Spirit Island - GameNight! Se6 Ep 32 - How to Play and Playthrough

“Time Passages?”

fantastic 😇

Grueling to watch
Man o MAN!! What a boring game

You all are so fantastic. This is one of the greatest play through channels ever. I love that you all seem like people that I might meet in a game group. Keep it up, can't wait to see what else is on the way

I love to learn games with your play throughs! Thanks so much for doing this.

i was pretty surprised by the reviews at the end. nikki seemed bored and frustrated the whole time but then said she really liked it. aaron seemed pissed off at first but got super into the game but then gave it the most negative review. lincoln also seemed pretty frustrated by the game but then defended it when aaron attacked it.

I like the concept of this game, but in reality I know I would never play it and it would never be requested within my gaming partners. It just is not my type of game because the only aspect that I find interesting is the cooperative play, but the game is ugly (subjective), too much bookkeeping, too long to play, too pandemic like (do not like that mechanism), teaching issues (asymmetric games can be a bear to teach).
That being said I do appreciate that the group playing a game of this scale, but glad that they don’t do it that often 😀

Pandemic, Robinson Crusoe,( I already have and do play)just tired of the do or die. I want to enjoy the journey. Also all the up keep I agee is tiresome. Plus, its so easy to miss all the details. My top point is not pretty...😁. I appreciate the content as I now have a clear idea if this is for me. As I also have absolutly no game group for this. I'd try it in that case.

Wow did you make many mistakes....

Explorer don't generate fear and blight is only if there's more than 2 damage left afzer the dahan defend.

Or is there a difference between language versions?

Trashing such a beautiful game

As far as explaining and then playing games go, you guys are the go to video series. Love Daves explanation style, swear it doubles up as an ASMR listen once the rules have been learnt also.

STOP talking over the nice lady!

I knew I was in over my head when I noticed they didn't even start playing the game for 30 minutes.

River not using Blue tokens is a big mistake. Pretty sure that's in the rulebook

Oof, my tastes align with Aaron's, I love Arkham Horror, long and complex games, and Spirit Island is in my top 3 of all time. I think the negatives he brought up are non issue at all after playing a few times. It does not take 45 minutes to do a turn. About 15 in a 2 player game, 20 to 25 in 3-4 player games. Also the discussion and synergizing is what makes this game so much fun. I wouldnt want it to be any shorter or less complex. The bookkeeping issue he brought up. Im not sure where that is coming from, there are very few things to keep track of in this game. There is a clear structure and order to stuff happening, all easy to keep track of (there is a helper card for each player to glance at if needed). I think Aaron needs to give this one a few more plays. Perhaps in a 2 player setup.

Nice video!

Yeah, I agree with Nikki, because that constant talking, strategising and non-stop player interaction is what Spirit Island a perfect coop - it definetly take a long time to play, so as most "big" coop do, but in spirit island you always need to "connect" with other spirits, you always helping someone with something that their spirit can't do (or atleast can't do that efficient). And this is what makes it so good. Because in Eldritch Horror, Pandemic or other games yeah, you playing it one team and you need to help others... But you still feel alone or if someone keep forsing you to "make a move that they need", you feel "alpha-played". When in SI you just... Dk, connect with other players, you like some greater overmind that try to unpack how to overcome problems, but you still "part" of this collective and you need to help it... And being helped.

And yeah, expansion somewhat fixes problem with "predict and overcalculate everything" because it adds event deck and beasts, so at some point you just say "okay, this plan looks good enough, we don't need prepare ultimate-overcalculated one because something like unexpected plague or beast attack or many other things could screw our plan anyway", and then it really screw it, sometimes in a bad way, but sometimes in good. You was worried about this pack of explorers? Well... They are not there more, thanks event deck! And because there is so much events - you never could be shure what comes next, and it really help with AP, atleast in my group.

seemed like a few cranky players on this one

one of my favorite games, cant get enough! 2nd expansion just came out too

Way to complicated.

You couldn't learn how to play most games from these videos, what with all the "mistakes" and all. Plus, Dave would give Rolf Harris the creeps. I'm amazed Nikki hasn't stabbed him yet, gien how he is with her.

to be fair not only was it a really long game due to it being 4 players, but aaron got the least straightforward spirit of the 4 basic ones and arguably the weakest in the entire game, so that could have compounded the negative experience as well. Either way, not everyone needs to like every game I understand that, I am just saying that it is possible that another spirit and a shorter player count might solve the issues aaron has with it. Also the invaders phase can be streamlined somewhat by everyone doing the invader phase on their starting board, instead of all four of you checking all lands one by one. Granted they would have to be familiar with how invaders work, but it definitely speeds it up, helps get the game flowing

grate game thx for showing and playing it I will add this to my colecetion one day

Alfa gamers? This game was not supposed to have them but ... Good video all the same.

I love when Aaron actually disagrees. The fact is if you say it is all great you don’t get good feeling on the game. This game looks like every time you add a player it adds mental complexity. It looks like first time you should play with 2 or 3 and once everyone is good with it then you try 4. I wish I could give it a shot ... then Cov is making sure most of us did not get to do things.

Let me guess, you won.

Aaron: "A good one hour game that takes three hours." Perhaps the player count and lack of game experience inflated the play time? I don't think I would want to play this game for three hours, but if we can play it in one I might pick it up.

I hate this xenophobic game where some people refuse to share Earth and kill refugees through terror, magic, diseases, feral beast etc because they feel "racially entitled" to do so. Just because they were born somewhere and they follow some imaginary spirit that conveniently tell them what they want to hear or do.
Good show otherwise.

Game length wise, definitely should never be played with 4 unless everyone's an expert. 2 player is great moving on to 3 when you've all several games experience

This game is one of my favorites, the group I play with and I decided to each take care of our own little island tile at least for the first couple turns, and then only ask for help or say where we can help to keep the game fast, since organizing every action of every player takes a great deal of time since you are going back and forward among the whole possibilities.

Awesome game playthrough guys!

AAAAH they keep healing towns before slow powers!!!

Other than that, real fun :)

Great series guys. I enjoyed watching it! :)

I have two questions:
1. If the invasion ravage for example in a swamp and there are two Dahan and one town and one city, does get the land a blight? Because I'm not sure if it is the difference between the attack damge of the invasion minus the defense of the Dahan which is dealt to land
OR
if the Invasion deals damage to Dahan and at the same time the equal amount of damage to the land.
I'm aware of the 2 damage minimum rule to place a blight token.

2. Do the cards I "purchase" come firstly into my hand and then in my personal pile of graveyard (deck) after playing it? So if I claim my graveyard back into my hand I have all the cards I have "purchased" over the whole game?

best greets and hope someone can help me out. :D

What Aaron said at the end of the game, that's how I felt when I've played GAIA Project. This game is amazing.

During set up, I believe you are suppose to put blight from the box onto the board and not from the blight card. The blight from the card only comes off when you start the game.

the first time i played this game i thought, "is this winnable? am I playing it correctly?". i'm going to try my second game soon.

I think everyone had a strong opinion of this game whether they loved it or hated it. The majority of criticisms about the game from Aaron I consider major strengths of this game and what lends itself to high replay ability. I do think there should be more markers to note reminders, abilities, defending.

I really like this game solo or with 2 players but honestly 4 players looks like an absolute nightmare. Way too much going on.

“I helped!” Ok, good boy. Here’s your cookie.

Dave was playing that the repeat action had to be paid again but I don't think that is the case unless the power specifically states that it does. The glossary for repeat just says that you don't get the element a 2nd time (which I don't think he did).

Thank you guys for playing this one! I pulled it off the shelf and forgot a few things. Love love love your videos. Thanks for doing a meaty game. This one was well deserved!

you should play some Meko Card Games Farm Game next

Looks like you kept the build pieces out after showing how they would be played for the first round, meaning you didn't have your turn before pieces were played for the invaders.

Nikki is holding herself together pretty well playing Mansplain Island

I noticed you guys weren't removing spirit presence tokens when Blight was being added to an area.

the alpha gamer is in, i repeat, the alpha is here