a review of the board game Designed by Daniele Tascini
Players: 1-4, Time Investment: 90-120 mins
Rating:
I'm Blubbering! |
Game Aesthetic
Components:
I love the bird's eye view of the temple and the buildings, it gives you the feel of flying or being one of the gods that are worshipped in the game. I even took a little time to check out the little people during their busy days.
Artwork by Odysseas Stamoglou:
The artwork on the player board itself is nice but the tiles that are used to help build the temple are a little lackluster. I do like the continued authentic feel of the art throughout, most especially the masks set collection portion of the game.The First Turn
Options:
This is only 2/3 of the board. There are 8 spots to run around on. This main area is to track the rounds and the progress on the temple. |
What's funny about this game is that the spaces themselves are easy to understand. You can lock a worker in place to worship in the temple for a bit, and that is "free" ish (i.e. doesn't care about how many different people are there) and just costs some resource -- or if also calling out to deities, costs cocoa. Problem: this can't unlock and move around the block again until you pass. So not really a great thing to do right away despite there being immediate rewards for making gods happy.
Your dice are separated at the beginning but work best when together. However that means you make tiny steps with everything else for the one awesome action. Turn order doesn't change in this game so you're just hosed if everyone else wants to do what you want to do until they move. And you can't force them to move. They could just sit there, block you for a while and force you to do something else (i.e. CHANGE YOUR PLANS CUZ I SAY SO). Of course, like all things in life you can buy out the action. It's not like the door is really shut, you're just needing to buy your way into the VIP circle first.
Cocoa: the Currency of Pain. |
Rewards and Objectives:
You could just run the one guy around, push it to ascension (i.e. 6 pips) -- which gives you immediate resources -- but you've denied yourself a partner in crime as it goes out on its own and then floats back down as a 1 pip. So there's that.God Tracks, which provide tiny boosts during the game and guidance for an end game scoring condition. There are various ways to go up on these. |
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