8 Zippy Game Reviews - with Tom Vasel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Tom Vasel takes a look at 8 games in a rapid-fire manner!
0:00 Intro
0:26 Naturopolis
4:22 Trio
6:57 Sixto
9:49 Silver & Gold: Pyramids
13:28 Colour Square
16:15 Knarr
20:15 Moon
25:13 Finish Lane
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I’ve never see Tom give a 1 before, that was fun.
Oh, look for them. They are out there. I highly suggest Vasco de Gama and Oneupmanship
Oneupmanship got a 1
I don't think it's "fun" for me to do it, but I just get so annoyed when I play a game this bad!
@@thedicetower thank you for making bad games entertaining 😂
Tom just slowly becoming more and more frustrated in his review of finish line is hilarious.
Tom Vasel came in with that "Vasco De Gama" energy at the end
I'm just wondering who approved the Finish Line game. Feels like what ChatGpt would make if you asked it to make a game like Ready Set Bet. No fun, just mechanisms
Grandad Vasel is mellowing out in his old age. That was the nicest 1 review I think he has ever given.
Oh, now I have to work harder!
It's interesting since Glimne is one of the "giants" in 80-s board game design in Sweden and Dungeon Quest (Drakborgen) had a huge cult following. Recently also Kickstarted in a reprint. He was out from the scene for many years but recently picked up again, maybe times have changed so much that the designs are no longer relevant?
I know that Dungeon Quest has a cult following. I, however, am not in that cult. :)
Another old swedish horse racing game, Jägersro, is much better. Halfway through Tom's review I got a strange urge to play Monopoly...
Great reviews, Tom!
Knarr is the biggest surprise for us in last couple of years.
Fired Splendor out from the collection.
Poor Splendor. That game has been killed like a million times.
@@pikkdogsWell, in my case it never lived. Splendor is so boring 🤣
I love playing Splendor. I didn't really get how this new game would replace it for me.
@@jameskirk4692 you don't see similarities?
@nuuqbgg I have now watched Zee's teach and review he did a moth ago with Mike. I now much better understand the game.
I didn't properly follow Tom's teach which is quicker and not detailed enough for me to understand the game. I prefer slower detailed longer teaches such as Zee does.
I can now see some simmilarities, but still very basic ones. I agree with Zee's and Mike's, and few other comments on that video, that this isn't too much Splendor like in a gameplay.
It may be a race up to fixed amoubt of points by way of cards acquiring, but I see very different and new concepts in this new game compared to Splendor.
Splendor is very basic and minimalistic and pure engine builder, card collecting where you think only in one way of acquiring points.
In Knarr you are constantly sacrificing/destroying/trading in your progress in card engine you have at that moment, in order to progress further and better. Splendor doesn't have that.
Knarr is not necessarily too complex, but it does have more rules I'd say, and two types of cards you are sort of building an emgine with , and definitely offers players much more stuff to do and strategies to go for. And all those additions do look to be very interesting and fun.
After Zee's teach I definitely am super interesting to try this game, where as I wasn't before at all.
So honestly thank you @nuuqbgg for prompting me, with your question, to better understand the game.
Sixto doesn't look bad, but it's such a shameless knock-off of Qwixx, and I think Qwixx will play faster since you can only pick 2 dice combos. ::edit:: Just looked up and realized they have the same designers... That explains it, but I'm not sure why they went with pretty much the exact same design.
Exactly, almost the same. And Qwixx is easier to know which numbers you can cross since they are in order and there are no repeats.
This version only seens clunky and weird, more complex without any purpose, without adding any additional fun Qwixx already has.
Even though I love variations and changing and house ruling games, it's weird why they would make another version of the almost exactly the same thing. Qwixx is already perfectly fine the way it is and I love playing it over and over again, and is already simple enough.
Besides there is already a version of Qwuxx, called Qwinto, which introduces more changes than this and seems more fun. I already planned to try Qwinto some time soon.
I want to become a game designer of exclusively terrible games, JUST so reviewers can make fun, angry game reviews of them.
I mean, I got that angry over Downforce, which everyone seems to love.
How can you hate downforce? One of my favorite 3 or 4 player racing games
@@joshjenson8111everyone bets on themselves in the beginning and then switches to the leader later. Since the leader bet on themselves the whole race they automatically win every time
I admit Downforce does have that problem with everybody betting on themselves and switching to the leader. But I still love playing it.
@@joshjenson8111 If it's a real question... I didn't find there were any interesting decisions. I don't enjoy real gambling, fake betting is even less compelling. And don't cars get stuck behind other cars? That's another source of frustration. But for everyone out there that loves playing it, that's great. It will never be my thing.
Thanks for Knarr!
I haven’t been interested in a queen game since Escape! This new game doesn’t fix that although I did love the review so I guess it was good for something.
The entire -Opolis series are 10's for me. That said, if I had to rank them Naturopolis would be above Agropolis simply because with the addition of rivers this is the first time when there is one added rule changing the basic placement rules, i.e. a River cannot connect with a Road. That little wrinkle makes this really feel fresh for me. And yes, I do need all three.
You always know Tom hates something when he goes ‘Ooh!’ and ‘Yay!’
I really miss the fast review videos being fast reviews. I get they're made for the encore channel, but man I liked when these were 2-3 minutes per game and we were done in 15 minutes.
Wow, I've never seen Tom go off like that before lol. Sure am glad I'm not the one who had to play and review that Finish Line game. XD
Ahhh yes.. I came for the start, but I stayed for the Finish Line :)
You can play Trio with a standard deck of cards easily !
Idk i think Sixto sounds pretty fun. Simple but fun.
Sixto looks very very similar to Qwixx.
Hey, Tom! Is Finish Line so bad that you want to throw it off the roof?
I am not sure Tom was explicit enough so let me just ask it here: what did he think of Finish Line?
Tell us how you *really* feel about “Finish Line,” would you, Tom? 😀
Wow on that last one just sounds so unfun thankfully we have long shot the dice game and ready set bet
I'm gonna fix finish line.. take turns drafting horses and there bets, once everyone's card is full, begin race. Roll every dice in the game, take turns drafting the dice to spots on horses , once all spaces are filled , race concludes... On to next race no new horse draft roll them over to each new race , yay
It's as if someone took up the challenge to make sure this year's worst game on Tom's list was the Mirror Universe version of Tom's best game from last year 😂.
I love Toms passion for games, especially when one is so bad it boggles his mind it got published.
I also thought Knarr seemed a little short. I feel like you never want to take exploration cards for the bracelet benefits because you won’t have time to use them. That makes 20% of the symbols irrelevant.
Has Tom not played Qwixx? Sixto is an obvious rip off of Qwixx but with a couple changes. Feel like that should be mentioned here. I haven’t played Sixto, but must say that my favorite part of Qwixx is that you use two dice for the numbers, so it creates a natural bell curve of probabilities centered at 7, accelerating the game in the beginning and slowing it down at the end. Losing this feature to be replaced by randomness with no bell curve would change the feel -and my guess is - for the worst.
I have played Qwixx, but didn't mention to prevent confusion. Many, many people haven't played Qwixx.
@@thedicetower
Didn’t expect the personal response, Tom! I would be shocked if you haven’t played Qwixx, since you have surely played more games than just about anybody in the world. I agree that most people have not played Qwixx, so the comparison would not be valuable to them. Still, I wonder whether Sixto is a slightly simpler and slightly less fun Qwixx knockoff?
Happy holidays!
Sixto is a terrible game. Rather play Quixx. Quixx is 1000% superior than this sixto game
@@smurfysnowmanI didn't try Sixto, and I won't. But I agree with you. I just don't know why would you play Sixto and it's sheet and rules, instead of Qwixx. Qwixx is such a smooth game already, and this Sixto doesn't add any more fun to it, just adds more randomness.
I agree about the randomness increase in Sixto, and how distribution of the probabilities of each number in Qwixx is nice.
Combining two dice numbers two best suit you, is so much fun and also mitigates a bit of the bad luck and gives you more strategy I feel.
And in Qwixx I already know where I can cross of something useful and where I can't, due to numbers being ordered from lowest to highest in two rows and from highest to lowest in other two rows. Which makes it much easier to figure out what you need and don't need much quickly, and is more of a natural and logical flow.
So…. Sixto is a direct knockoff of QWIXX? Hmmm Also, the sass of atom explaining Finish Line was hilarious 😂🎉
Same designer, it is an iteration of his other design. Like many designers do… Being cynical is not edgy or cool
@@kerim8666 It's not cynical. It's 90% Qwixx. It's not an "iteration". He took away the white die and added two more colors. Whoopee! The actual mechanisms are EXACTLY THE SAME. The only change has been how you get your numbers. That's like claiming a dice version of a card game is a different game. Nobody that has Qwixx - which actually IS next to Uno at Target - would buy this BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME GAME. The Clever games are far more different from game to game and they still share the same name. The back side of the dry-erase version of Qwixx is literally more of an "iteration" than Sixto is. It should've been called Quixxto or Quixx 2.
Also, being jerky to someone stating actual facts is not edgy or cool.
@@kevinbhieey9188 Ahaha Kevin go touch some grass. You are venting about a 10 min small box game, using caps lock and all...
Not being cynical. Just curious. Thanks.@@kerim8666
I’m surprised Tom liked Sixto, seems extremely similar to Quixx which I recall he doesn’t like. Tom you should look at Quixx again, Sixto appears the inferior version to me
Good point, and I have no answer at the moment. I must have changed in the years between playing both.
@@thedicetower look at Quixx with the same lens as Sixto - super light family dice R&W game. But the way the numbers are sequenced on the Quixx scorepad and the use of results from combos of 2D6 add additional layers of interest.
Not entirely sure why but I get this weird vibe that Tom didn't quite enjoy Finish Line
Trio has pretty art! The game as you described it sounds pretty meh
Some different opinions will be published this week, just for another perspective.
Yeah this last game sounds really terrible. I don't think anybody would want to play something like this instead of Ready Set Bet or Longshot the Dice Game or Camel Up
Sixto looks fun, but the fact that you can’t all play at the same time takes it a step down from Quixx.
You do all play at the same time. Only the lead player determines whether they will re-roll or not. -Chris
@@thedicetower Ah, good deal! I missed that. Definitely going to check this out then.
Are we going to get Shipyard second edition review?
Finish line looks like it had potential, but yeah, the gameplay seems very poor.
If naturopolis is successful, it will prove that board gamers are suckers that will buy the same game again and again. I can almost understand zombicyde with a different theme (not really). It’s getting to a point that I feel publishers are just laughing at us behind the scenes.
It combines with the other games in the series, so it is pretty much just like a stand-alone expansion. Pretty weird thing to take issue with, especially as it is quite cheap.