Kamisado Review - with Tom Vasel

Tom takes a look at this two-player strategy game
00:00 - Introduction
01:19 - Game overview
04:29 - Final thoughts
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[@saved03]

The first set up is easy to understand. However the second & beyond set up was hard to understand. I did finally got it though. The winner of a match is the first to set his/her home base rank going from left to right or from right to left. Which changes the color set up for the pieces of the next round. This is where it got complicated. I fill my home base going left to right lets say. At the end of the first or previous round's ending positions is how you fill your home base rank for the next round. You first start at the home base rank. The piece that is the furthest to the left if still there moves to the far left corner. Then if other pieces that may still be on the home base rank move accordingly. Moving from the further most left. Will go to the next color in the direction that follows in the direction of filling the row. Now when all of the pieces are no longer on the home base rank. You go to the next rank up starting with the further most left piece goes to the next color in the direction of filling the row. Repeat this process until you have moved the final piece from your opponent's home base rank on the last color of your home base rank. Now your opponent has to follow the same direction of filling their home base rank as the winner has. Starting with his/her left not the winner's left. Once the pieces are all back on the home base ranks. The match begins with the loser of the first or prior match moving first. Once I got the filling of the row rules. It then became much easier to follow & play out the more advanced style of matches. Fun game to play. Easy to learn but harder to master.

[@PeterWTaylor]

Thanks, saw a set in a charity shop yesterday in this actual box. I'll go back later today to pick it up.

[@RhinoBarbarian]

I would think that the side with the Chinese lettering is used for people that are colorblind.

[@Medsas]

didnt you review this before?

[@stephen227]

The comparisons to Chess wouldnt be acceptable to a Chess player but all the same, the game does force you to play carefully like chess (blunder avoidance) and is quite a challenge as to how you can manipulate your opponent. That pieces cant retreat also instills caution. It definitely has you looking for forced moves like in chess but here any "combinations" are utterly stunted by comparison and particularly fleeting...as you never quite know when your well placed piece's colour will come up...unless youve been especially crafty and have engineered it. But all the same...combinations spring up in the mind differently to Chess as good moves usually occur to you only when its your turn and you know which piece you have to move. This is perhaps then rather more a game of not missing tactical opportunities than explicitly creating them...but then this view may be simply a result of my newness to it. For, for all I know, there maybe a wealth of stratagems out there for one to study.
Nice game.

[@rodney1279TheFlip]

In my opinion, the game seem kind of too basic to me. I probably have to play it myself to get an understanding.