@@Rugerfred Ooh, that's a tough call! Less expensive than in Tramways, but it's hard to compare the tension since I haven't yet played Tramways at the max player count, where I'm sure it's brutal. Regardless, my opinion would by biased anyhow since my underlying design goal of Brick & Mortar was to whittle it down to make every decision as tense as possible to capture the feel of barely scraping by in a competitive retail landscape. ;-)
@@octoraffegames thank you for your reply! I'm definitely intrigued by Brick & Mortar. It partially reminded me of Smartphone Inc., that's one of my favourite eurogames of the last years. Do you have any suggestion on how/where to find Brick & Mortar in Italy? I would love to not be put under a bridge by insane shipping costs. :)
Have to agree, I have some games I can't play with my fiancee because looking at the board gives her a migraine. I don't think there's any way I could sell her on that one, no matter how beautiful it is.
Great previews as always, keep up the great work! Of all the games featured here, I'm the most interested in Bitoku, but I am having trouble finding anywhere to source the game online; do you happen to have a link to the game or know when it will be available to purchase?
That was for sure the hardest game to categorise this show, it has elements of a lot genres! Definitely could have fit in the Thematic video as well, but we figured the euro and abstract mechanics slightly outweighed the rest.
Bitoku seems like the most absolutely charming and gorgeous clusterfuck of a game
Whatever the descriptors used, it’s a bag of awesomeness
Honestly, watching the explainer of bitoku was like a spoof of complex boardgames.
It made me irrationally angry. So fucking complicated.
i kept thinking about the sports segment in Fantastic Mr. Fox.
I think Bitoku is the inofficial sequel to cones of dunshire
Check out the rules video for Feudum. I thought it was a parody the first time I watched it. ua-cam.com/video/eyI1NPAIrb0/v-deo.html
Wait until you play Bitoku solo! Ai works totally different!
I've played Brick & Mortar before, and I will say it has some of the most tense and stress-inducing auctions I've ever seen in any game before.
I'll take that as a compliment. ;-)
Uh! More than the auction mechanic in Tramways?
@@Rugerfred Ooh, that's a tough call! Less expensive than in Tramways, but it's hard to compare the tension since I haven't yet played Tramways at the max player count, where I'm sure it's brutal.
Regardless, my opinion would by biased anyhow since my underlying design goal of Brick & Mortar was to whittle it down to make every decision as tense as possible to capture the feel of barely scraping by in a competitive retail landscape. ;-)
@@octoraffegames thank you for your reply! I'm definitely intrigued by Brick & Mortar. It partially reminded me of Smartphone Inc., that's one of my favourite eurogames of the last years.
Do you have any suggestion on how/where to find Brick & Mortar in Italy? I would love to not be put under a bridge by insane shipping costs. :)
Bitoku looks beautiful but also very very busy. Still on the fence about that one.
Have to agree, I have some games I can't play with my fiancee because looking at the board gives her a migraine. I don't think there's any way I could sell her on that one, no matter how beautiful it is.
Looks waaayyy too complicated and busy - too much work not enough fun
@@omfganinja As a French-speaker, I must say that the innuendo in your comment is through the roof.
Mythic Mischief is kind of reminiscent of Santorini minus the building but adding RPG level-up elements. I might have to check it out.
Devir keep coming out with great looking games!!!!
Bitoku and Icaion were my favorites here. Great video.
I feel like the LCD Soundsystem poster was the fourth cast member during these previews, and I missed it during the last half of this video.
Good grief, your run through of Bitoku gave me empathy for the normies who cut me off halfway through explaining Catan.
It's not that bad when you learn it
"Bitoku" such a great (wink wink) sounding name for French players, hahaha! :D
It ll be a xmas present only for the name for sure !
Hearing "Bitoku is simpler than you might think" was a bit misleading. Now I feel like I'm in a very hot bath of rules.
Hot rules? Like No Shirt rules?
Brick & mortar looks like a fantastic game
The genre of game I’m most into but can be tough on the ole preview format! Great stuff SU&SD 👍
@16:23 you have a high pitch ring going on
Oh my, I never stopped to think that was part of the video. I was wondering what in my house was making that noise!
Great previews as always, keep up the great work! Of all the games featured here, I'm the most interested in Bitoku, but I am having trouble finding anywhere to source the game online; do you happen to have a link to the game or know when it will be available to purchase?
Termite Towers looks fun
Bitoku segment looks like a parody of a euroboardgame review (preview)
It's too bad all those diamonds and rubies disintegrated in 2 days in my brick and mortar store. Tragic.
Mythic Mischief reminds me of WizWar
Good call! I was thinking about Finstere Flure/Fearsome Floors from Friedemann Friese as well.
How to describe MM : Vast on a Quoridor board with the guards from Burgle Bros.
Mystic Mischief would've been a better name. I wonder why they went with Mythic instead.
Because it features mythic creatures.
I tried Sovranti and the camera drives me nuts
"Brick & Mortar" sounds like evil twins of Rick & Morty.
Fleet! Must have Fleet...
Mythic Mischief remings me of Monster Slaughter by Ankama
Are these paid promotions?
UA-cam shows the "contains payed advertisement" so I guess so.
These are payed previews during awshux. (Publisher pay to get their game previewd)
I REALLY hope they change BITOKU 's name for a french language release.
OHMYGOD BITOKU X| X| X|
Why are you reviewing Isle of Cats, when it's a computer game, not a board game?
I may just be a boardgame newbie, but Icarion feels more like an ameriTrash from this explanation. Or it's more of a euro because of worker placement?
That was for sure the hardest game to categorise this show, it has elements of a lot genres! Definitely could have fit in the Thematic video as well, but we figured the euro and abstract mechanics slightly outweighed the rest.
That makes sense! Cheers.
Bitoku is not my cup of tea.
designers finding out that their game will be previewed by matt and not quinns: aw shux
Matt is fantastic.
these all look terrible lol
Isle of cats is already out why you playing prototype on computer?