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Game Info
Year
2018
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
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Description
Across the far reaches of the Lotus Galaxy, a civil war is waged by massive machines piloted by skilled warriors. Take your place as daimyo of one of the major clans and fight for your right to the title of Galactic Emperor in Starship Samurai, an epic new game of warring clans for two to four players.
In this war, you must use diplomacy to bring honor to your clan, earn the support of the lesser clans, and cement your claim to the throne. But when negotiation is not enough, you can launch massive fleets or deploy the most fearsome weapons the galaxy has ever known — the terrifying Samurai Mechs — to crush your enemies and seize key locations. Exert your influence and bring order out of chaos!
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 470:46:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique action selection mechanic
- Engaging theme of space samurais
- Players who played it loved it
- Designed by Isaac Vega
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Fighting Samurais in space
- Space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players choose from four actions, with the number of times each action can be performed determined by tiles.
- area influence — Players deploy units to gain influence and victory points.
- Resource Management — Players gather resources to perform actions and deploy units.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is The Edible Games Cookbook and this is a cookbook that you actually make the food in it.
- I have a lot of hype for Detective: City of Angels.
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Meeple University Discussion at 3:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- went really quickly
- able to do a really good price
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we're standing in front of a wall of all of the really cheap ting and dents that we're trying to get rid of
- awesome prices because in the end you know if it's just damage to the box and you're getting it really really cheap it's it's an awesome deal
- the the window to learn about a game seems to be getting smaller from the point of view of learning whether it's going to be really really successful or whether it's just going to be just another game
- there are now levels of hotness and there wasn't before it was either hot or it wasn't
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Review at 0:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Brisk pace and good pacing, did not overstay welcome.
- Streamlined gameplay with opportunities for technical decisions.
- Loved the action selection mechanism (1-2-3-4 disks).
- Clever conflict resolution mechanism prevents 'rich get richer'.
- Fun and enjoyable overall.
Cons
- Difficult to differentiate whose samurai belong to whom on the board.
- Card play felt chaotic and random due to the luck of the draw, with players sometimes drawing order cards when they wanted battle cards and vice versa.
Thematic elements
- Claiming the Galactic throne after the Emperor's death and restoring peace among interstellar clans.
- Lotus galaxy
Comparison games
- Kingsburg
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players use numbered disks (1-4) to select actions, with higher numbers yielding bigger results. Disks are unavailable for the rest of the round once used.
- Area Control — Players place spaceships and samurai on planets to build power and influence, with the goal of winning conflicts at those planets.
- Combat — Conflicts at planets are resolved by comparing the total power of ships and samurai present. The winner takes their ships off the planet, while losers leave theirs.
- Set Collection — Winning planets earns planet cards which provide rewards like influence and victory points.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The Galactic Emperor Russia has just died and the tenuous peace that she forged among the interstellar clans of the Lotus galaxy has just all just fallen apart.
- The higher the number of the disk that you put on that spot, the bigger result will be triggered.
- The battle resolution brings me to the second thing about this game I really liked.
- The most obvious thing is that it is really difficult to tell who's samurais or who when they're all out on the board.
- The drawing of cards was a little bit chaotic and a little bit random and they feel like they kind of got you know screwed over just by the luck of the draw.
- I thought it was very fun and enjoyable it had a great pace to it it by far did not overstay its welcome.
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Watch It Played Rules Teach at 0:25 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Gaining influence over minor clans and moving their tokens up and down columns.
- The strategic placement of order tokens and the ability to boost actions with wealth.
- Playing action cards from hand.
- The combat phase where players use battle cards.
- The victor of a battle gaining honor and claiming the location card.
- The resolution phase where players gain rewards based on their influence on the allegiance board.
- The final scoring based on collected location cards and their symbols.
Cons
- If a location has no space for a mech, it destroys a ship with the lowest power there, potentially your own.
Thematic elements
- Players are heads of prominent clans trying to vie for control of the throne.
- The galaxy after it has been explored, where humanity turned on itself until the Galactic Emperor restored order through careful diplomacy and giant samurai mechs.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area majority / influence — Players gain influence over minor clans by having more power at locations. This is tracked on an allegiance board.
- Combat — Players engage in combat at locations by playing battle cards, with the highest total power winning. Ships can be destroyed.
- Hand Management — Players draw and play action cards, with a hand limit.
- Resource Management — Players manage wealth tokens and honor points.
- Set Collection — Players collect location cards, which provide honor at the end of the game based on having different symbols.
- Variable player powers — Players choose a samurai mech, which has a unique power and miniature.
- Worker placement / action selection — Players use order tokens to select actions from a limited set of action spaces. The value of the token can be modified by spending wealth.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The galaxy have been finally explored, humanity turned on itself until the Galactic Emperor restored order through careful diplomacy and giant samurai mechs.
- Now you're the head of an important prominent clan trying to buy for control of the throne but so are the other players.
- Players will be engaging in combat with one another as they try to control the various planets of the Lotus galaxy and exert influence over the minor clans so that they can earn the most honor and be crowned the new emperor.
- The victor in the battle will always gain 5 honor then they collect the rewards showing on that location card and claim it placing it facedown next to their board.
- The player with the highest honor now wins but in the case of a tie the tied player with the most wealth wins.
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