PLEASE NOTE! When you get a Tao Token it can be of ANY COLOR, so my note is incorrect! Also around the 40 minute mark, I had to stop recording and unfortunately switched up which characters turn it was! Sorry about that! Finally Budha tokens MUST be place adjacent to the Taoist, so you can't pick just any space to put it on!
Ahh... what better way to spend your Saturday morning with a nice cup of coffee while watching a One-Stop playthrough of a great classic. Thanks Colin, that was awesome ! Please note though, that when you place a Buddha, you have to place it in a spot in front of your Taoist. You can find the rule on the villager sheet under the Buddhist temple : ''Take a Buddha figurine, and place it during a next turn on an empty ghost space facing your Taoist.'' You had one right out of six times ;D Can't wait to see what's next :)
@@OneStopCoopShop I did a true solo playthrough with the green player on my French channel last week. I did not fare any better, once Wu Feng came out, I was also on the verge of losing my third villager tile with 2-3 haunters out. Brutal. But I do highly recommend you try it with the White Moon expansion. It changes the gameplay a lot. You have to actually save the villagers and get cool bonuses for saving them and cool items for saving whole families. There's also a good ghost to help you out as well (White Moon) and offers you some new mechanics that enhance the tactical feel of the game. I have this game since 2010, and only won once, and it was with the White Moon expansion. Black Secret, you can skip, unless you want to play overlord style.
Great to see you play this game. I got it to the table for the first time inquire a while today and introduced some friends to it. Good game for Halloween 🎃
I have this game from many years ago and it's always fresh. I also have it's sequel Last Bastion, which is great too. I personally think both can be in the same shelf perfectly. It's like to have different versions of Pandemic; they share many things in common but there's always have that part that makes them different.
@@OneStopCoopShop Different warrior powers, different tiles actions, you can attack and move or move and attack. When a character loses its last life point, it doesn't die, but it turns it's player board to a one where it appears wounded and without its special power. Of course, if it d loses its last life point again, it dies definitely. There are more differences but these are the ones I can remember right now.
When you exorcised the black widow I think you should have also rolled the curse die in 16:40 Great video though! Made some od the rules sink in. And I watched it till the end and yeah.. You forget to roll the curse die a few times but you also roll when you shouldn't 😉 visible in notes. I made some mistakes also on the first go.
During Round 2 when you defeated the Black Widow did it not have both a curse and reward. It was always my understanding that you had to roll the curse die before gaining the reward.
I own both this and Last Bastion but am not a big fan and both are on my sell pile. I don't find Ghost Stories hard (I win almost every game on normal mode) but I've found that the best move is almost always obvious once you really understand the game mechanics and hence is not interesting to me (same reason I dislike Robinson Crusoe). This is playing using the solo rules, so maybe I would feel differently using all 4 monks. I have played it a few times with other players but the game crushes you if you make poor decisions and new players always make poor decisions so you either lose horribly or have to quarterback. For Last Bastion, I have actually played more using 4 characters and I like a lot of the changes but every game devolved into a broken state where I intentionally filled 3 of the 4 boards (the penalties are more easily handled, with some barely being penalties at all) and set-up board states that guaranteed victory 7-8 turns later by just repeating the same moves every turn. I hate when games devolve into this kind of degenerate play so it's leaving the collection also. I've found more and more co-op games have this problem of degenerate play (making the same move every turn because it sets up some game breaking combo) and really colors my opinion of them. I prefer games where you can't just make the same play every turn. I think this is why I don't like engine builders as the goal is usually to build an engine that you "run" over and over until the end of the game. Mage Knight is a puzzle to solve, but each turn is a different puzzle due to the hand of cards drawn. I like that. I can solve most static optimization puzzles present in board games fairly easily which really detracts from those games for me.
PLEASE NOTE! When you get a Tao Token it can be of ANY COLOR, so my note is incorrect! Also around the 40 minute mark, I had to stop recording and unfortunately switched up which characters turn it was! Sorry about that! Finally Budha tokens MUST be place adjacent to the Taoist, so you can't pick just any space to put it on!
Nice to see you continue showing off some older games, Colin!
Runebound, Gears of War and now Ghost Stories? You're spoiling us. Happy Halloween!
Thanks so much for watching and Happy Halloween to you too!! 🎃
Ahh... what better way to spend your Saturday morning with a nice cup of coffee while watching a One-Stop playthrough of a great classic. Thanks Colin, that was awesome ! Please note though, that when you place a Buddha, you have to place it in a spot in front of your Taoist. You can find the rule on the villager sheet under the Buddhist temple : ''Take a Buddha figurine, and place it during a next turn on an empty ghost space facing your Taoist.'' You had one right out of six times ;D Can't wait to see what's next :)
Buhahaha!! Yeah I missed that thanks!! Such a fun game even if we got destroyed!!
@@OneStopCoopShop I did a true solo playthrough with the green player on my French channel last week. I did not fare any better, once Wu Feng came out, I was also on the verge of losing my third villager tile with 2-3 haunters out. Brutal. But I do highly recommend you try it with the White Moon expansion. It changes the gameplay a lot. You have to actually save the villagers and get cool bonuses for saving them and cool items for saving whole families. There's also a good ghost to help you out as well (White Moon) and offers you some new mechanics that enhance the tactical feel of the game. I have this game since 2010, and only won once, and it was with the White Moon expansion.
Black Secret, you can skip, unless you want to play overlord style.
Thanks for the info!! And sorry for your loss!! 😁😁😁
Amazing game. One of the toughest coop games I own I think.
Couldn't agree more!! Thanks for watching Franck!
Great to see you play this game. I got it to the table for the first time inquire a while today and introduced some friends to it. Good game for Halloween 🎃
Nice!!!
I beat this game twice, back-to-back plays, and never won again. I ended up having to get rid of it, but it sure is fun even when losing :)
I agree!!!
Hey Stasia- hope all is well.
@@Dougmysticeye Thanks, Doug. Same to you!
pretty sure, buddha's can only be placed on empty ghost spaces adjacent to the holder of the statue and not anywhere.
Yup I notated that in my pinned comment sorry about that!
I have this game from many years ago and it's always fresh. I also have it's sequel Last Bastion, which is great too. I personally think both can be in the same shelf perfectly.
It's like to have different versions of Pandemic; they share many things in common but there's always have that part that makes them different.
Well I just got lost bastion!! So that'll be on the channel soon. What is different between that game and Ghost Stories?
@@OneStopCoopShop Different warrior powers, different tiles actions, you can attack and move or move and attack. When a character loses its last life point, it doesn't die, but it turns it's player board to a one where it appears wounded and without its special power. Of course, if it d loses its last life point again, it dies definitely.
There are more differences but these are the ones I can remember right now.
Cool thanks for that!!
Really surprised Fu Talismans weren't somehow incorporated into the game, as they're a really big part of Taoist sorcery
Seems like a miss bummer!
When you exorcised the black widow I think you should have also rolled the curse die in 16:40 Great video though! Made some od the rules sink in.
And I watched it till the end and yeah.. You forget to roll the curse die a few times but you also roll when you shouldn't 😉 visible in notes. I made some mistakes also on the first go.
Everyone makes mistakes! Thanks for watching!
You spent the yellow monk's yin/yang but didn't unhaunt a tile, so that final tile haunting that "made you lose" wouldn't have
Oh man!! Bummer!
@@OneStopCoopShop haha that and your green monk not supposed to have been dead..maybe you'd have won xD
Probably not BUT I can say maybe?? Haha!!
Great video. I really like this game. Its hard!
Yes it is! I remember a long time ago I used to rock at this game... not any more haha!!
I like playing with 4 as well. One of the most fun games to lose.
Couldn't agree more Doug! Also the new channel brand looks GREAT!!!
@@OneStopCoopShop Than you!
Are you doing a patreon again? I didn't see one. Would love to support you man!
That was a fun game!
Thanks for watching!!
Awesome playthrough thanks so much! It's so easy to make rules mistakes in this game.
Thanks for watching!!
Nice video. Just a small correction: you cannot place Buddhas freely on the board, they have to be placed adjacent to the player.
AH you are right!! I missed that totally, thanks for that!
Noooooo, it means all of our wins are invalidated :-(
@@ptitepeluche05 Don't you hate that??! :)
@@ptitepeluche05 what wins? :D GS is brutal
During Round 2 when you defeated the Black Widow did it not have both a curse and reward. It was always my understanding that you had to roll the curse die before gaining the reward.
You only have to roll a curse die if it's notated. Pretty sure it is notated on her though and I missed it but I put a note about that in the video!
I own both this and Last Bastion but am not a big fan and both are on my sell pile. I don't find Ghost Stories hard (I win almost every game on normal mode) but I've found that the best move is almost always obvious once you really understand the game mechanics and hence is not interesting to me (same reason I dislike Robinson Crusoe). This is playing using the solo rules, so maybe I would feel differently using all 4 monks. I have played it a few times with other players but the game crushes you if you make poor decisions and new players always make poor decisions so you either lose horribly or have to quarterback.
For Last Bastion, I have actually played more using 4 characters and I like a lot of the changes but every game devolved into a broken state where I intentionally filled 3 of the 4 boards (the penalties are more easily handled, with some barely being penalties at all) and set-up board states that guaranteed victory 7-8 turns later by just repeating the same moves every turn. I hate when games devolve into this kind of degenerate play so it's leaving the collection also.
I've found more and more co-op games have this problem of degenerate play (making the same move every turn because it sets up some game breaking combo) and really colors my opinion of them.
I prefer games where you can't just make the same play every turn. I think this is why I don't like engine builders as the goal is usually to build an engine that you "run" over and over until the end of the game. Mage Knight is a puzzle to solve, but each turn is a different puzzle due to the hand of cards drawn. I like that.
I can solve most static optimization puzzles present in board games fairly easily which really detracts from those games for me.
I get you! I don't have that problem haha so I love it :) Thanks for watching and commenting regardless!
So what's the "obvious" move to win automatically??
Wow, you easily win two of the hardest cooperative games.
You are either playing incorrectly, or pulling our leg.