckbuilding board games start all players out with the same hand of unappealing, garbage cards that each player has to try to slowly eliminate over the course of the game. The endless shuffling of small decks is also annoying. The only deckbuilders that have any appeal to me are those where the deckbuilding is done before you start the game (giving you a deck that you actually wanted to play). The repetitive similar beginnings of all of these is like forcing someone to watch foreign language soap operas for hours when they wanted to watch something else and slowly adding content they desired.