jPlay plays Back to the Future: Back in Time - Part 1 

Great that it is somewhat useful :) Thanks so much for your comment and enjoy your game!

Awesome - great to know you're watching my back! :)

If you would ask me about boardgame themes, I would always come back to Western-themed ones too though! Yeah those dice rolls... but actually in a game like this I prefer some randomness over too puzzly games. Let’s see how things go in part 2 ;-)

Thanks for watching but better learn from my mistakes ;-)

Thanks, Patrice. As always you are presenting a great reflected view on games! The luck factor is definitely a thing in the game! Dice, random card draws, random power tiles etc. Overall there are some mitigation mechanics but in the end you're hoping for a "6" to be rolled :-D But as I also enjoy games like AH, EH etc. I am ok and simply enjoy the ride!

I just finished watching your playthrough. I agree that the game has in some areas a nice replay value (amount of trouble cards, different player tiles, items, ect.), but at the same time I'm worried that this is the kind of game where you can reach relatively early and obviously a state that is unwinnable. I'm also not sure how much pressure the game puts on the players' various tasks (moving the DeLorean, ect.), because if the pressure is indeed too high, turns suddenly become automated in the sense of "I have to do this now, or we will lose". That being said, this can be said about many cooperative games, but many of them also control this aspect with a random element, allowing the players to go for risky push-your-luck turns. The way the Infection Deck in Pandemic works is a good example for this: If there are critical hotspots, they obviously need to be taken care off, but maybe it will be fine for 1 more turn and the player has the freedom to do something else -- or a special (event) card helps preventing a catastrophe and the game dictating what to do. You mentioned Eldritch Horror, of which I am also a fan of, and here the same thing is achieved with the Mythos Cards' different random sets of icons (-> maybe Reckoning effects will trigger, maybe not). The turn track in Back to the Future: Back in Time is on the other hand pre-determined, which seems more fair and plannable at first glance, but for said reasons I think it backfires and hurts the game a bit. (I will post my comments on BGG too once you uploaded the videos there to encourage discussion there.)

Haha - I almost did the same and even ordered it from the US! I mean the other one is not really bad but feels a bit more bland compared to this one.

Wow - it’s been a while I watched something on VHS. Would be cool to watch a nice 80s or 90s flic again :)

I think you have to resolve each card individually, so each roll should be unique for each card encountered. But I could be wrong and maybe this has been answered on BGG already. Of course I sounds somewhere epic the way you are engaging it from a thematic perspective ;-)

Yeah, I know but the movie didn’t age particularly well, so that’s most definitely a hard pass for me.

@@realjplay I've never seen the movie.

Don’t start with it now then ;-)

@@realjplay Come on - you don't wanna put E.T. in the bike basket?

I never was into Fast & Furious but the game looks quite fun actually. Have never player "Horrified" but this one looks very "streamlined" for my taste. Would you recommend it?

@@realjplay For Fast and Furious game, I would recommend watching Furious 6 and Furious 7 first because the game scenarios are from those movies (so helps to visualize during the game). Horrified is good and has some fanmade monsters on BGG to add variety. At price of $25-30 each, they are good values. They are definitely not $50 games. But then, most $50 and up games disappoint (me).

@@realjplay Just watched the latest Fast and Furious movie. I smell expansion scenarios (official or fanmade).

How many are there now? 26? ;)

@@realjplay Stallone's getting old but maybe he can team up with Dom and the gang for the next movie.

Easy - the game plays from 2-4 players; the turn tracker scales the game for the most part.

Yeah, it’s not super intuitive. Thanks for your comment!