I mostly agree with you. It's lucky (dice rolls without very much mitigation and many random card draws), its long (our first 3 player game took 3 hours to teach and play!), its unbalanced (some of those items were borderline game breaking). But dang it, we had fun! We REALLY enjoyed the wacky story events and enjoyed reading and laughing at them even when they burned us. Those made it for us! We did get the deluxe with the expansions and it at least doubles all the card piles. It's not going to be a game we are going to play very often, but it's so beautiful and still FUN! (Fun enough anyway). I'd probably round up to a 7. Also, we really hated the take-that type cards and buried them at the bottom of the deck when we drew one.
Nice! We missed out on the story events portion that you enjoyed. When we played it wasn’t too long, I tended to rush game end with reputation thanks to some items and those other feature cards that got you additional rep. Plus, as I said, we weren’t reading the story stuff on events either. We didn’t get any use out of the “take that cards” either. They’d actually help your opponent typically as they’d simply turn those into positive points with a feature. N
As science teachers, Janell and I would like to try it, but based on this info and @evandiesel comments, we'll definitely try to play it before considering a purchase. Thanks for another great video 👍
If you’re ever back out this way, we’ll try to play it with you two. Assuming it’s still in our collection by then! Thanks for stopping in- have a great weekend and a happy 4th brother! N
I loved the story elements on the cards! I played it with someone I didn't even know and we laughed through the whole thing.
I mostly agree with you. It's lucky (dice rolls without very much mitigation and many random card draws), its long (our first 3 player game took 3 hours to teach and play!), its unbalanced (some of those items were borderline game breaking). But dang it, we had fun! We REALLY enjoyed the wacky story events and enjoyed reading and laughing at them even when they burned us. Those made it for us! We did get the deluxe with the expansions and it at least doubles all the card piles. It's not going to be a game we are going to play very often, but it's so beautiful and still FUN! (Fun enough anyway). I'd probably round up to a 7.
Also, we really hated the take-that type cards and buried them at the bottom of the deck when we drew one.
Nice! We missed out on the story events portion that you enjoyed. When we played it wasn’t too long, I tended to rush game end with reputation thanks to some items and those other feature cards that got you additional rep. Plus, as I said, we weren’t reading the story stuff on events either.
We didn’t get any use out of the “take that cards” either. They’d actually help your opponent typically as they’d simply turn those into positive points with a feature. N
@eNVyBoardGaming we came across one that was something like "steal a plant from the person on your right's warden case". And we were like....nah.
As science teachers, Janell and I would like to try it, but based on this info and @evandiesel comments, we'll definitely try to play it before considering a purchase. Thanks for another great video 👍
If you’re ever back out this way, we’ll try to play it with you two. Assuming it’s still in our collection by then! Thanks for stopping in- have a great weekend and a happy 4th brother! N