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I've recently gotten my girlfriend interested in boardgames. She had never bought a boardgame in her life before and she hasn't liked them either. Now she has bought 6 games in the last few months and well, sometimes the games aren't the best games around...
I had very low expectations on this one. A relationship game, whee. I've played few and their replayability value is very close to zero and I was afraid this would be like that too.
Well, it wasn't that bad. As three cards are randomly drawn and compared to each other there are many different combinations that you need to put in order. This increases the replayability quite much as the fact that you've seen a card once doesn't completly "kill" the card.
Also, another thing I hate about relationship games are the questions. Dozens and dozens of questions about a couple's sex life. Who really likes answering these with few other couples listening? Or if there's a couple that likes answering this kind of questions, who wants to hear them?
There aren't THAT many of them. There are some, but not that many. The ones that are included are stupid and awkward, but they can be ditched if wanted so. Most of the cards and questions are nice though, spot-on and they are able to produce some laughter.
The two player variant is also ok. Not as a game, but as conversation starter on the things you hate and love about your partner. The sex questions work alot better than in multicouple game so it's a way to get a conversation going on a subject that might not be normally brought up.
The gameplay overall is very simple. Answer a question/compare the cards, move forward when you've answered correctly and repeat until you've crossed the finish line.
A small twist is the bonus card deck, that lets you try again after a failed attempt. It has a picture you need to describe in one word. You show the picture to everyone and your partner has three trys to guess what word you were thinking while the others can guess as many times as they want. It mostly isn't wise to use this though as it's pretty hard to come up with "inside" word.
In the end the game isn't bad and is probably only relationship game I've played that I don't mind playing again. I'm not really thrilled about it, but it won't be a totally boring and painful experience.
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