Trickerion: Legends of Illusion

Jan Solostar8,0

Impro-Reseña⇒

EvEvanstar10,0

This game has the depth of a light to medium euro, but with none of the refinement. The pointless over-complication leads to massive downtime between turns. The game asks you to make a lot of potentially game ruining decisions during setup as to your spells, faction and starting assistant. The character abilities are drastically different in their usefulness. The game also has just a little card flip and die rolling luck, but what there is can create unrecoverable problems for you. Some specific problems: all actions in the game you can take multiple times except for the action that banks tricks. Each time a trick card has a trick banked you can't make that trick again until the card it spent. This simply makes no sense with the rest of the design. The symbol matching mini game you play when staging the trick adds a lot of time for meager rewards and you don't have much if any ability to control the payout. The catch-up mechanism to the game is spending a dollar at the start of the game to get 2 points. This makes no sense as if you prob have run aground on dollars if you need catch-up. This problem is compounded by the way to collect dollars is to spend 3 actions, which means you are usually making the choice between getting dollars or scoring anything in the round, since both require your post powerful worker or for the stars to align and other players make bad decisions. This leads to the poor getting poorer. The game also gives you this big list of tricks and sort of demands you plan a route through them where you use as many of the similar requirements. This ads a ton of time to the game, flipping through the pages and looking for efficient resource linkages, but in reality the luck of the dice prevents you from buying any trick outside your starting card tree. In terms of components, the tokens and the art on the board are decent but the portraits of the characters are really amateurish. ☆ 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

Fernandostar8,2

Too long