The White Castle Review - Gardeners, Courtiers & Warriors Oh My!
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
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The heron flies over the Himeji sky while the Daimio, from the top of the castle, watches his servants move. Gardeners tend the pond, where the koi carp live, warriors stand guard on the walls, and courtiers crowd the gates, pining for an audience that brings them closer to the innermost circles of the court. When night falls, the lanterns are lit and the workers return to their clan.
In The White Castle, players will control one of these clans in order to score more victory points than the rest. To do so, they must amass influence in the court, manage resources boldly, and place their workers in the right place at the right time. The authors are Sheila Santos and Israel Cendrero, the duo known as Llama Dice who also designed the successful The Red Cathedral with Devir. In this case, we leave the Moscow of Ivan the Terrible behind to explore the most imposing fortress in modern Japan, Himeji Castle, where the banner of the Sakai clan flies under the orders of Daimio Sakai Tadakiyo.
The White Castle is a Euro type game with mechanics of resource management, worker placement and dice placement to carry out actions. During the game, over three rounds, players will send members of their clan to tend the gardens, defend the castle or progress up the social ladder of the nobility. At the end of the match, these will award players victory points in a variety of ways.
The central panel shows Himeji Castle in all its splendor, divided into several zones. The largest is inside the castle, with the Room of the Thousand Carpets, where the courtiers must ascend socially until they reach the circle closest to the Daimio to enjoy his favor. There is also the pond and the gardens, patiently tended by the gardeners where everyone can relax and contemplate its beauty without restriction. Another important area is the wall and the outside of the castle, where the warriors patrol and stand guard. Finally, we find the area of the three bridges, where the three types of dice that can be used to carry out actions are accumulated, and the personal domain of each player, where they will keep track of their resources and where they will have the reserve of workers.
With accessible rules and a very careful setting, The White Castle is a very versatile title that will fit in with different gaming groups. As is tradition with Llama Dice titles, its sleek and simple design belies a great deal of strategic depth within the grasp of players.
BGG Link - boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3...
TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:09:57 - Ease of Play
0:10:40 - What I Like
0:14:43 - What I Don’t Like
0:15:55 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:17:09 - Final Thoughts
0:19:14 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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I have this on preorder. I think it will be a good fit for me group and I. I love how quick it is and the Japanese theme speaks to me more than Red Cathedral did. Thanks for the video!
I enjoyed your review.
Suggestion: adding one of each color in each row so that you have an extra action on the second round could help a bit without messing up the time length and flow of the game no?
I know the board as almost no space but you could use the last die,of said round, to activate your board and so power up your for the final round
The designers' next design better be about Schoenbrunn Palace, that way the "primary" trilogy will be complete - games about famous buildings in different colors.
Thanks ❤
I can’t help think looking at this board that red carhedral is the better design but it’s based on first sight impressions
When the Gardner next to the black bridge activates, you pay three coins to place one warrior. You don't place three warriors.
I am in the same boat of really respecting this design, but I did not keep it. This is one that really fell flat in our first play, to the point of my husband saying he had no interest in playing again, which was a first. We had low rolls and got stuck with certain actions not being available anywhere but the outside the wall space. My husband found the actions boring and felt no theme to them. I played another two-player game with a friend, and he wasn’t fond of it, either. I did seven solo games, and I think the game improved a lot for me, but I ultimately sold it. I find the variability in the game is a double-edged sword. It is needed to keep the simple core feeling different from game to game, but it can create a lot of inconsistency in experience. I had plays that allowed for those great power moves, and other games that were very resource-poor. You don’t feel the theme when playing, you aren’t building up something or completing contracts or objectives, and the actions themselves aren’t fun or interesting….it is those combo moves and the engine on your player board that create a satisfying game experience. When dice rolls, shifting castle actions, etc do not allow for those to happen, in a game that is too short to allow you to pivot and try something new, it just misses that fun factor somehow. I would happily play again, but my husband saw no reason to, and cited games like Grand Austria Hotel or Marco Polo II as being more fun and interesting for him.
Somehow this seemed a bit complicated compared to Red Cathedral... the look is better but I'm not yet convinced to buy it!
Dice drafting, dice placement? This has the recipe for me to love but seeing this review, there's not much I actually like. It seems so themeless that it's almost an abstract game and then the shortness, tightness and lack of variability convince me not to get this one. Shame cause I love the Red Cathedral. Thanks, good video.
I got this game and have played with my wife about 4 times. I really try to hate this game, but no matter how hard I try, I still love it!
Too bad Furnace is not pretty, I do have Red Cathedral, thanks!
Thank you for sharing. For me is game killer if I fini6game and feel that it is not fully complete.
Thought this game would be about burgers. ;)
It SHOULD be. Delicious little sliders with cheese.
I prefer Harold & Kumar's version.
IT IS A GREAT GAME¡¡
Another combotastic eurogame. Bah.
Naaa 😐