Whistle Mountain Review - A Glorious Mess of Euro Goodness
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Whistle Mountain, from Bezier Games, is a mash up of a ton of stuff. Polyomino, tableau building, cardplay, worker placement....and then a million different ways to break the game. Starting powers, in game gears with abilities, card play and an evolving board full of dozens of machines that will give you a headache with the amount of pathways of turning this into that in a beautiful mess of a game.
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TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:32 - Game Overview
0:06:25 - What I Liked
0:10:55 - What I Didn't Like
0:13:02 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:15:20 - Final Thoughts
Scoring System
5 - Great game. Period. It's in my collection. Obviously.
4 - Really solid game but for reasons X or Y, I'm just not willing to give it my top score. Almost always a game I'm adding to my collection.
3 - A solid game. May or may not enter/leave my collection depending on a number of factors such as other similar games, personal interest, people I play with etc. Sometimes can reflect a game's allure dropping over time.
2 - I'm either not the target audience, or too many issues with it.
1 - An arguably bad game.
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Excellent review. You touched on so many reasons why I love this game.
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
It's so much fun :)
I tried to buy this game during the gamnerdz sale, but it sold out before I could check out. It does look fun so I may buy it sometime in the future. And you just brought it back into my thoughts and added to my desire to have this game (was kind of take it or leave it feeling previously), so I may buy it sooner rather than later. Great review!
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
It's really great, messy but lots of fun
I have this one on my shelf...can’t wait to try it!
I just ordered it! I can’t wait to play it!
We love this game, so much fun... and that’s why we play. Luke Lauri is knocking them out of the park. His Cryo is fantastic too.
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
Yes he is :)
I just picked this up from my local game store. Eager to play it even more now.
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
It's a lot of fun :)
Shavua Tov. Thanks for another great review. We have played this game several times and really enjoy it. I do feel that it scales quite well, but is better with more than 2 players. It seems a little too open with two.
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
I can hear that. I've enjoyed it at 2 and 3 but agree that 3 was better.
Luke Laurie is on fire right now between this, Cryo, Dwellings of Eldervale! I am super excited to play this once my wife is up for it!
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
Yes he is :)
@RuffneckPenny
3 жыл бұрын
@@BoardGameCo Cryo review?
Would You house rule somehow to eliminate your only nitpick about point difference in machines? For example If difference is higher than 3 points, you could grab a extra resource, etc?
@BoardGameCo
2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't for this game. I try to only house rule when it really affects my opinion.
Played this for the first time today. It is a great game and we all really enjoyed it.
Great example with the 5 Tribes comment. Oh dear, 2 of my core group are slow players no matter what. I'm thinking 3 hours for our first try!
I've played it once and quite enjoyed it
Scott Caputo is one of my favorite game designers. Sorcerer City is still my favorite game to date.
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
He's on a solid high right now.
Love this game, can't wait to play this with 3-4 players. ( total chaos )
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
It's great with 2 and 3, haven't yet tried with 4
I really can’t wait to play this and cryo from Luke Laurie.
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
I need to get cryo played :)
Could you include if it could or will replace other games and player count 🙏
@BoardGameCo
3 жыл бұрын
Player count yes, replacing often takes more time
that accessibility to the ability "tiles" remind me a bit of LIttle town, except the fact that, in little town, players have to pay to use your tiles ! wich, at 3 players makes that little game a deeper tactical experience. Therefore, I'm really curious about the Whistle Mountain ! coz i like worker placement, and polyominos, it looks like so... "WTF is this game ?" a messy sandbox as you say ! So my question, linked to that messy mess... Is the game balanced ? Is there's a better players count to play this game ? Is it ok at 2, better or too long at 3/4 ? Cheers
Something I was surprised by was Whistle Mountain’s potential to be kind of cutthroat. We had a couple games where one player would lay down scaffolding in the hopes of putting a big machine there next time they rested and then every time other players would jump in and steal that spot for themselves and then that player’s machine ended up never getting built.
@shanerion
3 жыл бұрын
It’s true, but at least building scaffolding gives good points