Time Stories Revolution: A Deep-dive Review of Four Boxes

[@jonathanwarner2893]

Good review. Trying to think of things to add. I believe Cavendish had the most special mechanical scenarios you could encounter that would benefit from a group of live players so that might be the one you really want to try and get a group together. I'm not sure I fully agree that the idea of the Experience box could not work with the games being able to be played in any order. I do agree that does insulate the campaign storyline but I think one of the big problems might just be that you do the bulk of the campaign gameplay after you play each individual game. At least that's how I recall it. Now you would need to record what trophies you got from playing the individual games at each of their ends, but I think the campaign story might feel less tacked on if you just dealt with it at the start of each individual game when you are fresh. I also think the campaign mechanics do need to be insulated to the campaign, no skills that bend the rules for the individual games. But I think there could be an interesting campaign story about building up Time HQ with something similar but simplified to the village building mechanic in 7th Citadel. But building up Time HQ would only unlock skills for Time HQ and then there would be little choose your own adventure story segments based around those time HQ skills. And you would follow a linear story of these campaign chapters but between them you could play any of the individual games.

[@maxtheman36]

We enjoyed Cavendish, really appreciate the review of the system and the other games. I’ll have to keep an eye out for Midsummer. I was really curious about the ‘experience’ and am sad to hear it’s a bust. What a waste of cool potential. Thanks for really digging into it (as I’ll never get it).

[@COOPFORTWO]

Yeah what a shame, right?

[@aritovi]

Nice review

[@COOPFORTWO]

Thank you for saying so! -jesse

[@theinvisibleman-e8v]

Nice review, the audio was pretty noisy from the fan.

[@COOPFORTWO]

Thank you. I didn't notice any fan background noise, but I really do need to work on the audio from my edits and add some noise reduction, if anything at least to reduce the clicking mouth sounds in my voice which is very annoying.