2026-03-19T17:39:51Z
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The board is pretty sparse, but I would have positioned this a bit higher than them. So few crunchy games have such a thematic appeal that really works.
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Makes sense to me. I completely agree with Tom: If you had the same mechanics where you had to get to a certain number of points instead of go down to 0, it wouldn’t be worth a second glance. I played this around 2016-17 when I was getting into things like RftG, Village, and Istanbul, and found it very dry and forgettable. The kind of game that gets played based on “Oh that’s a funny premise!” but the novelty of it wears off very quickly (for me, before the game even finished).
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Funny seeing Tom so tired and grumpy.
But yeah, this doesn’t really deserve a top 100 spot. It’s OK.
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I’ve played it twice, apparently, in 2015 and 2019. And I’m with InkyBloc (and Tom), the one gimmick is the thing that makes it memorable. I don’t seem ever to have sought it out to play, rather fallen into it in a club setting. Pretty sure it wouldn’t have been in my personal top 100 even back in the day.
Even at the time I wanted a fractionally prettier edition with different art for different instances of the same character. 
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It’s an odd video for a “top 100” that spends more time talking about how the game isn’t that good than most of their normal reviews. Enjoyed re-learning about the game though, I think I must have first read about it when I was first discovering SUSD.
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