Recruit new friends, solve quests to defeat enemies and become the Pirate King!
One Piece NAKAMA is a cooperative board game for 1-5 players.
Players take the role of Luffy and other members of the Strawhat and need to recruit new friends from the whole One Piece Saga. The combination of the current Friends that joined the crew will allow to fulfill the quests on the Enemy cards in play and defeat them, collecting their reward...but for every undefeated Enemy the threat level will rise. Let it rise too much and you will start losing friends. Lose too many friends and you will lose the game.
One Piece NAKAMA brings to the table 100 characters of the One Piece world, and the most important concept: friends that you meet during the journey are you real strength.
Thanks to the Boss system, that allows to shuffle as many as you want in the Enemies deck, the game mechanics are flexible, enjoyable both by gamers and more casual players.
Knowing about One Piece isn't necessary to enjoy the game, but if you do you will notice some "details" in character abilities that will make happy every fan of the series.
-description from designer
- Pretty clever cardplay
- Satisfying puzzle
- Weirdly punishing cards/bosses can lead to instant loss
- Game can last a little too long
- Very dependent on luck of the draw
- Terrible rulebook
- One Piece
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — The game can be played solo or cooperatively, where players try to meet enemy criteria without communicating.
- Hand Management — Players manage cards in their hand to meet criteria for defeating enemies.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a six small box game review roundup. Gen Con edition.
- If a game is in a six small box game review, it usually means it's not likely to get above a 3.5 out of five.
- I think for me, I don't like this at all. I thought it was terrible. But again, caveat, I'm not the intended audience.
- The actual puzzle, both solo and cooperative, is pretty fun.
- The rule book in my opinion is terrible.
- I think this is a great icebreaker, a great gateway game, uh, good for kids and families as well.
- It's the kind of game that was good for two or three plays. And by the time I was playing it the fourth time, I was already I I felt I had done everything I wanted to from the game.
- The biggest critique I have is it does feel very luck dependent. It doesn't feel like there's a ton of strategy.
References (from this video)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Wheel of Time which is the fantasy series at Prime
- Gen Con has been really awesome
- it's a great party game so kind of feels like code name