by ZephonSoul
rickert wrote:
Two is correct. It does make me wonder if reviewer is playing anything else wrong?
I don't think the reviewer was playing anything wrong (or at least nothing that can be extracted from the review itself), the chain of answers you are referring to streams from one of my comments.
jayntampa wrote:
The fact that the reviewer totally missed what the major vital decision of the game is and believes the game can last over two hours leads me to believe something was going very wrong in his plays of the game.
I don't know about the two hours, but in my experience the 35min-tops claimed by most people seems pretty off too. Granted we have a slow group, but I don't really recall any game we had (6 players only, mind you) that lasted less than 40-50 minutes (most of them clocking around one hour or so).
jayntampa wrote:
Oh, just another note of something else wrong in the review - if you abandon Tokyo, you get a turn before the person you abandoned it to goes again ... The review makes it sound like the player can just turn around and kill you after abandoning.
That's not wrong, just not precise. If you are playing with 5-6 people you will almost always have two people in Tokyo. Suppose you have players A B C D E playing, player A and C are in Tokyo. During B's turn, he deals damage to A and C and A leaves Tokyo as it has very few HP left, B takes A's place. Then C takes the turn, damaging all the players outside Tokyo, killing A. Perfectly doable.
Of course the "meat" of the game is in pushing your luck and risk management in when to get into or out of Tokyo, so when such a scenario happens one could claim that:
a) you didn't play it to your best advantage (next up is the guy inside Tokyo, you probably have chosen the wrong time to exit, or you didn't have a choice because of poor evaluation of remaining inside Tokyo up to that point)
b) you played it well but you were just straight unlucky
I think however that what annoys us most is the reverse problem, when you don't want to enter Tokyo but you eventually roll an attack and someone inside Tokyo flees forcing you to enter.
Anyway, I wouldn't really mind anything of this if it wasn't for the fact that in our group it takes much more than 30 min for a game, dunno why. Maybe because we have a lot of people trying to build up energies to get cards, and it takes time and time again...