Vivarium Review: Not Your Papa's Pokemon!
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
- Zee and Milla take a look at this card game in which you must study the right creatures and build your own scoring conditions!
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Love the artwork. Seems like a game that could come in a much smaller box [or even a bag] if it eschewed the board as it only serves as a grid reference.
I think I'm going to have to pick this up. I don't have enough of these small box simple easy to play games. I have floriferous and I really like that, so I think this will be another one that fits that sweet spot.
Love these 2
Since you do have to exchange your number token at the beginning of a turn--the dominos seem to be a good choice to allow all numbers to be seen without fiddling with two sided card/tokens (same for the tokens in front of you--you can see everything at once). They could've provided cardboard number tokens, but the production quality of the game would take a hit.
Gonna catch them all!!!
Looks good - but the domino choice to pick a card seems oddly restrictive to me. Hmm. Lovely to look at however! Thanks for the review!
It's the fun/original part of the game 😉
Not original. Onitama has a far better version of the mechanic. This is just novelty for the sake of novelty and It doesn't work.
@@FreeRangeDice I don't understand the comparison with Onitama which is more a chess-like game. This does not correspond to the Vivarium gameplay at all...
Zee, a domino is a domino, no matter how you use it. Is a card not a card if you use it in a way you're not used to using cards? (Like building a house of...cards?) You still call poker chips poker chips when they are used for any number of other purposes in games.
I like the idea of having this piece, which could have been anything really, add a nice tactile panache to the game that the designers really didn't have to. Dominos are just pleasant to handle and use. Why not use them for more stuff?
Dice were originally only used for a couple very specific gambling games (and divination😬). Yet now designers fight each other over who can use them in the most original and fun way.
I really don't get the hang-up. Not that y'all made *that* big a deal of it, I know. I just thought it was kind of weird.
Good point!
I think their problem with it is that the dominos, in and of themselves, are not really affordant for the way they are used here. Nothing in their form or design suggests their function. If you look at meadow, the form of the tiles and the little notches in the board indicating where they go make them very affordant. Here it feels slightly artificial, slightly unintuitive, and slightly inelegant: so a little clunky. Dice are usually used in ways that exploit smartly their design. Here, a way to do it with dominos would have been to ascribe a shape to each end (square, triangle, circle, cross or maybe hexagon) of the dominos, so you can lodge them in notches around the board. You get the same functionality, but it uses the shape of the object to communicate how it works. (But this solution would be fiddly, which is another problem, because it wouldn't exploit "taking up those spaces" like meadow does)
@fae featherweight ,
The only form factor needed to fulfill the required function is to have an object with two numbers on it. Dominoes are things with two numbers on them. I think you're over-thinking it. Also, I don't understand what you mean by "affordant." That is not a word in English as far as I'm aware.
@@jameswoodard4304 Methinks affordance.
seems Point salad with extra steps