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- Replay Value (1-10): 7
- Fun Factor (1-10): 6
- Worth Buying (1-10): 6
Although it's different in many ways, this game feels like a nice simulation of Lightcycles. Each player controls three "chevrons" that move around the 9x9 board, leaving little markers that are no problem to themselves but
are barriers to your opponents' pieces. The goal is to take turns carving up territory, weaving among and around enemy pieces, until the whole board is claimed, at which point whomever has the most territory marked wins.
The instructions are basically intricate rules on how to change speed and
direction, with the three provided games giving three stages of increasingly
complex rules.
There's definitely a non-trivial abstract game here, easily on par with Blokus, a winner from previous years. Unlike Blokus, however, the pieces are not as satisfying to move around and manipulate, which may explain this game's underappreciation this year. (I think; I wasn't a big fan of Blokus either.) The full game, Pacru, with all of its intricate rules, is pretty hard to keep track of; one
feels that the first few games are going to be about not screwing up the rules rather than out-thinking your opponents. In some ways, this game feels like it would do much better if played on a computer, with lots of visual aids and
conceptual diagrams to help players through. As an abstact board game, it's
probably just a little bit to fiddly to reach the right audience.
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