Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall

the-fire-archmage-ninjastar6.0

The art is great, the vibes are great, there's an interesting story in the shared world they're building with Kinfire products. Product build is high quality, and they built a great introductory sistem into the game when you read the rules as you play. It's well-built. Unfortunately, for all the production value, as games (including Kinfire Delve), they're kinda average. Specifically for Kinfire Chronicles, there are several design decisions that have prevented me from getting into the game with gusto. The combination of high damage from enemies and an absolutely random initiative turn with way too many tokens (15 tokens for enemies, 15 tokens for players) where you can easily get 3-5 enemy turns straight with no real way to defend yourself, makes it almost guaranteed to lose the game. It becomes a game of pure luck, and that's not great in a long term campaign. Let's put it this way: although the odds of getting a turn is 50%, that rarely happens. If you have an imbalance towards players, the battle is not rewarding and if it's the contrary, it is just unfair, there's no way to be able to resist high damage hits 4 times in a row, specially if a single character death defeats the whole party. It's of no consolation that over an infinite number of plays, you're going to average 50% of wins and losses, when the reality of the game is that no matter your build, the cards you've obtained, how much time you've invested into the game, nothing is going to prevent total party kill every time because of the randomness. Scenarios are too small. They're a series of one-page maps with very little useful movement involved. The maps in a book format hurts the game. Frankly, as a dungeoneering game, there are so many better games. Not as polished as this one for sure, but plain better games. Sword and Sorcery, or Chronicles of Dundragor are leagues ahead of Kinfire Chronicles in gameplay and the feeling of a campaign and character building. There's a great game inside Kinfire Chronicles, but they have to greatly reduce the randomness of the play. House ruling the initiative to accept at most two consecutive turns in either way improves this.

Aya_Zholvaxstar9.0

El lore, l'art, la producció està molt bé. L'experiència ha estat molt bona. Potser hi ha coses que ens deixa a la sort com el torn de jocs, és a dir, potser no tens l'oportunitat de donar-li cops al malvat perquè no surten fitxes de personatge o pots trigar perquè surten el del boss o les fitxes de l'altre. I sobretot... Jugar a 2! A vegades, també pot resultar líos on van les cartes de mercat. Però, en general, nosaltres que hem jugat a pocs jocs d'aquest tipus, ens ho hem passat molt bé i repetiriem.