Aberration: Oblivion's Embrace (D+) — WEIRD. NOT IN A GOOD WAY. — Kickstarter Critique Clip
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Yeah, I do. It's been oh, so long since I was actually enjoying the video, but the video is well done, right? Like it was nicely made. It showcased the components. It looked fun. I thought you were showing me the Yeah, whatever. Do I want it? Yes. Can you do it? Also, firm yes. They had two projects before this, one of which has now shipped out, but it's a card game for the most part. Uh and they have $131,000 to do this. Now, that being said, that $131,000 is being spread across a lot cuz this is many, many SKUs, is what they call them, uh cuz you have three boxes here. You have the two smaller boxes. You have the dice bag. You have the custom dice. You have uh the upgraded tokens. You got a lot going on here. But, at the end of the day, $131,000 and they're hoping that this is going to be their residual cash cow, their evergreen, so to speak. So, can you do it? I'll give them the nod.
And how much is it? It has not felt good at any part of the I guess Here's what I'll say. No. No, it hasn't felt good at any part of the process, just period. I guess maybe No. No, I can't I can't say that at all cuz here's what it is. There's essentially three pledges here. There's a pledge for $112 to get yourself the 8,456-rated board game that's getting reprinted. Right? And we fixed the rules now. Okay? Like And those are just cold, hard numbers. I hate to be that guy, but part of the appeal of Gamefound, of Kickstarter, of Indiegogo is the appeal of the unknown, of this is going to be great. This is going to be the next Ark Nova or Wingspan or whatever it may be.
Scythe is a better example cuz that was I don't know when it was actually crowdfunded. You get what I'm saying? And when you know going in that it's this flawed game at 8,400 and it and I'm sure I could go through all the rules and figure out exactly why what what didn't tick with people and you improve it and you say all right, yeah, we're going to massively improve this. Let's say they bump up 3,000 spots on on the board game geek list for the second edition. That's still a top 5,000 rated game for $112 and I don't feel like you showcased your components well. Yeah. Yeah, I also am kind of curious. I'd love to see your new rule booklet, right? Like the fact that you had to have an errata the first time around means that yeah, you should be pounding your chest a little bit more about hey, we got to we have much improved rules.
Like that's honestly how I would have leaned into that. I would have went through those reviews and I would have picked out the ones where they talked about how much the rule booklet sucked and I'm sure they're not hard to find. I'm sure they're not. Just with this style of game, I'm just banking on it. And then talk about how you improved it drastically in the second edition. How we're we're hooking our backers up with the errata pack. There were so many good things to lean into and instead you hid it and it just looks bad. It looks bad to everybody. I go through these numbers and I say, oh, this looks bad. How many people took the deluxe pledge? You say 47. I say, what? 47 people took the deluxe pledge? Excuse me? And and it's just oh. So, do I want it? Yes. Can you do it? Yes. How much is it? No. And then your pledges don't look good and they're confusing and they're whole I'm just going to go with a whole point grade bump down for the whole everything about the pledges and the price and you hiding things and you forcing people to buy your stupid dice and potentially artificially inflating the cost of your dice or not at like those are the $28 dice right there.
Like try not to faint. So, final grades all over the board is a only one thing real quick. I want to see what the most consistent comments are in the ratings when people are rate Wow, 24 people gave it a 10. Okay, most people did level off at an eight. That's really good. Uh either way I'm just stalling. Uh I'm the It It's hard. I'm the target market for this game and I'm like, "Yeah, I don't know like I feel like you're really you're really pulling my leg to back here and then also at the same time Yeah, like that. That game looks good. I would like that's a good shot. Like that's say that Oh, that's a $95 game?
See, that's $95 plus $17 shipping. I'd buy I'd like that I don't have a problem with that one. But I don't feel like we ever really get that shot here. We just get a bunch of shots that look like good stuff, but they're just so lumped together that I just don't feel like uh
I'm going to go with a C- minus D plus range. Not showcasing your new rule booklet scares me. Not showcasing your new rule booklet for your expansion scares me. The original rating of the game scares me. The fact that you're hiding something that nobody else hides scares me. That was just a weird one. But that being said Final Yeah, I think it's a C- minus D plus range. I'm going to go with a Do we have stretch goals? Do we have Yeah, we did. I just forgot about them. Oh, they Yeah, like I would spruce up this area. I would spruce up the main image. I would I would Yeah, I'm going to go with a D plus. C- minus. No, going to go C minus.
No, D plus. They say know where your dice are being manufactured. They're being manufactured in Australia. Maybe that's why they're $28. I can't imagine that it's it's going to be cheaper to Okay. Yeah, I'm a D plus. This project just feels like weird and not in a good way. All right, all the cos will be your final grade for Aberration, Oblivion's Embrace expansion and reprint. And if you have a request for an upcoming Kickstarter game found any