Just bought the game today after seeing so many recommendations for it. Something this video fails to do is highlight how great the included storage system is. The included storage system for Parks should be the standard all board game publishers strive for. There are a lot of beautiful pieces with Parks and there is a designated spot for all of them, and even better a diagram on the box that shows you where that spot is.
I agree!! After putting together SO MANY game board organizers and needing to organize before I can do anything else, this was amazing to be able to open and basically get right into it! Thanks guys!!
@@KeymasterGames Great TH-cam video and channel but I found the background music was way too loud. I would strongly suggest you get rid of it altogether. I firmly believe that background music is distracting, annoying, and unnecessary (especially for educational and teaching videos with lots of talking). I also believe that people want to hear you speak/get information and how to play and not hear generic background music that doesn't really add anything useful and that people have to mentally filter out. Plus it will be one less thing you will have to do when making videos. Thank you.
I picked up this game a week ago. I am very impressed with everything, from opening the box to the gameplay. The mechanics in the game are buttery smooth. I even tried it solo, which was also a good experience. Thank you for such a lovingly crafted game.
Thank you so much for this video! I got a bit of a smooth brain at times, so this was really helped me make sense of the game. ALSO.....I LOVE THE RACCOON INSTRUCTOR! Another commenter said it was memorable, and it was!
Always late to the best parties...got this game yesterday from my wife for my 52nd birthday. Hasn't made it to the table just yet but wanted to say how beautiful this game looks. Just opening the box was a real pleasure. And a massive thank you for being one of those designers who gives thought to storage of the components. The internals of the box are superb....kudos!!! Looking forward to getting this going and checking out more of your titles. Blessings.
Excited to play! Such a cute rules overview. Seems a bit overwhelming here but I'm sure once I have the physical box it will all make more sense. Thanks.
Loved the game! It's fun, and lived the raccoon. I would definitely slow down the pace of the video so people at home can follow along easier, also I would walk players through a season and explain the concepts as they come up, as opposed to sort of rapid firing info. Overall, great game and good video!
This could literally pass as an SNL skit from the 90's. By the time you've figured out how to play the game your kids will be rolling around on the ground with the dog
Off Topic: The German word for a racoon is "Waschbaer." It means literally "Washing bear" because the way racoons paws are always moving together, it looks like they racoon are washing their hands. I always thought what a sweet name. Bought this game for myself for Christmas. Not played yet but the artwork is superb.
such a vague rule book and video. still have no idea what the Lookout trail instructions are. There is not enough information in the basic trail sites section of page 4. the only place reserve or visit a park is explained is in the end of the trail section. do we turn in tokens, do we just collect them, does it mean anything for points, how long do they stay horizontal?
We love the game! The artwork and gameplay are both amazing. Only question we have is can you move forward and back on the trail or can you only move forward? Thank you!
Nice tutorial! But maybe you should point out that the rules at 6:29 are no longer correct, since v1.2 of the rule book Wildlife Tokens can indeed be used to buy Gear
Does each season require a new set of three gear cards? We've just finished playing for the first time and it seems to work well this way. The manual does not state that, so I'm not sure if it's supposed to be played this way. Awesome video BTW 👍
Hi! Great question! The Gear cards do not refresh at the end of each season. In the new Nightfall expansion releasing later this year, there are new camping mechanics that create really strategic ways to refresh the Gear Deck!
The artwork is incredibly great. The game is a lot of fun. It's well designed and very intuitive after one round. However, we have had problems with balancing. The annual goals hardly bring any points and are sometimes very difficult. Some are much easier to achieve and others are almost impossible. Above all, as a new player, you are quite confused and get mixed up. That's why we removed them completely. And another small point of criticism. The parks that only bring two points are way too expensive. I'm not sure if they actually advance the fun of the game, or if it wouldn't be better to play completely without the two point parks. But apart from these two minor criticisms, the game is incredibly great.
Hi Alexander! We're glad to hear you're enjoying the game and we hear you on the Year cards. We have an alternative way to play Year End scoring in the expansion PARKS Nightfall! Have you seen that yet? We have an overview on our channel here if you want to take a look. For the Park cards, points are correlated to resources in the following way. Forests and Mountains are worth 1 point and Sun and Water are worth 1/2 point. All the park cards are valued relative to their resource worth. Of course, the game always offers you a chance to spend your water and sun on other things like Gear and Canteens. So that's the puzzle-y challenge of the game. Deciding when to go for those things, that can push you into higher scoring park cards, and when to go for Park points. Happy Hiking!
Love the game so far! Question: does all of the token collecting need to happen at the beginning of the turn? Or can I spend down my tokens before collecting new ones in the same turn, say, from a canteen?
This was slightly confusing at first due to the number of different pieces but as soon as you start playing it really quickly clicks. If I had someone that already knew the game to play with it would have been a breeze.
These instructions would work much better if slower-- giving time to do the set up going along with the video. So far, I don't understand how moving so fast through the instructions is helpful.
In the video of placing resources on the trail, it looks like it goes water, sun, water, WATER. Is this an error in the video? I just wanted to be clear. EDIT: I was incorrect in what the weather pattern was. The video is correct.
Each season's weather pattern is unique. In this case the pattern is water, sun, water, so the water repeats between the end of the pattern and the beginning of the repeat
Holy f*cking Cones of Dunshire is this game F*CKING CONFUSING! This is officially the first TH-cam video I’ve ever had to watch at 0.75x speed, and I am still utterly lost!
Hi Mark, if you have specific rules questions we're always available by email at hello@keymastergames.com. There's also a full play through video on our channel that shows the whole game from start to finish. Hopefully that can be of some help as well.
I don't mean to be negative but I'll better read the rulebook, this video is way too confusing for me. (next time just pay Rodney to explain it...) The game does look gorgeous though.
Holy shit that raccoon puppet is so distracting. Also, I'm not a fan of this explanation video. I only watched it once, but I can't honestly say I know how to play after watching it. Did I miss the explanation on turn structure, actions, and how to actually use all these tokens? Perhaps I was distracted by something else while those were explained, but I'm not going to re-watch it to find out.
I’m sorry but the game is awesome but the raccoon is just distracting and making it more difficult to learn from this video. It’s like a Saturday night live skit with one premise that goes on way too long. Love the game tho
Just bought the game today after seeing so many recommendations for it. Something this video fails to do is highlight how great the included storage system is. The included storage system for Parks should be the standard all board game publishers strive for. There are a lot of beautiful pieces with Parks and there is a designated spot for all of them, and even better a diagram on the box that shows you where that spot is.
Thanks Corey!
I agree!! After putting together SO MANY game board organizers and needing to organize before I can do anything else, this was amazing to be able to open and basically get right into it! Thanks guys!!
Ok this gets a thumbs up just for the raccoon. 😆
But much to call it a failure. The video is about how to play the game, not a review.
@@KeymasterGames Great TH-cam video and channel but I found the background music was way too loud. I would strongly suggest you get rid of it altogether. I firmly believe that background music is distracting, annoying, and unnecessary (especially for educational and teaching videos with lots of talking). I also believe that people want to hear you speak/get information and how to play and not hear generic background music that doesn't really add anything useful and that people have to mentally filter out. Plus it will be one less thing you will have to do when making videos. Thank you.
The raccoon is a nice, memorable twist on an instruction video. Well made and very helpful!
How can I not give a thumb up when there's a raccoon shuffling cards!
melts our hearts every time!
Where can I get one of those? I’m in love!
yeah it's so good😂😂🤣
Ujj
Picked up the game yesterday. Components look gorgeous!! Need to watch this video again, as I was totally mesmerized by the cute raccoon 🤣
I normally don't care for rules explanation videos, but this is easily the best one
I picked up this game a week ago. I am very impressed with everything, from opening the box to the gameplay. The mechanics in the game are buttery smooth. I even tried it solo, which was also a good experience. Thank you for such a lovingly crafted game.
Thank you for grabbing the game James! We're so glad to hear you're enjoying it :)
The raccoon makes it. I almost clicked away (a bit mild for my taste) but then RACCOON!
Thank you so much for this video! I got a bit of a smooth brain at times, so this was really helped me make sense of the game. ALSO.....I LOVE THE RACCOON INSTRUCTOR! Another commenter said it was memorable, and it was!
Always late to the best parties...got this game yesterday from my wife for my 52nd birthday. Hasn't made it to the table just yet but wanted to say how beautiful this game looks. Just opening the box was a real pleasure. And a massive thank you for being one of those designers who gives thought to storage of the components. The internals of the box are superb....kudos!!! Looking forward to getting this going and checking out more of your titles. Blessings.
Excited to play! Such a cute rules overview. Seems a bit overwhelming here but I'm sure once I have the physical box it will all make more sense. Thanks.
If I had known that a raccoon was going to teach me how to set up this game, I would have started playing a long time ago!! ❤
Same!
Had to watch it a second time as the cute little racoon was way too distracting! haha :D
Loved the game! It's fun, and lived the raccoon. I would definitely slow down the pace of the video so people at home can follow along easier, also I would walk players through a season and explain the concepts as they come up, as opposed to sort of rapid firing info. Overall, great game and good video!
That is one VERY dexterous raccoon!! Great video, I’m very impressed and want to play this now!
Love the game. You all did a great job. I got it via kickstarter two days ago and I can't stop playing it.
First time trying this game and it is very confusing! The raccoon is cute though
The production quality of this video is insanely good!
Most beautiful board game I own! I LOVE it so much!!
Great tutorial! Had a hard time paying attention due to all the laughter though... smooth move with the racoon.
This video was phenomenal. The raccoon puppet is amazing
Just got this for Christmas and it's a really fun game. Now I'm starting to plan a trip to a national park!
Wow I loved this and that sweet little raccoon. BRB playing parks.
Very nice explanation! Such a clever raccoon.
This is the best how to video of all time
This is one of the best instruction videos ever!
Raccoon was awesome, well done. Beautiful game!
I love the puppetry and I love the game! Just played it today.
This video made my day
Dude, thumb up just for racoon xD I love it :)
Best how to play ever!
This could literally pass as an SNL skit from the 90's. By the time you've figured out how to play the game your kids will be rolling around on the ground with the dog
I couldn't listen to the instructions, I was watching the raccoon. LOL
Off Topic: The German word for a racoon is "Waschbaer." It means literally "Washing bear" because the way racoons paws are always moving together, it looks like they racoon are washing their hands. I always thought what a sweet name. Bought this game for myself for Christmas. Not played yet but the artwork is superb.
And in Swedish Tvättbjörn Tvätt =Wash /laundry Björn =Bear
Can't wait to play finally got a hold of it!
awesome and cute raccoon guide
I was extremely disappointed that my copy of Parks did not come with an adorable raccoon puppet.
Well this was freaking adorable
such a vague rule book and video. still have no idea what the Lookout trail instructions are. There is not enough information in the basic trail sites section of page 4. the only place reserve or visit a park is explained is in the end of the trail section. do we turn in tokens, do we just collect them, does it mean anything for points, how long do they stay horizontal?
We love the game! The artwork and gameplay are both amazing. Only question we have is can you move forward and back on the trail or can you only move forward? Thank you!
Only forward!
I just got my version for Christmas but the raccoon is not in the box =:)
Brilliant adorable how to.
What is the music behind the video!? It's beautiful!
I love the puppet.
Great. Now I have to figure out where to buy the game... AND the raccoon...
Nice tutorial! But maybe you should point out that the rules at 6:29 are no longer correct, since v1.2 of the rule book Wildlife Tokens can indeed be used to buy Gear
Best video ever
Does each season require a new set of three gear cards? We've just finished playing for the first time and it seems to work well this way. The manual does not state that, so I'm not sure if it's supposed to be played this way.
Awesome video BTW 👍
Hi! Great question! The Gear cards do not refresh at the end of each season. In the new Nightfall expansion releasing later this year, there are new camping mechanics that create really strategic ways to refresh the Gear Deck!
@@KeymasterGames Good to know. Thanks!
The artwork is incredibly great. The game is a lot of fun. It's well designed and very intuitive after one round.
However, we have had problems with balancing.
The annual goals hardly bring any points and are sometimes very difficult. Some are much easier to achieve and others are almost impossible. Above all, as a new player, you are quite confused and get mixed up.
That's why we removed them completely.
And another small point of criticism. The parks that only bring two points are way too expensive. I'm not sure if they actually advance the fun of the game, or if it wouldn't be better to play completely without the two point parks.
But apart from these two minor criticisms, the game is incredibly great.
Hi Alexander! We're glad to hear you're enjoying the game and we hear you on the Year cards. We have an alternative way to play Year End scoring in the expansion PARKS Nightfall! Have you seen that yet? We have an overview on our channel here if you want to take a look.
For the Park cards, points are correlated to resources in the following way. Forests and Mountains are worth 1 point and Sun and Water are worth 1/2 point. All the park cards are valued relative to their resource worth. Of course, the game always offers you a chance to spend your water and sun on other things like Gear and Canteens. So that's the puzzle-y challenge of the game. Deciding when to go for those things, that can push you into higher scoring park cards, and when to go for Park points.
Happy Hiking!
@@KeymasterGames Thank you for your answer. I saw the nightfall video after i posted my comment. And i like the year cards of Nightfall a lot more!
Where can we buy that raccoon plushy? We need to have it!
Love the game so far! Question: does all of the token collecting need to happen at the beginning of the turn? Or can I spend down my tokens before collecting new ones in the same turn, say, from a canteen?
Too cute!
Just to verify, all canteens stay in possession after a season ends, correct?
Correct!
Thank you Mr Raccoon.
What is this background song? We can’t place it!
Where can I buy this raccoon?!
I'm 90% convinced we need the game, and 95% convinced we need the puppet. Folkmanis?
This was slightly confusing at first due to the number of different pieces but as soon as you start playing it really quickly clicks. If I had someone that already knew the game to play with it would have been a breeze.
thank you raccoon.
that trash panda was adorable
Wish the bgm was set to lower volume.. it dominates your audio.. hard to focus on your voice
Haha, so great 😄
Great raccoon.
I still don’t know how moving works..
The critter puppet video hosts age so sweet!
Can my game come with a raccoon dealer please? I LOVE!!!!
These instructions would work much better if slower-- giving time to do the set up going along with the video. So far, I don't understand how moving so fast through the instructions is helpful.
I need that raccoon
In the video of placing resources on the trail, it looks like it goes water, sun, water, WATER. Is this an error in the video? I just wanted to be clear.
EDIT: I was incorrect in what the weather pattern was. The video is correct.
Each season's weather pattern is unique. In this case the pattern is water, sun, water, so the water repeats between the end of the pattern and the beginning of the repeat
Keymaster Games Yeah I figured it out. I did not see that the pattern had 3 elements instead of two. My bad.
If you dont shuffle like the raccoon youre playing wrong
fact!
Yeah there's no way I'm going to be able to figure this out.
Holy f*cking Cones of Dunshire is this game F*CKING CONFUSING! This is officially the first TH-cam video I’ve ever had to watch at 0.75x speed, and I am still utterly lost!
Hi Mark, if you have specific rules questions we're always available by email at hello@keymastergames.com. There's also a full play through video on our channel that shows the whole game from start to finish. Hopefully that can be of some help as well.
I don't mean to be negative but I'll better read the rulebook, this video is way too confusing for me. (next time just pay Rodney to explain it...) The game does look gorgeous though.
It’s so cute and your voice is more cuteer want to see you
Bro is down badder than Badlands National Park
🦝
Holy shit that raccoon puppet is so distracting.
Also, I'm not a fan of this explanation video. I only watched it once, but I can't honestly say I know how to play after watching it. Did I miss the explanation on turn structure, actions, and how to actually use all these tokens? Perhaps I was distracted by something else while those were explained, but I'm not going to re-watch it to find out.
The puppet is cute but does not help first timers.
Have you ever known raccoons to be helpful? HAVE YOU EVER MET A RACCOON! lol.
I’m sorry but the game is awesome but the raccoon is just distracting and making it more difficult to learn from this video. It’s like a Saturday night live skit with one premise that goes on way too long. Love the game tho
I disagree. I love the raccoon.
These are some of the worst instructions I've ever seen!
Why can t you be normal? Very disturbing video. Grow up or seek help.