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Game Info
Year
2018
Players
2
Age
14+
Playtime
60 min
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Description
Choose your clan, prepare for battle, and fight for control of powerful crystals in Crystal Clans, a battle card game for two players.
In every game of Crystal Clans, you go to battle with unique armies, seeking to outmaneuver your opponent and lead your squad to victory. Six clans stand ready to battle for dominance, including the adaptable Water Clan, the peaceful Flower Clan, the relentless Skull Clan, the innumerable Blood Clan, the wise Meteor Clan, and the unyielding Stone Clan. Each clan's cards can be used in multiple ways, giving you more options and adding surprise to each battle. The first clan to claim four crystals wins the game and fulfills their destiny to dominate the world.
—description from the publisher
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 31:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique energy track mechanic creates interesting strategic decisions
- Planning for many different factions coming out
- Amazing art by Martin Abel
- Phenomenal graphic design by David Kendall
- Opportunity for organized play support and tournaments
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Summoner Wars
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-driven — The game utilizes cards for various actions and unit deployment, similar to Summoner Wars.
- Resource Management (Energy Track) — Players use an energy track to pay for cards and move units, but each use of energy pushes it towards their opponent, creating a dynamic resource economy.
- Variable player powers — Each clan has its own unique abilities that players will be able to use throughout the game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Wow this episode is packed I better get started
- Hey everybody guess what Gen Con is coming up soon Oh more stress more stress I don't need stress in my life
- I'm a loner come on people people like underdogs I'm the underdog here not that it matters because it's not like I'm on Twitter and I
- Basically take two dead of winters and you got two clans that kind of warned against each other
- Timothy Meier and Kobe took me on this project and they did a phenomenal job of really trying to create this awesome experience or 10 up to 10 players can go ahead and play around with these epic battle in which they're they're constantly trying to vie for power and win the game of surviving through the apocalypse and there's lots of fun stuff going on there there's even a timer that people have to worry a go on turns fast so it doesn't it doesn't drag
- Crossfire what's really neat about crossfire is that it phase in three minutes so it's super major quick
- That really creates a lot of interesting chaos and a lot of fun during that three minute time period
- The game actually turned out super beautiful we had an artist named Jen Z and she's actually well known for doing video games like transistor and bashing and she's doing a lot of cool stuff so to have her work with us on that project is an absolute blast
- This game is a race up the mountain where you are trying to we played it now competitively yes there are actually two modes that to most of this game there's competitive and co-op in the the co-op actually has a solo player mode so there's actually three modes to this game solo co-op competitive but we all said yeah we're going to do some little bit of backstabbing we decide to play competitive tonight and with this crew it's a good thing that we did
- My favorite mechanic definitely is the player board and and what that does that tracks your food your oxygen your weight and your health and ultimately your speed
- The flavor texture is really good yeah takes on the Karma card my favorite my favorite was there was a card called cheat codes yeah or gave you a bunch of stuff in the flavor text at the bottom was the cheat code for the contra which is a be a no be a oh
- If he hits $100,000 he has promised after one year of badgering and pestering he will do a Star Wars rebellion how to play video
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 47:32 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Neutral
Pros
- Built for tournament or organized play structure
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Summoner Wars
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Organized Play — the idea to do some organized play support for that for tournaments and stores and everything
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Wow this episode is packed I better get started
- Hey everybody guess what Gen Con is coming up soon Oh more stress more stress I don't need stress in my life
- I'm a loner come on people people like underdogs I'm the underdog here not that it matters because it's not like I'm on Twitter and I
- Basically take two dead of winters and you got two clans that kind of warned against each other
- Timothy Meier and Kobe took me on this project and they did a phenomenal job of really trying to create this awesome experience or 10 up to 10 players can go ahead and play around with these epic battle in which they're they're constantly trying to vie for power and win the game of surviving through the apocalypse and there's lots of fun stuff going on there there's even a timer that people have to worry a go on turns fast so it doesn't it doesn't drag
- Crossfire what's really neat about crossfire is that it phase in three minutes so it's super major quick
- That really creates a lot of interesting chaos and a lot of fun during that three minute time period
- The game actually turned out super beautiful we had an artist named Jen Z and she's actually well known for doing video games like transistor and bashing and she's doing a lot of cool stuff so to have her work with us on that project is an absolute blast
- This game is a race up the mountain where you are trying to we played it now competitively yes there are actually two modes that to most of this game there's competitive and co-op in the the co-op actually has a solo player mode so there's actually three modes to this game solo co-op competitive but we all said yeah we're going to do some little bit of backstabbing we decide to play competitive tonight and with this crew it's a good thing that we did
- My favorite mechanic definitely is the player board and and what that does that tracks your food your oxygen your weight and your health and ultimately your speed
- The flavor texture is really good yeah takes on the Karma card my favorite my favorite was there was a card called cheat codes yeah or gave you a bunch of stuff in the flavor text at the bottom was the cheat code for the contra which is a be a no be a oh
- If he hits $100,000 he has promised after one year of badgering and pestering he will do a Star Wars rebellion how to play video
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 26:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Enjoyable with a lot of depth.
- Easy to pick up.
- Potential for future expansions and deck-building mechanics.
- Strategic initiative mechanic is a favorite aspect.
Cons
- The rock-paper-scissors battle card mechanic was initially confusing.
- Claiming a crystal gives the opponent a lot of resources for their next turn.
Thematic elements
- Clans battling for control of crystal zones.
Comparison games
- Lord of the Rings
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players attempt to take over zones on the board that contain crystals.
- Card Drafting — Players summon cards (units) from their hand to build squads.
- Deck Building — Mentioned as a future mechanic that will be added to the game.
- Resource Management — Players manage 'initiative' which is used to play cards and push a crystal on the board.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- These crackers spend most of their episodes talking about everything but board games
- The thing that really sold us both on this game it's the resource management
- Oh crap I sat there for an hour getting through the rules
- This is very much a tactical game Tony which I found out and I stick it tactical games it's about positioning your squads and in in good places to defend and in case some enemy moves into a crystal zone then you can move into a crystal zone and actually do battle against each other
- The really neat mechanic that I liked was the three different colors of the workers you had the black the gray and the white and you don't get those gray and white until you go raiding later in the game
- I highly recommend the expansion Hall of Heroes because typically when you draw cards in the base game it's a blind draw you don't know what you're gonna get with the expansion you have three of them out that you can pick from
- The app works well I was surprised how well the app works because there's also a time when you can just do a check you could say hey is this color part of the the pattern and you type in it tells you whether it is or not
- I really enjoyed this Marty I was really surprised at just the fiddle enos of playing with the coins and moving them in and out
- I love it's a it's a tactical board game with cards and minis I get to paint my minis
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The Dice Tower Review at 8:00 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
- Didn't take off anywhere
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Summoner Wars
- Ashes
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card combat — Players form groups of cards that engage in combat on a board.
- Two-Player Game — Designed specifically for two players.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, we're going to jump right into these here. I'm going to take a look at them and tell you what I think about them.
- This game is now 20 years old.
- It's not nearly as good as made by the people who made War of the Ring.
- This is my favorite because all the pieces move like rooks sort of and you're trying to take over other people's pieces and each one has a special power and I like the theming of it.
- Layers expansions bring it up to a nine. Layers is amazing.
- I think the base game is fine, but when you I mean it's it's very it's enjoyable, but when you add the expansion it's fantastic.
- Nothing here I think is amazing.
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