Rodney I got Near & Far for Christmas and finally got to play it for the first time today, with my wife and a couple of friends! We just played the first map and we had so much fun! I came 3rd (and I HATE losing!) but still thoroughly enjoyed myself. This and Scythe are now both my all-time favourite games, although I think N&F would pip the post in just the fact that gameplay feels friendlier than Scythe and less of a "battle". One of my friends also agreed N&F is now her favourite game, too! I just want to thank you because it is through your videos that I discovered it, several months ago, and your tutorials and gameplay with Pep made me fall in love with it, and now I've played it it more than lived up to expectation!!! Amazing game.
My son and I have now done 3 out of the 10 maps for a Campaign. I really enjoy it! My biggest gripe is that, once the quests are exhausted, it then just becomes a game about racking up points. In Above & Below you could go questing as much as you wanted and could get 7 quests in a game sometimes, while here you get maybe 4 and then the story-telling part is done. Other than that, though, it's pretty brilliant.
I'm SO getting this game for Christmas! You and Pep have well & truly sold it to me through your awesome demo's. Just wanna say, I absolutely LOVE your channeĺ. You guys have such a great vibe about you, and I love the warm and bright presentation of your videos. I love the Dice Tower and a couple other channels, but you've fast become my favourite. You have a great way of explaining games in an accessible manner. I run out of superlatives to describe your channel! Just absolutely love it. Thanks for all the time and energy you put in to these videos. The effort really shows in the high quality! Thanks for bringing so much to the table, so to speak.
Nice touch to be able to add players midway through a Campaign Mode! Maintaining that continuity is getting harder and harder as we all get busier and busier. Thoughtful include.
Been a fair bit since I’ve played this (Oath, Sleeping Gods), but I recall a catch-up system based on average points or some such. I do remember we used it frequently and it did not appear to punish either new or established players.
This game looks like it would be so much fun! I really hope that they are going to publish it in german some time down the road, like they did with "above and below". Thanks for your reviews, awesome insights into the game. :)
Hello Rodney, thanks for the awesome series on this title. Before I jump in, do you know if you get much spoiled by hopping game modes ? For instance if you play a certain mode for a while, are you spoiled a bit, a lot or not at all if you then play again in a different mode ? (from a narrativve storytelling point of view) Thanks, in advance ;-)
@@WatchItPlayed I confirm that Character and Campaign modes are totally independent. I would also like to mention that adding the Amber Mines expansion right from the start adds quite a lot of great content and game options for a very affordable price :-)
About how many games does it take in Character Mode to play 3 players through to completion without adding the additional quest token as you suggested?
I'm going to guess arcade mode. Campaign and Character mode have too many story spoilers and only really matter for playing more then one game. Plus I know that you will love improvising a story when those arcade cards come up.
