Lands of Galzyr | Preview Playthrough and Impressions | With Mike

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Gamefound Link - gamefound.com/projects/draft/nrs6qlp4hej1oj8cyigi9jhgihb?project=lands-of-galzyr&creator=snowdale#/ - - - - - - 0:00 - Introduction 1:20 - Overview of Play 6:13 - Solo Playthrough 37:42 - Impressions

[@VikingKittens]

Your play through really came alive with all the reading you did. As someone who is a big fan of sleeping gods you have peeked my interest. Thanks for this and Cheers!!!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Aw, glad you enjoyed it!

[@markaceramos4498]

Now with this playthru, you just convinced me to back the new expansion along with the base game! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Glad you had fun with it!

[@SnowdaleDesign]

Thank you for the playthrough, Michael! Seems like you had a great time. 😊

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Nice work on this one, Sami!

[@seppokuukasjarvi7436]

Many thanks for making this video. Seems you had fun!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

It was a blast :)

[@eirikjohnsbraten6370]

Thanks for the playthrough. I really enjoyed the narrating. :) This game actually looks a lot like the game Trudvang Legends was promised to be when it was on Kickstarter. Except the setting, of course.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Trudvang was the one that they changed a bunch after the initial campaign, right? I hope it turns out well!

[@eirikjohnsbraten6370]

@@OneStopCoopShop Yes, it really did. Eric Lang was the designer when the KS was launched, and I have no idea what exactly happened when he left, but they ended up redesigning the whole thing. Now I'm glad I didn't back it. This game, though, looks sweet, and if it wasn't for Arydia launching at the same time, I just might have backed it. :)

[@Thomas-kx9op]

Thanks for the video. Great job!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Thanks for watching!

[@mihancic]

Very excited for this one.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

It’s a lot of fun, as long as you enjoy some good stories ;)

[@mihancic]

@@OneStopCoopShop Very much yes :)

[@DarrinSK]

This game is everything that I wish tales of Arabian nights, choose your own adventure books, near and far, and sleeping gods were. I like it so much that I kind of want to make my own exactly like this but with a different theme. I dig the cozy anthropomorphized animal world vibe. I also like more serious vibes too.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Fully agree! Arabian nights can be goofy fun, but this is great

[@TheSludgeMan]

Really excited for this one. Looks great. We broke out Tales of the Arabian Nights recently and leafing through the book quickly became a drag. There's a lot of negative sentiment in the comments about app-assisted games but the sheer amount of narrative text going on here and stat tracking makes this game perfectly suited to an app. I generally dislike screens at the table but the attitude of "apps automatically ruin any and every tabletop game" is just curmudgeonly if you ask me

[@OneStopCoopShop]

I often don’t like apps replacing cards and things I manipulate. But replacing a giant book so I don’t have to flip back and forth? Heck yes :)

[@pencilpauli9442]

Thanks Mike. Super fun Really tempted to back this as I don't have a narrative game nor an adventure game. Seems rather relaxing too without too many parts to have to think about. Would you consider the game has any sort of replay value though?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Replay... it's an interesting question. You make different choices in quests, and sometimes different stuff happens and you succeed or fail differently. But generally the intended play is to keep playing in the same world/campaign, even if you switch out characters and collect stuff. So there's a lot of PLAY in there, but whether or not you'd want to fully reset everything and start from scratch, seeing and doing some quests over again? That would be up to you.

[@pencilpauli9442]

@@OneStopCoopShop Lands of Galzyr isn't like the games I am used to, so maybe replayability is the wrong concept to apply to it. Appreciate your thoughts which are helpful, thanks.

[@pencilpauli9442]

Yes Eurasian Hoopoes are a real bird, Mike! Sadly I've never seen one as they are only rare visitors to the UK. Even rarer now, thanks to Brexit! lol Macaque is pronounced Mah-cack

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Demons from the sky!

[@BlakeAustin2011]

You seemed to genuinely enjoy this play through, as though you won Willy Wonka’s gold ticket. I want to buy the game now just because of your reviews.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Hahahaha, watch out, I'll break out into song next.

[@BlakeAustin2011]

@@OneStopCoopShop One Stop Disney Shop?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

@@BlakeAustin2011 I wanna be where the polecats are...

[@Dratio]

It's funny all of these winged creatures in the story don't bother to fly when they need to climb something or are going to get captured. Ducks need to catch a boat. Outside of that one ability card it seems like the anthropomorphic theme wasn't woven into the story at all.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Huh… never thought of that! :)

[@erikpeters7072]

This game looks fun and I think I’ll pledge for it. It seems to be a glorified gamebook but hey I always prefer more interaction in my games so I have no problem with that

[@OneStopCoopShop]

I love gamebooks, and so do my kids, so it’s not a problem for me either ;)

[@erikpeters7072]

Yeah honestly the lack of set up has been a major reason for mu recent gamebook binge been loving legendary kingdoms as well as steam highwayman and of course the greatest of all: Fabled Lands

[@erikpeters7072]

The map of this game is absolutely beautiful a major selling point for me

[@DarrinSK]

This is like taking the concept of an open world or a game book and cranking it up to 10

[@carla8478]

Game looks fantastic, like you said stories are engaging and well written, already backed. I do have to say that earthquake scenario right at the end caught me a bit off guard though and concerns me. It seemed more graphic and tense than a lot of the other adventures and felt out of place. And also now I've got to warn those I play with to watch out cause some scenarios might get heavy out of nowhere which kind of sucks cause my teen daughter and I both have PTSD and really want to play games like this to escape and check out a cool new world, not deal with more heavy tragedy. I mean I don't expect everything to go perfectly, but yikes I could have done without that encounter. And not to end my comment on the negative because I do really think it looks like a fantastic game, I just have to say that I love the multi-colored dice. Just saw another adventure campaign and the dice are all the same color and it just didn't feel as cool. Also like how you can adjust your characters skills every now and again as you go along. And the ability to adapt the map with new cards as you adventure is top notch.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

That was the only event with that kind of tone out of all the ones I played, and I could have avoided it entirely by not heading over there until the timer ran out. That being said, I think Sami said at some point that the "main" ongoing story was about a war coming to the land, so there's the possibility that there might be some darker elements in the game. When I play with my kids, I'll probably just alter the narration on the fly. I do that a lot :)

[@TheSludgeMan]

@@OneStopCoopShop glad to hear there is a "main" narrative thread, i have already backed this game but i was disappointed when you described it as more of a series of random side quests than a cohesive story

[@fubarbox]

Seems like a fun solo game or choose your adventure story rather. I can see a lot of downtime between players though and it getting boring in a group of more than two, especially with all the reading. Does this game have an overall campaign conclusion/victory condition in co-op and competitive? Also what is the victory condition for one off coop games? So far the game looks beautiful and like great fun for a solo player.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Yes, agreed that 1-2 will likely be best for most play groups. As for a conclusion, in a single session there is one competitive “winner”, whoever gets the most prestige, though everyone’s story and quests still continue into the next month. I’m co-op there’s never really a winner. It’s all about the stories you encounter month to month.

[@ALeXKazik]

Liked the playthrough! But you cheated a little: at 25:48 you touch the wrong outcome accidentally (4+ instead of 3).

[@OneStopCoopShop]

FAT FINGERS! Good eyes spotting that one. I'll add a note in the subtitles.

[@spookytkid]

I'm rather bummed about this title. I have been rather busy trying to stay afloat this last year and a half. Never even heard about the kickstarter... When I saw the reviews I knew I would love this for me and my family. Then I saw the $200 price tag and knew it would never happen anytime soon. right now food bills are enough. Look great though! maybe someday.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Focus on the important things for sure. Hope things improve!

[@alexpartenopei1021]

oh man, it requires an app?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

For reading the stories, yeah, instead of flipping through a 300+ page book

[@alexpartenopei1021]

thanks did i read correctly that this 'book' can be downloaded to computet/tablet and used offline?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

@@alexpartenopei1021 that is my understanding, yes. Need a device, but don't need an internet connection.

[@seppokuukasjarvi7436]

@@OneStopCoopShop It's not an app but a web page. There will be over 300K words which is comparable to the first two books in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's more like a thousand pages long.

[@DarrinSK]

There is an HTML version of the book.

[@thecrabbydice]

Meh hard pass .... its one of those no decisions story games where the game strings u along and all u do is skill check after skill check ... if u like agents of smersh its basically the same thing

[@OneStopCoopShop]

This one is more freeform than Agents of Smersh, but I don't necessarily disagree with you. If you don't enjoy the narrative adventure of it, the mechanics are going to seem too light.

[@thecrabbydice]

@@OneStopCoopShop sure enough .. but IMO a game needs to have an interesting decision space ... if im going to play a "game" that is just story , ill go watch a movie or read a book

[@OneStopCoopShop]

@@thecrabbydice sure, I get your point. But I have loved choose your own adventure stories since I was a kid, and now my kids love them too. I think there's a pretty major difference between a book or movie, where the narrative is set in stone, and a game or experience where you get to influence and decide the way it goes (like in Galzyr). Now, I think a great movie or book will have a BETTER narrative than a CYOA game, since it's a cohesive piece written by an expert. But you can still have a lot of fun making your own way through a narrative :)

[@thecrabbydice]

@@OneStopCoopShop sure thats cool ... this game will have its fans and im sure they will like it ... it reminds me alot of escape the dark tower .. imo one of the worst "games" ever made but it has its fans like a certain someone loves ... 😉