T.I.M.E Stories: Madame

Board Game Geek Reviews

1. 5 out of 10

   rekath16

   I played [i]Madame[/i] solo Why? I had read all the comments before and discussed the problem with my game partner and we decided not to play it together, although we had played every single TS expansion before. In hindsight I am happy not to have played it with him because many of the game concepts would have made him angry. You never were 100% sure what your task was, but I decided to follow the little hints of Mike and/or Laura. But in the end it was a coincidence what solved the case. That was a shame. [o]Sure, you could get the vision from the woman and I absolutely did that, but in the end, I don't think you could connect the duke with the girl from the older pictures, because due to the art style many characters looked very similar. The new mechanic (fractions, nobility, reencounter the same receptables) was quite interesting. But I think all together it was too much of them. [/o] I won't talk about the end of the whole story. Due to the fact that I do not have a smartphone I even would not have been able to have that disappointment (QR-Code...). Is there written anywhere on the base game or expansion backsides that you need a smartphone to fully experience the story? Very bad...

2. 3 out of 10

   bigmac33070

   Ohhh boy, how bad this was. What a suck way to end this game. I will use spoilers so you won't know unless you want to: Spoiler (click to reveal) So, things I liked? More puzzles. I actually liked the King dancing puzzle and the labyrinth puzzle. That's all I liked. What didn't I like? Everything else: Random goals. You don't know what you're supposed to do until you essentially do it. I finished the game successfully and had NO idea that I was even close to finishing it. I flipped a card, had the right item and finished the game. Except for: The Epilogue: Ohhh god, what a waste. You need to have ALL of the cube cards from the other scenarios (I was missing the 2nd one from Under the Mask). Then you add up the lit squares and enter the code into the app. The big reveal? Try our next TIME Stories game. Ohhhh, no. Just no. The short runs. You only get 4 fucking T.U.'s per run!!!! There are ways to increase it in future runs (by acquiring certain items) but it was stupid. I had to use 11 runs to luck into the finish because of this. The different characters. You need to CONSTANTLY change characters and acquire new ones the whole adventure. This is what you are doing 95% of the time. Then, you have to know which ones to use in future runs with no advance knowledge. And, if you don't use the characters by the time they slide off the Codex spaces (4 runs), they get put back in the Item deck and you have to go find them again. I finally just kept them all in a pile and hoped I picked the right ones. PS: Find and use the Witch!!! SO awful. I will be selling my T.I.M.E. Stories collection and honestly I am ready to get rid of it. It quickly went from one of my favorite games to something I want to get rid of.

3. 3 out of 10

   WoodenBird

   For the first 90% of the game this was actually one of my favorite modules. On average the games rate about a 6 or 7 out of 10. The ending of this is so bad I have to rate this extremely low and I feel I must downgrade every game in the series. I hope others adjust their scores too.