Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1
Age
14+
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description
A solitaire card game where you lead a coalition of four clans to unite feudal Japan by securing three objectives per clan.
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Zilla Blitz Analysis at 5:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fascinating gameplay.
- Great addition to the series.
- Curious to see how it plays.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Uniting clans
- Feudal Japan
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- automated opponent — The automat plays cards against the player.
- Card-based — Uses card-based play where turns involve playing a card as the opponent.
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Quotes (from this video)
- 1944 Battle of the Bulge is fantastic it's just a little bit over half price
- this is a really fun accessible hex and counters game that it's one of the I recommend to people if you're looking to get into hex and counters games this is a really good one
- Soviet Dawn i' I I don't know anything about this game other than I've seen a bunch of people playing and I've heard good things about it
- although we have one month left to go what has been your game your historical game your historical war game of 2024 so far
- now if you don't play historical games or war games that's fine put your game of the year that's good as well but I'll leave you to define the criteria for 2024 is it your best game that was released in 2024 that's okay or the best game that you played for the first time in 2024 that's okay too totally up to you post Down Below in the comments entries is limited to one per person
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Zilla Blitz Review at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great artwork
- Good components
- Ideal for travel
- Good strategy and subtleties
- Fun decisions
- Fun to play
Cons
- Getting all 12 objectives is very difficult
- Ronin cards can be tough
- Enemy cards can make the game harder
Thematic elements
- Unifying Japan under one Shogun
- Feudal Japan
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — This is totally a deckbased card game where you're taking objective tiles from these objective boards here.
- Hand Management — You have to play cards up to the play area, then draw another card and do whatever that card is, if it's an enemy card, or add it to our hand if it's one of our cards or an envoy.
- Push Your Luck — The decision to discard everything and draw five new ones because hopefully we'll get a blue card in the new ones and we can play it right away.
- Set Collection — In order to grab a tile from that color. So, we'd have to play three red cards in a row.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This game I do feel like it has a good bit of strategy to it and I feel like there's some subtleties to gameplay.
- I feel like the decisions are fun. I like this one a lot.
- We do not unify Japan. We have failed.
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Zilla Blitz Other at 5:31 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful artwork
- Good balance of interesting decisions
- Quick to learn and play
- A favorite in the series
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Four clans vying to become the one shogunate
- Japan
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Solitaire — Described as a solitaire game.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Got it. Off the line. Another man-to-man combat game. Each counter is a single man, just like in combat 3, but uh combat is a solo game. This is uh it's got solo guidance for it, but it's designed as a two-player game, although it's I think it's going to be very solo friendly.
- I feel like that sort of it's easy for me to sit down when I've got 20 minutes and just cruise through my phone and look at social media, but instead I can play a whole game. And so I think these games offer me an opportunity to do something more interesting than Doomcroll
- when talk about companies that have high production values with their stuff, I mean, of course, we've got the big ones, you know, GMT, Compass Games, and things. Worthington Publishing is right up there with Bua Sims in terms of the quality of their content. The boxes are good, the counters are good, materials are good, the cards are all vinyl. I mean, just really they don't they they make good stuff, too, which is always really nice to see some durability.
- It's going to be something different, right? I mean, it's always good to throw different things in the channel. Something a little bit different, but I think there's enough overlap with it with Wargaming that and and I know there's a lot of football fans on the channel as well.
- 49% no, 51% yes. So roughly 50% half of the people watching this video play miniatures wargaming as well as tabletop board gaming or or play and don't play anything else which was I thought it's more than I thought.
- Miniatures games for me represent the extension of a childhood hobby of mine, which was building and painting model airplane kits. Totally can see that. So you're building the miniatures, painting the miniatures, playing the games. These can all go together into one big hobby.
- The other thing would be PC Hex Encounters kind of like we did with the Panzer Core 2. The nice thing about that is that it's very easy to play in a live stream format because the rules are all managed for you in the background.
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Zilla Blitz Other at 20:53 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Portable and easy to take on trips.
- Quick playtime allows for playing a full game in short bursts.
- Provides a more engaging alternative to passive phone use.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Shogun
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Got it. Off the line. Another man-to-man combat game. Each counter is a single man, just like in combat 3, but uh combat is a solo game. This is uh it's got solo guidance for it, but it's designed as a two-player game, although it's I think it's going to be very solo friendly.
- I feel like that sort of it's easy for me to sit down when I've got 20 minutes and just cruise through my phone and look at social media, but instead I can play a whole game. And so I think these games offer me an opportunity to do something more interesting than Doomcroll
- when talk about companies that have high production values with their stuff, I mean, of course, we've got the big ones, you know, GMT, Compass Games, and things. Worthington Publishing is right up there with Bua Sims in terms of the quality of their content. The boxes are good, the counters are good, materials are good, the cards are all vinyl. I mean, just really they don't they they make good stuff, too, which is always really nice to see some durability.
- It's going to be something different, right? I mean, it's always good to throw different things in the channel. Something a little bit different, but I think there's enough overlap with it with Wargaming that and and I know there's a lot of football fans on the channel as well.
- 49% no, 51% yes. So roughly 50% half of the people watching this video play miniatures wargaming as well as tabletop board gaming or or play and don't play anything else which was I thought it's more than I thought.
- Miniatures games for me represent the extension of a childhood hobby of mine, which was building and painting model airplane kits. Totally can see that. So you're building the miniatures, painting the miniatures, playing the games. These can all go together into one big hobby.
- The other thing would be PC Hex Encounters kind of like we did with the Panzer Core 2. The nice thing about that is that it's very easy to play in a live stream format because the rules are all managed for you in the background.
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Zilla Blitz Discussion at 18:37:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- fits inside a stocking
- beautiful cards
- great theme
- really fun and challenging gameplay
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- War-themed
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card-based game — Mentioned as a different type of game from the others by Worthington Publishing.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Everything that you'll see in this video, by the way, is linked down below in the video description.
- A lot of board wargames have chits, basically counters that you put in a cup and you're kind of closing your eyes and you're picking one of them out of the cup as you're playing.
- The solution? Bingo chips.
- The Oregon counter clippers, the tool to clip counters and make them nice and beautiful and rounded.
- So, I'm going to just show and mention the two that I can that you can get right now.
- This is admittedly a little bit big for a stocking stuffer. It might have to go below the stocking.
- So, you get from a magazine where everything's flying all over the place to a perfect game box with the storage tray for counters inside it.
- Be amazed how handy it is to have a big pile of dice that you can pull into the games that you're playing.
- Which were your favorite ones that you saw? I'd love to hear down in the comments below.
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