A Feast For Odin Board Game Review - Still Worth It?

Join us as we take a look at the worker placement/tile laying game A Feast for Odin designed by Uwe Rosenbourg.

[@matthewwallhead5952]

Thanks for your no-nonsense reviews. So many reviewers refuse to say why they don't like games and their rambling positivity gets on my tits. You get straight to the point and I love it. Keep up the good work.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Thanks for the kind words mate. Appreciate it loads 👍🏻

[@hyvll]

For a French Canadian, I really like the dry British humour of the host. Keep up the good work. 😊

[@chimster1234]

As an English Canadian so do I!

[@dreamofempire2114]

Spot on review. Great channel. Your honest and down to earth opinions are a refreshing change from the array of board game reviewers (not all of them of course) who in my opinion take the hobby far too seriously.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

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[@VuNguyen-uc7xe]

You hit the hypocrisy nail on the head!!!! I absolutely love AFFO!

[@Rampag394]

Yaaas Queeeen; SLAY! J/k, but seriously I'm SUPER happy you called out the hypocrisy on this. I was absolutely shocked (in a humourous kind of way) to learn about that whole thing and had precisely the same response as you. Keep up the great content;)

[@helxis]

People that go out of their way to be offended at board games need to find a different hobby.

[@agonyuncle879]

They are cancer

[@Manny0Calavera]

Couldn't agree more.

[@PaulMazzoni]

About spit out my drink starting at the 7:32 mark. 😂 You nailed it. I got this game at a great deal a few years ago and pulled it out to do the solo game. Got about halfway through and asked myself, "What the hell am I doing?" It's just too much to be enjoyable.

[@ragnabob]

Lauged way to hard imaging "Uwe on a speed-bender"!!!! The sweet little man. Great video as always mate!

[@Orochi_001]

The frustrated pair of hands is my favorite returning character. Just picked this up and am hoping a couple games played solo will help with the teach for my group. Fantastic review as always!

[@GeminiJay654]

Your review delivery is so funny and brilliant, I love it. Subscribed, fo sho!

[@BoardGameBollocks]

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[@travisbicklejr]

That ox piss line was great!

[@que-tangclan5856]

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[@BoardGameBollocks]

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[@jeremygarlick5862]

Good, no BS review as ever. 10,000 subs on the horizon.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

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[@sundeepsinghkung8139]

This review was HILARIOUS 😂 Cracking points too. Subscribed 👌🏽

[@BoardGameBollocks]

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[@mrbastos]

after hearing so many accolades for this game, I finally have a chance to play it tomorrow. your dislikes are what have kept me from buying it before

[@mkietzmann]

Thanks for the review. I was considering having someone teach this to me tomorrow, but it just seems too much of a hassle now.

[@ryangerlach5956]

Great review.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

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[@Sin4Profit]

Maybe I have to play it more, but my main issue with the game is that, in all it's choices, pillaging seems like THE thing everyone should be doing. Like, everything else is just a red herring once you can pillage the best loot.

[@Table.Fables]

Awesome review! Have you tried Nusfjord? I haven’t played AFFO but sounds like Nusfjord fixes a lot of what you don’t like; smaller, shorter and actual player interaction

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Got rid of it. Check out my recent Purge series…

[@Table.Fables]

@@BoardGameBollocks cool will do. Nusfjord isn’t my favourite but it goes down well with my partner and others so I keep it around

[@crinklechips6950]

10:33 well said, good to see people still have some common sense

[@lonewolfvc3575]

I couldn’t agree more.

[@glossie6338]

Fun, refreshing review ( as directed by Guy Ritchie !). My favourite game though , especially with Norwegians - but yes primarily a solo experience. Enough of that though - someone please point me to the hypocrites - name names ! - I need controversy at the moment. Statues need to built to these people, then torn down and chucked in the harbour

[@invisiblesupermonkey]

Good review and I can see your point (although I love the game myself). Have you tried nusfjord, another uwe game, but a simple, beautiful and gentle genius game? Probably my fave uwe.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

I got rid of it recently…have a look at my Purge series.

[@crookedevolution]

Loving the sass in this review. Whatever Uwe's smokin', I'll take a hit.

[@Paul-ro6py]

As always great review. Look forward to seeing you wearing a monocle in the future. Just too much game for me.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Careful what you wish for 👍🏻

[@petermillen6924]

@@BoardGameBollocks We want the monocle!

[@BoardGameBollocks]

It will happen I promise

[@bilanggoboy]

THANK YOU.

[@Rorschach71lm]

I enjoy the game, but very much agree with your views on it. “Uwe, you’ve blown your load on WP” ha ha, but I’m afraid I think that’s his bag and we’ll be seeing another before too long. Good call on the culture offence hypocrisy

[@MoriMemento117]

I wish I liked Uwe Rosenberg games. Both him and Stephen Feld I just bounce off of. And I normally like heavy euros! CO2 was pretty neat. I love Anachrony and Black Angel. Brass and Anno 1800 both in my top 20 of all time. I just can't get into the Felds and the Uwes. I think it's partly in your particular point about the thematic disconnect with resource upgrading. Something like that is so easy to have a decent thematic explanation. Just communicate with your component designer for petes sake!

[@theshogunstein6475]

After watching the movie the Northman and the show the Last Kingdom, I am calling for trigger warnings on all Viking games.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

😂

[@chimster1234]

We just borrowed this from a friend and were about to dive into it but now I'm not so sure I want to. You described it pretty much exactly how I imagined it to be. I'm just glad I didn't buy the damn thing. This is ^Uwe on Meth" the board game

[@BoardGameBollocks]

It reminded me of domino at species with cards. Give it a go if you’re not paying for it…who knows. You might like it.

[@chimster1234]

Yeah I suppose it's probably not overwhelming just bloated. I'll give it try

[@konradliddy]

Great review, nailed it. It IS too bleedin much

[@BobbyJuno]

@10:33 funny how that works out

[@kipel1563]

Great video!! 😂

[@richardhancock1505]

Very funny! but this game is perfect for me - lots and lots of choices;; yes it is a great solo game, whereas Agricola is torture in a muddy field.

[@hunterkarr]

👊😎

[@lilb07]

Balancing the need for greed and the need to feed

[@AaronOfYell]

I am a Shetland islander

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Cool beans

[@timstimbre9762]

Yep. Was watching the review from these ladies on Feast, one of them mentioned: 'Yes I don't quite like the pillaging bit.' Then shrugged it off and returned to mention how they love every aspect of it's theme. It reminds me strangely of these people who are currently tearing down statues from the Dutch Golden Age in my country, trying to erase what simply needs to be discussed. I say it is good that history is rewritten by those who stood on the other side of it, but when you throw away our original thinkers and artists, then we place our future in the enthusiasm and capricious ideals of our youth. History shows that she should be cherished and listened to, not followed blindly. But who reads books these days? I must stop drinking so much tea.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Makes you wonder what people in 200 years will tear down when they look at todays events.

[@jasonc2784]

The reason why many statues in the US are being removed is because a statue is a celebration of what that person stood for. What that person accomplished and dedicated their life for. In these cases, it's celebrating the defense of slavery. Removing or lessening the impact slavery had on people from history books and schools does remove it from discussion which wouldn't be a good choice.

[@fastpoose]

Great review, love your work. Good call re the hypocritical woke cultural rubbish, many of us ignore the internet/bgg bollocks on all that crap...

[@Wolcik3000]

still unavailable after they decided to no longer print it here and it doubled in price :(

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Criminals

[@drewbiggin5805]

I bought the reprint recently and they haven't printed the codes on the C deck. Not a dealbreaker but annoying. The advice, after you spend 80 quid on the game, is to make up for their error by printing an updated appendix. I asked on BGG if anybody knew if the publisher was going to offer replacement decks and my post was deleted. I'm not preparing myself to forgive them.

[@JonTripp115]

6:55 You all clearly take worker placement *very* seriously. 😲

[@BoardGameBollocks]

I adopt the Shankley approach

[@shiveringchihuahua]

You're the only sexy board game reviewer on youtube. Just sayin'.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

That’s not saying much really…

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[@Wolcik3000]

its refreashing to hear that this game is not the ultimate experience but just too much... well, if it wasn't for price then I would have it on my shelf without noone willing to play :P

[@BoardGameBollocks]

I grabbed the German version and pasted up the English on the boards. The cards are no problem as they’re listed in an appendix you can download. It’s £50 on Amazon.de

[@Wolcik3000]

@@BoardGameBollocks the price would be little less than what the overpriced second hand is and they also sell of german version some times... but there is plenty of available titles to still buy

[@LeRoi81]

Hope the screen at minute 6 does not show a real ingame scene. Maybe you did not read the rules?

[@BoardGameBollocks]

You’re telling me you actually analysed the tile placements in this “brief overview”? I wish I had you level of commitment…

[@unlimitedrabbit]

Certain publishers seem to feel that they must capitulate to modern sensibilities in order to avoid the appearance of cultural insensitivity and if compromising their games by ignoring inconvenient history keeps the social media pitchfork and torch mob away, so be it. What those publishers fail to realize is that giving in to minuscule acts of terrorism now will only lead to further acts of terrorism later. Stand your ground and tell anyone who doesn't want to buy your games because it features something that happened over a dozen centuries ago where they can put their money. The generation of people subjected to future erasures of inconvenient history can't thank you but they would if they could.

[@revimfadli4666]

The catch-22 of problem-o-matics: Remove the problematic parts: "how dare you whitewash history!" Include the problematic parts(even in negative light): "this game embraces despicable acts of the past!"

[@MartinMartin-xo5ko]

🤣🤣🤣 7:40

[@TheMartinChronicles]

On top of all these options and rules you must learn to read German! Enjoy!😆

[@matttrafton2725]

A good game yet, a Viking game without battling in superfluous. Then again, the blokes who designed Feast probably wouldn't have made good Viking warriors. Skål🍻 Seger Seger SEGER

[@travismorton9727]

I love these reviews, but I am TERRIFIED of you. 😂

[@BoardGameBollocks]

So you should be 👍🏻

[@diamondmeeple]

Feast is more of a tedious activity than a game.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

I quiet like it…but then I like pineapple on pizza

[@lohengrindrd]

Great review - nice combo of your personal observations and objective views. I like the game with its multitude of options, but it’s definitely not for everyone. And… could not agree more with the hypocrisy on theme, which occurs right across the boardgaming workd.

[@chronixchaos7081]

Get shit, move your Vikings, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Got it. Pretty simple rules really.

[@nihlify]

Lol, you say it's overwhelming and that some like that... I completely disagree, A Feast for Odin is one of the most RELAXING games I own... I love sitting there with the puzzle, choose the actions. And it DOESN'T take 4 hours unless you play like you have 5 brain cells. Just because you have a lot of options doesn't mean it's overwhelming. And the rest of you "dislikes" is pretty much nonsense. Hypocrisy? Can't get a taste of everything? Make no sense lol...

[@BoardGameBollocks]

YADAT…Yet another dumb ass troll ✊🏻💦

[@within_grace]

Great video! AFFO does nothing new or exciting. It's too much and it's too open.

[@user-ei3og9dw7q]

Not a game for me. I'd prefer Vikings 878 or Blood Rage. I can't handle giant decision making games with no interaction. Just sounds like you're all sitting around the table doing the year's taxes and then whoever gets the biggest return says "I WIN!". Glad you keep calling out the SJW's, I'm sure your channel will be banned by Christmas. Googletube is good like that.

[@heinokunzelmann8967]

Regarding that last thing you said: There is a big difference between what the Danes did to England and what Spain did to South American natives. It is so glaring that I have to question how long you even thought about this before you got angry. England and the English still exist. The native tribes no longer exist. Their cultures were systematically and almost completely wiped. It's the difference between war and genocide

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Absolute cobblers mate. Anglo Saxons were practically wiped out by the Danelaw. You should be ashamed.

[@heinokunzelmann8967]

@@BoardGameBollocks No clue how true that is. Looked at Wikipedia for a bit and I didn't get the impression the Danes specifically set out to erase the Anglo-Saxons, it seemed like a regular, old war to me. But I guess at that point you're just splitting hairs. I think it should be pretty telling that a) we have contemporary documents from the losing side about that time and b) despite that it's the first time I've ever heard about it. Bottom line, people cared enough to make a stink about conquistadores in board games and none have made similar attempts about Vikings wiping out Anglo-Saxons. So I'm guessing that it isn't that serious. Feel free to disagree and get out there to change that