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Year
2017
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Description
Bears vs Babies is a card game in which you build handsome, incredible monsters who go to war with horrible, awful babies.
The shared deck of cards consists of bear parts (and other monster parts) and baby cards. When you draw a part, you use it to build a monster for yourself; when you draw a baby, it goes in the center of the table. When babies are provoked, they attack, and anyone who has fewer monster parts than the number of attacking babies loses their monster; everyone with more parts than babies defeats this infantile army and scores.
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Getting Games Discussion at 1:04:20 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
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Cons
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Thematic elements
- absurd, humorous battle between beasts and babies
- monstrous bears fighting armies of babies
- playful, over-the-top theme
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- luck/draw-dependent turns — card draw affects which parts can be played
- provoke and collect babies — provoking creates baby armies and scoring consequences
- torso/arms/heads combination — build monsters from body parts with power equal to total numbers
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Quotes (from this video)
- Gen Con is only two weeks away and this is my first time going
- it's just fun like learning new things and using more professional products
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Shelfside Review at 0:37 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- strong, unique theme and expressive art
- compact, visually striking box and components
- high-quality cards and excellent rulebook/FAQ pamphlet
- clear teaching aids (rulebook, mat with reminders, linked video)
- surprising amount of dark humor for a light-box game
Cons
- end condition and deck-out timing can feel variable and slow
- play pace can drag with 4+ players due to limited actions per turn
- replayability may be limited after the novelty wears off
- base game depth is modest; may wish for more variety of actions
Thematic elements
- absurd, grotesque humor with bizarre creature design
- A grotesque monster-building battle against an army of babies, contained within a compact, visually striking box
- exuberant, enthusiastic narration with visual descriptions
Comparison games
- Exploding Kittens
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action cards — Special action cards can be played as normal actions with effects described on the card.
- combat resolution — Provoke a baby army by summing power for the appropriate color; wild rainbow monsters can fight any color; highest total wins and collects babies as points.
- discard management / dumpster dive — Drawn babies are discarded into a pile; dumpster diving allows players to take cards from the discard pile; babies forced to middle when drawn cannot be held.
- Hand Management — On a turn, players spend actions to draw or play cards to build monsters by attaching body parts and increasing total power.
- hand management / draw and play — On a turn, players spend actions to draw or play cards to build monsters by attaching body parts and increasing total power.
- Monster construction — Monsters start with a head; players attach body parts (arms, legs, torsos) with stitches to create higher power; attachments have stitching requirements.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Bear versus Babies has a strong, insane theme and the art is phenomenal.
- the box is a very small compact furry and utterly amazing I love the reactions I get from people when they look at this game and go like that is that a hairy box
- the rulebook is amazing and so is the mat with just having a bunch of rule reminders it's plastered all over it
- Bears vs Babies has a surprising amount of death for how stupid it looks
- it's a well functioning game that just so happens to have a very zany theme
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