Great review Alex!! I'm glad you're enjoying the puzzle, and totally agree with your critical thoughts - I share them! I have a few game-play variants that I'll post on BGG that might extend the longevity for you. Thanks for the review!
So, it doesn't seem like a "play it several times in a row" due to the repetition, but it seems like one of those that sits on the shelf and can always be brought down for a game night. Seems open to expansions with special dice or different cards. It appears like just a good puzzle to solve with friends. Thanks for the review, I think I'm going to go ahead and add it to my collection
Like I said in the livestream, I have been loving this game but yeah I can totally agree with the caveats and possible dislikes. I don't think this will be one that we pull out every other week forever, but it does provide that solid hour of puzzling that is very fun with the player powers and base variety. I'm also hoping it will be a good one for an intro coop like pandemic but with a different theme.
I'm a printer, and that difficulty scaling definitely seems like a step was missed in the printing process. Pretty cool game though, great quick explanation.
@@BoardGameCo Exactly, I'm thankful you pointed it out here. This one has recently been brought in to my gaming group and that info will likely save us some frustration.
Great review. At 7min 50sec in you mentioned what sounded like "This game does have a diez implementation...". I couldn't quite catch that. What did you say? And what is that implementation?
@@SenseiJae Yeah, this approach has been exhausted a long time ago. Unless the lid is submerged in a pure catnip solution, a pile of dice that should remain intact is way more fun.
Great review Alex!! I'm glad you're enjoying the puzzle, and totally agree with your critical thoughts - I share them! I have a few game-play variants that I'll post on BGG that might extend the longevity for you. Thanks for the review!
For difficulty of the boards I think of it as 4 levels 1-4 (5-8 are just alternates on the reverse sides, but no change in difficult from sides 1-4)
Yeah that's exactly right. 5-8 were supposed to be labelled A, B, C, D.
I saw that reverse alchemy that you pulled between your intro to the actual review!
Spoiler....I've had a component shift of one kind or another in nearly every review I do between the intro and actual video :)
Seems like one bump to the table would make that Tesseract fall apart. (or one curious cat)
I can't speak for the cat, but it does stand up to bumps
So, it doesn't seem like a "play it several times in a row" due to the repetition, but it seems like one of those that sits on the shelf and can always be brought down for a game night. Seems open to expansions with special dice or different cards. It appears like just a good puzzle to solve with friends. Thanks for the review, I think I'm going to go ahead and add it to my collection
Like I said in the livestream, I have been loving this game but yeah I can totally agree with the caveats and possible dislikes. I don't think this will be one that we pull out every other week forever, but it does provide that solid hour of puzzling that is very fun with the player powers and base variety. I'm also hoping it will be a good one for an intro coop like pandemic but with a different theme.
Yep, I definitely very much enjoy it. I just don't know if it has the longevity that the loop has for me
I'm a printer, and that difficulty scaling definitely seems like a step was missed in the printing process. Pretty cool game though, great quick explanation.
Yes! An oversight but one that might throw people off
@@BoardGameCo Exactly, I'm thankful you pointed it out here. This one has recently been brought in to my gaming group and that info will likely save us some frustration.
Great review. At 7min 50sec in you mentioned what sounded like "This game does have a diez implementation...". I couldn't quite catch that. What did you say? And what is that implementation?
Dized:)
Nice t-shirt! Can you please share a link? Thank you!!
Did you take a breath during this at all?
This game is definitely not compatible with households held under the murder mittens of a terror feline. 😖😁
Distract them with the “alluring container of fits-sits” (aka the empty box lid)
@@SenseiJae Yeah, this approach has been exhausted a long time ago. Unless the lid is submerged in a pure catnip solution, a pile of dice that should remain intact is way more fun.
Please talk faster
I try!