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1972
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Description
1972 Astronauts space game from Earl Stanza Enterprises. Players are astronauts exploring different planets within our solar system. Victory goes to the player with the most planets explored. When they reach certain planets, event cards are played to tell them what happened upon their landing.
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Board Games UnLocked Review at 0:16 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- The Fission Parasite is too rough as a solo experience.
- Lack of ways to cure infections in solo play.
- Infections needed to have a cost to remove.
- The Fission Parasite's difficulty scales too high for solo play with its minions entering with increased health.
- The game became a race to attack the boss directly instead of dealing with minions due to their increased health.
Thematic elements
- AI bent on Galactic domination has produced thousands of robots to serve as cannon fodder in its army.
Comparison games
- Final Girl
- Aeon's End
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- attack — Activated during your main phase, attack with up to two of your weapons without discarding them.
- Health — Zach has ten health.
- Power — Zach starts with zero power.
- Slots — Zach starts with one slot.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The Fission Parasite is a challenge rating for.
- And boy did I hate him.
- With no way to remove these infections, it's too much, absolutely too much in a solo game.
- The Fission Parasite itself, I'd probably give a four.
- I think this one's kind of a little bit too rough as a solo experience.
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Board Games UnLocked Review at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Gavril's special ability is strong when combined with weapons in the discard pile.
- The game offers engaging solo play.
- The art for the Titan Land Rover is liked.
- The build strategy around maximizing weapons for Gavril's ability is satisfying.
- The game is fun and engaging, leading to a close victory.
Cons
- The Homeworld (Chorus) can take significant damage.
- The boss (Furion) can have powerful turns, including multiple turns in a row.
- The player can become exhausted, although this does not result in a loss in solo play.
- Losing the game is possible if the Homeworld reaches zero health or the boss cannot level up.
Thematic elements
- Playing as Gavril, a soldier from the planet Chorus, fighting against Furion, a collection of sentient star stuff.
- space
Comparison games
- Aeon's End
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Artillery track — A track that increases and triggers negative effects or boss actions when it reaches certain thresholds.
- Card draw — Players draw cards to replenish their hand and execute actions.
- character abilities — Discusses Gavril's ability to deal damage based on weapons in the discard pile and Furion's abilities that affect the Homeworld and players.
- Damage dealing — Both the player and the boss deal damage to each other and their respective Homeworlds.
- Deck Building — Players acquire cards like weapons and spells to add to their discard pile, which can then be used to power abilities.
- Discard Pile Interaction — The number of weapons in the discard pile directly impacts the effectiveness of certain character abilities.
- Health tracking — Both the player's Homeworld (Chorus) and the boss (Furion) have health that is tracked throughout the game.
- Leveling up — The boss can level up, increasing the difficulty and potentially changing their abilities or the game's rules.
- minions — Enemies that can be summoned by the boss and have their own health and abilities.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Astronauts is basically space themed Aeon's End and Aeon's End is something I have literally everything for.
- I am playing on normal difficulty because I'm not a psychopath.
- He looks like he could uh whoop some ass.
- This if I buy the Solaris cell that's probably good because when I buy it the Homeworld Powers up and then I gain two whenever I use in the future.
- I will discard the blaster to shoot my rocket into this Titan Land Rover so that's gonna be three total damage I will do four damage to This Land Rover and that just gets destroyed that's just gone.
- The player with the most slots suffers two damage and discards a card in hand then I increase the artillery track except for two damage.
- I had exactly six energy in my hand to be able to raise that and that would have been three four five six seven eight nine ten damage that would have been 10 damage.
- and that is exactly enough to knock Furion down to zero.
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 0:19
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The challenge ratings just don't make any sense
- I think the challenge ratings just don't make any sense
- his hubris is what makes him beatable
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Board Game Dad Top List at 9:24 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Sounds like a really simple and fun space exploration game for kids.
Cons
- Difficult to find/expensive to import.
Thematic elements
- Space adventure
- Space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — You are playing cards to go on a space adventure.
- Dice Rolling — You don't get the points unless you can roll dice to make it home safely.
- Push Your Luck — There's a bit of a press your luck um aspect to the game.
- Variable player powers — The cards you're playing also give you modifications for your die roll which can be very interesting.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So today i'm going to share with you the best viewer recommended family board games and a few of my thoughts as i piece together my top 10 for 2022.
- The first category is games that just aren't worth mentioning.
- The next category are games that i think are worth taking a look at but not necessarily games that i've bought yet.
- And then finally there's the category of games that as soon as i looked at them i knew for sure that i was going to buy them.
- The game is juicy fruits which is a very colorful and very fun looking game.
- It's basically bs you know where you're playing a card and you're saying I'm playing three queens and someone says you know that's bs and you flip it over and it's three queens and they were wrong.
- It plays a lot like the trading card game android netrunner.
- It kind of reminds me a little of zombie kids although you're not attacking any zombies.
- It kind of has a retro 80s video game feel to it.
- It seems to be based out of england i guess but the game is called astronauts.
- Boomerang is a lot like sushi go a card drafting game where players are passing the cards to each other.
- One key fixes that flaw.
- The game looks like it's independently published.
- It's really really fun objective for a dice rolling game.
- Santorini is an abstract strategic game that would be way too hard for my young kids to be able to compete with the older kids or adults in the family so I can't play Santorini with my children but this game I can play.
- Explorers is a game where all players are playing at the same time.
- Which of the ones that i've mentioned are your favorite family board game or i'll change the question is there something new that's recently come out that i don't know about yet?
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 34:11 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Bosses are great.
- Bosses level up and have unique cards and mechanics.
- Challenge and intensity ramp up.
- Consistent system across multiple IPs (Astronauts, Aeon's End, Invincible).
Cons
- Deck building is considered anemic.
- Combos aren't that exciting.
- Spells are not that cool.
- Preferred fantasy over sci-fi theme.
Thematic elements
- Sci-fi
Comparison games
- Aeon's End
- Invincible
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Unstoppable
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Boss leveling — Bosses level up consistently as they go through their deck.
- Cooperative deck building — Cooperative deck builder games.
- Unique boss mechanics — Each boss has unique cards and generally unique mechanics.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is up there with my top games of all time. Like it's probably in the number three or number four slot
- the bosses are super unique. Uh they each have their own special rules and conditions.
- the characters are insanely diverse and they just keep on going.
- It's great. It's just uh it can be mean.
- it's one of those games, you know, most games that offer all those modes don't work that well, and this one is great with everyone.
- I'm completely enamored with the with this one.
- It just does everything in my opinion. It does everything right. uh for me in a boss battler
- Sentinels of the Multiverse is my number one.
- The bosses are crazy varied.
- this for me is the best DC game ever made, the best Marvel game ever made because it doesn't have the IP
- It is a little awkward for certain player counts.
- it's famous for having a lot of effects to track.
- It's just like nothing else does this.
- Aon Trespass Odyssey is easily my number one.
- there's way more mitigation. It's a cleaner, tighter boss fight.
- the inverted paradigm system that they included where when you are taking damage, you get stronger. When you're when the boss is taking damage, they get stronger.
- there's never a moment where you're like not about to get, you know, rocked for fighting against an enemy you've already fought before.
- the enemies in this game are extremely creative and varied.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Discussion at 5:53 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique cat-theme appeals
- Speed-driven tension is exciting
Cons
- Can be chaotic with multiple players
- Sometimes feels imbalanced due to speed advantage
Thematic elements
- cat astronauts in a real-time speed game
- space, cat-themed race
- humorous, light-hearted
Comparison games
- Nova Luna
- Pictomania
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Real-Time — Players race to act quickly to place cats on planets in a specific order.
- Real-time / speed — Players race to act quickly to place cats on planets in a specific order.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "one two three boom"
- "it's a keep from both of us"
- "it's a very simple dexterity Speed game"
- "we're back I never left"
- "you can play it many times in a row"
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