by MattShinners
kaziam wrote:
1. Keeping/rerolling dice. Yahtzee style heavy strategy here. Should I keep those hearts when I'm in Tokyo? Should I keep those two 1 rolls or the energy? If you're agonizing over these decisions, then you should stay away from brain burners like Loopin' Louie or Bingo.
This is the big disconnect between Yahtzee and KoT - in Yahtzee, the whole point is to get dice that match up in a specific way. In KoT, picking the dice that you keep and reroll is dictated by what those are going to do against the game state.
Is it a Mage Knight-level of decision? No. But to brush it off as the same decision you make in Yahtzee is to ignore the actual tactical decisions that come into play during a luck-heavy game.
As to the game lasting more than an hour (2 hours is shocking to me), I played this game over a weekend with some friends, one of which who is a serious game besides myself. With 6 people (8, really - there were 2 teams of two), it took us on average 40 minutes a game. If it took 2 hours, I'd be with you. But it bills itself as light, it bills itself as a chuck-the-dice-fest, and it bills itself as fast which, for most people, it appears to be.