Kickstarter Game Update: Week 5

[spacealien_vamp]

Looking back: Week 4

Games I Viewed:
Alien Uprising

Status: Funded

In this science fiction-themed game, players work together to repair their spaceship before they are overwhelmed with hostile alien creatures. I was interested because it is cooperative, but it appears to be a "tower defense" type of game (like Castle Panic), and that's not really my thing. Also, it uses a lot of dice, and that's not particularly a favorite mechanic of mine.

Cubist

Status: 21% funded

This is a tile-laying game in which the "tiles" are actually dice that are stacked to form three-dimensional shapes to earn points. I think the idea is really clever. I'm just not sure I'd want to pay $40 for what is essentially a set of 80 dice.

Sangoku

Status: Funded

In this game, players compete using cards illustrated with a Japanese mythology theme. I was intrigued by the theme, but unfortunately I find the art hideous. Also, the game is constantly compared to poker, and I detest poker. To top it off, it's a player elimination game. No, thank you.

Comments

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I'm perched on an early bird pledge for Alien Uprising (because that is how Kickstarter has taught me to be), but I'm only going to see it through if I decide I can't live without the X-14 "expansion" (a $10 add-on). The minis aren't exciting to me at all, and I'm betting I could pick the game up for less than $45 at retail.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Interesting that you find Sangoku's art hideous because that's the only thing I liked about that game. I do think they've chosen to depict some really unattractive creatures, but that's not a problem with the art so much as the concept.

[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

I do think they've chosen to depict some really unattractive creatures, but that's not a problem with the art so much as the concept.

Any art that can take a dragon and make it look like it has a pig's snout just isn't going to appeal to me.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Don't Eastern-style dragons usually have snouty faces?

[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

Don't Eastern-style dragons usually have snouty faces?

They often have big noses, but they're generally very long like a horse or crocodile, not flat-snouted like a pig or bulldog.

I think the artist did a nice, atmospheric job with the background scenery, but the living creatures strike me as ugly.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Well, I really like the Yousei art, which is what makes me think the problem is that someone has chosen ugly ("strong fighters"?) creatures for most of the game. But that's just splitting hairs, I guess. Whether it's good art of ugly creatures or ugly renditions of pretty creatures, if you don't like it, you don't like it.