I love when Tom gets upset about a truly bad game. It shows he loves gaming and doesn’t just want to play but actually loves the hobby as a whole and it truly bothers him when something is going to potentially keep others from joining the family.
I'm a bit surprised: in my opinion Ananda it's the "surprise" of my Essen shopping cart, as I didn't even know about it when I met it. Yes, there's luck about the combination of cards and tiles, but it's also a relaxing thematic game and the mood to play it should be: "I'll do better next turn, may be... may be not... who cares it's still nice"... at least, we never found it boring, just chilling and nice to touch, see and play. I agree, the first match could be a bit messy on gathering, but the match is short and from the second one the flow is really easy to follow; at the end there are very big and appreciated games that after 6, 7, 8 plays of hours you still need to check the rules... this can't be called a messy one. I think this game just do (well) what it ment to do.
Interesting, we love the new Parks. It’s become our morning coffee go to game. Each of the national Parks allow for certain strategies to be more likely. The theme of drawing the sights, then taking notes, is so cozy.
Finding the Dragon Book worked well with my daughter who was 4-5 years old. I do t think she would enjoy them nearly as much now (7) -Agree though: art is meh and replayability is meh but when she was young she wanted to read it as many times to get every possible choice and even repeat them
My kids have "played" Finding the Dragon over 100 times! They're 5 now but I've been reading it to them since they were 2 and much like other books for that age, re-readability is endless 😆
Dragon Clans sounds somewhat similar to Heck Meck / Picomino. That one was a nice filler, but also suffered from the extremely high luck factor and punishing mechanism with putting a tile back if you didn't roll anything valid.
Tom really is the most important person in gaming history.
I love when Tom gets upset about a truly bad game. It shows he loves gaming and doesn’t just want to play but actually loves the hobby as a whole and it truly bothers him when something is going to potentially keep others from joining the family.
Let me restate: Tom and the team he’s assembled are indispensable. We owe them so much.
Thanks so very much! (although it clearly not true!)
Glad to see the how to play videos make a return in this series, thanks Tom!
I love these quick review compilations.
I'm a bit surprised: in my opinion Ananda it's the "surprise" of my Essen shopping cart, as I didn't even know about it when I met it. Yes, there's luck about the combination of cards and tiles, but it's also a relaxing thematic game and the mood to play it should be: "I'll do better next turn, may be... may be not... who cares it's still nice"... at least, we never found it boring, just chilling and nice to touch, see and play. I agree, the first match could be a bit messy on gathering, but the match is short and from the second one the flow is really easy to follow; at the end there are very big and appreciated games that after 6, 7, 8 plays of hours you still need to check the rules... this can't be called a messy one. I think this game just do (well) what it ment to do.
Interesting, we love the new Parks. It’s become our morning coffee go to game. Each of the national Parks allow for certain strategies to be more likely. The theme of drawing the sights, then taking notes, is so cozy.
Finding the Dragon Book worked well with my daughter who was 4-5 years old. I do t think she would enjoy them nearly as much now (7)
-Agree though: art is meh and replayability is meh but when she was young she wanted to read it as many times to get every possible choice and even repeat them
My son loved that book when he was 6-7, also wanting to do every combination of choices.
My kids have "played" Finding the Dragon over 100 times! They're 5 now but I've been reading it to them since they were 2 and much like other books for that age, re-readability is endless 😆
I enjoy these videos - it's good to hear the mixture of "this game is not good" to the extremes. The reasonings are always enjoyable to take on board.
My First Adventure books are a hit with our 5y old.
I think they work great for what they are
Dragon Clans sounds somewhat similar to Heck Meck / Picomino. That one was a nice filler, but also suffered from the extremely high luck factor and punishing mechanism with putting a tile back if you didn't roll anything valid.
You said you played books similar to My First Adventure Book that were much better. Which ones? I love that format
That Wolfgang game had, "contract fulfillment title" written all over it. 😂😂😂
That Lore Pets game seems inspired by hanafuda games, but they only kept the boring parts of koi koi without any of the fun.
Tom is the best. Loved the fire for the company just trying to cash grab.
Thanks Tom! You’re like a modern day Robin Hood.
Tom, you need to climb up to the roof and throw Dragon Clans.
Honestly, it seems like a game that might be better with House Rules. 🤷♂️
Dragon clans is an awesome game!! What are you saying?!?….wait, maybe I’m thinking of flamecraft
The art in Lore Pets is really cool. Too bad the game play isn't!
Dragon Clans looks like a much worse version of Age of War/Risk Express. Don't see much resemblance with Pokemon though, bit of a stretch.
Isn't it almost Picomino?
Tom, do you check if the games you put in these types of videos are the game designers' debut? I think it would be annoying if they were.