Century: Spice Road & Century: Eastern Wonders - Shut Up & Sit Down Review
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With the potentially increased video output I like to imagine it as Paul and Quinns are locked in a room together with nothing for sustenance other than board games. And.... they're shirtless. I dunno, it's my imagination.
"...like a giddy Mentat."
Loved that Dune reference.
The jokes! The references! The dramatic camera angles! This is such a great review: entertaining, funny, creatively shot. Bravo, guys! Thanks for all your hard work!
Spice Road and Splendor are so similar, Quinns even calls Spice Road "Splendor" at 5:12 . Lol
After playing splendor for the whole year, and playing Spice Road today it seems so fresh. Much more freedom to tackle the problems of getting VP.
@@jakubgadzala7474 which one seems fresh?
Cute little Dune reference there.
Like a giddy Mentat :)
Oh I thought it was just another British thing...
@@philipselesky8868 that's precisely how I felt :-)
I did a similar Dune reference.... The spice must flow
I've missed seeing the Paul/Quinns review combo. Lovely to see it again.
Glad to see Paul and Quinns playing off one another. It's like the old days, but with all the lessons that come from having done this for 7-ish years. Keep up the good work.
"I can't legally stop you..."
Oh dang I lost it there. Great review!
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Oh man what a nice idea of replacing the little cubes with actual spice pods. I am so sick of tiny little cubes. That would make your game smell GREAT.
8:36 may be the best thing on the internet. Ever.
Great stuff, cracking review. The “re-enactment” was cold, hard classic SU&SD humour causing my tea to awkwardly spray forth. Worth it 😁
Another terrific SU&SD video.
"This doesn't bear thinking about."
A perfect line to end the review with.
I'm going to buy it, just so I can make the picture by putting the boxes together.
Yay Paul's back! I love it when you two review games together and Paul's always a joy to watch. Can't wait to see what else you do in the future!
You guys are fab! Love to watch your onscreen chemistry and beautifully constructed verbal gymnastics. Long live SUSD!
I was really bummed when I heard that Paul has been having some unspecific visa/residency issues with Canada.... but..... no, I really didn't like that that was happening, really...... but........... selfishly............ when I learned he would be moving nearby to also-moved Quinns, and the prospect of those two doing regular double-trouble in-person review videos, I felt really happy, and this video is Exhibit A of why.
I'd gladly see you two stop making duo-deals because Paul is free to return, but in the mean time, I'm secondarily glad to watch you united again.
Oh, SPICE Girls!
I GOT THE JOKE!
Edit: God you two are, like, so cute together? Or something??
Roxfox thank you for pointing it out!
I ship it. I missed Qual.. Pinns.. I missed this when Paul was in Canada.
Hahaha i got it also. Damn we are old :(
Definitely "or something".
They’re not gay. They’re British
I haven't started watching the video yet but I'm already excited to see you guys together again! ♡ please keep making thia amazing work! good vibes from Mexico!
I know it's under some trying circumstances but I am selfishly loving having these two boys back together
What are the circumstances?
I could be a bit out of date info-wise, but Paul's back in England because he's had his application for permanent residence in Canada denied and his visa revoked after an exceedingly long period of waiting to even hear if he had been rejected
Quinns: "Look! It's not *technically* an expansion, it's fine! I'm fine!"
This is definitely in my top 5 reviews. You guys are awesome!
I bought Eastern Wonders on the strength of this review and it's fantastic, I'm totally with Quinns on this one
Once I get enough money, def gonna try and support you guys. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
"This has never happened before."
"It has."
XD
You guys are the literal definition of "The whole is more than the sum of its parts". Great review, it feels like old times.
I love how the coffee cup stands in the middle of the game like a challenge :)
Dear god...the reference pearnapple, you maniacs.
Travelling on a subway to a play with my infrequent-gamer SO, and she recognised Spice Road. She wanted to hear why I was laughing so hard, so I let her listen to the rest of it. She loved it. Thank you. She is interested in watching more of your videos of the games that she's played.
Twister and water really makes for an exciting game. I was concerned that the water bit would just feel like a boring, dry expansion, but no, it's juicy, it's moist it's refreshing, sometimes a bit salty. Twister+Water has my seal of approval
You guys just keep getting better and better
5:12 you say Splendour when you mean Spice Road!
Your Dune reference made ME a giddy Mentat. Good job avoiding the obvious "The spice must flow" joke.
Will you do another Century review with the New World, and how that one mixes with the two first ones?
I picked up a (very) lightly used copy of Spice Road from the LBGS for $15. I searched for how to play and saw this on the list. Are there ‘classic’ board game review awards? This was quite possibly the best video review I’ve ever seen-and I watched *quite* a few!
When is the full video review of Twister/Water coming out, will you also be covering the new expansions Towel, Ice Cream and Chips??
Just another example of how funny you guys are yet how we differ so much in board games!
Great video guys, really entertaining and good to see your point of view 👍🏻
I love the way you two just keep trying to make the other laugh and/or go off the rails.
Past 2020 and yet no BigBox with all 3 games in sight... but possibly a review about the third game and the resulting 3 possible combos with the others? :D
Good work guys, cheers! :)
Quinns call the game "Splendor" at 5:15. :)
To be fair, I think he also mentioned his "despicion space" at one point.
This is the Shut Up and Sit Down rapport that I missed.
Century Golem Edition, I would say, has a lot more visual appeal. It makes me enjoy the game itself just a tad bit more.
Ryan Valdez I hope they make it, that would be great.
It also dodges a good bit of the colonialist themes that this version falls into, especially in the Americas expansion.
Quinns is a global treasure.
Entertaining as always guys. Think Ill give one of them a try.
We will f*cking die. Such a great opening gag this is why I watch this channel.
Your experience with Spice road mirrored mine exactly. I’m hoping Eastern wonders does work as well as you’ve outlined. Thanks guys :-)
The third game was announced before Spice Road was released. It's called A New World.
Awesome job compositing Paul's green screen work over Quinn's footage.
This was REALLY helpful as I'm looking at the Century: Golem Edition. Any thoughts on that series? The third of the trilogy just came out. The first two look like similar mechanics to the Century (spicy) edition. Maybe you'll do a video on the Golem Edition Trilogy. That would be great! Love you guys and I will keep watching because you continue to make me laugh and help me decide on what games to add to my collection!
You've probably figured this out by now, but for anyone else reading this comment, the Golem Edition games are the exact same games as the Spice Editions. The gameplay and mechanics are exactly the same, just with a Golem retheme.
Century: Spice Road = Golem Edition ----- Century: Eastern Wonders = Golem: Eastern Mountains ----- Century: A New World = Golem: An Endless World
Why is it that EVERY time I watch y’all I need a whiskey!? CHEERS...
You are great!! Love your videos...
Some cool stuff about Spice Road Classic that deserves a mention and is easy to neglect: using a trade card on your turn lets you transform _any multiple_ of its components. That 2-red -> 2-brown trade? It can act like 4-red -> 4-brown, or 6 -> 6, etc. Employing these multi-trades gives you a _huge_ turn advantage over the other players and is almost always a good decision.
The "rest" mechanic is a great measure of how efficiently your engine operates. New players only notice this after making the mistake of resting every other turn, so they can keep re-playing some amazing farm card they got. Since resting is _losing a turn,_ those people end up getting barely more than half as many turns as other players. Also, resting often with a lot of unplayed cards necessarily means you spent turns and resources _buying cards you aren't using!_
However, one fun thing it's missing from Splendor is the "screw you" mechanic of reserving prizes purely to keep other players from getting them.
I just... I just feel like there was a lot of room in there for a Ginger Spice joke.
Such a masterpiece of a review! D:
"WE WILL FUCKING DIE!" - Winston Churchill
Hey I love your videos and it has made me want to get more into board gaming. I've really only played Catan though, so I don't have much frame of reference when watching your reviews. I know the game has probably been reviewed to death based on how popular it is, but I would really appreciate if you could make a video about it. Hearing your criticisms/opinions about a game I've played would really help me figure out which other games I would like to try playing.
We have a section on our site that's aimed at entry games, try here: www.shutupandsitdown.com/games-page/#new-to-games
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
"I found a crab" is Spiel de Jahres for sure.
This is an old review, BUT, I do love SUSD and I have to say Century: Golem Edition, is the best production of this game. I like Splendor, but I love Golem edition, and I have to say, I like it MORE, personally. Certainly it corrects the art, making it wonderful, and the gems are way better than the spice cubes. I don't even feel compelled to own the Golem equivalent of Eastern Wonders, the base game is plenty good.
Again, tho, love the reviews.
I could have sworn you (particularly Quinns) were going to recommend Concordia at the end. Haha
Excellent! English isn't my first language BUT I really like your videos which are entertaining, informative, and helpful at the same time. Thank you for handover of the the spice dilemma to your audience. It feels like a worker placement game on its own: Buy Spice Road and ignore Eastern Wonder and vice versa. Or just buy both without knowing what the third game will be. Wait for the third game. Or really wait for the big box. Or buy none. Or, or, or ... For now I will postpone my decision. Instead my wife and I will continue our discovery of Through the Ages.
You (and they) also missed yet another option of possibly buying Century: Golem Edition, which is the first game, with far better art, but no promise (as yet) that the 2nd game will come out to combine with.
Hello James thank you for information. I will have a look at Century: Golem Edition.
Woof, the art. Looks like it's trying to impress people who only intake visual art for extended periods of time through Euro games. Imagine how handsome it'd be if the cards were 100% artsy iconography with delicate ornamentation or where you only see hands or ill-defined figures around products or contracts; having humans or those oddly detailed islands is so unnecessary.
Excellent video, by the way! Can't believe how much high quality stuff you guys put out.
I did think the exact same. its such a shame. Also to make the most expensive thing be brown ... brown is just a weaker color than yellow, red, green, etc. Liked the more bold color choices in the expansion, however.
Cudgeon That's a great point!
I think the component colors are bold and unique throughout. I love all the pink...
I’m trying to design a board game and am watching your vids for inspiration. Not that you make them, but what I’m trying to say is that you do a good job at reviewing a verity of games. My favourite vid and game is Star Wars rebellion. U lot are awesome
"like a giddy Mentat"
Nice.
How do you guys feel about kingdomino/queendomino and their take on the combination gimmick? Fundamentally different in that these two titles are very much iterative as opposed to games with different mechanics.
I like the Golem edition... sparkly gems.. so pretty 😺
That was entertaining and fun!
I'm happy with the review because this comes just as I decided to buy Spice Road and now it's too late to cancel the order. So I'm glad to be told to make up my own mind. Now the only one who can vindicate my opinion is myself, and every other boardgame reviewer.
I just realized... is the section where Quinns describes his experiences to camera a parody of Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe?
:Politely avoids pointing at Paul's comb-over:
:Als avoids staring at Paul's band-aid which so perfectly matches his skintone:
Great job fellas💎🔥
I recall that y'all delivered a split decision on Five Tribes, but I guess that was before the SUSD Recommends badge? Also, you didn't have a half-naked Matt in this video, so maybe that's what makes it different.
Are we going to have a review of A New World and the other combinations?
I think I might like the painting hanging in the background at 10:33, anyone know who painted that?
It's 2024 and Century is fantastic, I love both of those games and is the perfect amount of "euro" for me. Paul's wrong here, these are really great games and as the regular rules master of the group, you gotta love those one-page rules games.
Yay Brighton! Eastern Wonders looks more fun. I'll probably wait till the third comes out.
Combining twister and . . . water. Both are popular games here,
Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but Paul sounds exactly like John Hurt. And it's awesome.
great to see Paul back in his top silly form
Fantastic review
Your best review ever!!! I laughed my ass off.
Years later and I still don't understand why you're collecting chili from the east. I also still miss Paul.
#WithAClove
Bonus points for the Dune reference!
Twister, water and crabs!
Quintin, have you tried the Ogre edition? Did you like that better than the normal Spice Road? I'm not buying any of the games, before there's a clear "yes" or "no", on the fact if the Ogre Edition is getting expansions/part 2 and 3. Simply because I prefer the Ogre edition, but if I don't have the possibility to combine the games (of course I can combine, but the styles won't fit), I don't feel like buying any yet.
Came for the game, stayed for the teacup! Where did you get that beauty?
And then you have Golem Edition of Spice Road which I just got because the art and components are amazing, as a re-theme. I had no idea the games were going to be a trilogy, so now I can't even play the combined game if I get Eastern Wonders. I would have to also buy Spice Road.
They are releasing Golem Editions of the other games as well. Golem version of the 2nd game is Eastern Mountains. 3rd Golem will be revealed this year as it was probably supposed to happen at Gen Con.
1:02 Black box, where have you BEEN?! :)
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The decision between Splendor and Spice Road:
"I love Ticket to Ride but wish it was more elegant." vs. "My friends hooked me on Dominion but I don't have hundreds of dollars."
I love the pineapple plant!
Just got a gf who, it turns out, is an innate gamer but finding her own way. I had taught her Spice Road, which she then immediately bought. With Eastern Wonders as a two pack! Never having played Eastern Wonders I went searching…and re-discovered this video! 😂😂😂 still holds up phenomenally!
spice road is one of my favorite games
I think this review, and the rules, don't make it clear enough that harvesting cards can only be played once per turn (as expected) but "transform" cards can be used as many times as you can afford the input. This means that you don't only just upgrade what you can but prepare your stock to most efficiently transform stacks.
This made the difference between me being okayish about the game, and really twisting my brain around it. It's still fairly low on interaction though.
Man I really really missed the interesting discussions that grow out of these two disagreeing on stuff.
My gf loves the first game. You sold me, she’ll def be picking up the sequel. Cheers my dudes!
Instead of a big box edition in 2020 we got the Golem Edition of the entire series by 2020.
Personally? I love Spice Road FAR more than Splendor. Spice Road feels like a friendly race, and when you get a good engine going...well, I say it's the best "flow" of a game I've ever felt. In comparison, Splendor felt cutthroat and mean. Hogging many of one particular gem, grabbing cards with a bank to deprive others of them, and eventually lording a gem empire over others. Not to say cutthroat games can't be fun, but not what I want with these kind of themes and gameplay.
But I DO agree with your assessment of the Spice Road art and components...so I got the golem edition which at least has better art (all unique victory cards and trade cards altered to match what's being gotten/traded)...which doesn't really work with Eastern Wonders?
Also...I recently have been reviewing your videos since I learned of this group through the War of the Ring review, and is Paul just...more negative than everyone else? Is that his role? To be the cynic? Because he seems to clash on so many decisions and constantly vote against recommendations the others like. But in many episodes he's the psychotic, obsessive one? Maybe he and I just have opposite opinions on what to look for in a board game, so I'm more critical of him...being more critical about games I like. But sometimes I disagree with the others but don't react as badly, so I dunno.
Just a quick question -- Century: The New World is out... are you planing on trying all three together?
Please let Paul yell profanities at Quinns in the intro again. Brilliant.
What? 30 pounds is a month's rent in London?!