Blackout: Hong Kong

PoPoteetstar7,8

Not my favorite Pfister, but still a solid game.

hahalbert82star5,0

Essen'18 Opinió després de una lectura de regles: mateixa impresió que després de llegir Mombasa o Great Western Trail. Mescla de mecàniques que posades sobre el paper no semblen gaire atractives però segur que després funcionen molt bé (comparant amb els dos jocs anteriors). Aquest joc té una especié de majories, deckbuilding i gestió de recursos/contractes/objectius. Veurem si en aquest cas totes les estrategies estan equilibrades (al contrari que en els anteriors) i on es situa en comparació. De moment, amb ganes de probarlo. Opinió després de una partida: al contrari que amb Mombasa o amb Great Western Trail, aquest joc si que dona la sensació de mecàniques desconnectades entre si. Cada fase resulta un minijoc i el global no resulta interesant. Una decepció per els jocs anteriors del autor.

EvEvanstar5,9

Each round, the start player rolls three dice and places them on the resource area matching the icon on the die. Players get what start as symmetrical decks of cards where the majority of the cards are played for their cube icons. Each cube icon on a card produces a cube into the box where the die of the matching color currently resides. Once players resolve their cards, they take turns completing goals. The goals tend to give you a cube on the central map, and a new card for your hand for future rounds, although two of them are printed on your board and give you the ability to reset your hand faster, or play one additional card each round. Then players select a pile of facedown tokens. The tokens have different difficulty ratings on them and if you meet the requirement to claim one, you shuffle up the cards that contributed to taking the token and place one at random in the "hospital" area of your board. This can serve to cull cards from your deck, but each player also has a doctor card that retrieves one of the injured cards and additionally produces that card's value in victory points. There's some tensions here as to wanting your best guys to get hurt so you can score the healing process, but then they're not available to be played in the next turn while they're injured. Lastly, players can buy new goal cards from the faceup display next to the board. The order the cards come out is totally random, so navigating this fliplucky process is both an interesting challenge and a somewhat frustrating one. A row replenishes immediately when it runs out of cards. Money is tight in the game, and cards cost more depending on the number of cards taken from that row. The central board has regions that score once one player has a cube on every node surrounding the area, and then there's endgame scoring for having a set of explore tokens that all have a different type of reward. The game is really hard to boil down to it's core ideas. In fact, in the process of playing it, what a good move looks like and why feels a bit hard to focus on. There's some good planning that can be done, but despite numerous luck mitigation mechanisms, the dice and the cards in the purchasable array will sometimes favor you and sometimes they don't. Engine building elements are minimal. Player interaction is also minimal. I want to play this a little more to see if I can get a better sense of it, but it hasn't been the immediate hit that Mombasa and Great Western Trail were. ★ Art, Iconography and components functional ★ Clever or interesting mechanisms ★ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ★ Multiple plays stay interesting ★ Low or mitigatable luck elements ★★☆☆☆ Raw enjoyment