Senjutsu: Battle For Japan (Kickstarter – Early Bird Core Game Pledge)

Board Game Geek Reviews

1. 5 out of 10

   canglingy

   The solo AI deck construction feels like a chore to me, you have to make multiple small piles and then deconstruct it similarly after you are done. I have no issue of populating a deck for gameplay purposes. However, Senjutsu is a different level of fiddly deck building (for me) because I have to remake the deck every 15 minutes or less but for Pax Pamir as an example, a session could last up to 90 minutes. The pay off is not quite there. For a supposedly small game, the rulebook is quite bad and I find the interpretation of AI movement not very intuitive for me. Narrative campaign with meaningful decisions plus lasting impact was promised during the campaign but publisher pulled a bait and switch after the refund window is closed. There’s nothing like this in the game and at best we have some short comics without words or explanation. (This was quite a big let down for me personally but I was still willing to stick it out) Besides the fiddly deck construction (for me), there's also some very random moments when most of the cards drawn were defensive, so the pieces on the board would just be blocking air. This randomness in card draw also applies to a 2 player game. It might become good with reasonable time investment but with so many more games out there to be played. I’d rather move on from this and hopefully one day there will be a good tactical samurai campaign.

2. Dragonnox

   Big Box All-In, Includes: + Ghost in the Night + Legends + The Gathering Storm + The Shadow Under the Steel + The Wolf at the Door + When Two Worlds Collide + Winds of Change

3. 1 out of 10

   Finwe25

   Aun no me ha llegado pero solo viendo que a salido antes en tiendas que a los patrocinadores del kickstarter ya se merecs lo peor de lo peor.. Para mj es peor que no entregar el juego ya que es una falta de respeto absoluta