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Game Info
Year
2015
Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
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Description
In a mystical land, far away from here, two prestigious martial arts tournament have been held since the ancient times: the White Lotus Tournament and the Black Lotus Tournament. These two tournaments are the most important show of legendary martial arts used by powerful athletes. Extraordinary masters are always looking for new talented athletes that will be forged into the ideal of the Perfect Warrior by exhausting training and life experiences that will fortify body, mind and soul.
"Dojo Kun" means "Dojo Rules" and is a set of principles that guide the physical and spiritual development of the martial art practitioners. Dojo Kun is a game in which each player heads one of the four dojo (Tiger, Crane, Bear, Cobra). The main goal is to train your athletes and attract new ones, buy new training machines, expand your dojo, find adventures, and eventually lead your athletes into winning the martial arts tournament.
The game is divided into two seasons. During each season there are three preparation turns based on worker placement mechanics in which you will manage your dojo and train your athletes.
During the season, the athletes can also learn special techniques by visiting one of the ancient masters hidden in the central part of the board. Each season ends with the martial arts tournament, where each dojo can send up to two athletes. In case of empty slots in the tournament, athletes from the fifth dojo (the Skull Dojo) will attend. (These athletes are managed by the game and can even win the tournament!)
Combat between athletes is simulated by throwing a set of custom dice. There are four different dice, one for each fighting technique. Players will roll dice according their athlete's experience level (Dan): the higher the Dan, the higher the chance of winning the match! Before a fight, the players that are not attending can predict the winner of that fight to gain prestige.
The tournament ends with the grand final in which a new champion will be crowned. At the end of the second season the Dojo with most Prestige Points will win the game.
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Getting Games Review at 19:26 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- cool concept
- dice design and tournament idea
Cons
- rules unclear, overall clunky, long play time, heavy analysis
Thematic elements
- fighter training and martial combat
- martial arts dojo tournament
- thematic, tournament-based progression
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Combat: Dice — special dice with symbols; various stats and combat interactions
- dice-based combat with chi, holds, punches, kicks — special dice with symbols; various stats and combat interactions
- Tournament brackets — two tournaments with a bracket progression and final grand finale
- two types of workers — masters and regular fighters; masters have unique actions
- Work replacement — three quarters of the game are work replacement; limited number of 'sessions'
- Worker Placement — three quarters of the game are work replacement; limited number of 'sessions'
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "through the ages a new story of civilization"
- "this is my favorite game with a big exclamation point"
- "an exceptional new version they've streamlined through tons of data usage"
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 5:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- enjoyed it
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- martial arts
- tournament
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Uses different custom dice for different techniques.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a pile of mid games as I take a look at board games on boardgamegeek.com, a repository of all things about board games.
- These are games that don't get talked about as much.
- it really is a very simple game from Prospero Hall.
- This is kind of one of those games I wish I had played back in the day.
- This is one of the best fillers out there where you have a bunch of swimmers out there.
- I think A Fell is a fine game. I just think it's sort of broken.
- It's a classic for a reason.
- what a fantastic party game.
- Phoenicia Tom Lehmann killed his own game. He eventually came out with Race for the Galaxy, which was a much, much better Phoenicia, which is why this game has kind of disappeared.
- one of the longest rule books in history.
- It is so complex.
- Of all the games I talked about today, I actually I think Lynx City I like Asking for Trouble's a lot, but Lynx City is my favorite.
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Good Time Society Discussion at 17:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- love the tagline
- super cute
- Played it, loved it, wanted to publish it
Cons
- silent two-player
- crazy hard
- crazy ridiculous
Thematic elements
- escape a mechanical death trap
Comparison games
- Sky Team
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Campaign play — Mentioned as a "campaign game so you're going to be going through different stories."
- cooperative play — Described as a "two-player cooperative game".
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This game is confounding.
- Wow, that's going to be hard to beat.
- Wow, friends. So, what are the final scores?
- This was cool. Like, this is a first time for all of us, and I liked how we all went to different things.
- The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms is a game that you can find yourself diving deep into.
- The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms has a lot of replayability.
- I love building stuff.
- The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms is a game that will appeal to fans of the video game series.
- Can you flip the top down so they can kind of see the cards a little better?
- I don't fully understand this game, but I feel like I'm winning.
- No takesies backsies.
- Wow, okay. Freaking
- This is an interesting game, right?
- Wow. That's interesting. I was just thinking about it.
- Dang it. Well done. That cost me the game.
- I quit playing board games forever.
- Wow, that's going to be huge.
- Holy cow, that's going to be
- Wow, Bailey.
- Oh, man. Uh, so I was trying to do some math here of like how many cards are in the deck and I did know notice in the rulebook it's 54 and there's six suits. So, I assume it would be nine each. But then Bailey made the point of like, 'Well, there's got to be at least 10 sculptors.' And then I forgot that some bunch of these are double-sided.
- Oh, man.
- Wow.
- So, what are the final scores?
- GG, friends.
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Top 10 List at 12:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Homage to 80s martial arts movies and video games
- Worker placement simulates training montage effectively
- Unique dice combat system
- Thematically fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Training athletes and competing in a martial arts tournament.
- Dojo
- Pays homage to 80s martial arts movies and video games.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice combat — A unique dice combat system is used for the tournament.
- Engine Building — Players train athletes, buy training machines, and expand their dojo.
- Worker Placement — Preparation turns are based on worker placement mechanisms to manage the dojo and train athletes.
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Quotes (from this video)
- my name is at the start it's fine is it hello i'm matthew and joining me to count down the 10 games our viewers are playing this month is paula hi everyone i'm here too uh because we're in my house right now i'm at your house also i am real jet-lagged so who knows how this is gonna go
- fun flippin right like game the special abilities feel great a fun puzzle to solve each time and solo is quick to play it's great i love you when every card feels super good yeah a game where you're like everyone else has way better powers than me but everyone else is like oh everyone else is weird yeah yeah yeah i love it it's fun i like it it does kind of feel like a flipping right but it's not it's a it's a flipping place cubes yeah it's a flipping cube we've coined it it's a coin game
- got it as a late birthday present the gifter was originally going to buy a different game but she was swayed by the cute kittens i would be too and that's why i had to interrupt you so but what we were talking about is being a teppanyaki chef over our hot hibachi grill and it sure does look entertaining but could you be one throw the egg grab the pepper and find out in hibachi players are japanese teppanyaki chefs who must use their hibachi grill to please hungry customers by throwing disks which are actually poker chips onto the board where the chips land determines which ingredients the chefs can buy or sell and which special actions they might be able to take the first chef to complete three orders from customers not just ones they made up out of their brain wins in that it's obvious like i win nobody wants everyone i did it they just came in for water they did it viewer jonathan l recently fired up this game stating hauling poke chips across the board to complete recipes and getting to annoy your friends by kicking their chips around what not to like my brother really enjoyed this game well the game that this was really based on yes this sounds really fun i like it's obviously a dexterity game it is but also the way you go about it is very very fun it's like flicking throwing and flick i think it'd be bad at it i just need to get some gums i wish what did they look like did the pieces feel like slices of the onion volcano oh exactly like that of course that's exactly how i was going to describe it before you started saying the deluxe version of this game should have actual edible bits that you're throwing on the board i feel like you think that you want that but you don't want that i want it no don't tell me what i don't want okay it comes with an egg
- this game is more phenomenal it creates the most faithfully immersive board game experience for a franchise that i never stopped loving since i was a kid the sheer number of expansions allow for so much gameplay variety creating unique combat puzzles for each playthrough depending on the combination of rangers and their fighting styles that you're playing with also the miniatures are so cool i think i had the last jason toy that was in the country my mom had to drive to a port to get it from a guy who had it in a box oh wow oh it was huge never let me forget it
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- Knocking it out of the park at number two is Barron park.
- The first game is the guild of merchant explorers in which cities will grow in reach as players traverse the map to increase their network of connections and build routes toward the goal of achieving their personal secret objectives.
- Parks are created by combining polyamidos with players scoring for animal house animal areas completed construction and more.
- We were just taught this at a game night with friends we had such a great time and it's one of the best games we've played recently and autumn p adds just charming not all the babies are bears oh the game sorry cares like charmin is what i thought just charming because they have a bear mascot that's true
- Near and Far in which players explore different maps in a search for the last ruin recruiting adventurers hunting for treasure and competing to be the most storied traveler they must collect food and equipment at town for long journeys to mysterious locales making sure not i do the pointing that's my thing i have the mug and the pointing i'm so sorry long journeys mysterious locales making sure not to forget enough weapons to fight off bandits living statues and rusty robots statues exactly you've got to watch out for the living statues sometimes travelers run into something unique in a mini adventure is read from a book of stories it's giving the player a choice of how to react creating a new and memorable tale each game
- We just started playing this one and are so impressed with the different modes of play campaign character arcade is like a choose your own adventure book inside the choose your own avenger book
- I like the characters in storytelling
- Maybe my favorite red raven game maybe my favorite game ev my favorite game ever
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