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2014
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Description
You and your fellow samurai companions are the only standing obstacle between one frightened village and a full horde of blood-thirsty villains. The fight seems unfair as the seven of you might not seem to measure up to the dozens of enemies who want to slice you to pieces — but this comparison doesn't take into account your strong combat skills and an efficient team spirit that binds your samurai squad enough to face the threat. Above all else, when everything seems desperate and lost, your enemies will discover that inside each of you lies a true beast, a warrior spirit ready to unleash its full power!
Samurai Spirit is a co-operative game in which each player is a fierce samurai defending a village surrounded by a horde of bandits. The game plays out over three turns during which each player takes turns drawing bandit cards, then choosing whether they want to fight the bandit, defend the village, or let the bandit pass in order to help the other samurai.
The challenge of the game consists of balancing your choices: Should you fight each enemy to quickly reach your beast capacities, while also coming closer to the death and risking further loss by not defending the village sufficiently? Should you mainly defend or help the other samurai, taking the risk of remaining human too long and therefore weaker, when you know that weakness will be a major problem when facing the lieutenant and the villain bosses? Each enemy presents a tough choice to you, your team, and ultimately the whole village! Each turn ends with farms and fences being destroyed, and since those aren't unlimited, you must do what's necessary to end the game with at least one undamaged farm and enough farmers to tend it. Do you have what it takes to stand against evil and become a true hero?
Fight with courage, smartly assist your teammates, defend the poor villagers, turn into a savage beast, and wreak havoc on the enemy lines — all of this is up to you! Ultimately it would be your honor to chose to die in a ultimate sacrifice in order to save the village. All of this is what makes the true samurai spirit!
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Watch It Played Rules Teach at 0:22 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Cooperative nature where players must work together.
- Unique special abilities for each samurai.
- Variable difficulty levels for replayability.
- Thematic elements of honor and justice.
Cons
- Failure to match Raider symbols at the end of a round leads to penalties (wounds, lost farms, lost families).
- Exceeding the 'key eye' value on the battle track results in penalties like losing barricades.
- Samurai can die if they sustain two wounds, leading to game loss.
Thematic elements
- honor, loyalty, justice, samurai codes
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together as samurai to defend a village from intruders.
- hand management — Players manage cards representing Raiders in their combat line or defense area.
- Push Your Luck — Players must manage their combat line total to avoid exceeding their 'key eye' value and causing penalties.
- set collection — Defending involves matching Raider symbols to farmstead or family tokens.
- variable difficulty — The game can be adjusted with four levels: easy, normal, hard, and heroic.
- Variable player powers — Each samurai has a unique special ability that can be activated under specific conditions.
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- hi everyone welcome to watch it played
- my name is Rodney Smith in this video we're going to learn the 1 to 7 player game samurais spirit designed by Antoine Bowser and published by fun Forge and Passport game studios
- honor loyalty justice these are just some of the codes followed by a true samurai and that's why you've heated the call of a village being harassed by intruders that want nothing more than to burn it to the ground
- you wrote numbered but not necessarily outmatched so gather your fellow warriors and your courage and let's learn how to play
- if one of the samurai dies or if all of the farmsteads or families are destroyed the samurai lose the game otherwise they win
- confronting places a Raider on the right side of your board and defending puts it on the left
- you always have the option to confront a Raider and this area is known as the combat line
- this means that sometimes you'll definitely want to defend placing cards over here but additionally at the end of each round for each player who has not placed a matching card beside each of these symbols there will be penalties
- knowing when to confront and when to defend is key to the survival of the samurai as well as the village
- if you choose not to fight or support then you must pass
- any time in the game that you are required to remove a barricade and there's none left in the village you remove a farm instead
- your inner animal has been unleashed your battle track is now extended and your key eye ability is improved
- and that's how you play samurais spirit
- now if you have any questions at all don't hesitate to put them in the comments below and I hope you'll stick around because we didn't go over all the kiai powers and the various support token the abilities those are found at the very back of the rulebook and they're quite easy to follow but we're going to be doing a full playthrough of this game as well we'd like you to join us so consider subscribing to the channel maybe you'll see some of those symbols explained there but until the next episode thanks for watching
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watch it played Playthrough at 0:35 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 65290 · mention_pk 158934
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Amazing card draws can turn the tide.
- Ki powers can be very useful when activated.
- The game provides an emotional roller coaster experience.
- The game allows for strategic passing of cards between players.
Cons
- Mistakes can lead to significant setbacks or re-recordings.
- The game can be very brutal with harsh setbacks.
- Poor decisions about defensive positions can lead to losses.
- The game is unforgiving when players reach critical thresholds (e.g., wounds).
Thematic elements
- samurai defending a village
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card drawing — Players draw cards that represent challenges or actions. The outcome of these draws dictates subsequent decisions and consequences.
- character abilities — Each player has unique abilities (like Ki power) that can be activated under certain conditions to mitigate threats or gain advantages.
- hand management — Players manage cards in hand, deciding which to play, defend with, or pass to opponents.
- Push Your Luck — Players must decide whether to take more risks for greater rewards or play it safe, with consequences for failure.
- set collection — Players aim to collect specific card values or symbols to defend against threats or activate abilities.
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Quotes (from this video)
- What happened was when we were originally recording that episode at a certain point I made a rather important mistake and so what we did was we reset the game to that point in time and then reshot the ending and that became what is now the third part of that video series but we had all the original footage of our mistaken game and so I thought i' would release that as a bonus episode
- so we're going to go back in time and join the game at the point just as I was making the mistake and then you'll be able to watch and see the rest of the game play through because the rest of the game we played correctly so you can see another way an alternate universe in which the village outcome may or may not have been different
- I feel like every decision we're making could just be a terrible one
- Oh my goodness unbelievable
- This is just brutal.
- Sorry we couldn't pull off a win here but maybe if you're trying the game yourself you'll succeed and let us know about it
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The Dice Tower Other at 5:48 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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- samurai
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- Shelf 16 is kind of a an odd mix here
- This shelf has twice as many games as most shelves
- one of my favorite two-player games, but it's very difficult to learn and play
- Fantastic abstract strategy game
- Such a classic game and I like it a lot
- I don't know why I like it so much, but I do
- one of the most beautiful dexterity/party games there are
- There are so many games on the shelf
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BoardGameBollocks Discussion at 2:55 sentiment: negative
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negative
Pros
- acknowledged as potentially good, but dismissed due to size and complexity
Cons
- too small for the speaker's preference
- rules described as obtuse/fiddly
Thematic elements
- Tower defense in samurai setting
- Feudal Japan
- Theme-forward, tactical
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tower_defense — Defend against waves using units/effects; rules can be fiddly.
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- i don't know why we picked this up
- i have no idea what it is
- it's an area control game
- it's just weird looking
- this is a half decent pickup and deliver game
- it's actually a half decent game stock market building and other stuff
- you'll be putting tokens up on a series of tracks
- it's a tower defense game called samurai spirit
- Imagine the promise of this was quite intriguing at the time
- it's essentially poker in a box i think
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