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5 out of 10
adamw
Clearly a game designed by those who love and admire Euro games - but without the polish. The graphical design is a mess which does not help matters. The system of stacking cubes and roofs is certainly fetching, but the rest of the game is a large homage to Feld games and yet without understanding *why* such mechanics are placed in a game. Some of the roof card rewards seemed to countermand the very fabric of the game: there's a place where breaking rules just makes the game silly. Burano is a golem of a Feld game - clumsier and faintly reminiscent, but not really alive.
6 out of 10
calconey
Worker Placement/Other / Italian historical city-building theme Culled; Overly convoluted. Pretty, but I did not find it compelling or tense enough.
5 out of 10
cbazler
Trajan is one of my favorite games, and I can see why people might compare this to it: there are multi-turn layers of planning on several parts of the board: clearing cubes on your player board, setting up cubes on the main board, planning fishing and lace actions based on color adjacencies, etc. But this game feels clunky: lots of little rules, too much bookkeeping, and spending an action just to move a cube one inch on your board is anticlimactic. Some of the building powers also don't seem very balanced. I liked a lot of mechanics here, but I'll need to play again to see if this will ultimately rise or fall for me. UPDATE: This fell after another play. There is simply too much randomness for the amount of strategic thought required, especially in the roof and fish draws, which can really swing the game. Sorry, this is no Trajan.

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Burano, also known as the lace island, is an island in the northern Venetian lagoon. Burano is extremely famous for its brightly colored houses, those square-shaped houses of a riot of colors along the water channels make it like a fairy tale land.

Fishing has been the main activity in Burano since its foundation. A story goes that while fishermen went a long-term fishing outside the lagoon, their wife who stayed and missed their husband took out needles and made lace like they mended their husband’s fishing nets.

In the Middle Ages, Burano lace was highly admired and widely requested by royal families all over Europe. Players represent a family leader on this little island. They can send men to fish for the main source of income, or send women to lacemaking to sale abroad. Making a good living and making Burano become world famous, you have to figure out how to organize family members to their suitable work. It depends on you to earn the glory for your family and lead them to be outstanding from other families.

Burano is played over four seasons, 14 rounds altogether. Through the novel "cube pyramid-driven" mechanism, players take turns paying coins to operate their cube pyramid during each round. The operation of the color-coded cubes would trigger certain actions, such as fishing, lace making, and house roofing, which will earn players victory points (VP). At the end of the game, whoever has earned the most VP wins.

Ages	12+
Players	2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time	90m – 120m
Designer	Eros Lin, Yu-Chen Tseng
Mechanics	Action Points, Area Majority / Influence, Pick-up and Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection
Theme	City Building
Publisher	EmperorS4, Lucrum Games, Quick Simple Fun Games, Broadway Toys LTD