The Magnificent

Daniel García Cruzstar7,0

Juego precioso en cuanto a mecánica y componentes, cosa que es de agradecer. Ideal para gente que se inicia a los euros o gente no muy jugona ya que no hay mucha interacción y cada uno va a su estrategia a seguir. Recomendado

EvEvanstar3,5

This is a short euro where you roll colored dice, then take turns drafting one die and taking one of three actions with a strength matching the pips of the dice you took plus all previous dice you took of the same color. At the end if the round you have to pay a coin per pip you have on the color of dice you took that had the greatest sum of pips. The actions are, place some tetris tiles into your personal grid, getting the benefits of things you cover, or moving a wagon on a clockwise track collecting gems used to amplify the effects of your dice, or scoring your recipe cards. The recipes require some set of building tiles, and sometimes ask you to discard gems of a specific color. The recipes then produce some number of points and or money. I had hoped the interesting elements of this game would come from some combination of dice drafting and tile placement, but neither of these puzzles is very tight. There is so much mitigation in the game that the real tension in the game comes from how few actions you have. Four actions each round, and three rounds. It's fine that you can more or less get done what you need to on your turn with that strong action limitation, it's just a little disappointing to have all these mechanisms that are normally tense and interesting where here they seem to be there just to check the box more than they add anything special to the experience of play. The one element that I found really cool was that with each of your four actions, you get a kicker effect from a one of your four master cards who the die gets assigned to for that round. At the end of the round, you get a fifth master card, then you remove one from your display and score the criteria at the bottom of the card. At the end of the game, the remaining cards are only scored at half value. It's a satisfying feeling to try and balance points vs ongoing function, but it's not really enough to carry the game overall, since so many of your other scoring opportunities are determined by the luck of the recipe card display requiring the buildings you have already built, and then additionally to have those cards contain substantial point gains as opposed to small point gains. ☆ 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

GaGarfieldstar2,0

After watching some reviews I have no desire to ever play it or even buy it. Multiplayer solitaire with no theme?