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2021
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Description
Jekyll vs. Hyde is a trick-taking game for two players based on the famous novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. As Dr. Jekyll, you'll need to resist Mr. Hyde's fierce attacks to protect your mind and keep the secret of your dual nature. As Mr. Hyde, your goal is to dominate Dr. Jekyll to overcome his identity.
One player is Dr. Jekyll ; the other is Mr. Hyde. The game plays in three rounds. At the end of each round, Dr. Jekyll's identity will progressively disappear under Mr. Hyde's relentless attacks. Compare the number of tricks that each player has won in this round and subtract the lowest score from the highest one (for instance, if Dr. Jekyll won 6 tricks and Mr. Hyde won 4 tricks, then the final result is 6-4=2). This result indicates by how many spaces the Identity Marker will move to Mr. Hyde's side.
Evil is relentless! Even if Dr. Jekyll won more tricks that Mr. Hyde, the marker will progress towards Mr. Hyde's side. As Dr. Jekyll, your goal is to keep balance, without giving in to darkness!
If the marker reaches the last space of the track (far left), then Mr. Hyde instantly wins the game. Otherwise, start a new round: remove the three colored tokens from the board and reshuffle all cards, including the 5 cards that you set aside at the beginning of this round.
Mr. Hyde wins as soon as the Identity Marker reaches the last space of the Identity Track (far left). If the marker did not reach the end of the track after three rounds, then Dr. Jekyll wins, escaping from Mr. Hyde's dark influence.
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Review at 0:07 sentiment: mixed
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mixed
Pros
- Interesting and cool trump determination mechanism.
- The campaign mode provides replayability and growing complexity.
- Challenging cooperative gameplay.
- Intriguing concept of a two-player trick-taking game.
- Compact and portable design.
- Potion cards add strategic depth and player control.
Cons
- Not anything new or unique compared to other games.
- Fox in the Forest Duet is preferred over this game.
- Easy to find new ways to lose.
- Limited communication between players can be a drawback.
Thematic elements
- Players cooperate to have their personalities work together to get away from Scotland Yard.
Comparison games
- The Crew
- The Crew's sequel
- Fox in the Forest Duet
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- campaign mode — The game features a series of missions that increase in complexity and introduce new challenges.
- cooperative play — Two players work together to achieve a common goal against the game system.
- Deck Seeding — Players 'seed the deck' that the city AI will use, influencing its actions without knowing the exact timing.
- hand management — Players manage cards in their hand, with limited communication about their intentions.
- set collection — Potion cards react to specific suits, implying a strategic element of collecting or playing suits to trigger effects.
- Trick-taking — Players play cards in tricks, and the number of tricks taken by each player is used to advance on a track.
- Variable trump — Trump is determined dynamically during the game based on the order of specific colored cards played.
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- two-player Cooperative trick taken game which is wild I've only ever seen that one done one other time
- The idea of that two-player trick taking game is so intriguing to me as a midwesterner love tricking taking games it is in my blood
- overall I thought this game was fine um I liked it but it wasn't anything new for me it wasn't anything I hadn't seen before and if I'm going to play a two-player trick-taking game I'm I'm going to choose Fox and the forest duet over this anytime I will always choose that game over it
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positive
Pros
- Intriguing tug-of-war mechanic
- Offers an interesting strategic switch from typical trick-taking games
- Compact and portable
- Uses special abilities effectively
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Thematic elements
- Jekyll and Hyde duality
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Push and pull — A central tug-of-war mechanism where players manipulate a marker's position on a track.
- special abilities — Tokens can add 'game-breaking' abilities.
- Trick-taking — Classic trick-taking gameplay where the highest card of the lead suit wins.
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- This process has shown me why I haven't done this before because I've been so stressed out.
- I have lost sleep over the last couple nights thinking about this top 10 video, you know, because you're constantly like, 'Well, how do I leave that game out? I love that game, but I got to leave that game out.'
- So, these are my top 10 uh two-player games of all time.
- And then my number one two-player game of all time is sort of a slash pick because it is Lord of the Rings Duel for Middle-Earth slash Seven Wonders Duel.
- I still have 7 Wonders Duel in my collection and it will never leave.
- I would love to hear uh what you love in the comments and stuff.
- What What are your favorite two-player games of all time?
- Next month will be my top 10 cooperative games of all time.
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- It's just going to be the winner of this tournament because we've done some randomization here with some of the games that we've matched up.
- kind of a popularity contest each time.
- there I don't think there is a single pairing where to me it's just an obvious choice. These are all going to be tough choices.
- Again, they're all two player games, so we won't belabor it by telling you that every single time.
- I don't mind stepping my foot on the scales as much as I possibly can, as much as you even care, but come on, Quarto.
- I do love Crokinole, but It would have been too easy he thinks if Crokinole was on the list. Clear winner.
- Maybe my favorite two player game. So, I mean, I it is my probably my favorite
- It is addictive. Once I started playing it, I just kept playing it.
- It's so good.
- It is like one of the greatest two-player game experiences.
- If you don't know what Zenith is, give Zenith a try.
- This is a toss-up. This is going to be a jump ball for sure.
- If there's a game that I think more unanimously will get uh votes other than War of the Ring, it might be Star Wars Rebellion.
- Boop is so well loved that I think Pagan might have a uphill battle, but Pagan is a little newer.
- Splendor Duel is worth trying for sure.
- It is such a great two-player game.
- Fugitive is probably uh even more so than Pagan my pick for like two-player deduction
- Twilight Struggle I think was number one for for years. Like you forever. Like for a very very long time.
- Lost Cities. People that have been in the hobby long enough at this point.
- Make sure everyone has fun at the table
- We are going to do a bracketed tournament for two player games culminating in not what I would say, it's not going to be the best two player game necessarily. It could be. It might be, but it's just going to be the winner of this tournament because we've done some randomization here with some of the games that we've matched up
- You can fill out your own brackets, but you are also going to be picking the winners cuz we're going to be running polls on our Discord for each and every match up so that it's I mean, for lack of a better way of putting it, kind of a popularity contest each time.
- I think Twilight Struggle was the game that popularized the two-player experience, at least as far as I'm concerned.
- Oh, for a long time. Forever.
- it is what a lot of people think of when you say when you say, 'Name a two-player game.' Lost Cities.
- These These do have the the downside of being a little older games.
- go to our Discord cuz as you're watching this right now, you can go to our Discord and go to the two-player March Madness channel on Discord. You'll be able to download the brackets. You'll be able to participate in all the polls that we're doing there.
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