Yokohama | Rahdo's Prototype Thoughts

[@MarlonKruis]

Small hickup at 4:50. Thanks for your thoughts as always Richard. Seems like a sweet blend between Istanbul, Orleans and your typical euro collecting goods for points type of game.

[@NeatoZen]

You don't need the chips to get the country bonus at the end! You just need the flags on the cards themselves. Fo each set of 5, you get 12 points.

[@NeatoZen]

Around 3:05

[@PauloRenato23]

noted... thanks

[@BlueSapphyre]

This game looks really wicked. Like Istanbul+.

[@meeplesinc.511]

Hi Rahdo! I'm normally not a huge enthusiast for point salad games. Would you say that it is possible to go for specific strategies in Yokohama or do you have to do a little of everything to be successful?

[@rahdo]

nope, i would say the game rewards focus definitely :)

[@void2258]

For future reference, when pronouncing Japanese, syllables in Japanese are broken by vowel. Hi-sa-shi Ha-ya-shi, vowels pronounced Spanish style at all times and with no blending (y is not a vowel for this context and is always as in you, so you can get shyu as a single syllable). If you have uu, oo, ou, or ii, that just stretches the first sound (ou is still stretched o; it's a quirk carried over from Japanese writing where oo is almost never used). If you have 2 dissimilar vowels except ou, they are separate syllables but tend to be blended a bit, for example ei is pronounced as long English a, which you kind of can see if you try to pronounce them as written quickly. r and l are the same sound in Japanese, halfway between r and l (sort of a rl sound, but not really), but since you don't speak it no one will fault you if you just read it as written.

[@void2258]

Just to clarify (in Japanese order): a as in hat i as in the e in be u as in the oo in boot, but slightly faster e as in bet o as in boat these sounds are not modified at any time, but can be combined by group 2 dissimilar to get sounds similar to those in modified vowels in English: ei as in the a in skate uo as woe (the wo sound exists in Japanese but is no longer used phonetically. Transliterated wo is pronounced o). ai as I, but generally pronounced such that the a and i are distinct unless used in an English word transliterated to Japanese. ie is always pronounced i-e distinctly.

[@rahdo]

arigato for the heads up! :)

[@fisknylle]

Elliot: A as in hat? Yokohaemae?

[@smoothcriminal28]

So are you guys keeping it?

[@yunsuk21]

Question: do you think this game is very AP prone like Five Tribes?

[@rahdo]

it's much better for AP players that 5t :)

[@jpower2010]

looks like a sweet game! ill see if i can scrounge up the cash to back it. what do you like more? yokohama or bora bora?

[@silverfang6668]

Hot? turn on the ceiling fan!

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

I think he wants to avoid that noise when recording...

[@rahdo]

when i was filming this, the fan hadn't been run for probalby 10 months, and when we first start using it after a long down time, it makes some terrible grinding noises until it gets 'warmed up'. moving forward, you're probably going to see it going in the background more often. but unfortunately, due to it's location, it really doesn't help at all where i sit and film... but it keeps us cool on the couch :)

[@silverfang6668]

I just got a brilliant idea! You could start up your own business: Malta's first and only A/C business. You could make a $mall fortune! :P

[@michaelzietlow280]

If it makes noise, its time to replace it! I know your in Malta but fans are still cheap and easy to replace.