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Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
120 min
Collection
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Analysis at 26:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Brings new challenges.
- New items like a boat that can be used for storage and crafting.
- New types of tiles.
- Campaign is book-based and scenarios are shorter.
- New elements make the game play differently.
- Mechanics are very similar to the base game, making it easy to learn.
- Adds story to the game.
- Breathes life and death back into the Robinson Crusoe game.
Cons
- Scenarios are shorter than expected.
- Poor planning led to replaying scenarios.
- Players can go insane, similar to Arkham Horror.
Thematic elements
- Searching for the lost city of Z.
- South America, Amazon
- Story-driven campaign.
Comparison games
- Robinson Crusoe
- Arkham Horror
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together through scenarios.
- event cards — Events are still present as in the original Robinson Crusoe.
- Item Management — New items, like those found in a boat, are introduced.
- Resource Management — Players manage resources to survive and progress.
- scenario-based campaign — The campaign is book-based and scenarios are described as shorter than original Robinson Crusoe.
- Worker Placement — Mechanics are very similar to the base game, including placing workers.
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Quotes (from this video)
- we are about board games dude that's what that's what we're here
- i don't know how you gave up four hours or eight hours total for that but you are the man
- it takes a little money to run this show
- mass cinemas
- the expansion ramps it up a little bit baby it ramps it up
- it brings some of your robinson crusoe over you have new challenges new um a new type of ah what was that where you guys wait number eight you had new items
- this is a deck building game which probably takes i don't know maybe 30 to 45 minutes depending on the players when there's two to four players
- the excitement is on the player boards every racer has special powers that you can activate to either defeat traps or get caught up or impact other racers
- it's a very simple game to teach what tony 30 seconds to teach maybe a minute probably 15 minutes to play
- just turn off rolling dice and taking names and go and buy this expansion that's all you need to do
- it was so good actually hearing talk cartoons forever
- challenge of the super friends and this is a really straight uh four card game if you've ever played eggs and empires is pretty much this game
- the artwork takes you back it floods your mind
- this expansion is one of the most well integrated into a game i've ever seen
- it was fantastic i had a lot of fun
- if i only had gotten to the drop the day before
- if there is something you're gambling people you're gambling
- it's all about me seriously
- we're leaving mother earth to save the human race our star blazers
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