Wyrmspan Review: How To Entice Your Dragon
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- During a game of Wyrmspan (1-5 players), you will build a sanctuary for dragons of all shapes and sizes. Your sanctuary begins with 3 excavated spaces-the leftmost space in your Crimson Cavern, your Golden Grotto, and your Amethyst Abyss. Over the course of the game, you will excavate additional spaces in your sanctuary and entice dragons to live there, chaining together powerful abilities and earning the favor of the Dragon Guild. Wyrmspan is inspired by the mechanisms of Wingspan, though its unique elements make Wyrmspan a standalone game (not compatible with Wingspan).
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Thanks for taking the time to check out the game and provide information to the community. I appreciate the work that goes into making videos like this to help get the word out about Connie's games and help people decide if it's something they want to check out or buy for themselves!
No problem, glad to have the opportunity and even more glad to get to play Wyrmspan!
Thank you both so much for taking the time to play the game and share some thoughts on it! You're description of how the game works and discussion of the fun new ways combos can start to reveal themselves after a few plays really made me more hopeful that it's more than a Wingspan re-skin. I appreciate the work you all do!!
Glad to help! We defo think it would be unfair to say it's a re-skin! No more a re-skin than many other reimplimentations like the GWT series, it deserves to be seen in it's own right.
Thank you all for the very honest review. You both did a great job of explaining your criticism while also highlighting the highs of the game well. It's one I'll probably pass on as a Wingspan owner, but glad it's there for those that want it
Thanks for the kind words, glad we could help!
Really love Wingspan and is my and my spouses favorite game. We do play games regularly, with Wingspan being the vast majority of what we play. It sounded like you thought unless you are a big gamer you may not see a reason to own both. We have all the expansions for Wingspan and just not sure if Wyrmspan will be different enough. Really appreciate your information and time and may what for an expansion to see if this is worth adding to our small collection!
Glad to help!
Thanks for review- I ordered this. For me I love wingspan, but never bought it. This seems to have some clever but subtle changes. Wingspan 1.5.
I have to say we really enjoy it. We've played it a few times with friends post-review, which is rare as usually we move on to the next thing! Not to say we never play a game again post-review, but we often don't go back for a while as there is other stuff which is pressing.
Would you say that if I am not a Wingspan player, my learning curve would be a little easier since I won't be trying to unlearn Wingspan in order to learn Wyrmspan?
In some ways, as you won't expect things to work a certain way and won't be hampered by that expectation. However Wyrmspan is still a game that takes a play to figure out and you'll probably see your score jump from your 1st to 2nd game
ngl theme is even thinner than Wingspan, but graphic design also looks way worse than previous Stonemeier games... not interested in this at all
In what way?
@BoardOfItReviews well, Wingspan isn't that thematic to begin with - very unique theme, and I love it - but the implementation doesn't reflect it so much. Why do you buy birds with eggs of other birds? Why does food come and goes in availability at random? But still, it does couple solid engine building with accessible gameplay and loads of bird facts and bird illustrations. Plus the graphic design is simple and thematic. This one gives up with the one distinctive thing about Wingspan's theme (scientifically accurate, diverse birds that few people even know about) and replaces it with made up dragons. I appreciate the creativity needed to come with hundreds of different ones, but I just can't really care for it. Then, it stretches the already thin thematic link with the mechanics by saying you are an... amateur dracologist... digging? to attract dragons in caves? With money? Why???? It really don't vibe with this theme at all, at that point I'd just go full cute fantasy and play Flamecraft. As for the graphic design, I find Wyrmspan to be all over the place: some components keep the minimalist, naif flat design of Wingspan, but others have these watercolor illustrations or very saturated colors that don't really match with one another. The guild track is just an abstract circle for no reason... it seems a mess tbh. I understand these are totally personal feelings about theme and aesthetics, so if the gameplay is solid and people prefer this theme, I totally understand why you would get this. For me Wingspan (with expansions) is still 10 times more attractive and consistent than this. Also, I can't get over the fact that they called it Wyrmspan but the wingspan value is not a mechanic anymore, and dragons only have sizes now. This really reflects the recent Stonemeier direction of productions that I don't really like - I'd say it's gimmick over substance
I disagree. If anything, digging through dungeons are more thematic than just placing birds in line
@nihlify I mean, I think its ok to disagree. For me Wingspan was already pretty disconnected from its theme, but at least I could make the connections myself i.e. birds in different habitats occupying ecological niches, contributing to the ecosystem, growing flocks, etc. Dragons are not real so idk why as a dracologist I'm digging and attracting dragons into caves? Shouldn't they live there already? Anyway, there's not right or wrong on these things
If anything this game has more theme than Wingspan imho. But yeah, both games are mechanics first with a theme painted over it afterwards. But mechanically this one seems way more interesting and balanced for me.
Nice review, but what kind of person puts the boards sideways when both players are sitting on the same side of the table? That feels so random and weird.
Good point, but tbf that is only for filming. We don't play on the same side of the table as that would be strange - I think we just moved a player board to the other side of the table.
@@BoardOfItReviews All good, I later realized that you're filming the close ups from that side I guess, but it just felt weird all the time during the video :D
1st world problems mate jesus :P
@@chadvader974 I also sort my cards in hand by color, then value, then if I like the artwork better. So yeah, I'm that kind of guy and I think that's okay. :D
@@unQUrsu so it's you that's random and weird? ;)