Full Transcript for Chasing Lorcana and our Review of After Us

box, so it actually came in the same type of box that originally we received it in. 00:04:55.791 --> 00:05:00.269 So we're going to actually crack that open play tonight. 00:05:00.730 --> 00:05:07.492 Yeah, it was really cool to see something that we had a part in the Kickstarter. 00:05:07.492 --> 00:05:15.288 That was our first opportunity to help with a game and it was cool to actually see the finished project. 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:23.449 Yeah, to see it from the beginning to the end, something bizarrely, I don't want to say the user word proud, but it was. 00:05:23.449 --> 00:05:29.016 It was like I opened the box and I showed Pam and I said look at here, this is that game. 00:05:29.016 --> 00:05:30.079 You remember what I was talking about? 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:31.163 I showed you that video. 00:05:31.163 --> 00:05:31.925 This is it. 00:05:32.406 --> 00:05:32.687 Yeah. 00:05:32.726 --> 00:05:33.468 She thought it was very cool. 00:05:33.468 --> 00:05:44.971 I have to share things with her because nobody else in my immediate circle at work thinks anything I do is remotely interesting at all. 00:05:44.971 --> 00:05:49.071 I tell them and they just get that blank look on their face. 00:05:49.071 --> 00:05:53.543 I don't even get the oh okay, nice, they don't even fake it. 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:59.262 I've got a couple people at work that I think are genuinely interested, but I think the rest of them just fake it. 00:06:07.024 --> 00:06:08.447 I really do. 00:06:08.447 --> 00:06:16.139 It is time, once again, our quiz is going to have something to do with today's topic. 00:06:16.139 --> 00:06:29.732 I was not going to redo this quiz because I had a quiz which I thought was really good, very prepared, but we did, at the last moment, change to night's topic. 00:06:29.732 --> 00:06:37.932 So, to keep it on track, I've got a new quiz and I think it's still really good. 00:06:37.932 --> 00:06:42.749 So today we are talking about. 00:06:42.749 --> 00:06:43.571 What are we doing? 00:06:43.571 --> 00:06:45.846 What game are we reviewing? 00:06:45.846 --> 00:06:47.410 Tell everybody. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.887 Well, we're going to be reviewing the game after us. 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:55.512 So the quiz is going to have to do with primates. 00:06:56.951 --> 00:07:00.846 Yes, awesome, something I'm totally familiar with. 00:07:00.846 --> 00:07:02.411 That's my jam. 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:04.523 Well, it's not necessarily. 00:07:04.523 --> 00:07:09.333 Oh yeah, it has to do with primates, but this is entertainment. 00:07:09.333 --> 00:07:12.725 So we're going to say first question, chris. 00:07:12.725 --> 00:07:15.471 Each question is going to be worth two points. 00:07:15.471 --> 00:07:24.190 There's going to be a bonus question worth three, so that will total us up to 15 points. 00:07:24.190 --> 00:07:26.814 You're possible. 00:07:26.814 --> 00:07:29.829 Your possible max points is 15 points. 00:07:29.829 --> 00:07:30.642 Are you ready? 00:07:30.642 --> 00:07:31.286 Everybody? 00:07:31.769 --> 00:07:47.021 Oh, everybody, yes everybody, because I know we have listeners from all around the world, so as you are traveling, I want you to think about these questions and if I'm wrong about any of these answers, you have a better knowledge on the topic of primates. 00:07:47.021 --> 00:07:56.766 Please leave a comment somewhere below on YouTube, our Instagram, our Facebook, DM us anything. 00:07:56.766 --> 00:07:57.367 Let me know. 00:07:57.367 --> 00:08:00.649 Angie, you were wrong, Okay. 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.826 You want to see how quickly people will start listening to that? 00:08:02.826 --> 00:08:07.048 Angie will send you $5 for every time she gets a fact wrong. 00:08:08.043 --> 00:08:08.547 There you go. 00:08:10.963 --> 00:08:15.673 Oh, I've listened to a podcast that did that one time and they actually paid up for it. 00:08:15.673 --> 00:08:18.024 And now they're really good at fact checking themselves. 00:08:18.103 --> 00:08:18.605 Oh are they. 00:08:18.785 --> 00:08:22.430 Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's pretty cool, they're actually in the board game space too. 00:08:23.211 --> 00:08:23.673 Oh, wow. 00:08:23.932 --> 00:08:25.665 Yeah, it's Rolling Dice and. 00:08:26.697 --> 00:08:26.978 Taking Names. 00:08:26.978 --> 00:08:37.062 Ah, okay, okay, well, yeah, you know, maybe we should, because there are a couple of times I found myself afterwards going. 00:08:37.062 --> 00:08:39.509 I hope nobody really listened to that closely. 00:08:39.509 --> 00:08:46.869 I hope you're just listening for the entertainment, because sometimes the facts might not always be right. 00:08:46.869 --> 00:08:56.947 Okay, all right, let's hit it, hit it, hit it, quiz time, which is not a real ape movie. 00:08:56.947 --> 00:09:11.187 Return from the planet of the apes, congo ape versus monster or space chimp, which is not a real movie. 00:09:11.587 --> 00:09:11.727 Yep. 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:18.572 Space chimp ape versus monster Congo, or return from the planet of the apes. 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:22.408 Return from the planet of the apes, not return to the planet of the apes. 00:09:24.563 --> 00:09:25.407 Well, I'm not sure. 00:09:26.541 --> 00:09:27.865 Five bucks people? 00:09:27.865 --> 00:09:29.409 No, just kidding, All right. 00:09:30.081 --> 00:09:32.028 I have returned from the planet of the apes. 00:09:32.539 --> 00:09:36.533 Well, I'm in order to save you five dollars. 00:09:36.533 --> 00:09:38.220 I'm just going to make sure. 00:09:38.259 --> 00:09:39.284 I made up this quiz. 00:09:39.284 --> 00:09:40.725 What are you looking at? 00:09:40.725 --> 00:09:45.889 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:09:45.889 --> 00:09:50.486 All right, fine, there may be other planet of apes questions on this, okay. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:55.047 Well then, that tells me that return from the planet of the apes is not a real movie. 00:09:55.307 --> 00:10:04.546 That's

right, that's right, I could have just wrote it down right, Because when you said return, you said return of. 00:10:04.546 --> 00:10:07.390 I'm thinking that might have been a better title. 00:10:07.390 --> 00:10:08.773 Return to, Return to. 00:10:08.773 --> 00:10:12.589 Yeah, I'm thinking that might have been a better title, so maybe I should tweak it. 00:10:13.100 --> 00:10:15.828 I actually think there is a movie called Return to the Planet of the apes. 00:10:16.961 --> 00:10:17.764 We'll find out. 00:10:17.764 --> 00:10:18.927 Okay, we'll find out. 00:10:19.067 --> 00:10:19.467 Ooh clever. 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.765 How many planet of the apes movies are there? 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:29.186 Like counting the originals in the reboot. 00:10:29.687 --> 00:10:29.907 Yes. 00:10:32.955 --> 00:10:33.174 Six. 00:10:34.538 --> 00:10:34.639 Nine? 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:39.009 Ooh, I originally thought it was six too, and then I looked it up someplace else. 00:10:39.009 --> 00:10:43.508 The original planet of the apes. 00:10:43.508 --> 00:10:53.618 Was it 1975, 1960, 1968, or 1980? 00:10:53.618 --> 00:10:54.539 1968. 00:10:54.539 --> 00:10:57.769 That is correct. 00:10:57.769 --> 00:10:59.024 That is correct. 00:10:59.024 --> 00:11:00.664 So you have two right. 00:11:00.664 --> 00:11:06.163 So you have four points In the original movie. 00:11:06.163 --> 00:11:10.792 Which monument was found destroyed on that beach? 00:11:10.792 --> 00:11:17.549 Was it the Eiffel Tower, statue of Liberty, a pyramid or Mount Rushmore? 00:11:17.691 --> 00:11:19.274 That's an easy one it's the Statue of Liberty. 00:11:19.899 --> 00:11:22.649 Maybe not for everybody driving along the highway. 00:11:22.649 --> 00:11:25.326 I don't want them to get in an accident while they're going. 00:11:25.326 --> 00:11:26.067 Wait, wait, wait. 00:11:26.067 --> 00:11:26.730 What was it again? 00:11:26.730 --> 00:11:29.307 It was the Statue of Liberty. 00:11:29.307 --> 00:11:36.409 Six points for Chris, in chronological order. 00:11:36.409 --> 00:11:45.609 So that is a movie that would take place first, not the first one made. 00:11:46.135 --> 00:11:50.248 Oh my gosh, thank you for explaining to me what chronological order is. 00:11:50.248 --> 00:11:54.578 Yes, yes, I thought it was just randomly. 00:11:54.578 --> 00:11:57.643 You know how the story went, Okay, got it? 00:11:57.663 --> 00:11:58.183 Yeah, it is. 00:11:58.183 --> 00:11:59.605 It's how the story goes. 00:11:59.625 --> 00:12:01.006 Chronological order. 00:12:01.168 --> 00:12:03.110 You know like From start to finish. 00:12:03.389 --> 00:12:06.062 Yes, All the way in the correct order, got it. 00:12:06.514 --> 00:12:09.764 So my question is which movie comes first? 00:12:09.764 --> 00:12:11.620 So I'm going to give you four movies. 00:12:11.620 --> 00:12:13.721 You got to tell me which one comes first. 00:12:13.721 --> 00:12:25.140 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, planet of the Apes, rise of the Planet of the Apes or beneath the Planet of the Apes? 00:12:27.375 --> 00:12:29.081 It's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. 00:12:30.434 --> 00:12:33.399 No, it's Rise of the Planet of the Apes. 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:38.889 Oh, you're still sitting at four points, four points. 00:12:38.889 --> 00:12:46.639 Okay, now we're kind of switching a little bit, although, should I tell you chronologically? 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:52.884 I will tell you what they are, because everybody's wondering Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011. 00:12:52.884 --> 00:12:56.764 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014. 00:12:56.764 --> 00:12:59.842 War for the Planet of the Apes. 00:12:59.842 --> 00:13:04.360 Then, planet of the Apes, beneath the Planet of the Apes. 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:06.880 Escape from Planet of the Apes. 00:13:06.880 --> 00:13:10.142 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. 00:13:10.142 --> 00:13:13.062 Battle for Planet of the Apes. 00:13:13.062 --> 00:13:14.818 How many of these movies did you see? 00:13:15.894 --> 00:13:16.496 Not all of them. 00:13:16.958 --> 00:13:17.279 Okay. 00:13:18.115 --> 00:13:20.620 Don't watch movies about damn dirty apes. 00:13:24.674 --> 00:13:42.322 In this game in After Us there are the main primates on the board are the Mandrel, the Rangitang, the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee. 00:13:42.322 --> 00:13:44.738 One of those are not an ape? 00:13:44.738 --> 00:13:47.977 Which one is not an ape? 00:13:50.034 --> 00:13:51.818 The Gorilla, because a gorilla is a gorilla. 00:13:58.438 --> 00:14:00.221 Do you want to re-do that answer? 00:14:02.966 --> 00:14:04.149 I was half listening to you anyway. 00:14:04.149 --> 00:14:04.809 What was the question? 00:14:04.809 --> 00:14:11.323 I was trying to quietly put my water bottle down because I'm struggling here hun. 00:14:11.563 --> 00:14:12.806 You are, you are. 00:14:12.806 --> 00:14:13.826 So you have six points. 00:14:13.826 --> 00:14:14.668 You're at six points. 00:14:14.668 --> 00:14:15.710 Let's see if you can get to eight. 00:14:15.710 --> 00:14:19.423 So how about this? 00:14:19.423 --> 00:14:24.163 Which of these four primates in the game are not an ape? 00:14:24.163 --> 00:14:30.145 Mandrel, rangitang, gorilla or Chimpanzee? 00:14:30.145 --> 00:14:42.421 See, considering they keep talking about everybody being apes, I thought everybody was an ape until I was doing the Meeple quiz and I found out one of those are not apes. 00:14:42.962 --> 00:14:46.322 Mandrel, you are right there, what is a mandrel? 00:14:46.936 --> 00:14:48.381 A mandrel is a monkey. 00:14:48.381 --> 00:14:49.720 Monkeys and apes are not the same. 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.543 They come from two distinct evolutionary lines. 00:14:53.543 --> 00:14:57.760 So what is the difference between apes and monkeys? 00:14:59.514 --> 00:15:02.643 What is the difference between apes and monkeys? 00:15:02.643 --> 00:15:04.166 Red butts. 00:15:05.035 --> 00:15:06.360 No, but it is the butt. 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:07.658 Apes don't have tails. 00:15:07.658 -->

00:15:11.303 So there really is only so many apes. 00:15:11.303 --> 00:15:22.304 There are Rangitang, Gorilla, Chimpanzee, and then I think there's something else in there Are the mandrels, the one with the bright red butt, the blue butt, the blue butt. 00:15:22.304 --> 00:15:32.148 The blue butt, I think, the bombons got the red butt, but the mandrel doesn't have a very big tail, if you look at that picture. 00:15:32.148 --> 00:15:35.880 There might be some sort of exceptions between some of the tails, but I'm not positive. 00:15:35.880 --> 00:15:41.846 So you had 8, 8 out of 15. 00:15:42.274 --> 00:15:44.644 So monkeys don't have tails. 00:15:44.806 --> 00:15:45.629 Monkeys have tails. 00:15:46.693 --> 00:15:46.995 Oh, okay. 00:15:48.278 --> 00:15:51.034 Apes don't have tails Interesting. 00:15:51.034 --> 00:15:52.879 But it's not so much that, but it's. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.264 The evolutionary lines, apparently, are different. 00:15:55.264 --> 00:16:00.965 We are closer to apes than monkeys. 00:16:00.965 --> 00:16:06.701 I thought that was very interesting because then I was looking at the game and I wanted to see how the game was worded. 00:16:06.701 --> 00:16:08.500 Was it worded primates? 00:16:08.500 --> 00:16:10.962 They do use the tamarinds. 00:16:10.962 --> 00:16:15.003 That's why I didn't include the tamarind in the list, because they are monkeys. 00:16:15.003 --> 00:16:19.080 But so that's why I did when you were up here. 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:27.240 I am looking at the box, looking at the rules, because I did want to go look and see how it was worded, because even when I did the video I said apes. 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.884 It says apes in the rules. 00:16:30.884 --> 00:16:34.024 They use the word primate at one point, but it does say apes. 00:16:34.235 --> 00:16:38.666 So primate would be the word to use for all of them. 00:16:38.666 --> 00:16:41.662 Yes, Okay got it Interesting. 00:16:41.662 --> 00:16:44.761 I learned something today during this quiz. 00:16:45.082 --> 00:16:47.687 And you know what, if the designer of this quiz is listening? 00:16:49.038 --> 00:16:51.313 Designer of the quiz is the one game or quiz. 00:16:51.414 --> 00:16:52.640 Yeah, I am the designer of the quiz. 00:16:52.640 --> 00:16:57.268 If the designer of the game is listening, he learned something too. 00:16:59.273 --> 00:17:05.221 Yes, I'm sure, I'm sure. 00:17:07.994 --> 00:17:09.479 So let's talk about GACPAN. 00:17:10.381 --> 00:17:11.222 Is that the end of the quiz? 00:17:11.222 --> 00:17:13.268 Yeah, like that's just it. 00:17:13.268 --> 00:17:18.307 It's just going to fizzle to the end. 00:17:18.307 --> 00:17:22.684 You're not even going to give me my total. 00:17:23.145 --> 00:17:25.058 I did, you weren't paying attention. 00:17:25.179 --> 00:17:26.363 Angie, you did not. 00:17:26.363 --> 00:17:27.144 Yes, I did. 00:17:28.258 --> 00:17:33.825 Oh my gosh people, when you listen back to this and you're doing your editing, I so did. 00:17:34.045 --> 00:17:35.297 No, you didn't, you went. 00:17:35.297 --> 00:17:36.463 Oh, you know what's cool about monkeys. 00:17:37.275 --> 00:17:38.738 I told you after that. 00:17:38.738 --> 00:17:41.702 Here's the Baloney I did. 00:17:41.702 --> 00:17:43.144 I got. 00:17:43.164 --> 00:17:43.605 I did. 00:17:43.605 --> 00:17:44.667 I have 12 points. 00:17:44.667 --> 00:17:47.653 No, you don't 12 points, 12 out of 14. 00:17:47.653 --> 00:17:48.954 You have eight points. 00:17:48.954 --> 00:17:55.346 Tell me how I got eight points and I'll tell you if you're wrong. 00:17:55.346 --> 00:17:55.508 Okay. 00:17:56.335 --> 00:17:59.505 You got the question which primate is not an ape. 00:17:59.505 --> 00:18:04.402 You got that correctly because you guessed you did not get the chronological order. 00:18:04.402 --> 00:18:07.642 You got the original movie monument. 00:18:07.642 --> 00:18:14.288 You got the year it was made and you got which title was not a real ape movie. 00:18:14.288 --> 00:18:15.920 You got eight out of 15. 00:18:17.394 --> 00:18:18.400 I thought it was 14. 00:18:19.457 --> 00:18:23.247 No, it's 15 because I was going to give you three points for the bonus round. 00:18:23.247 --> 00:18:25.539 You know, keeping it as a nice 15. 00:19:37.195 --> 00:19:42.482 I'm looking at my microphone as if I'm breaking the fourth wall and looking into the face of every one of our listeners right now. 00:19:42.775 --> 00:19:43.799 I said 15. 00:19:44.421 --> 00:19:50.105 Okay, just like when I go back and listen to the fact that you never told me my total score. 00:19:50.126 --> 00:19:50.727 Do you know what? 00:19:50.727 --> 00:19:53.081 Do you know what you have to do? 00:19:53.081 --> 00:19:58.974 You have to come back as future Chris and apologize. 00:19:58.974 --> 00:20:02.585 Okay, I need to apologize because you listened to very carefully. 00:20:02.585 --> 00:20:06.443 I know I said you got eight out of 15. 00:20:06.443 --> 00:20:08.836 I know when you. 00:20:08.836 --> 00:20:12.765 I listened to you when you edit, because you are meticulous. 00:20:12.765 --> 00:20:16.663 How many times you listen to this podcast back? 00:20:16.663 --> 00:20:26.185 It annoys the heck out of me and I never want to listen to it again because, after it's all done, you're like Angie, listen to this before I upload it. 00:20:26.185 --> 00:20:30.044 I'm just like I don't want to listen to that anymore. 00:20:30.044 --> 00:20:36.546 I want future Chris to come back and apologize at the end of that. 00:20:36.546 --> 00:20:38.686 And you know what? 00:20:38.686 --> 00:20:40.497 And you know what. 00:20:40.497 --> 00:20:49.107 I want future Chris to come back wearing wet socks when he apologizes to me. 00:20:51.111 --> 00:20:51.253 Okay. 00:20:52.116 --> 00:21:05.768 Because you got wet socks on the beach and at Planet Apes, when they find Statue Liberty, they are on the beach and he falls down and screams because he realizes they are on earth. 00:21:05.768 -->

00:21:08.782 And he falls on the beach and gets wet socks. 00:21:08.782 --> 00:21:09.584 Boom. 00:21:09.584 --> 00:21:12.761 Continuity between episodes. 00:21:12.761 --> 00:21:18.145 I pulled it all together, episode one to episode, whatever number this is. 00:21:19.009 --> 00:21:24.745 Okay, future Chris will come back with wet socks. 00:21:25.206 --> 00:21:27.741 All right, I cannot wait. 00:21:27.741 --> 00:21:32.886 Do you like how I pulled that together, though? 00:21:32.886 --> 00:21:35.081 I thought that was very creative. 00:21:35.081 --> 00:21:40.003 Yeah, you seem disappointed over there because you know you're going to be wrong. 00:21:41.017 --> 00:21:42.503 No, that was very creative. 00:21:42.503 --> 00:21:51.559 However, how I don't see how you're pulling anything together, because I was never in the Planet of the Apes. 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:58.667 I was like episode one I got wet socks. 00:21:59.715 --> 00:22:11.998 And Charlton Heston had wet socks on the Planet Apes when he was on the beach, but the water was rushing up because he found out that he was on earth because the Statue Liberty was destroyed on the beach. 00:22:12.178 --> 00:22:13.803 Okay, sounds good. 00:22:17.118 --> 00:22:25.069 And you got destroyed on Discover Lands Unown because the wet socks on the beach gotcha. 00:22:25.450 --> 00:22:27.037 Yeah, yeah, you're right. 00:22:27.800 --> 00:22:30.440 I am, you're just disappointed. 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:31.644 You didn't think of it first. 00:22:31.644 --> 00:22:32.818 I could see it. 00:22:33.595 --> 00:22:35.101 I could see the dismay in your face. 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:38.661 Some might call the rest of this episode is going to go downhill. 00:22:39.435 --> 00:22:42.960 Some might call it dismay, others might call it I'm just sick. 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:47.865 I'm trying to not like make gross sounds in the mic. 00:22:47.865 --> 00:22:50.381 You can call it whatever you want. 00:22:50.381 --> 00:22:53.132 So I've got eight, eight points. 00:22:53.233 --> 00:22:53.835 Eight out of 15. 00:22:54.357 --> 00:22:55.281 Eight out of 15. 00:22:55.281 --> 00:22:57.120 I guess I have to take it. 00:22:57.120 --> 00:23:23.771 You do, hey, everybody, it's me Future Chris and my wet socks. 00:23:27.555 --> 00:23:28.459 I'm listening to this. 00:23:28.459 --> 00:23:31.701 While editing, I discovered that Andrew was right. 00:23:31.701 --> 00:23:34.340 So, here I am. 00:23:34.340 --> 00:23:42.586 Wet socks Alright now back to the show. 00:24:28.870 --> 00:24:33.880 Alright, it is time for GakPan and Angie. 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:35.243 What does GakPan stand for? 00:24:35.243 --> 00:24:39.875 For the listeners who have not listened to us before, I am so out of the game. 00:24:41.302 --> 00:24:43.895 You are, so you're not going to be the golden voice of the episode. 00:24:43.895 --> 00:24:45.086 There's no golden voice tonight. 00:24:45.086 --> 00:24:47.137 No, there's not. 00:24:47.137 --> 00:24:52.769 Gakpan stands for games Angie and Chris played at night. 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:54.224 And Angie. 00:24:54.224 --> 00:24:55.895 What games did we play at night? 00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:57.875 Let's talk about last night. 00:24:57.875 --> 00:25:03.086 Okay, let's talk about last night Actually started. 00:25:03.086 --> 00:25:05.895 Well, last night was an adventure, right. 00:25:06.176 --> 00:25:08.785 Yeah, last night we played for quite a while. 00:25:09.116 --> 00:25:12.686 Well, it did, but it was also a quest to get the game. 00:25:13.277 --> 00:25:15.850 We played a month of questing. 00:25:17.540 --> 00:25:24.852 We played Lorcaana and we had looked for or you were looking for it when we were in Baraboo. 00:25:25.033 --> 00:25:25.895 Yeah, that's a great story. 00:25:25.895 --> 00:25:38.895 And so I met where we're, at Labyrinth Games in Baraboo, wisconsin, when we're on vacation and we're in there, we're looking around and I and that's a very nice game. 00:25:39.338 --> 00:25:41.895 Sorry, I'm just going to iterate here. 00:25:41.895 --> 00:25:43.542 It is a very nice game. 00:25:44.897 --> 00:25:49.427 And I go to the gentleman behind the counter and I say, hey, do you guys have any Lorcaana? 00:25:49.427 --> 00:25:56.166 And while I'm talking to him, angie walks up and says it's not like we're going to buy it anyway. 00:25:56.166 --> 00:26:00.741 I was just like what. 00:26:00.741 --> 00:26:05.800 The look on his face was priceless, like why are you even wasting my time? 00:26:08.499 --> 00:26:10.875 So I'm like I just want to see what everybody's talking about. 00:26:11.116 --> 00:26:12.742 I was like Angie, I would have bought it. 00:26:12.742 --> 00:26:14.480 And you're like oh really. 00:26:15.357 --> 00:26:17.443 Yeah, I had no idea. 00:26:17.443 --> 00:26:19.141 I wanted you to know what bought it. 00:26:19.141 --> 00:26:22.161 I kind of just asked. 00:26:22.161 --> 00:26:23.930 You know I wanted to go hey, do you have any? 00:26:23.930 --> 00:26:24.835 Everybody wants this. 00:26:24.835 --> 00:26:27.561 You know there was like a mad rush at Gen Con. 00:26:27.561 --> 00:26:33.895 People are, I guess, dumping over wheelchairs to get stuff like that Some craziness. 00:26:33.895 --> 00:26:39.895 So I just wanted to kind of look at the box, see what everybody was really, you know, had no desire. 00:26:39.895 --> 00:26:41.345 So what did he do? 00:26:41.345 --> 00:26:42.875 Hold out the box. 00:26:43.456 --> 00:26:50.729 Yeah, he had one that they kept in the back and they only sell it during their league night for those that want to play. 00:26:50.729 --> 00:26:59.288 It was a starter pack for somebody who maybe wanted to come check it out, which I thought was kind of neat that they held it back for that. 00:26:59.288 --> 00:27:03.803 So so, yeah, so we got lucky. 00:27:03.803 --> 00:27:10.401 I ended up going to our local game shop in town. 00:27:10.401 --> 00:27:21.499 Here they had one one starter pack and then it was sit and wait for a couple weeks

to get the other two and finally I found two on. 00:27:22.761 --> 00:27:30.517 You know there's going to be some people that roll their eyes when I say this, but two of the other two starter packs on eBay for a decent price I paid. 00:27:30.517 --> 00:27:37.726 I don't know what the actual MSRP was on these, but the game store I bought it from charge me 27. 00:27:37.726 --> 00:27:42.607 And the person on eBay that I bought it from charged me 30 for both. 00:27:42.607 --> 00:27:44.782 So well, 30 a piece for both of those. 00:27:44.782 --> 00:27:47.875 So I figured it wasn't marked up too much. 00:27:47.875 --> 00:27:56.403 I could be wrong, but we got it and we played it last night and it's good. 00:27:56.403 --> 00:27:57.417 I enjoyed it. 00:27:58.955 --> 00:28:00.341 You enjoyed it more than I did. 00:28:00.895 --> 00:28:02.895 Yeah, I can tell. 00:28:03.217 --> 00:28:03.358 I was. 00:28:06.157 --> 00:28:08.895 But it was like I said, these are these are the starter decks. 00:28:09.397 --> 00:28:10.522 This was learning. 00:28:10.522 --> 00:28:12.430 There is one. 00:28:12.430 --> 00:28:16.425 I still have a question about a certain card how to play it. 00:28:16.425 --> 00:28:21.266 I wasn't getting you had a lot of really powerful cards I didn't have. 00:28:21.266 --> 00:28:34.118 I think the deck I was playing with something they considered good for beginners is what I had read, and so there weren't a lot of really interesting powers, the only ones I really liked. 00:28:34.118 --> 00:28:48.288 I had that one, not flop, it was a different evasive I had, and that one was good because I could protect when I went out to challenge somebody or even request I could protect a character. 00:28:48.288 --> 00:28:55.721 But otherwise I didn't find any of the powers tremendously interesting and you want a game just by questing. 00:28:55.721 --> 00:29:02.122 So I did that and it kind of held back and then I felt that was kind of boring to do it that way. 00:29:02.122 --> 00:29:11.895 So I wanted to continue to challenge, even if it meant not winning, because that was just a little bit more exciting. 00:29:11.895 --> 00:29:21.647 Now we did get some booster packs and we're going to insert them and I think you wanted to make a green and gray deck, emeralds and steel. 00:29:21.987 --> 00:29:22.188 Yeah. 00:29:22.895 --> 00:29:30.146 So maybe I will try putting the gold and ruby one together and see what they do. 00:29:30.166 --> 00:29:32.349 Yeah. 00:29:32.915 --> 00:29:35.347 That's what I'm thinking. 00:29:35.347 --> 00:29:36.071 I love purple. 00:29:36.071 --> 00:29:36.895 So you know, here I am. 00:29:36.895 --> 00:29:39.819 I want purple cards and they were not. 00:29:39.819 --> 00:29:42.764 I was not turned on by them. 00:29:42.764 --> 00:29:46.650 I felt a little disappointed. 00:29:47.256 --> 00:29:51.144 I also think it was just the fact that it was a card game. 00:29:51.144 --> 00:29:54.441 It was burning your brain at first. 00:29:54.441 --> 00:29:58.620 There's certain things on those card games that you don't understand, Like when we played Radlands. 00:29:58.620 --> 00:30:00.826 It was so hard for you to understand Radlands. 00:30:00.915 --> 00:30:03.342 Well, Radlands is stupid. 00:30:05.437 --> 00:30:07.383 I disagree with that Stupid. 00:30:07.383 --> 00:30:12.166 No, I'm going to not even touch that comment. 00:30:12.166 --> 00:30:19.883 Radlands is a good game, water towers is not a hard concept, and I'm just going to leave it at that. 00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:21.855 It should be the other way. 00:30:21.855 --> 00:30:33.184 When you are hitting up a water tower, you are going to put it in your bunker and you're going to save it until you need it. 00:30:33.184 --> 00:30:36.573 You should be able to store water. 00:30:36.573 --> 00:30:40.111 Any good prepper knows store water. 00:30:40.111 --> 00:30:47.006 It's not like I'm buying it from the store, but I had to drink it all right away, otherwise it goes away. 00:30:47.006 --> 00:30:52.875 Yeah, no apocalypse, you're saving your water. 00:30:52.875 --> 00:30:55.895 You may drink a little, but you're saving it back for the next day. 00:30:55.895 --> 00:30:57.823 You got to survive. 00:30:57.823 --> 00:31:09.209 You can't drink all that water on one day, so thematically it would have been better and made more sense to be able to store that water. 00:31:09.209 --> 00:31:13.722 I'm just saying they were wrong. 00:31:14.457 --> 00:31:17.940 All right, okay, I'm not even going to argue with that. 00:31:19.437 --> 00:31:21.899 Because we're talking about Lorcan, we're talking about Lorcan. 00:31:21.899 --> 00:31:24.767 There is no storm water in Lorcan. 00:31:24.767 --> 00:31:29.794 And you know what my little, did you notice? 00:31:29.794 --> 00:31:32.895 I didn't even notice until right now that I wrote it wrong. 00:31:32.895 --> 00:31:34.682 I wrote Arcana on here. 00:31:34.682 --> 00:31:38.855 Yes, you did, I didn't even realize that until right now. 00:31:38.855 --> 00:31:42.855 And our little show outline I wrote Arcana instead of Lorcan. 00:31:43.216 --> 00:31:44.883 But I could tell last night you weren't enjoying it. 00:31:44.883 --> 00:31:47.653 I think it's good. 00:31:47.653 --> 00:31:50.875 I think it's a very straightforward. 00:31:50.875 --> 00:31:53.223 There's a lot of similarities to magic. 00:31:53.223 --> 00:32:00.875 I got in on magic when it first started years and years ago and then stopped playing. 00:32:00.875 --> 00:32:03.271 Instead of land, you have ink. 00:32:03.271 --> 00:32:08.895 Instead of, you know, summoning sickness, you have ink drying. 00:32:09.718 --> 00:32:10.542 Well, that makes sense. 00:32:12.345 --> 00:32:13.028 You know, it's all. 00:32:13.028 --> 00:32:23.986 There's a lot of similarities, but I think it's good, you know, instead of taking people's health away starting at 20 and going to zero. 00:32:23.986 --> 00:32:25.688 You're going from zero to 20. 00:32:25.688 --> 00:32:30.701 It's a

good game. 00:32:30.701 --> 00:32:39.807 Now we're primarily a board game podcast and this is technically not a board game, but it's part of our gaming hobby. 00:32:39.807 --> 00:32:41.823 I really want to play it more. 00:32:42.617 --> 00:32:47.682 There were tons of people that are board gamers that were talking about this, so I don't feel bad including it. 00:32:48.096 --> 00:32:54.496 Sure yeah, I mean, I don't feel bad about it either, but I mean and we will. 00:32:54.636 --> 00:32:56.400 I will definitely, you know, try to. 00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:05.875 I'm not a crazy card collector or anything like that, but I will try to make a deck better Because I put those two decks just to make it more interesting for me when I play. 00:33:06.521 --> 00:33:15.855 For sure, for sure, and I think I think the more you play it, the more fun you're going to have. 00:33:16.416 --> 00:33:18.362 Maybe it's because I wasn't killing you. 00:33:18.362 --> 00:33:22.895 You know, when you battle, you're not really killing the other person. 00:33:22.895 --> 00:33:26.163 Maybe it would have been like bam, I got you, You're dead. 00:33:27.317 --> 00:33:28.682 But that's not the point of this game. 00:33:28.682 --> 00:33:33.242 Point of this game is the only reason why you're challenging people is to stop them from getting lower. 00:33:33.382 --> 00:33:35.746 I know, I know We'll play again. 00:33:35.746 --> 00:33:36.828 It's not that I'm not going to play it. 00:33:36.828 --> 00:33:39.258 Yeah, it's not, absolutely not that I'm not going to play it. 00:33:39.258 --> 00:33:47.976 I have my idea behind the card game Was that maybe it's something quicker, easier, as we were sitting out in like Panera today. 00:33:47.996 --> 00:33:57.530 Yep, have a quick card game, yeah, so when I look at your deck, your deck is the type of deck that you are supposed to quest early and quest often. 00:33:57.530 --> 00:34:08.360 So you start off with you would want to play your ink and low cost cards, that's what I did. 00:34:08.884 --> 00:34:17.677 First and then quest, quest, quest, Because mine is designed to hit hard, but it won't hit hard right away. 00:34:17.677 --> 00:34:30.351 It's going to give me the ability to get my ink up faster at the beginning of the game and then say, mid game is when my deck starts to take off and I can start putting out the bigger value cards and hit harder. 00:34:30.351 --> 00:34:43.275 So my problem is is I have to manage you getting your cards out quick and questing, and that's why, when I started, when you stopped holding back from questing, yeah, I did it first. 00:34:43.284 --> 00:34:44.916 I was trying to play very defensive at first. 00:34:45.025 --> 00:34:50.188 I could not win and it took me a while to figure out I wasn't letting you win. 00:34:50.188 --> 00:34:52.427 It took me a while to figure out. 00:34:52.427 --> 00:34:55.012 Okay, I need to change my style. 00:34:55.012 --> 00:34:56.195 I thought that was interesting. 00:34:56.494 --> 00:35:00.534 Okay, because it really did, because at that point I was able to put out cards. 00:35:00.534 --> 00:35:06.686 I was able to put out, you know, mickey would give you two stars, and then I think I send a rail. 00:35:06.686 --> 00:35:11.621 No, I had, moana should be three, so I had like three cards out that would give you multiple stars. 00:35:11.621 --> 00:35:15.012 You know where I could get like eight points if I quested everybody. 00:35:15.012 --> 00:35:16.947 Then I was that first game. 00:35:16.947 --> 00:35:25.951 I was playing very defensive because if you don't quest, you don't challenge, you're not exhausting Is that the word Exhausting the cards, and then you can't be challenged. 00:35:26.565 --> 00:35:28.471 So my first game I was playing very defensive. 00:35:28.471 --> 00:35:31.673 And then one game I had no idea the whole thing about singing. 00:35:31.673 --> 00:35:36.596 I was thinking you had to have a card that sings, because I had a card that was voiceless. 00:35:36.596 --> 00:35:40.214 So I assumed there were other cards that you could sing on. 00:35:40.214 --> 00:35:50.413 So I'm like using my singing cards as ink and you know we were making this comment about not being able to get more cards I'm thinking, well, you should draw more cards. 00:35:50.413 --> 00:35:54.715 Well, I was inking cards and I knew I had pulled at least two of them. 00:35:54.715 --> 00:35:56.911 Then what they did was let you draw three cards. 00:35:56.911 --> 00:36:04.310 So once I realized that, I'm just like oh, I had like inked three cards that would have kept letting me draw more cards. 00:36:04.310 --> 00:36:05.509 So yeah, I was like a learning game. 00:36:05.764 --> 00:36:09.913 And we played that from probably about eight o'clock at night till one o'clock in the morning. 00:36:09.913 --> 00:36:12.746 Yes, we played it for quite some time, so that's. 00:36:12.746 --> 00:36:15.770 Lorcaana, everybody, we actually got a chance to play it. 00:36:15.770 --> 00:36:21.654 If I were to rate that game, I wait, I'm going to go back to something that. 00:36:21.654 --> 00:36:23.057 Talk about tying it back to earlier. 00:36:23.057 --> 00:36:29.754 There's talking about tying it back to earlier episodes. 00:36:29.754 --> 00:36:36.364 I would shuffle this one back into the deck there you go, there you go. 00:36:36.364 --> 00:36:39.011 Definitely not going into the discard pile. 00:36:39.011 --> 00:36:41.789 I like that game. 00:36:42.045 --> 00:36:52.168 But, chris, I can see that there is the potential for the completionist in me coming out and needing to get everything. 00:36:52.168 --> 00:36:56.975 Every time we go into the store, you're getting a booster pack. 00:36:56.975 --> 00:37:06.674 When you think about how much the game already costs, you add up everything you're like okay, this is getting to be as expensive as a Kickstarter. 00:37:06.864 --> 00:37:09.393 I don't disagree with what you're saying. 00:37:09.393 --> 00:37:19.571 Yes, the

completionist in me is going to probably come out, but I think I'm managing to control that completionist very well, that is only because it's unavailable. 00:37:19.571 --> 00:37:20.594 True. 00:37:21.326 --> 00:37:25.394 How many packs of cards would we have picked up today if they were in the store? 00:37:26.175 --> 00:37:26.877 A lot. 00:37:30.052 --> 00:37:35.888 Because we were at two stores looking at both, because we went into Walmart and Meyer and you would have picked up cards at both of them. 00:37:36.391 --> 00:37:36.771 Probably. 00:37:36.771 --> 00:37:41.293 Yeah, I want that rare giant tinkerbell. 00:37:48.351 --> 00:37:50.253 And now it's time for our feature review. 00:37:50.253 --> 00:37:59.051 Imagine a world where humans are no more. 00:37:59.051 --> 00:38:08.094 Nature has retaken the land and, in the wake of our absence, apes have risen, evolving, learning and taking the torch of civilization. 00:38:08.094 --> 00:38:11.589 It's time for Chris and Angie's review of After Us. 00:38:16.746 --> 00:38:40.234 All right, everybody, we are going to do our feature review of the game After Us, so let me kick it off by describing the game and what you're going to see a little bit, especially if any of our listeners are not board gamers. 00:38:40.234 --> 00:38:43.132 So I want to give you a little bit of a visual. 00:38:43.132 --> 00:38:51.733 There is a main board that you're setting in the middle of the table, obviously, and your goal for this game is to score 80 points. 00:38:51.733 --> 00:38:54.010 So that is how you're going to win. 00:38:54.010 --> 00:38:57.152 First person to win 80 points is going to win. 00:38:57.152 --> 00:39:08.176 There are cards in the middle of the table, there are apes, there are mandrels, orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas in two different strengths. 00:39:08.176 --> 00:39:17.778 Each player is going to have a player board and a deck of eight tamarin apes. 00:39:17.778 --> 00:39:24.516 The idea behind this game is a cataclysm, apocalypse. 00:39:24.516 --> 00:39:36.592 Something unnamed has happened and the only creatures left are primates, and they're going to rebuild a civilization and is going to use tech that mankind left behind. 00:39:36.592 --> 00:39:40.125 So far, so good. 00:39:40.125 --> 00:39:40.426 Chris. 00:39:40.728 --> 00:39:42.592 Yeah, so far, so good. 00:39:42.592 --> 00:39:43.493 You're doing a great job. 00:39:43.513 --> 00:39:43.853 Okay. 00:39:43.853 --> 00:39:47.019 Okay, like I said, everybody gets eight cards. 00:39:47.019 --> 00:39:48.728 The cards are. 00:39:48.728 --> 00:39:50.413 Let's see. 00:39:50.413 --> 00:39:51.996 To give you a description of the cards. 00:39:51.996 --> 00:39:53.891 There is a value on the card. 00:39:53.891 --> 00:39:58.291 There are in one corner. 00:39:58.291 --> 00:39:59.275 There's like a value. 00:39:59.275 --> 00:40:00.016 In another corner. 00:40:00.016 --> 00:40:08.317 There is a potential benefit that comes further down the line. 00:40:08.317 --> 00:40:15.576 But when you look at the card, the main part of the card has three lines. 00:40:15.576 --> 00:40:26.054 But in my mind and the best way to explain it is, if you're looking at a sheet of music, how you see the sheet of music, you see the lines across and you see notes. 00:40:26.054 --> 00:40:32.876 The card looks like that, with three lines, and there will be cells or boxes that go across there. 00:40:32.876 --> 00:40:39.389 Some of them will be complete and some will only be open, so they'll only be half complete. 00:40:40.444 --> 00:40:42.051 You will take it as a deck builder. 00:40:42.051 --> 00:40:46.596 So you're going to take four cards into your hand and this is your starting tribe. 00:40:46.596 --> 00:40:51.574 You will lay them before you on your player board and you want to. 00:40:51.574 --> 00:40:58.574 The big strategy here is how you're going to arrange these cards, because they are all different. 00:40:58.574 --> 00:41:03.295 When you connect the cards, you will be completing cells. 00:41:03.295 --> 00:41:09.536 So some of those boxes, the cells on the cards, are open and so when you lay them next to. 00:41:09.536 --> 00:41:13.673 When you lay them next to each other, they're going to close them. 00:41:13.673 --> 00:41:29.286 So you really want to look at what cards you are closing, because you're then going to activate them and you're going to go in order from top to bottom, left to right, and then top to bottom, and you're going to activate each cell, some of them. 00:41:30.167 --> 00:41:37.471 Most of the time you are going to be gaining resources, because there's resources that correspond to the different apes. 00:41:37.471 --> 00:41:41.293 So you're going to gain like a fruit or a nut. 00:41:41.293 --> 00:41:51.897 There is ability to gain energy, which are denoted with batteries and their points, and there is something called rage. 00:41:51.897 --> 00:42:14.253 There are a couple cells that have like a redo action where you can redo another cell, which are always real nice, because there are some potential cells that can give you multiple points and then if you get a card that lets you redo that more points, better, try and erase the 80 points. 00:42:14.253 --> 00:42:16.886 The more points that you can rack up during the game, the better. 00:42:16.886 --> 00:42:22.752 So after you get done with that phase of the game, you're going to choose. 00:42:23.734 --> 00:42:29.534 There are disks that are denoted with each individual ape. 00:42:29.534 --> 00:42:37.250 So you'll have one ape, a gorilla, you will have a chimpanzee, you will have a mandrel and you will have an orangutan. 00:42:37.250 --> 00:42:41.751 Each one of these has a benefit and you will choose. 00:42:41.751 --> 00:42:53.958 So everything is pretty much simultaneous, playing at the same time, except for this particular action which you will both choose a disk. 00:42:53.958 --> 00:43:07.623 You will then flip them over and you reveal them and, very

simply, if I got the let's say I got the orangutan I get the benefit which was an energy or was a battery. 00:43:07.623 --> 00:43:14.559 I would take that and then I can use that to purchase an orangutan. 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.990 So you have to purchase the matching ape. 00:43:18.364 --> 00:43:26.956 The other neat thing I think this is why you're doing this simultaneous because your opponent can pay energy in order to copy your disk. 00:43:26.956 --> 00:43:37.413 So if Chris had the one that gave points, I might decide to do mine but then spend the energy to also mimic what you did. 00:43:37.413 --> 00:43:51.018 So that's really the only thing in the game, that's that you're doing head to head with the person that maybe you're doing a little bit of a mind game with, but direct competition. 00:43:51.018 --> 00:44:21.137 And then after that is when you're going to purchase your ape or monkey, and so you need to use a certain amount of resources to buy the particular ape or monkey and you put it into your tribe A lot of deck builders you put the purchase card into your discard pile, but with this one you're going to put it straight on top of your deck, so it's going to come out on your next turn, and that's pretty much how you play. 00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:24.215 Yeah, really good explanation of the game. 00:44:24.215 --> 00:44:30.856 What I like about that game so before I talk about that is you didn't even know that game was a thing. 00:44:31.170 --> 00:44:31.712 I didn't. 00:44:31.712 --> 00:44:41.807 I did hear people coming back from the UK expo and they're like oh, I played this game, I brought this game back, it's cool, and then it kind of went, oh okay. 00:44:41.989 --> 00:44:43.174 And then it showed up at the house. 00:44:43.529 --> 00:44:44.714 And then it showed up at the house. 00:44:45.569 --> 00:44:47.817 So I had that game pre-ordered a long time ago. 00:44:48.489 --> 00:44:50.913 I know you mentioned something about it, but it was still on those. 00:44:53.152 --> 00:44:54.235 So what drew me in? 00:44:54.235 --> 00:44:55.792 Why is it pre-ordered? 00:44:56.375 --> 00:44:56.976 Apocalypse. 00:44:57.036 --> 00:44:57.458 There you go. 00:44:57.458 --> 00:45:07.556 Post-apocalyptic game sucker for it every time and I was pleasantly surprised with the game, so I didn't know anything about it. 00:45:07.556 --> 00:45:11.269 I didn't have any, I guess preconceived. 00:45:11.269 --> 00:45:12.414 Did you see any gameplays? 00:45:13.129 --> 00:45:15.437 Preconceived ideas or anything about it. 00:45:15.437 --> 00:45:18.013 It was lighter, I guess. 00:45:18.013 --> 00:45:19.759 Lighter, but not. 00:45:19.759 --> 00:45:21.955 There's some more of a midway game. 00:45:21.955 --> 00:45:23.194 Yeah, not super light. 00:45:23.194 --> 00:45:36.534 I love the puzzle, the puzzle of putting together your cards on the table in front of you to create the I guess the cells together Like a tableau or a tribe. 00:45:36.670 --> 00:45:37.292 That's what you're doing. 00:45:37.292 --> 00:45:40.317 Your oh hey, yeah, definitely mentioned rage, because I skipped that. 00:45:40.569 --> 00:45:44.039 Yep to gather your resources. 00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:51.219 Okay, so deck building, resource management, two mechanics that I like, but the puzzle. 00:45:51.219 --> 00:45:54.215 The puzzle, that was cool, I've not. 00:45:54.215 --> 00:45:56.670 There might be a game out there like that. 00:45:56.710 --> 00:45:58.659 There's nothing game out there, that, but we don't have. 00:45:59.110 --> 00:46:03.382 So it's a unique mechanic for me and it was fun. 00:46:03.382 --> 00:46:10.827 So then you save your resources and there's the rage track. 00:46:10.827 --> 00:46:20.972 So you can, if you get gorillas, gorillas have rage, and you would use that to basically get the junk cards out of your deck. 00:46:20.972 --> 00:46:24.557 You have what are the first cards? 00:46:24.557 --> 00:46:25.681 What's the first? 00:46:25.789 --> 00:46:26.693 Tamron Monkeys. 00:46:26.913 --> 00:46:27.677 Tamron Monkeys. 00:46:27.677 --> 00:46:37.693 So you get the Tamron Primate card and they are very basic, just give you basic resources, nothing too special about it. 00:46:37.693 --> 00:46:57.215 And what you wanna do is you wanna save your resources up so you can buy there's like a level one chimp and a level two chimp, a level one ape and so on and so forth, and you wanna save enough resources to get the level two of that card, because then you're gonna get the better puzzle piece per se. 00:46:57.215 --> 00:47:02.994 So then you can get more resources, get more things, and I just I like that. 00:47:02.994 --> 00:47:03.897 I like that a lot. 00:47:03.897 --> 00:47:18.754 Also like that you can use the power cells to use technology that is left behind for that, the humans left behind right and you get certain bonuses. 00:47:18.754 --> 00:47:21.714 I think that's pretty novel. 00:47:21.714 --> 00:47:28.658 Overall, I don't think there's anything that I could really say I don't like about this game. 00:47:28.658 --> 00:47:31.557 I like the theme, I like the art. 00:47:31.557 --> 00:47:43.975 I mean Vincent Dutray I can't remember where I heard this, but somebody said it almost seems like Vincent Dutray said I feel like drawing a game about monkeys. 00:47:44.589 --> 00:47:45.755 They made a game around monkeys. 00:47:45.989 --> 00:47:48.754 They were like sure, draw some monkeys and we'll make a game around it, right? 00:47:48.754 --> 00:47:53.777 Vincent Dutray's just got a gift and everything that he does is just beautiful. 00:47:53.777 --> 00:47:55.915 He's just listening to you describe the game. 00:47:55.915 --> 00:47:59.917 I didn't realize how much of a solitary game it is. 00:48:00.859 --> 00:48:01.741 You never thought about that. 00:48:01.929 --> 00:48:02.772 No, I never thought of it that way. 00:48:02.772 --> 00:48:08.414 But yeah, you really are playing like a solitary, a two player solitary game. 00:48:08.414 -->

00:48:12.295 Right, you know there's not much player interaction, but it doesn't make the game bad. 00:48:12.549 --> 00:48:13.211 Until you get. 00:48:13.211 --> 00:48:36.734 It's one of those games and when you're talking about thinning the deck and a lot of times you want to get rid of those Tamarind cards, but for me anyway, it is that race so you get to about 70 points and you realize, okay, you're starting to feel that that's when you feel that competition and if you're gonna thin your deck, this might be the point where you want to thin it from one of the big Apes, because then you're getting more points. 00:48:36.734 --> 00:48:38.754 So then you want to try to really start. 00:48:38.754 --> 00:48:43.618 You know, because there were games, I think, that either I was far ahead or you were far. 00:48:43.618 --> 00:49:00.434 I think there was one that you were pretty far ahead and that last half or last quarter of the game I just started coming back with points and then, I think at the very end, I managed to thin my deck of a great Ape and was able to win. 00:49:03.049 --> 00:49:05.137 Yeah, we want to talk about that one. 00:49:05.137 --> 00:49:10.996 So I okay. 00:49:10.996 --> 00:49:14.356 Again, it's established, I'm not the solo player of this group. 00:49:14.356 --> 00:49:17.217 You took it with you when you went on a business trip. 00:49:17.590 --> 00:49:18.335 I did, I did. 00:49:18.469 --> 00:49:19.554 And you played the solo game. 00:49:19.554 --> 00:49:21.556 Why don't you tell us about the solo? 00:49:21.576 --> 00:49:23.413 game Solo game is. 00:49:23.413 --> 00:49:27.915 You are playing the solo game pretty much the same way. 00:49:27.915 --> 00:49:34.199 Your opponent is another Ape, so you have to choose one of the other Apes as an opponent. 00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:41.380 He gets a deck, he gets you're only choosing three of the discs. 00:49:41.380 --> 00:49:49.836 So you're essentially you're choosing three of the monkeys and you're going to place them on top of the board and that comes into play a little bit later. 00:49:49.836 --> 00:49:57.157 But, as you're, instead of activating, he gets, gets some starting resources. 00:49:57.157 --> 00:50:14.134 He gets a certain like number of starting resources and his actions are going to be he's going to lay out the four cards and, instead of activating cells, he gets the resources or power, whether it's energy, the benefits on the cards at the top of the deck. 00:50:14.134 --> 00:50:19.637 Those are things that when you play, you are going to get when you thin your deck. 00:50:19.637 --> 00:50:22.857 So that is how he's playing along. 00:50:23.609 --> 00:50:28.940 I think the interesting thing about this is when you take resources, you're taking them from him. 00:50:28.940 --> 00:50:34.335 You don't take them from the supply, you're taking them off him. 00:50:34.335 --> 00:50:36.996 So I thought that was kind of interesting. 00:50:36.996 --> 00:50:41.319 So that was probably the most

interesting thing. 00:50:41.319 --> 00:50:49.661 The difference was that you were taking them, the resources, from him, so he was building them up and the disc decided. 00:50:49.661 --> 00:50:55.155 When he had resources, he would count up, or you count up his resources. 00:50:55.155 --> 00:51:08.775 Whichever had the most and would be able to purchase the most expensive or the most powerful monkey would be the one he would use and that's the way he would get that bonus and everything associated with it. 00:51:08.775 --> 00:51:14.221 So, but there wasn't other than how he really moved. 00:51:14.221 --> 00:51:16.815 There wasn't a lot of difference to your game at all. 00:51:19.161 --> 00:51:19.761 That's interesting. 00:51:22.529 --> 00:51:29.117 So solo game is pretty much like the two player game it's very much like the two player game, except how your opponent is playing different than you. 00:51:29.117 --> 00:51:37.074 So it's kind of the same idea between, almost like a solitaire game, but you're taking the resources, you're pulling them from him. 00:51:37.074 --> 00:51:38.333 He has the ability. 00:51:38.333 --> 00:51:42.377 He can occasionally mimic your bonus disc. 00:51:43.089 --> 00:51:44.936 So would you recommend it as a game to play solo? 00:51:45.469 --> 00:51:48.596 I would I would, it wasn't I won. 00:51:48.596 --> 00:51:54.951 So I don't know if that's a bad thing, because you do want some of a challenge when you're. 00:51:54.951 --> 00:51:57.958 You know when you play, but it's different for a solo game. 00:51:57.958 --> 00:51:59.917 I think the way he works is different. 00:51:59.917 --> 00:52:03.880 So I would definitely, if you have the game, try the solo. 00:52:03.880 --> 00:52:13.580 I don't know if I would buy it for the solo, but definitely if you have the game and you, you know you do play. 00:52:13.580 --> 00:52:14.991 So definitely try it that way. 00:52:16.172 --> 00:52:16.815 Okay cool. 00:52:16.815 --> 00:52:21.398 So I, like I said there's not. 00:52:21.398 --> 00:52:24.003 There's not much I can nitpick on the game. 00:52:24.003 --> 00:52:26.275 Yeah, I think it's a great game. 00:52:26.275 --> 00:52:28.414 I'm not going to give it a 10 out of 10. 00:52:31.069 --> 00:52:37.342 You know, if you were going to give a 10 out of 10, you would nitpick the heck out of it. 00:52:37.342 --> 00:52:40.797 Please listen to our research and episode. 00:52:40.797 --> 00:52:43.176 You'll know what I am talking about. 00:52:43.176 --> 00:52:44.775 Yes, it is funny. 00:52:46.098 --> 00:52:51.159 Yes, the review that makes it sound like I hate a game and then at the end of it, 10 out of 10. 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:54.730 Yes, it's a great game. 00:52:54.750 --> 00:52:57.996 So, yes, I would give this game a solid nine. 00:52:57.996 --> 00:53:08.000 I'd give it a nine, would you Right Again, just like resurgence, a full point just for theme, right Okay? 00:53:08.040 --> 00:53:08.581 There you go. 00:53:08.601 --> 00:53:09.242 Just for theme. 00:53:09.242 --> 00:53:20.670 So if it was, if it was monkeys in a zoo, then maybe it'd be an 8.5 or an eight, but opposed to Apocalypse, give it a nine, Solid nine. 00:53:20.670 --> 00:53:22.375 One point just for theme. 00:53:25.949 --> 00:53:27.452 I'd probably give it an eight. 00:53:28.415 --> 00:53:28.675 Yeah. 00:53:28.936 --> 00:53:29.697 An 8.5. 00:53:29.697 --> 00:53:30.400 I liked it. 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:31.583 I do like it. 00:53:31.583 --> 00:53:33.032 I'd definitely, definitely play it. 00:53:33.554 --> 00:53:33.815 Yeah. 00:53:34.076 --> 00:53:36.996 All right, that will be a game I will grab to play. 00:53:36.996 --> 00:53:42.500 It's not one of those like other ones that oh hey, if you want to play it, that's you know I will. 00:53:42.500 --> 00:53:43.581 No, I will definitely grab it. 00:53:43.581 --> 00:53:44.562 I'll definitely go to it. 00:53:44.562 --> 00:53:56.100 I will go to it to teach it to people that aren't maybe not gamers, because it does teach rather easy and mechanics are pretty simple. 00:53:56.100 --> 00:54:01.496 It's not overly complicated, so I think that way it would be a good game. 00:54:01.496 --> 00:54:04.114 Somebody that's new to the hobby. 00:54:06.051 --> 00:54:07.536 Maybe I agree. 00:54:08.077 --> 00:54:08.599 Okay. 00:54:09.230 --> 00:54:15.074 All right, and that is after us. 00:54:15.074 --> 00:54:21.478 Well, angie, I think it's about time to wrap up this episode. 00:54:21.478 --> 00:54:29.598 Hopefully I'm feeling better the next time we record another one, so I'm not over here muting my microphone and making gross sounds. 00:54:31.349 --> 00:54:33.136 No one wants to hear you make gross sounds. 00:54:33.136 --> 00:54:41.400 Well that was so gross. 00:54:42.822 --> 00:54:43.804 Oh, I needed to do that. 00:54:43.804 --> 00:54:46.842 All right, what are we going to talk about next episode? 00:54:46.842 --> 00:54:49.478 I'll tell you exactly what we're going to talk about next episode. 00:54:49.478 --> 00:54:52.980 We're going to talk more about the games that we are culling. 00:54:52.980 --> 00:54:54.585 We're going to be on the bees. 00:54:55.087 --> 00:54:55.549 We're on the bees. 00:54:56.992 --> 00:55:15.759 We're going to talk about the games that we played when we were on vacation and, of course, angie is going to have an amazing meeple quiz that I well, I'm going to do awesome on, because I just max points, that's me yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:55:15.759 --> 00:55:18.212 Yeah, If you could have saw the face I made. 00:55:18.272 --> 00:55:20.279 I'm sure I like that quiz. 00:55:20.279 --> 00:55:21.909 It's a good quiz. 00:55:21.909 --> 00:55:23.094 That was a good quiz, Angie. 00:55:23.349 --> 00:55:26.228 No, this one I have coming up, I already created. 00:55:26.228 --> 00:55:27.092 I already created. 00:55:27.092 --> 00:55:28.336 I like it. 00:55:28.869 --> 00:55:32.679 The day that you like it, the day that you tell me that you don't like your quiz, I'm going to be sad. 00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:34.042 You like every quiz you give. 00:55:34.269 --> 00:55:37.897 No, the day I don't like a quiz, you'll get max points. 00:55:38.759 --> 00:55:40.542 Probably All right everybody. 00:55:40.542 --> 00:55:41.934 Thank you for listening. 00:55:41.934 --> 00:56:01.849 Don't forget to check out our Etsy store Chasing Meeples Go for some really cool board game related apparel and Chasing Meeples merchandise what you guys are thinking about using Windows 6? 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