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2024
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Reign supreme in the card game Neon Reign, an arcade-style, head-to-head dueling game with a full solo mode. Defeat your opponent by playing cards that represent different moves and attacks, while setting yourself up with combos. Each card has its own abilities and strengths, so players must use wits and strategy to outsmart their opponent.
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One Stop Co-op Shop Analysis at 1:33 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- 1v1 fighting game that also has a solo mode
- pretty quick
- nice that there's a solo mode out of the box
- small and easy to transport
Cons
- did not have enough depth and interest compared to other fighting games
- solo mode was just okay
- did not hold my interest
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Exceed
- Battle Con
- Level 99
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- And this time, we are going to the end of last year, December of 2024.
- So, first in the crowdfunding corner, we've got a double feature, the latest from the Solo series, or at least at that time.
- And this was Hunted Transylvania and Escape from Route 52.
- So, yeah, I would say probably Hunter Transylvania might be a keep and definitely Escape from 52 would be a call if I had received copies of the final games.
- But uh the new addition of campaigns I found was a bit hoham.
- So if I was someone who had like bought every season of Death May Die, I would not especially rush out to get this one.
- This is from Chip Theory.
- And I thought this was fine.
- The big kind of nail in its coffin is that I already have Decorum, which is kind of a similar game, but I find drastically better for my taste at least, especially at two players, or Hannabi or Paint the Roses.
- So it does limit itself if you're playing without like workarounds like I don't know putting some like see-through sheet over the page.
- So, Red Dust Rebellion is a call, but still a strong recommend for competitive play.
- It's an awesome system.
- And hey, let's finally get to a keep.
- This is one of my favorite games from last year.
- It's fully released this year. Still a favorite.
- But yeah, the combat system is cool. The open world is great. The emergent kind of story that you can discover is really fun.
- Like I think they went a little bit too hard in trying to make this like a video game and a video game kind of automates things that are frustrating to do as a player.
- But still, it's a great game. Very exciting. Beautiful production.
- Uh, you can see this one is just reading and reading and more reading the game, which I don't mind.
- This is a follow-up to the Tales of the Arabian Knights.
- So, this is very much like a wander around and have weird adventures and make choices.
- I think it's fun for that, just like seeing what crazy stuff happens.
- But yeah, if you don't want to read a lot or if you don't want just some random kind of adventuring without much control or agency, you might not like this one.
- And man, we gave this one a lot of chances.
- It's very quick. It's very nice to lay down on the table.
- But, uh, even when playing with the Omaha variant where you have more cards and the hands are better and a bit more differentiated from each other, which I do prefer, it's still just kind of not an interesting game.
- It just feels very like random and more like an activity.
- And especially now that I played River Rats, which was a game on crowdfunding recently, and this upcoming Cyberpunk card game, which also uses cooperative poker, I find those a billion times better, at least for my taste.
- First expansion for Sky Team.
- This is a keeper mainly cuz I love Sky Team.
- I said this before and I'll say it again. The Turbulence expansion is not at all necessary.
- It adds a few new things that are kind of interesting.
- It's got a bunch of new airports. If you love Sky Team, if you've already played it a whole bunch, it's definitely a good pickup.
- It's super cheap, but uh, you know, if you haven't played your copy of Sky Team that often, then I don't think it's at all necessary.
- The core game is still the best thing here and really has the coolest modules and the coolest gameplay.
- So, I'm absolutely keeping my copy of Turbulence. I love it, but Sky Team is really the winner here and the reason that I'm keeping this game overall.
- This is Invincible, the hero building game.
- This is a bag builder with a push your luck pulling element kind of like Quacks of Quedlinberg.
- And I like this one. Okay, the core mechanics are pretty cool, but I thought the scenario balance was pretty off.
- I thought the gameplay got pretty repetitive, but there were cool combos to do.
- The core action of pulling stuff is fun.
- So, it had a lot of good things in its favor.
- But yeah, just the balance really messed with me and I didn't want to play it that much cuz we couldn't really get it to be the right difficulty.
- So that was a call as well.
- This is the night cage with the shrieking hollow expansion.
- This is a keeper largely because my kids still love the night cage and I think the shrieking hollow makes the game a bit more tactical.
- It's still pretty random but also make it way more exciting.
- The addition of this giant creature that you see on the board that's coming to eat us all is just so exciting and it really does change up the gameplay in a good way.
- So if you like the night cage, this is a full recommend.
- And the shrinking hollow is a great expansion and it's a keep for me.
- Lots of expansions covered at the end of December, I guess.
- And this one was great.
- I already really like World Breakers for a quick competitive card game and then the solo mode in the original core game was great, but Indigo Sisterhood does the wild thing where they have a totally different type of automa, a totally different solo system for the expansion.
- And I think it's great, too.
- And I like them both for different reasons.
- So, I mean, yes, if you like World Breakers, definitely check out the Indigo Sisterhood.
- It's an awesome expansion.
- And if you just like kind of solo card games, like I don't know in the Ashes Reborn, Sky Terror Horde kind of vein, might be worth a look for that as well.
- But World Breakers, Indigo Sisterhood, definitely a keeper for me.
- And here's another one of those solo series games, Rome Fate of an Empire.
- This one is awesome.
- It's basically Mage Knight, like a lot of the Mage Knight mechanics, but turned in different ways and applied to a very different type of game.
- But it was also a call for me for that reason, because uh Mage Knight just works better for me in terms of theme.
- This one is very much more of a mechanical feeling game.
- Now, it's still awesome. It's smaller than Mage Knight. It's cheaper than Mage Knight, but it still has a lot of the tactical and strategic yumminess and like the, you know, deck building and card building and all that.
- And it's it's solo only and I only really play Mage Knight solo, so you're not really missing up out much on that.
- But yeah, I just prefer the theme of Mage Knight.
- We already have Mage Knight, so I'd rather play that.
- So, I did end up calling Rome Fate of an Empire, but still a great game.
- Okay, next is Resurgence.
- This is a worker placement game set in a post-apocalyptic future.
- I thought it was pretty solid.
- It doesn't really stand out from the worker placement bunch.
- There's just so many of these and some I adore.
- This one was good, but not great.
- So, I didn't end up keeping it.
- It really needs to be great at this point for me to keep a worker placement game.
- But, I didn't have any major complaints about the gameplay.
- The solo mode works well, too, and the competitive play is really solid and like you like level up your workers and I don't know, there's some cool things going on, but yeah, it didn't hold my interest indefinitely.
- So, Resurgence is a call.
- And finally, the one I know is going to mess up the most brackets, so sorry, uh, is Keep the Heroes Out, the boss battal expansion.
- So I kept Keep the Heroes Out, even though I didn't love the balance of the game, even though I thought the deck building was a little anemic, because my my kids liked it pretty well, and everything in the boss battles expansion sounded like it was going to fix things I didn't like.
- And I will say that it did.
- I I think the Boss Battles expansion fixes a lot of my problems.
- I love the addition of like the apprentices or whatever those like little like weaker heroes are called.
- I love that you unlock these
- I thought it was pretty solid. It doesn't really stand out from the worker placement bunch. There's just so many of these and some I adore. This one was good, but not great.
- I think the Boss Battles expansion fixes a lot of my problems.
- I do think it is fabulous. I think it is almost a must buy if you're going to get keep the heroes out, at least for me.
- I know some people enjoy the base game, but I think it is so much better with the expansion.
- 77% thought I would keep it, and I did not.
- 82% thought that would be a keeper for me.
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Tim Chuon Unboxing at 5:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Got this one punched out, too
- Looks fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric abilities — Players choose from 12 different heroes, each with asymmetric abilities.
- Combo Building — Attacking with powerful combos and activating star power.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I did ask for a copy and Bezier graciously gave us a copy of Rebel Princess.
- This game is an asymmetric trick taking game.
- princes are bad in this game and each round has a different rule.
- also got some postcards of dogs with jobs. Super excited about this game.
- I love the art in this game.
- photo from Flip 7 getting a whole page spread with Junior, my other model, Florane, and Phil from One Minute Board Games.
- they did showcase the Super Boss Monster commercial.
- Thank you all so much for joining me on another haul, specifically the Gen Con haul.
- This concludes the Gen Con series.
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Board Stupid Discussion at 10:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Like playing an arcade Street Fighter
- Big button and stick mechanics
- Play three cards to make combos
- Different character powers and combos
- Counter plays and counter attacks
- Artwork from Dice Throne artists
- Amazing design
Cons
- Initial impression might be 'sticker theme with another skin'
Thematic elements
- 1v1 dueling
- Arcade Street Fighter
Comparison games
- Dice Throne
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Combo System — Players play three cards at a time to make combos.
- Counter Play — Opponents can play counters and counter-attacks.
- Deck Building — Players use a deck of cards, each representing arcade buttons or stick actions.
- Dueling Game — A one versus one dueling game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- There was a a new version of Mexico which is actually part of the Mask trilogy of games. And this new version looks absolutely awesome.
- if you like old school Eurogames like I do, go check that out. It's an old school Euro area control game.
- It's take Flip Seven, mix it with craps.
- The really cool things that they've done, you can play without, but there is an app that actually takes away all the mean math that you normally have to do with Flip Seven, for example.
- Ubongo is a cooperative dexterity game and it is the dumbest, most amazing thing. It's so stupid.
- This is the perfect pub game.
- Ridiculous fun.
- Worth a pop for like 15 quid. Great fun. We had a blast with it. Very silly. Very, very fun.
- I met Hugo Myatt who played the original Treguard in uh, in Nightmare and uh, my face just absolutely lit up.
- the Eden game was can't wait and I couldn't wait can't win, sorry. I couldn't I couldn't wait to go and grab it. It's it's all gone. Sold out. It was sold out literally like 10 minutes after the the show was open.
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JestaThaRogue Discussion at 5:43 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- fast, accessible two-player filler
- variety of characters and combos
- good value for price
Cons
- character cards are not personally unique
- theme may not appeal to all players
Thematic elements
- fighting game with anime-styled characters
- two-player arcade fighting game simulation
Comparison games
- Street Fighter II
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-driven combo system — play up to three cards per turn to create combos that generate damage, shields, and stars
- star/resource economy — stars unlock character special abilities; cards grant or modify earnings and defenses
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Quotes (from this video)
- Just play anything.
- Ink was probably my game of the convention.
- UK Games Expo gets a rating of 8 out of 10.
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