Cursed Manor

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice Placement — The little girl to rescue is placed in a random item deck/room arrangement, making the path to victory highly dependent on luck.
• Dungeon Crawl — Cree Manor is portrayed with vertical movement and room-to-room exploration, including potential exit points like windows.
• Dungeon/room traversal with verticality — Cree Manor is portrayed with vertical movement and room-to-room exploration, including potential exit points like windows.
• Events — Event and card draws drive the narrative pace and can abruptly shift the momentum of the game.
• Randomized target placement — The little girl to rescue is placed in a random item deck/room arrangement, making the path to victory highly dependent on luck.
• Tension-driven event cards — Event and card draws drive the narrative pace and can abruptly shift the momentum of the game.

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Quotes (from this video)

• the actual Cree Manor is awesome it's one of my favorites of the locations
• it's vertical you can jump out of Windows going around the different rooms
• the events in this one are probably my favorite of anything in this series they've got just these terrific ones especially this golf cart
• it's hard this one is so hard
• these extra track cards for Incan yamba and another one for the sacred grove
• this is the one everyone says to start out with and for good reason
• it's basically Elm Street and there's all these people in these houses
• you've got to win their trust and get into their houses in order to save them from being murdered in their dreams
• two states in this one of being awake or asleep and when you're asleep you do this really fun but really simple little mini card game
• Maple Lane and Nightmare on Elm Street and I can't even it would take a whole video to talk about my love of Nightmare on Elm Street

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Boss Battler — threat deck with groups, plots, and boss-like foes to defeat
• campaign structure — five adventures with branching outcomes and persistent consequences
• Deck Building — two hero decks (skills and assets) plus class-specific and upgrade paths
• Deck-building and upgrades — two hero decks (skills and assets) plus class-specific and upgrade paths
• Narrative Choice — narrative decisions that alter future adventures and outcomes
• story cards and Book of Fables — narrative decisions that alter future adventures and outcomes
• threats, plots, and foes — threat deck with groups, plots, and boss-like foes to defeat
• three-action per turn with power tilting — red (fight), blue (influence), green (sneak); powers can be tilted to increase capacity

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Quotes (from this video)

• Cre Manor is everything good about Veil wraith with none of the bad things about Veil wraith
• this game is really cool I like it I love all the the different variety in the missions in the locations
• I think cre Manor is a pretty cool game
• this game has completely replaced Veil wraith I will be selling Veil wraith and I will be keeping cre Manor
• the art in this game is very pretty
• the story has branching paths so each time you play through one of the five adventures in a campaign it's going to be different

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card-driven narrative — uses a card-based system to push events and encounters in a horror setting
• thematic mat integration — thematic playmat enhances atmosphere and provides a tactile backdrop for the horror narrative

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Quotes (from this video)

• I am actually very excited about what's this one's probably going to wind up living underneath my other mat just for anytime I'm playing this
• The Game Toppers puts out for my money as good a playmat as anybody else out there if not the best playmats as anybody out there
• I'm a fan of all of this stuff
• These terrain packs are really nice and you can mix and match them easily
• Relic Blade I've been waiting to play that game for a while and now I have the right surface to do it
• Creel Manor is perfect to put under that game and it looks fantastic

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