Game Info
Year
2019
Players
1-6
Age
12+
Playtime
180 min
Complexity
3/5
Collection
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Description
Fuji Koro sends samurai warriors tumbling into a huge cavern beneath an erupting volcano where they must explore ruined temples fight dragons and gather sacred relics before escaping with treasure for the Shogun.
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Rules Teach at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great hybrid of euro and minis
- Medium-weight, easy to teach
- Strong theme and modular progression
- Supports up to six players and includes a solo mode
- Deluxe edition promises enhanced components
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Exploration, resource management, and adventuring to reach a palace while managing lava and dragon combat.
- Volcano island where players explore tiles, gather resources, and attempt to escape before the eruption reaches them, with central temples and dragon encounters.
- instructional/tutorial
Comparison games
- Clank!
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action disk placement — Players place action disks to indicate two actions per turn, with four action types: Move, Explore, Gather, Rest.
- Card Crafting — Craft helmet, weapon, or sandals by paying resources and meet gear constraints to gain bonuses.
- Crafting gear — Craft helmet, weapon, or sandals by paying resources and meet gear constraints to gain bonuses.
- Dragon combat — Dragons provide combat encounters. Combat uses dice based on gear and blueprints; multiple players can join in on a dragon.
- Endgame scoring and palace exit — Players score for tokens placed on tracks in the Big Palace or Small Palace and at final scoring after escaping.
- Monks and temples — Monk tokens unlock new areas and bonuses, including additional actions and slots for scrolls, blueprints, and gear.
- Resource Management — Collect resources, sacred scrolls, monks, and blueprints to craft gear and score points.
- Tile exploration — Explore volcano by placing tiles adjacent to explored areas and resolving level-based rewards.
- Volcano eruption endgame — When a player reaches 30 points, a countdown triggers; lava tiles appear and a rope exit may allow escape to score.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This game is a great hybrid of a euro game and a miniatures game
- great theme and the end of the game gives you a lot of opportunities to gain points
- This is a great medium-weight game and easy to teach
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top 100 List at 10:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Elaborate components and colorful visuals
- intriguing theme
Cons
- Luck-based elements may dominate
Thematic elements
- ancient Japan with dragons and volcano threats
- volcano island on a quest to retrieve sacred scrolls
- adventure/fantasy exploration and risk-taking
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- combat_dramatics — Dragons defend temples
- press_your_luck — Risk management to escape volcano
- Push Your Luck — Risk management to escape volcano
- Resource Management — Gather resources to craft gear
- resource_management — Gather resources to craft gear
- Set Collection — Collect scrolls and blueprints
- set_collection — Collect scrolls and blueprints
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's like the matrix the only way to understand it is to experience it for yourself
- what does that mean
- stay alive period get harder
- the social train is a new type of social network, and it's also an actual locomotive
- dragons who live inside of an active volcano what do they eat unsuspecting samurai
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