As someone who playtested for this expansion, seeing all the new spirits build up slowly was so awesome

When it's all said and done the big box/trove chest for this game will be insane Glad the expansion is worth getting

Spirit Island is in my top 10 of all time. Thanks for the review, Luke.

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

No problem!

This one is high on my list. I greatly enjoy Spirit Island and looking forward to getting it to the table more in 2024.

It’s interesting how I like to watch your videos even when I have no interest on a particular game. You are doing fantastic job, and I’m grateful for that!

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

I get vicarious play out of the spirits in the expansions because I play with my sons and they like different stuff than I do. Also, it means I have guaranteed at-least-three player games at home without a gaming group. But I’ve found I also gravitate to some of the fear spirits. Still, the ones I remember liking the most are: Volcano Looming High Wandering Voice Keens Delirium Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds Downpour Drenches The World Meanwhile my sons love spirits like Starlight Seeks Its Form, Sharp Fangs Behind The Leaves, Ember-Eyed Behemoth, and A Spread Of Rampant Green. It makes for really interesting spirit combinations.

@TheBrokenMeeple

6 ай бұрын

I still really can't get on with Volcano!

Great review! This reminded me how much I love this game and need to get it back to the table. And I have you to thank for making me even get SI in the first place 🙂

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

All the content with the original spirit panels will fit in the 2 boxes if you have the broken token organizer or something similar (or just made your own system). Folded space is just a little beefier in terms of the space it takes up. Eric actually posted a suggested way to store everything in the broken token organizer that pretty much works. I know it’s not recommended to buy that organizer anymore because of the controversy with that company, but a lot of people already have it.

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

There's usually some work around!

the "kill him" clip concerning Thunderspeaker made me choke on my morning coffee.

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

Definitely 10/10. Keening voice is a new favorite of mine.

Great review. Yes please make another/new ranking with OnePipWonder. I wonder what would have changed for both of you. I am no where near as far with my plays as you are. I usually prefer dual handed play with 2 Spirits, to see the synergy, but I haven't played many games yet, even I have all the stuff. Maybe I should play like you: one Spirit only, one after the other from easy to hard? I forgot, have already covered Horizons of SI? I need to look it up. Thanks for the video.

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

I think I might have mentioned Horizons in a podcast, but it didn't warrant a full review.

"the BIRD one" ... Many Minds Move as One? "... with the raindrop" AH. *Downpour Drenches The World.*

@TheBrokenMeeple

Ай бұрын

Yeah that one!

I only have the base game and Branch and Claw. I tried it true solo and it didn’t land with me. I switched to 2 handed solo and fell in love with it. I like the way they can work together. It’s the same as Marvel Champions, I only want 2 handed solo. And thank you for the order to buy the expansions. I’ll get Jagged Earth next. That was useful information so I’m glad you told us

@Mike_James

9 ай бұрын

personally i think B&C completes SI. JE is fun, but starts to feel like bloat honestly. had i stayed with B&C i would have been perfectly happy.

@liekegerritsen1620

8 ай бұрын

If you would jump from B&C to Nature Incarnate you would only be missing the badland tokens (use the scenario markers from B&C instead) and element markers (be creative and make them yourself). The aspects in Jagged Earth are not that good so you wouldn't miss them. And you can still use almost all of the aspects in Nature Incarnate. Out of the 20, 2 are for the promos and 2 for Jagged Earth so you can still use the other 16

randomly run through your existing JE spirit rankings, hoping to see your updated list with NI.

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

That would take some time!!

I always thought of the sun baby from Teletubbies for Relentless Gaze of the sun but mario sun works well haha

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

😅

The Sun is great with cheap card that add blights. You can prevent the blight with your innate but get multiples times the super strong effect.

@TheBrokenMeeple

8 ай бұрын

It will take some practice!

Hi Luke, what's your favourite/most common player count? I've only played 2/3, haven't tried solo yet.

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

1-2 players, 3 only if playing with people better than me!

I think I need to dust off my copy of Spirit Island!

Just wondering Luke....you mention, you mentioned horizons in a podcast. Could you direct me to which one...would love to hear your take on it, and the spirits included. Thanks.

@TheBrokenMeeple

6 ай бұрын

Can't remember off top of my head sadly. But must have been one of the recent ones. As a quick summary, I think the game is fine as a 3 player max entry level into Spirit Island but of course it's limited to what's in the box including the 4 spirits. The included spirits are pretty cool though for adding to the normal SI.

@chosenoneunmatched4617

6 ай бұрын

@@TheBrokenMeeple Thanks for the answer. I ended up getting it. I couldn't help myself. I think I'm getting a little obsessed by SI. Haven't had the time to sit and play them yet...but am so excited to try them. Hoping for Jagged for xmas. I really think you might like Unmatched Luke. Especially now there is a cool version with Unmatched Adventures. It's like SI, incredible them, complex decsions, not nearly as deep as SI, but you have the added puzzle element of positional play to consider. If you haven't...you should honestly give it a try. I have all of the sets. (And hopefully will soon have all the spirits in SI...and I think I'm getting into sentinels as well...what have you done to me?!?!? 🤣🤣🤣)

Can't wait to get my copy 🤩

Woo! I was more excited about the aspects than the new spirits and the aspects are definitely amazing, but I found I liked the spirits more than I expected. Hearth-Vigil and Roots are very powerful (as is Earthquakes) and provide fresh takes on defensive spirits and the new adversary is also really well designed and fun to play against once you internalize the rules. I have a few thoughts on some of the spirits below if you’re interested: Darkness Down your Spine feels to me like a proper (and more complex) version of Shadows from the base game. I don’t think you need to rush the incarna empower and top track is fairly underwhelming but a mix of top and bottom track seems to work well. Indeed you want to plan out your growths (and delay reclaiming as much as possible) to time out the invader escapes, which involves prioritizing the second growth option (for more card drafts) and playing the card that puts presence into the Endless Dark (Reach from Infinite Darkness) on turn two because your presence can be the ones that escape from the Endless Dark on growth. Relentless Gaze was another I didn’t expect to like but I think it’s really fun and also quite strong. An interesting build I’ve seen is to grow along top track the first four turns (staying at one card play for a while), drafting a major on turn 1 (forgetting Wither), and setting up for a mid-game turn to play that major and repeat it 1-2 times (ideally the major generates a lot of fear and/or affects multiple lands, if your first major draft is bad try again in the following turn). I’ve done it and it was surprisingly good against a level 5 adversary. I think its unique power cards are actually really strong and undercosted (people probably overestimate Wither whereas it’s actually its worst card, though I’ll admit it’s fun to add those badlands) and the one that generates fear and skips invader actions is insane to repeat. With the spirit it’s also important to get to terror level 2 as quick as possible. I didn’t enjoy Wounded Waters as much from my one play so far but I think the idea is to draft on-element cards in the early turns and then have a big power spike in the mid-game by hitting the lower thresholds of your innates every turn.

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

Some good tips! :D

Pandemonium is lightning’s aspect not shadows:)

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

Ah yes........so I wonder which Shadows one I've used to great effect then. . . .

The pandamonium aspect you brought up for Shadows Flicker like flames belongs to the thunderspeaker. Did you mean a different aspect for Shadows?

@TheBrokenMeeple

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's the one that uses strife. Also I think pandemonium might be the lightning bird instead.

I love Spirit Island, but honestly not in a hurry to buy this. I've only tried some of Jagged Earth spirits once, probably haven't played all adversaries yet and barely touched scenarios. There is already a lifetime of content, and this is not even a final expansion. It's a good problem to have for the favourite game, but... How much is too much? They are putting out more than I can chew. Though I can always sell everything else and just play Spirit Island, hehe.

@rneumeye

9 ай бұрын

I agree... excited about the expansion... but I'm gonna be chewing on Jagged Earth and just now getting feather and flame. It'll be about a year before I think about nature incarcerate. But good on them for putting put such robust and worthwhile expansions. Some games change a butt load for an expansion and it's just a couple cards and tokens and it barely changes the game. Spirit Island is like.... "You call that an expansion....? Hold my beer." 😈📦📦📦📦📦

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

Yeah it's for the most dedicated players for sure.

How many of the aspects included here are for spirits from branch & claw or flame? I only have jagged earth and these 2 other exps don't really interest me much..

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

Very few if any for Flame. A few for Branch. Plenty more though for Base and Jagged.

@jfducusin7186

9 ай бұрын

i think its 2 for each spirit for BnC (total of 4) then 1 for wildfire, and 1 for serpent finder and downpour dont need aspects haha

Great video. Did you ever do a video for Horizons?

@TheBrokenMeeple

6 ай бұрын

I don't think I did, just mentioned it on a podcast at some stage but can't recall which one.

Can the spirts play across expansions?

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

How do you mean? Most of these spirits build upon principles set out in older sets or at least use the tokens for beasts, disease etc

@michaeljoesph8687

9 ай бұрын

@@TheBrokenMeeple ok great.

Branch and Claw makes SI feel complete, at least imo. Jagged Earth for me felt more like bloat. i like it but i could have stayed with BandC and been happy. ill likely never get Nature Incarnate. i dont need more tokens/action types. the alternate power cards for the previous spirits are all id really be interested in.

@liekegerritsen1620

8 ай бұрын

you can easily print them yourself, they are freely available on the spirit island wiki

Great information! But I suggest removing the jokes / clips from other media, they break the flow of the video.

@rneumeye

9 ай бұрын

It's kinda part of his style. 🤷🏻‍♂️ You get used to it after a while. 💁🏻‍♂️

@TheBrokenMeeple

9 ай бұрын

They're the signature part of the show, a way of differentiating the content and emphasising points being raised while adding a little humour but not going down the SUSD style cringe route. They aren't going away any time soon, many more like them then don't.

@chosenoneunmatched4617

7 ай бұрын

What a stupid comment! What was the point of this? Or are you just a misanthrope. Dont listen Luke. Your humour is spot on!!

@billable1861

6 ай бұрын

I honestly didn’t mind it they were appropriate to the commentary.

@TheBrokenMeeple

6 ай бұрын

@@billable1861 that's the idea, I know for a fact it's like 99% vs 1% on this.

Shave your hair. It's ok to be a little bald, it will look better trust me.