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Year
2015
Players
1-2
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
Collection
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Description
The mad Fire Elemental lord is out to burn down the dream forest. Attacking in waves using Fire Elementals, your only defense are trees and fountains and those animals brave enough to offer aid before scurrying away to safety. Using a unique drafting system and combining it with a tower defense game, will you be able to keep your forest green?
Sylvion is a tower-defense type game in which attacks come down four rows and in waves. You build a deck using a unique drafting process and play cards from your hand by paying with other cards in your hand. You can play cards to the rows like fountains and trees or play animals for instant effects or to manipulate the enemy decks of cards. When all the waves have finished, you must have kept the heart of the Sylvion verdant, or else the whole forest of the Oniverse will be destroyed.
This game can be played in an introductory style, advanced mode, and includes two expansions and an appendix for further challenges and complexity.
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Getting Games Discussion at 14:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- great art aesthetic
- interesting ideas
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- cooperative tower-defense style
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — Players cooperate with partner to achieve goals
- cooperative play — Players cooperate with partner to achieve goals
- Cube Tower — Defend against advancing flames by placing towers
- tower defense — Defend against advancing flames by placing towers
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Quotes (from this video)
- I will be doing an exclusive once a month question-and-answer vlog
- the second thing is that one of the reviews I do each month is going to be voted on by the patrons
- I think that's a really great way that we can interact back and forth and we can just create a better channel together
- the Voyages of Marco Polo ... incredible amount of replayability
- the board is totally randomized every game
- it's a pusher luck deck-building game that plays one to four people
- I was super excited about penny press ... I was the person who was super far behind who got left out of a newspaper cycle
- the issues that I have with this game... area majority miss is too big of a deal
- the split personality disorder description for Welcome to the Dungeon
- great art aesthetic
- I think it's a great game
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kovray Discussion at 15:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- clever rondelle mechanic
- layered strategy and engaging placement
Cons
- potentially long play with many layers
- needs commitment to play multiple rounds
Thematic elements
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a really easy game to teach
- it's just so approachable and fun
- it's been really fun, very recommended
- i really like logic puzzles
- it's crunched into this slot where you have to optimize what you're doing
- it's a lot of fun
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Grant Lyon Other at 26:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Quick to play
- Visually appealing
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Every turn you're going to be taking a card from the market
- player interaction — The cards on your the left column...score for the person sitting to your left's grid...And the cards in my right column are going to score for the person on my right's grid.
- Set Collection — you're trying to get cards I'm like, "Ooh, you're collecting a bunch of orange cards over there? I want to get an orange card in my right column that scores for the amount of orange cards that you have."
- Tableau Building — You will start with eight cards in your tableau.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a deck-building game.
- one of the interesting aspects of this is there's 13 ways to win the game.
- Essentially, 13 dark pacts in the game and each of those dark pacts is a unique win condition that feels, you know, it feels like crazy to get.
- You can also play two times and three times multipliers on those cards to double every aspect of the card.
- that just feels like a very satisfying aspect of the game.
- the main mechanism of the game is I split, you choose and that's always one of my favorite mechanisms because it's it's not a difficult game to teach, but it's a difficult game to make decisions.
- So, what do you sacrifice and what do you keep is also an interesting aspect of that one.
- This is a great family game if you want to.
- And so, there's a lot of lying and promising of other people where you're like, "Do you want to go there with me? Nobody else go there.
- I swear to god, don't go there."
- And so, there's a lot of sort of lying and intrigue and where you're going and promises that you're making and stuff like that.
- please, you know, check out my new series. It's all funny and games when it drops in May.
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Board Game Dad Analysis at 6:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Highly innovative time-based engine
- Clever integration of gear-driven movement
Cons
- May favor players who enjoy mechanical novelty over aesthetics
Thematic elements
- Time as a resource driving action efficiency
- Industrial/time-based setting with gears at the center
- Strategic engine-driven progression
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Rotating board segments — Gears rotate multiple board sections in unison to move workers or advance regions
- Time-based engagement — Actions become more powerful as time progresses, creating a dynamic power curve
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Quotes (from this video)
- no board game can be beautiful it does not have rationally designed components
- form follows function
- holistically a game with the best components that you can find anywhere
- you can actually rate the components of these games yourself when you go to the perfectboard game.com
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Board Game Garden Top 10 List at 17:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- clever two-action card system
- beautiful theme and components
- potential solo mode mentioned
Cons
Thematic elements
- tea trade and production
- Tea production map with regional contracts
- Euro-style resource management with region-based contracts
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area/region production tracks — Players develop production in multiple regions to fulfill tea contracts.
- contract fulfillment and area majority — Colorful contracts determine scoring and regional influence
- dual-action card play — Each card has two actions: one you perform and one you give to other players.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's this very cool puzzle of drafting cards that will get you victory points in the trick
- I absolutely loved it and I cannot wait to get a copy of that
- Caution Signs feels very unique and a lot of fun
- Crafting the Cosmos just makes my brain really happy
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