Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood

BaBalleflassstar5,0

UPDATE: Tried it again, and I found it to be even worse with experience as the battle choices are often very narrow. Yes, even narrower than Gloomhaven. I found it to be just OK, I much prefer KDM and Middara for campaign and KDM and Street Masters for boss fighters. I bought the game mainly because of the battleflow system which seemed very interesting on paper, but fell kind of short in reality. Also, I'm not much of a narrative person as in that I prefer a good book than spending time reading/listening to a story while playing a game, so this was not the correct game for me. Again, I bought it mainly because I love boss battlers and this one seemed to do something original with the battleflow system. I have only played the Witch, Cur, Blade, Warden, Priest, Ranger and Penitent for just 5-6 chapters. The voice actor is great, but the story itself is quite boring IMO as almost nothing of interest happens. The more I played the more I skipped of all the boring unimportant small stuff that happens all over the town so I could enter the actual game part earlier which is the boss fights, which is something I believe this game should have focused more on than the narrative as it is a "board game" and not a "board story". Middara did this right by just providing a few lines of "spark notes" before each encounter to let you just do encounters. Oathsworn also has a "instant action" mode, but that "instant... action" mode is started with a full page of text and basic checks you need to plow through before you get to the fun part. The main reason I sold this is because I felt the battleflow system was subpar and boring. The difference between the cards for each character I played was too little compared to what It could have been. You can only have 7 cards with you into battle, and you start doing the same rhythm all the time as 3-4 cards will often stay stuck in your battleflow waiting to be rotated, so after 1-2 turns you end up only having so few choices at all times for the rest of the battle. Items where OK, but I found the items in Middara and KDM to be way more interesting. + Great artwork + Good voice actor (for the first 2 chapters, stopped listening after that) + Very nice components + Requires less table space than Middara and KDM / Good sized miniatures for painters / The storage is both smart and simple, but too cramped with sleeved cards - Battleflow system was very underwhelming - Card upgrades was very underwhelming (I checked all the upgrades even though I ended at chapter 6). - Each item alone provided too few alterations to make them interesting in my opinion - Too much unnecessary time consuming boring stuff between each encounter - Boring story (up to chapter 2, didn't read/listen past that).

Jan Solostar8,5

Excelente juego de combate táctico! Unboxing⇒ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU3yN3PSZxc&list=PLEModrHLwDO-m_MUOo0NMpcLu1z5-K3GA&index=3

hahalbert82star5,0

El joc es divideix en dos parts: una part narrativa (tipus escull la teva historia) d'uns 45-60 minuts i una batalla vs un boss de 2-3 hores. Això es repeteix ciclicament fins el final de la campanya. Crítiques que he llegit: Decisions en la historia sense impacte, combats repetitius (sempre fas servir la mateixa estrategia), personalització dels PJs poc profunda, items amb poca variació. Segons el que he pogut veure, les crítiques semblen certes, i el fet que sigui sempre el mateix (fase narrativa sense impacte + batalla amb un boss) no em convenç suficient com per fer tanta inversió (300€!!!). Avis al meu jo del futur: no el pillis!!!!