Zendo

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Item Hoarding — The player admits to having a tendency to hoard items, comparing it to ending Zelda games with 10,000 potions.

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• But, uh, I'll be honest, Vantage when they said it's not a campaign, there's no impact to the box, but it's a sandbox. I was like, I don't know how that can be a good game that I'd be interested in.
• I have gear fear where I like I'm afraid to like lose my gear.
• It's It's me. I'm I'm admitting it. Like I'm not I'm not hiding it. I'm telling you why. This is what my problem is.
• Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that that felt cool. That that's like where acrobat is cool. And I didn't even do the um, the changing positions and damaging a bunch of things cuz that when they have armor it's not as good.
• The fact that you saying I'll wait. It it it it's not so much of a problem because you're only waiting weeks, months. Usually the game's announced and it's out a month or two later and it's usually already printed and and shipping, which is the crazy part.
• Quest units cannot gain status effects from abilities or rules unless explicitly stated.
• The player's own 'gear fear' affects item usage and overtaxing.
• Stonemire Games is known for like a game gets popular. I know this I think this how Jamie kind of works is what I've kind of understood for the last like following his games and playing his games for like the last like 12 13 years is like he sees a popular game in the industry that that fires off in most situations and then he'll go oh I want to make my own version of that or take components of that game in some other popular game that just fired off and got super hot and I want to make my own and like put my own twist on it, my own high quality production.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• cooperative play — This is a cooperative game where you are trying to It's survival on the Savannah as the title says.
• Pattern Building — You have to be able to put it in the pattern that's showing on the card.
• Resource Management — You're also managing your energy. You're also managing your pool of elephants because if you have elephants that go out onto the board, there are ways with these matriarch cards to retrieve them, but they come back tired.
• Set Collection — There's certain landmark spaces along the way that you need to visit and then make it to the kind of the exit.
• Tile Placement — You are trying to get a herd of elephants across the game boards that you place out. And you would need to do this by playing cards, your Savannah cards in your hand, down onto the board to create spaces for your your elephants to go.

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Quotes (from this video)

• This is our mid-year Oscars.
• This is really like the pre-Gen Con the pre-convention season list.
• So, number 10 is going to be a game that I didn't uh know anything about until I saw it pop up on Board Game Arena.
• Cascadia: Alpine Lakes. This should be delivering very very soon.
• This is a standalone version of Cascadia, where not only are you building out, you're now also building up.
• I really enjoyed the 3D aspect of it. But then you still have that kind of Cascadia goodness.
• This is Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trick-taking game.
• This is probably truly my favorite.
• It's a cooperative trick-taking game uh that is set in the Lord of the Rings story.
• In this one there's three storylines going.
• simple polyomino game.
• cozy game for the moment for us.
• It messes with my head in a good way that I really like where it's still super super simple, super easy.
• Trismegistus second edition, baby.
• This game is really, really heavy in general. Like it's just It's one of their heavier games.
• your head will be thumping after this one.
• And now it's all reinforcing stuff. So I can I'm like oh, I know how this works. This is all this is all intuitive and makes sense.
• I think it's awesome. Like I'm so glad this was like I did never expect them to do a redo of this.
• So it's our favorite of the year so far.
• Our July is jam-packed. It's ridiculous. Absolutely jam-packed with playthroughs many of which are going to be games that are releasing at Gen Con.
• Get your favorite picks in the comments below for what you've enjoyed this year so far.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• rule-creation / pattern discovery — players create and test simple rules to determine which pieces match

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Quotes (from this video)

• I think it shines at these higher player counts.
• This is the pusher luck game that shines at six.
• It's a gateway introductory game.
• Welcome to absolutely love this game.
• For Sale fantastic for six.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Rule deduction / guess-the-rule — Players propose rules; others test by placing pieces to validate or invalidate

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Quotes (from this video)

• "The concept of jumping out at the right moment, I think it's amusing"
• "Doom was the precursor. Doom the board game, which was 83 for me in 2005, fell off the list instantly"
• "Waterfall Park has better components. It's brighter"
• "It's a very strategic, very fun game"

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