Air: Golden Eagle Land: Grizzly Bear Sea: Great White Shark fully coincidental they all start with 'G', I've never thought of that until seeing this visually typed!!!
Congratulations on getting married! And congratulations on getting Ark Nova on the table so fast. I’ve never heard of a 90 minute play through of this game so that’s another win in itself!!! Also the banter between you two is… ✨pure gold✨
Aww thank you so much! And thanks for the kind words about the video!! We always try to play with a good pace and silly chit chat so we are really happy to hear when it resonates with people!
Really neat play through - a good balance between explanation of rules + tactical thinking along with a pace that makes a play through pleasingly snappy. Good to see this BGG monster getting played.
22:29 Nick mentions that he can only mentions that he can snap cards only from certain spaces, but he could take any of the ones on the board. It's the other actions (upgraded Cards action, board space bonuses) that are limited by your reputation.
@@TheBrothersMurph Sorry to be so nitpicky - but just got the game and I'm sure other ppl are looking at your videos for rules clarifications. It's more for my notes (and for future views). :D
This is hands down one of the best playthroughs I have watched. I have just ordered the game and am trying to learn before it arrives. This hits the perfect point of not over explaining everything but covering some of the trickier bits as well as being full of good banter, sing-songs and just a whole load of fun. Also love that you pay homage to other RUclips channels with the T-shirt....def subbing and watching your other playthrough's!
A lot of play-throughs don't hold my attention, but we love to watch you guys. You're so much fun as you play. Also, your walkthrough at the beginning, and all the camera shots were phenomenal.
I really liked your playthrough. I saw a mistake that you did and points it out for the future. In about 59:00 Nick plays the Sun Bear. His power Action Assosiation is after finishing the Animals action.That means that you first finish the animal action and move the animal card to 1. Then you do the Association action which will be at 3, not 2. Also, after that the Association action will move to 1. But a great playthrough. I keep telling people the game isn't as long as they say if you know what you're doing.
Excellent playthrough. Fast paced, and kept the interest level up. Quite the ending as well! I have watched virtually every YT video on this game, and this is EASILY the best.
30:07 Nick would not be able to build his Aviary along with a one and two enclosure. He would've needed to spend his X tokens to make it a build strength of 8 to complete all 3 of those enclosures.
I'm a huge fan of GameNight and their playthroughs, which is how I found you guys. I have to say I really enjoy your playthroughs, your love of the games and the banter. Good Job and keep it up!
Favorite animal is the okapi and I am thrilled that this game not only has them, but also even gives them their own special building and tile ❤️ thanks for the video!
Great playthrough. Impressed with your speed of play. This game hits all the boxes for me especially because of the theme, but our first few games took 2.5 hours at 2 players due to efficiency issues and card draws. My favorite zoo animals are snow leopards...closely followed by meerkats and ring-tailed lemurs
Great picks for animals! And we agree this game ticks a lot of boxes. The game at times can be longer or shorter based on getting the cards to feed the engine you're building that's for sure but it's nice that at 2 it can definitely cook along nicely
It looked super intimidating when you haven't played or watched but after watching this it definitely tones it down a bit so i can more or less understand.
My favorite animal at the zoo is giant otters! With all the talk about the game being long I'm glad to see you speedsters go at it. Edit: just finished and I'm in awe of Nick's Hitchcock strat and still laughing about two vultures waiting up top the aviary with no animals to munch on. Maybe they can clean up at Mike's petting zoo.
@TheBrothersMurph 46:52 you totally had 8 conservation not 7. 5 from the project 1 from the donation 1 from the reputation track 1 from the reward for doing conservation
I've always loved the toucan and the koala. Just because of the way they look :D I can't say much about Ark nova yet. I've never played it yet. But it looks cool. I love animals.
Waiting patiently for my copy to become available. Loved the playthrough. Ive read the rule book online already but seeing is sooo much more enjoyable . If I visit Mike's Zoo, sadly I will miss the cute little bunnies in the petting zoo. I think they were forgotten. But the Giraffes look amazing!!!
My gaming group (3p) has played this 3 times now. We LOVE this game! Definitely crunchy and so satisfying! Last game final scores: 31, 29 and 24. Still learning. Last game lasted just under 4 hours. (Our quickest so far-- my group suffers from moderate to severe AP). My favorite animal: The panda. Tickets and conservation points? Yes please!
I want to start a coffee company just so they can sing my "ark Nova in your cup" jingle! First video, subscribed. Thanks for the genuine delivery and great content
I know this comment is almost a year old but for anybody just watching it, you can only get one university of each type. You can't get the same one more than once. Per the rules, "You cannot take a university you already have."
I don't get Mike's last turn. He had Association at 3, and 3 X's, right? That's a total of 6. He needed 8 to do both tasks, but got a discount of 1 one the Conservation project, so he needed 7. 4 and then 3. I think he counted the discount twice by saying the 6 counted as 7. He needed 7 to count as 8.
technically not a zoo animal because they are extinct, but my favorite animal that has ever existed is the giant sloth...cuz c'mon, it's a 20 foot long sloth
Hey guys! Great playthrough and helped my figure out some of the things we've been doing wrong. However, isn't it illegal to up your action to more than 5? I see in the last turn that it's upgraded to 7 with 2 x tokens, but in my (Dutch) rulebook it says "A power can never be more than 5". (Page 8, first paragraph under "the 5 action cards")
I just got the game recently. In the English rulebook, also page 8, it says: "You can use as many X-tokens as you like in one action. With some actions, however, a strength greater than 5 no longer improves the action." So they might have clarified the rules in a newer version of the rulebook, but it definitely sounds like X > 5 is allowed. I think one of the sponsor cards I saw had a level of 6, so I suspect the way they played was correct.
@@TheBrothersMurph Okay, be honest here: do you think you could win a fight against one with no weapons? I have had this conversation with so many men who are like, “Yes, easily,” and I think they are dead wrong.
After playing both, I think the "cool' mechanism in this game is definition the action cards and how they get more powerful when they aren't used right away. Terraforming Mars is more about the card combos and racing for the goals or "good" spaces on the board. I like both games, but they definitely feel different.
I take it you can't have more animals in play than you have enclosures correct? You can't have more than one animal in the same enclosure? So if you had for example three animals then you would have to have three enclosures and if you wanted to play more animals you would therefore have to build more enclosures first? Oh nvm? So long as an enclosure has enough space you can have multiple animals. Like later in the game you had multiple birds in your five enclosure space. If you want to put multiple animals into the same enclosure you have to put those cubes that correspond with your color to represent that you have multiple animals in there?
You ever see the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel? There's an amazing song called Falcon in the Dive, and every I see anything about falcons I think of that song
If we are talking real animals and not fantasy creatures, it's got to be penguins. no questions. Penguins just speak to me... They mostly just ask for fish, but I've been told by my psychiatrist to just ignore them.
Copy that! We always try to balance on the conversation happening along with the gameplay but always want the game to be clear so we appreciate the feedback
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What's your favorite animal??
In this game I love the Shoebill.
Water: Otters
Land: Foxes
Air: Crows
Air: Golden Eagle
Land: Grizzly Bear
Sea: Great White Shark
fully coincidental they all start with 'G', I've never thought of that until seeing this visually typed!!!
Sloths and Pandas for sure
Wombat!
Congratulations on getting married! And congratulations on getting Ark Nova on the table so fast. I’ve never heard of a 90 minute play through of this game so that’s another win in itself!!! Also the banter between you two is… ✨pure gold✨
Aww thank you so much! And thanks for the kind words about the video!! We always try to play with a good pace and silly chit chat so we are really happy to hear when it resonates with people!
Really neat play through - a good balance between explanation of rules + tactical thinking along with a pace that makes a play through pleasingly snappy. Good to see this BGG monster getting played.
Thank you so much Off The Cuff!
I do not watch you guys at 2x speed. This is the highest compliment I can pay you.
Real talk that is high praise! Thank you!
22:29 Nick mentions that he can only mentions that he can snap cards only from certain spaces, but he could take any of the ones on the board. It's the other actions (upgraded Cards action, board space bonuses) that are limited by your reputation.
This is true
@@TheBrothersMurph Sorry to be so nitpicky - but just got the game and I'm sure other ppl are looking at your videos for rules clarifications. It's more for my notes (and for future views). :D
This is hands down one of the best playthroughs I have watched. I have just ordered the game and am trying to learn before it arrives. This hits the perfect point of not over explaining everything but covering some of the trickier bits as well as being full of good banter, sing-songs and just a whole load of fun. Also love that you pay homage to other RUclips channels with the T-shirt....def subbing and watching your other playthrough's!
A lot of play-throughs don't hold my attention, but we love to watch you guys. You're so much fun as you play. Also, your walkthrough at the beginning, and all the camera shots were phenomenal.
Thank you so much Ben!
I really liked your playthrough. I saw a mistake that you did and points it out for the future.
In about 59:00 Nick plays the Sun Bear. His power Action Assosiation is after finishing the Animals action.That means that you first finish the animal action and move the animal card to 1. Then you do the Association action which will be at 3, not 2. Also, after that the Association action will move to 1.
But a great playthrough. I keep telling people the game isn't as long as they say if you know what you're doing.
Good catch and agree once folks know the game I think it speeds up considerably
Excellent playthrough. Fast paced, and kept the interest level up. Quite the ending as well! I have watched virtually every YT video on this game, and this is EASILY the best.
Oh wow thanks for the kindness!! We are really proud of this one so we are happy to hear
It resonates with you!
@@TheBrothersMurph - Yep. You guys nailed it. Ark Nova is HOT...you should do a series. Make a few dollars.
There will be a Ark Nova solo play through coming out soon ;)
@@TheBrothersMurph - sweet!
30:07 Nick would not be able to build his Aviary along with a one and two enclosure. He would've needed to spend his X tokens to make it a build strength of 8 to complete all 3 of those enclosures.
Yeah we pointed that out in the edit, Nick goofed
He also built an enclosure not connected to the rest of his zoo.
I usually bounce off playthrough videos part way through - this one had me gripped from start to finish. Really good video gents!
Ayeeee thanks!
I'm a huge fan of GameNight and their playthroughs, which is how I found you guys. I have to say I really enjoy your playthroughs, your love of the games and the banter. Good Job and keep it up!
Aye!!! Thank you for the kind words!
59:53 i think you first move animals to slot 1 so you'd only need 2 x-tokens for association action to get to 5
Ahh copy that
AWESOME!!! YOU GOT THE GAME!!!! I'm still waiting on my preorder. It's exciting to see this play through!!!!!
Ayyyyy hope your copy arrives soon!
I love Bengal tigers. When I was in school and we had to do projects or orals about animals I always picked the Bengal tiger. What a beautiful animal
They are magnificent
Late to this, but love the intro. The part about the algorithm made me laugh out loud.
When you snap with the cards action, you’re only allowed to take 1 card. Then your turn is over. You can’t snap, and then draw from the deck. ✌🏼
this is true
Favorite animal is the okapi and I am thrilled that this game not only has them, but also even gives them their own special building and tile ❤️ thanks for the video!
Ever play the video game Planet Zoo? Okapis are in that game, they’re so pretty
Great runthrough guys! fav animal is the drummer!
ANIMAL! Great choice. The choice we all should have made
Great playthrough. Impressed with your speed of play. This game hits all the boxes for me especially because of the theme, but our first few games took 2.5 hours at 2 players due to efficiency issues and card draws. My favorite zoo animals are snow leopards...closely followed by meerkats and ring-tailed lemurs
Great picks for animals! And we agree this game ticks a lot of boxes. The game at times can be longer or shorter based on getting the cards to feed the engine you're building that's for sure but it's nice that at 2 it can definitely cook along nicely
Congratulations on your wedding! Cant wait to buy this game. You guys are so entertaining. Keep up the good work! 🧡
Awww thanks for the kindness and will do!
It looked super intimidating when you haven't played or watched but after watching this it definitely tones it down a bit so i can more or less understand.
Ok good we always hope people can follow along alright
Favorite animal? Well favorite odd one is the Shoebill. Thanks for the playthrough! We have played about 5 times so far and love the game.
Oooooo the Shoebill!
Thank you for this video. We really enjoy your content.
Hey thanks for the comment we really appreciate it and glad you like what we make!
My favorite animal at the zoo is giant otters! With all the talk about the game being long I'm glad to see you speedsters go at it.
Edit: just finished and I'm in awe of Nick's Hitchcock strat and still laughing about two vultures waiting up top the aviary with no animals to munch on. Maybe they can clean up at Mike's petting zoo.
One of these days they’re just gonna full on make sure mikes sheep “has and accident” and then feast
@@TheBrothersMurph Cut to children's faces...
Wow! This was really fast at two! Great work, guys!
Yeah it can really clip along nicely at 2. I feel like this game can move really well or slow down depending on if players are new to the game or not
@TheBrothersMurph
46:52 you totally had 8 conservation not 7.
5 from the project
1 from the donation
1 from the reputation track
1 from the reward for doing conservation
Ah dang! Good catch
About to learn/ play this game today!! Can’t wait!
It's outstanding! Have fun!
I live in a town that has a hippo as a mascot. Many businesses abs homes have a hippo in front. :)
Where is this town!? I want to live in this Hippo Utopia
That draw cards ICON allows you to EITHER draw cards in your reputation level OR draw one from the deck.
I've always loved the toucan and the koala. Just because of the way they look :D I can't say much about Ark nova yet. I've never played it yet. But it looks cool. I love animals.
Game done in 78 minutes. Wow!
Heck yeah pace of play was on point this time!
So...many...references...
Love it!
Hey you made it over here! Hiiiiiiii
Was hoping you would do a playthrough of this.
Heck yeah we got you covered
Really enjoyed this playthrough and my favourite animal has to be the puma
Ooo big cats!
Subscribed. Happy marriage!
Congratulations Mike! That’s awesome!
Aww thank you so much!
Waiting patiently for my copy to become available. Loved the playthrough. Ive read the rule book online already but seeing is sooo much more enjoyable . If I visit Mike's Zoo, sadly I will miss the cute little bunnies in the petting zoo. I think they were forgotten. But the Giraffes look amazing!!!
You’re welcome in my zoo any time!
Congratulations Mike!
Thank you!
Red Pandas!!! I really want to try this game. Hopefully I can find it soon!
Ooooo good pick!
Love this game
A bit late now, but whenever my friends and I play Wingspan we always quote Iron Man 2 saying "I want my bord".
Hahaha that is great!
My gaming group (3p) has played this 3 times now. We LOVE this game! Definitely crunchy and so satisfying! Last game final scores: 31, 29 and 24. Still learning. Last game lasted just under 4 hours. (Our quickest so far-- my group suffers from moderate to severe AP).
My favorite animal: The panda. Tickets and conservation points? Yes please!
Yeah the panda rocks!! and glad to hear you're enjoying the game!
4 hours?! Nope. This game is not for me
I want to start a coffee company just so they can sing my "ark Nova in your cup" jingle! First video, subscribed. Thanks for the genuine delivery and great content
Thanks so much for the sub and the enjoyment of our brand of weird :)
I loved watching this, thanks guys! DOGS of course. 💕
Thanks Hobby!
Sweet playthrough, even more keen for the game now!
Any quokkas in it??
Oh gosh we’d have to search through the massive pile of cards but I sure hope so!
What shelving system do y'all use for your board games in the background?
Red pandas are some of my favorite animals.
Good call!
Worth noting.. you are allowed to take the same university icon more than once, just not the same zoo partnerships.
Oh wow we did not know that. Very interesting
That's cool. If you really need specific tags i guess.
I know this comment is almost a year old but for anybody just watching it, you can only get one university of each type. You can't get the same one more than once. Per the rules, "You cannot take a university you already have."
Mikey got thrown to the vultures.
My favorite animal is also elephant! Husbands is T-Rex. Baby boy has been fond of foxes
I don't get Mike's last turn. He had Association at 3, and 3 X's, right? That's a total of 6. He needed 8 to do both tasks, but got a discount of 1 one the Conservation project, so he needed 7. 4 and then 3. I think he counted the discount twice by saying the 6 counted as 7. He needed 7 to count as 8.
This is possible. I remember counting to 7 which is what I needed but I may have made a goof. We human after all
@@TheBrothersMurph All good, just didn't know if I was missing something there.
I like the Stoat in Ark Nova.
Stoats are the bomb
i feel like every game channel i watch is beating me over the head with this game
It’s that hotness for sure
What is the Snap action again? You can either draw or snap?
Draw from the deck or to snap take any one card from the face up display
technically not a zoo animal because they are extinct, but my favorite animal that has ever existed is the giant sloth...cuz c'mon, it's a 20 foot long sloth
Yes! I can't imagine what they would look like just slowly cruising the lands.
flying squirrels are underrated
Truth!
Iron Man 2 reference that isn’t Rockwell-centric or adjacent? What’s the point in that? 😃Keep the great gameplays coming, gents!
You got it!
Hey guys! Great playthrough and helped my figure out some of the things we've been doing wrong. However, isn't it illegal to up your action to more than 5? I see in the last turn that it's upgraded to 7 with 2 x tokens, but in my (Dutch) rulebook it says "A power can never be more than 5". (Page 8, first paragraph under "the 5 action cards")
As far as we know you can move up beyond 5, but it's possible we've been playing that wrong
I just got the game recently. In the English rulebook, also page 8, it says:
"You can use as many X-tokens as you like in one action. With some actions, however, a strength greater than 5 no longer improves the action."
So they might have clarified the rules in a newer version of the rulebook, but it definitely sounds like X > 5 is allowed.
I think one of the sponsor cards I saw had a level of 6, so I suspect the way they played was correct.
I didn’t know there were cassowaries in this game. I was on the fence for getting it, but now I have to, right?
Yes, big flightless birds are a must have in your collection!
@@TheBrothersMurph Okay, be honest here: do you think you could win a fight against one with no weapons? I have had this conversation with so many men who are like, “Yes, easily,” and I think they are dead wrong.
@@crystalzhao53 My dumb dude brain says "psh of course" but I'm sure I'd get rekt. I think most animals would kick our butts in a fair fight
I love Bats but regretfully they aren't in the game at all 😞 Still a fantastic game though!
They do seem to be left out :( Maybe an expansion? All bats expansion
So, a reskinned Terraforming Mars
No I wouldn’t say. There is similarity in the cards but that’s about it
It's nothing like Terraforming Mars from what I can see. Other than being a card based board game.
After playing both, I think the "cool' mechanism in this game is definition the action cards and how they get more powerful when they aren't used right away.
Terraforming Mars is more about the card combos and racing for the goals or "good" spaces on the board. I like both games, but they definitely feel different.
Orcas - but hoping that they are not in the game/expansion!
Orcas are the best!!! But yes, NOT in zoo's/aquariums
I take it you can't have more animals in play than you have enclosures correct? You can't have more than one animal in the same enclosure? So if you had for example three animals then you would have to have three enclosures and if you wanted to play more animals you would therefore have to build more enclosures first?
Oh nvm? So long as an enclosure has enough space you can have multiple animals. Like later in the game you had multiple birds in your five enclosure space. If you want to put multiple animals into the same enclosure you have to put those cubes that correspond with your color to represent that you have multiple animals in there?
Correct for the most part, one animal, one enclosure. Certain animal cards can break that and then the special enclosures can have multiples
Falcons. Peregrin falcon
You ever see the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel? There's an amazing song called Falcon in the Dive, and every I see anything about falcons I think of that song
Niiiiiice
If we are talking real animals and not fantasy creatures, it's got to be penguins. no questions. Penguins just speak to me... They mostly just ask for fish, but I've been told by my psychiatrist to just ignore them.
Penguins for life!
Greetings from Spain, great game. Play a game of Dinosaur World, please.
Hello to you and Spain and Dino world is on our list to play!
Cool
Goats!
*screaming goat sounds*
1:21 for the 2 player video. The Murphs show that this too long games doesn't have to be.
It all comes down to the players
@@TheBrothersMurph and the magic of editing 😀
Tiger
Respect for big cats
Watching 🐙
Hope you enjoyed it!
Great video - but perhaps spend more time filming the board. Otherwise the game is a little hard to follow.
Copy that! We always try to balance on the conversation happening along with the gameplay but always want the game to be clear so we appreciate the feedback