King of Tokyo:
Was it fun? – I do think the game was fun, though it felt short, I did enjoy playing it and winning!
What were the player interactions? – after we had figured everything out, we just started attacking each other, in-game and verbally. I did enjoy the uniqueness of the game pieces like the player card with the life and the little green power cubes though.
How long did it take to learn? – I think the rules made it more complicated than it needed to be, taking us more time to figure out the specifics than playing the game it feels.
Would you play it again? – I think so, though it’s not really my type of game, I do enjoy the competitive aspect of it
Analyze the game using the 3-act structure. – Learning the rules and establishing them in the game, then playing the game as we understood it and interacting with the board, hearts, and ability cards, the lastly winning battles in the game and eliminating players, and I WON
What is the collaborative and or competitive aspects of the game? – the game is all about competition, battling over who will be the king of Tokyo, it came down to trying to save hearts, use abilities to your advantage, and then trying to win
What is the game’s metaphor and which of the game’s mechanics standout? – can you become the one and only king of Tokyo? The mechanic that stood out the most to me was the factor of how you could lose hearts, though you can gain them back with ability cards, it felt like it was a constant process to try to keep your hearts.
Bohnanza:
Was it fun? – I think the game was okay, I enjoyed the art more than playing the game
What were the player interactions? – trading cards, growing beans, and trying to keep similar cards. I think I enjoyed that aspect the most as I was with my friends, so it was easy to trade.
How long did it take to learn? – It was pretty confusing, we needed a lot of help at first but after we got it, it wasn’t too bad to play
Would you play it again? Yes, we didn’t play the whole length of the game, as we were supposed to get through the deck three times, and we only did it once.
Analyze the game using the 3-act structure. – Learning the game, and setting everything up, then beginning the step-by-step process each player is intended to do each turn, then gathering money by selling beans.
What is the collaborative and or competitive aspects of the game? – We collaborated the most by trading and gifting cards but competed by trying to get the most money from selling the beans
What is the game’s metaphor and which of the game’s mechanics standout? – “to bean or not to bean” The mechanic that stood out to me the most was the factor of gathering matching cards and trying to trade cards with the other players. I felt like not a lot of other games we have played have a positive aspect to player interaction with each other while maintaining the need to individually win
I really want to play Bohnanza sometime. It sounds interesting.