Reply To: Is it time for some more critical analysis of rule sets

[phaidknott 7023xp 0]

…or how NOT to do a review/unboxing (go to 46mins in for the Core Space Review)

https://www.dicetower.com/game-video/board-game-breakfast-live-feb-14-0

…and we think we got it bad 😀

So here we’ve got an “unboxing” with no prep, understanding of the game, and stuff just thrown about disinterestedly. After watching that are you any the wiser about what the game is, or how it plays?

Mini’s are easier to review as you just have to “see” the mini to make the call, Boardgames/Rules need a lot longer to review and explain what’s going on (but these take a lot of time beforehand to actually play the game before even pointing a video camera at it all). I do think it would be handy for unboxing/reviewers to operate within their specialty as they can use past experience and knowledge of other products to help inform us about the product. But lets hope we never see a BoW video along the lines of what I posted above from the dice tower, as I would then be going elsewhere for information (rather than bad dress sense and ill fitting hats) 😀