Tanares Adventures Review! 

Really like the fact that you titled and thumbnailed this in a way that doesn't feel "clickbait-y". Feels responsible and respects your audience

what an amazing review. THIS is how it should be Not an hour slog through - but quite the opposite of the Tanares rulebook. to the point and super clear. thanks man.... I know this must have taken a very long time but trust me.... as a user: fully worth it

While also appreciating the length and level of detail you have in your long-form reviews, I really like this "bite-sized" review that gets to the point quickly, too! Plus it is really well-worded! Thanks!

This was lovely. Bravo

Wow! watching a review of a game I have sitting 2 rooms away. Guess I'm a fan of your content. ;)

Michael, I believe you wrote this review out and then spoke it from your text. I prefer listening to you speaking extemporaneously, but I must say I prefer it only by a little. This was very well written, and a very clear review, and very well spoken. Plus I am looking forward to getting my $189 copy. Thanks.-Toby

Really good review. A bit of a different style for you, and it worked well. A more scripted approach, but delivered in the natural conversational style that you do so well. Great stuff!

Hey Michael, just a quick question for you. How far into the campaign did you get to play the game? I feel like it's always good to know how much of the experience you were able to get.

Somehow I forgot to watch this review. You've done a really good job of distilling down both the positives and negatives in a concise manner. Excellent work, and would love to see you do more stuff in this kind of style.

Excellent review. I love how this channel has matured. Great footage, great script and you covered everything I needed to hear. I’ve just backed this at the standee pledge but will probably bump up to the minis at some point.

This has been one of my favorite games. We played the Arena campaign a ton of times until TA came out and we are almost done with our first run through of the campaign and loved it. All of the changes they are making to the books are welcome. A few of the minis still could have been better or should have been updated, like Talessa, but hands down some of the best board game minis I've ever had. I'm glad you love this game too.

This is an excellent and very polished review. It really helped me in my decisions

Woah 3:45 I totally thought I was looking at Ultima Online for a second there. Half expected to see a nostalgic GUMP in the corner! LOL

The game shots were something really unique in the review-sphere. Keep it up as you have been able to innovate in the video review language for BGs.

Great review again KoA! Quick question tho, for a solo player that plays MP only very occasionally, would you pick this or oathsworn overall? Like factoring gameplay, ease to solo, story, ease to setup tear down etc.

Good job with the new review format. I need to dig into this as it is unopened on a shelf

I’m on mission 2 now. Liking the gameplay…hating the back and forth between all the books and maintenance.

I liked this review format. right lengh, good script, very well delivered.

We’re going to wait for the new mode. But I have to say: Arena was great and Tanares looks awesome. It scaled up to 8 players easy and we were never bogged down

Very nice review; great natural flow with really good polish 👍🏻 Arena/Tanares “luggage” is is my gaming room, but GH:JOTL solo campaign, and FH (4 pers) campaign are in full-swing…so, I guess I’m probably getting prepared for my retirement with a full room of gaming/painting! Oh yeah, Bardsung is hanging out in there too. Thanks for your continued commitment to great content presented via fine editing 👍🏻🤩

Great review! So, this or ATO?

You are kind of selling me on Odalin. I wasn't familiar with these designers. And Tanares sounds appealing. Now I'm more confident about their new project. Though I wonder how it relates, of course.

Love this review. Might not get the game but I really liked the review.

Awesome video! Well done. If I didn’t have 2 campaign games still waiting to fulfill I’d be jumping for sure.

Hey @King! One more time, great work! Your reviews continue to be some of the best around RU-vid. I wish that you have more time to do the reviews. Long live the KING!

I love Arena and I haven't yet broken into Adventures. Other than to check contents. Looking forward to starting a new campaign once our current home brew HeroQuest campaign is done.

Love the new shorter review format.

This was helpful! I want to spend the 800+ to get the deluxe edition on kickstarter 🤣

The captions said Daenerys Adventures and now I kind of want that. I'm tempted to go in on this, but there's soo much content and I still have a lot of games yet to arrive...

Fantastic video. Opening scene with all the characters to select from was breathtaking in scope. It was a nice change of pace from your usual conversational approach but one that should be limited imo to those games at the top of your list that deserve such lustrous cinematography. Appreciate both the positive and negative criticisms as you see them for the game. Enjoy the channel immensely.

Great review - very different to your usual style but still really enjoyed it

This was a super quality video, thank you. I don't think it'll be for me, but it's fun getting to know what has people excited.

I think this is the best vid of yours yet 🌟

Good review thanks!

Great review, and I love the style of how you spoke. Well done.

Amazing review, thank you! I’m very unclear as to what certain boxes add to the game, for example the Penumbral Pack, do you think it’s worth having?

Great review. Love the length. I am tempted to get this, just do not know if it would actually ever get played. Considering the $189 pledge and those dragons.

I am really enjoying your latest reviews

Another great video. I have the game and love it too. Your video makes me want to play it now :)

Fantastic! This is review heaven for anyone checking out the new campaign and wanting to know what’s up!

Good review. Looks interesting, especially coming from a D&D background. But I'm currently in the middle of ATO (with 2nd wave coming this fall) and Isofarian Guard. I also have Sleeping Gods, ISS Vanguard, Agemonia, Arydia and Kingdom Forlorn coming. Should I get it???

Love this style of review!!!

Chronicles of drunagor vs Tanares? Which would rather have if you could only one? Ease of play and set up?

I'm really debating with myself about what I will buy on this kickstarter. I have the Core game, Tanares and the madness box. I really think that I don't "need" the 189 Dollar Penumbral Pack and Legendary Pack... But do I even need the boxes, if I don't own that much stuff... I don't know. In any case, I will get the upgrade pack and Forteller. These times are really hard on the wallet... Nexus Battle Arena Combat System is coming up with a new Crowdfund and so much more cool stuff 🙈

So, I will not be jumping onto this project, at all. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore Tanares Adventures. It may, in fact, be my Game of 2023. I just can't do another Dragori project. It's too much. Sure, too much stuff overall but also too much invested time, patience, loyalty, frustration and so on... When we finally got Tanares Adventures after years of waiting, delays, excuses and whatnot, most of us still didn't get Arena. Some hobbyists like me cobbled together the necessary components needed and wrestled through the Tutorial and, actually, that was kinda fun. But it's also just bad on Dragori's behalf. Why? Cuz we, trailblazers, who helped Dragori get to where they are now are 'rewarded' with an odd collection of boxes, a janky onboarding and an Arena-Tanares experience that doesn't align - which is all fine to be fully honest - but we're now asked to invest even more money and time to 'smooth out' the system? Why do first edition backers always get shafted this way? Yeah, no, I'm done with that. I dumped all my minis into one box, put the boards into a smaller one and the rest of the components into the Tanares Box and am calling it a day. I don't need even more stuff that I'll probably get to in my lifetime (painting and playing), after all, I still have the RPG lore books to enhance the experience. I actually like my 'broken game' as I now have come to see it. But hey, I wish those who get their stuff early 2024...or late...or in 2025/26 lots of fun discovering Tanares with their fancy sotrage boxes that almost fit everything. I'm not rewarding Dragori for that crap no more. 😆Peace.

If ican pick 2 out of 3 between Tainted grail kings of ruin Tanares or aeon trespass Which would you pick since all 3 are available for late pledge

So looking forward to this one...

I haven’t found much on Tanares compared to other popular games out lately. Like Kings of Ruin, Oathsworn, ATO, etc. I haven’t played any of them and looking to grab one but have no direction. There’s so many coming out and they all sound so cool. Ugh I don’t want to spend $2000 on games to try that I’ll never ever finish all them. I spend way more than I should have on Middara already…

Nice review. I like the voiceover style compared to just talking in front of the camera while the components lie flat on table.

This was a great review! I was expecting to be tempted by the reprint, but not actually dive in...that is likely to change with all the praise it's getting, and the fact that they are listening to their backers who have played the game and actively addressing many concerns. Also, the theme is great, the minis look very qell done, and i love a combat heavy dungeon crawler. I especially love each player cannhave a team of heroes!!

Nice review, maybe this time I'll keep my pledge 😜 but I'd like to ask if you think that PvP and/or minis are worth additional money vs just standees pledge is good enough? 🙃

I wish they delivered the game. Sadly hundreds of backers still dont know when they will get their stuff. Now I need to decide if I want more of 2 games (Arena and Tanares) and a rpg without being able to test even one of them.

I really wish I waited to pull the trigger on this. Its one of the rare cases where a game comes back to crowdfunding and costs less. I cant even name one off the top of my head. In this campaign it appears the legendary box and the new content is included which gives new players about a $200 savings compared to what Ill end up paying after late pledging the 5E campaign and now this one. $200! Im gonna do it. I have to do it, i need my kallax back lol but man, this is a tough pill to swallow

Awesome review! As a two time returning backer and just backed for 35$ I will have everything except the Dragon collection. As I want my Bosses painted, it was just too much.

Great review. It was succinct but included detailed analysis, and the footage of the game components was more helpful than watching a talking head.

Coming here after the ultimate adventures release. I’m mixed on this game. I love the class system and character development, but I’m finding using the same board over and over to be quite boring. They do different mechanics to change the look aesthetically, but it still has the root board underneath. This is fine for a boss battler, but I feel as though Tanares wants to be a dungeon crawl without actually crawling through a dungeon. I gave this one 5 scenarios before packing it away out of boredom. I don’t necessarily have buyer’s remorse as I can use the minis for D&D and perhaps someone will homebrew a campaign that uses differing map tiles and not just overlays. But as it stands, this will be a shelf dust collector for a long while…

Any thoughts on the Standee Version? I'm getting the game but not sure should I get the standee or normal version. Standee version seem much more easy to store and table for my experience as from where I live, table space and storage space are usually very limited. But the one thing is the Standee Version have less content story wise, as it has 1 less campaign and no PvP. How much I'm missing if I go for the Standee Version?

Really struggle with which pledge level to get with the one

and koa when will you find the time to play a single session of tanares

Wow, great work !

Are the Legendary and Penumbral packs worth it? It appears in my limited research, they both give you more character types to play. Penumbral also gives a time traveling campaign to go back through a few missions you already did? And, of course, a bunch of miniatures. I just don't know if the miniatures are to supplement the current monsters (as in alternate poses) or if these are actually more monsters. And if more monsters, how do they integrate into the original campaign? Can you maybe explain these 2 packs in detail since they add so much to the cost of the game? EDIT: Also more PVP cards, which I'm not interested in.

Can you play this game sandbox like Massive Darkness 2? I like the minis, but don't care for huge campaigns. I only want to build my own levels and go from zero to hero in one gameplay then put back the game.

Jesus Christ 😂😂 0:04

Hey KOA! Do you write the music in your outro? I know you’ve mentioned things about music before. If not and you’d be interested in a change up ever let me know! I’d love to help! We have some sweet stuff just sayin…haha it would be an honor to have 5-10 seconds of something in your videos if you like it 🤘🏼

Even though everyone says this is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to campaign games, dang. $1000+ is too much for me. I'm an All-In-er so I'd have to go with the cosmetic option if I were to pledge.

Good balanced review

Am on the fence with this one, can anyone help explain a little more about the time constraint you are under and how it works. Generally I don't like games that have a timer and I need to rush and miss out things but not sure how it works here.

I just received my stuff. And honestly i regret backing, it is just too much stuff. I'm considering selling my stuff and buy the standee version in the current ks. If I keep it, i will surely don't start it before the storage solution from the current campaign arrives.

The Tanares campaign is almost a third of the way to equaling the Gloomhaven funding total... hmmm.

Super awesome👍

When I watcher the playthrough the jumping between books and seeing the person being confused killed the interest. To give it a thought I need to see a more streamlined version

They haven't delivered. I'm still waiting to receive a single thing I've ordered and Dragori's customer service is terrible. I'm chalking this up as a mistake for me, probably won't ever play it before selling it and won't be supporting Dragori again.

Don't know if it has been asked but do I need arena to play Tanares or is it standalone?

Yeah, the rules are mega fiddly until you get used to them. I am constantly having to fight off urges to go all-in on the new campaign though. So much FOMO! ;)

Dang that’s one hell of an endorsement..

Wow. This and Aeon's Trespass keeping you busy enough?

Honestly, I prefer videos where I can see you talking compared to this where you appeared to be reading from a script. Otherwise thanks for your thoughts.

Good video, but I miss the energy you have when you are before the camera. Sounded very scripted and the pro/cons were to quick away at the end. You should go back to the old format, where you listed and explained pro‘s and con‘s.

Bit more freestyle speech and less reading text please. This in my opinion the worst review you did ever. You talk positively, but there is no fire and power! To me this is not you to me. Only free speech from now on. Who cares about page 7 of the technical document…

Is this a paid for video? Its high praise from the king of doom and gloom otherwise!

You do a lot of negative review about late ks, bad communication, various problem in delay, errors etc . And for this just and elegy ? The worst ks i did ( and i did a lot of terrible still waiting )

How much did they pay you for this?