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Year
2018
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Description
Long long time ago, before age of human, there were four bear clans who help the king to reign over Northeast Asia. The time has come for the king to decide who will be the heir to the throne. The clans send their princes to the world to acquire all the qualifications to be the next king. They travel from town to town and build sacred bear statues; they inherit knowledge of religion, education, military, and commerce in return. The new journey is about to begin. Who will succeed to the throne?
—description from the publisher
Summary of Game Play
1. Place the bear steles to acquire a knowledge token.
2. Pay the equivalent in number and color to the temples.
3. If a player has completed to collect tokens, the game ends.
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Illustrative and cool box liner artwork.
- Thin instruction booklet suitable for a family game.
- Nice looking player boards with bear representations.
- The board is described as being like puzzle pieces.
- The draw bag for the meeples is neat and shows thought went into the insert.
- The meeples are described as big and chunky.
Cons
- The board not being hinged and needing to be pieced together is questioned.
- The purpose of the tokens (bedpans or urns) is initially unclear.
- The meeples are described as dirty and rubbery.
Thematic elements
- Bears and martial arts, with a possible Bruce Lee/Kung Fu Panda reference in the title.
Comparison games
- Butterfly
- Caravan
- Wingspan
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Speculated by Isabel based on the box art.
- Card Play — A deck of cards is shown, with examples like 'take one steley' and 'grab switch position of the two adjacent pieces'.
- Movement — Players are described as bouncing around the map.
- Set Collection — Mentioned in the context of player boards and collecting items on the map.
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Quotes (from this video)
- we're gonna unbox a game today that nobody cares about
- we're trying to fix a couple things that went on last week
- you just get this software they lie they lie horribly don't believe them
- this filthy evil thing this double had a lavalier there's an impedance issue
- hours of troubleshooting and this was it
- this came in from real grounded games a while ago it's been in the show for a long time
- it's cool cuz it has bears and it's kind of fun to play animals sometimes
- the title is a play do you get it
- Based on the picture on the back would yes that it's like you oh you're building territory or traveling through the land collecting stuff
- Izzy implicitly with the craft knife maybe not after two and a half hours of troubleshooting tech equipment
- she makes all kinds of cool stuff she's a cosplayer she builds costumes she builds props
- the Box fartole meter is scientifically infallible instruments
- this one actually looks like yeah it's neat there's some thought that actually went into it
- Race for the Galaxy such a popular game such a famous game and then the insert is just like abyss it's terrible
- take one steal a of your choice from one of the temples take once daily
- grab switch position of the two adjacent pieces
- you remind me of Merida because the witch has like carvings of leaders
- it's my I think China because their companions or any pandas are Chinese
- it's really an excuse to try out this new tech
- it wasn't a girl appropriate script at all
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