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Gussy Gorillas

Game ID: GID0453272
Game Info
Year
2023
Players
3-10
Age
10+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description

A competitive negotiation game where players hold cards face-away and trade to build high-scoring collections

Description

A competitive negotiation game where players hold cards face-away and trade to build high-scoring collections

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Video FDtgpvZYPNQ Watch It Played Gameplay Overview at 3:55:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
  • Visually appealing bananas
  • Can be chaotic and fun with a high player count
Cons
  • Table space can be an issue with many players
Thematic elements
  • Collecting bananas
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Hand Management — Players manage a hand of cards, trying to create pairs or sets for scoring.
  • Set Collection — Players collect sets of cards, particularly pairs, to score points or cancel out negative values.
  • Special cards — Cards like 'reverse', 'flip', and 'split' have unique effects that alter card values or scoring.
  • Trading — Players openly trade cards from their hands, with all cards swapping between players when a trade is made.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • If you don't have that and it's not essential you can have a team of people collaborating and making videos without that I think um but I'm not confident that that can last in the long run in a positive way
  • The only thing I'd like to do is make sure we get all the rules right during this and I'm the one who's doing I'm gonna try and do here what
  • When you push cards the active player has to push at least one of their own which is what makes it such what's interesting is this chat that we're looking at is good but it doesn't show follows the subscribers
  • The game's about gifting and re-gifting so everybody has a card in front of ourselves and they have various items that we would like to gift to other people
  • we're all going to start openly trading viciously trading frankly and trying to trade with other people
  • there's real Pit Vibes and there really is pit vibes
  • The theme of the game is that we're all campers at a campsite
  • when it comes to their tournament they have two or fewer cards in their campsite they can say Scram
  • This presentation is also brought to you by deceit deception and general chicanery in the form of liar liar
  • The game of truths and lies
  • this is a game all about gifting and re-gifting
  • you can choose to not accept the gift if you think that that's not what it is
  • The goal is to have the fewest cards at the end of the game
  • Citizen: Erase I've always wanted to know is that because of the Muse song Erase
  • Yes it is awesome confirmed oh my gosh yeah I'm a huge fan
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Video Tk8IDmScrqY Watch It Played Analysis at 5:14 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Boy was it fun to play it with him (Martin Wallace)
Cons
  • I'm not exactly sure what his style of game is but I think it's probably not this
Thematic elements
Comparison games
  • Brass
  • London
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • this is going to absolutely take me out of my comfort zone since I don't usually Express personal favorites
  • if you force me to declare my favorite game of all time right now after much resistance I would say it's this
  • I'm expressing probably in this video more personal opinions about games than I have over the entirety of this Channel and I'm not sure how I feel about it
  • I just don't get any joy out of explaining why I don't like something when I know it might be something another person could possibly absolutely enjoy
  • I have to admit it's kind of fun
  • I probably won't do it again for another 10 years
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