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Year
2017
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Description
The enchanted forest of the kodama is flourishing. But with so much growth, the ancient paths to the sanctuaries within have become overgrown and lost. Now the forest guardians call upon you, their loyal kodama, to restore these paths. Help your kodama build these paths, gather offerings for the guardians, and win their favor.
Kokoro is an exciting family game that can be played with up to eight players! Each player has a forest map to draw their paths and turns are simultaneous so the game plays quickly. Connecting your sanctuaries to offerings will gain you favor. Choose wisely because you never know exactly when the sanctuary will score. And you shouldn't be too greedy, if a sanctuary is not connected to more offerings than your previous sanctuary, you lose points!
Kodama Family
(2 games)
Part of the Kodama family — see Kodama: The Tree Spirits for the combined view.
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kovray First Impressions at 33:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- The magic of connecting everything
- Guardians are happy when you win
- Progressive scoring is cool
Cons
- Can take a big fat zero if you don't score enough
Thematic elements
- Helping guardians of the forest build paths and reconnect sanctuaries
- Forest
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — because you're trying to connect it to the caterpillars and the flowers around yeah because the first one you draw actually that you don't have to connect it to any sanctuary you just have to connect it to um things items or flowers or worms um and then you score points based on that
- Push Your Luck — and then you will draw one by one you'll draw sanctuaries and score that sanctuary for that round so you never can really know what you're going to build for for the next rounds
- Roll and Write — you have to score more points after the more that you go yeah the more you go so if you score four points one round the next round you have to score more than four points and if you don't you take a big ol zero
- Route Building — connecting all the different sanctuaries and what's really really neat about this game is your sanctuaries will be letters so it'll be like a b c d e f i think there's six but you only draw five
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is the only cooperative role practice if we're wrong it's a cooperative gem.
- Oh my goodness this is like it's it's one of the heavier villain rights for sure but it's so cool.
- My first impression of this game is these dice are beautiful and wow there's a lot going on.
- This one's cool because of the track the board track.
- This is another really I'd say it's really heavy.
- It's super neat because you get an asymmetrical character board that has different abilities different advisors.
- I wasn't able to connect my paths and I was getting so frustrated because I was just sitting there I was like this isn't working this isn't working this isn't working and there was no alternative for me and I just got a little frustrated.
- This is a fantastic game hadrian's wall.
- My first impressions amazing super crunchy though holy holy.
- This game has won my heart.
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Chairman of the Board Top List at 0:28 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Fast and clean
- Simple to understand
Cons
- Too restrictive
- Cumbersome and slow to maneuver
- Difficult to connect routes
- Almost inevitable negative points
- Game plays you more than you play the game
- Rendered obsolete by other games
Thematic elements
- Forest spirits and connecting paths
Comparison games
- Avenue
- Karuba
- Trails of Tucana
- Railroad Inc.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Flip and Write — Players flip cards from a deck which show path orientations and then draw these paths on their player board.
- Route Building — Players connect flowers and bugs to sanctuaries by placing pathways on their player board.
- Set Collection — Players aim to connect specific items (flowers, bugs) to sanctuaries for points.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is where I take a look, rank, and review the last five new to me board games that I've played.
- I don't think there was enough for you to really take control of the game. The game kind of plays you more than you play the game.
- But I think the game became too messy in the process.
- I'm not quite sure what the unique selling point of this game is or what the standout mechanism is.
- But everything is blended together wonderfully.
- I've almost played so many euros now that it's a detriment. I played so many that everything's a comparison and everything feels like it's been done before.
- It feels definitely distinct to all the other little flip and right games I've played.
- The system is super innovative and it feels cool and different.
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Actualol Top List at 12:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- quick, devilishly simple
- great with any number of players; family-friendly
- high tension from near-misses and elation on good draws
Cons
- box is small; may feel limited in scope for some
- can require a few playthroughs to grok optimal pathing
Thematic elements
- path building with cards to connect a sanctuary
- cozy sofa-based forest-path puzzle
- light, family-friendly strategy
Comparison games
- Scythe (not directly),
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- shared puzzle — all players influence a single evolving board
- Simultaneous action resolution — players place cards to create and connect a map, aiming for optimal paths
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the answer to every question is a color
- it's basically a game of listing things
- you have to come up with a fake definition for an obscure word cockalorum
- the cards are way more interesting than a hat full of TV chefs
- it's great fun trying to convince them that you can be trusted whether you're good or bad
- write fake acronyms and laws
- the original Christmas party game is the Hat game or Celebrity where you all write famous names on strips of paper
- Kokoro isn't just a great sofa game it's a great game every card flip brings elation or frustration
- it's like reading from a Sherlock Holmes novel as you meet with witnesses
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