Picture Perfect - Movie Star Expansion: Review
Information:
Mechanics: Puzzle, Deduction, Memory
Player Age: 10+ Player Count: 2 - 4 PlayersTime to Play: 50 - 90 Minutes
Game Designer: Anthony Nouveau
Player Age: 10+
Game Designer: Anthony Nouveau
Introduction:
Picture Perfect is a unique hidden-information guest placement game where you are placing guests to meet their three preferences and take a photo at the end to see if it all worked out properly. For the full review click here. This review focuses on the movie star expansion that adds three new guests, but more importantly, new preference types and exchanges.
Special Setup:
When playing with this expansion, before the normal setup, 3 randomly determined guests will be removed from the game to make way for the movie stars. This includes removing their envelope, figures, and any preference cards showing their images.
New Preferences:
Facing:
There is a new keyword in the preferences called ‘facing’. Each guest has a black dot on their envelope determining if they are facing front, back, left, or right.
Diagonal does not count for facing and the plant faces all four directions. A guest is facing another guest if they are sharing an edge and in the direction the original guest is facing. It is important to note that the facing is determined by the dot on their envelope, not how the guest is tilted in the end photo.
Picture with a Particular Star:
Everyone wants a picture with their favourite star and some guests may even have it as a preference. If the nose, eyes, and mouth are all visible to both the guest and the star (excluding one Hollywood starlet that bends this rule), then the guest's preference has been achieved. In the final photo, this guest also must be the closest guest to this star's face, physically. Any covered faces do not count and do not block other guests from being close. Fancy camera work and angles can be used to make this all possible at the end of the game.
New Exchange Cards:
Autograph:
In the Autograph, before looking at envelopes, everyone (in order) will give a chosen player two envelopes of their choice and take one in response. As this occurs before players look in the envelopes, your secretly-coveted envelope can be taken by another player having their turn after you.
Gossip:
Gossip is an exchange card that shares some information with all players. In turn order, the non-active players will choose one envelope of the active player. The active player will now shuffle and reveal to all players one of the preference cards.
Final Thoughts:
- Facing is a tricky element that is the step up from the base game’s ‘next to’.
- Actual guests don't add anything different.
This is one of those expansions I always enjoy for games, where it doesn't add any new game modes or complicated mechanisms. It simply adds more stuff. The new guest only add cosmetic differences, and while it is fun to use the Hollywood guests, the main focus of the expansion is the variability that the 12 new preferences and 3 exchange cards add to the gameplay. This prevents the same preferences from being used in every game, as this was the case with the base game. So now there is a chance that certain guests won't be hated (wanted out of camera view) or need to be near another guest. Instead, they may simply not be referred to at all. If you wanted more variability with no added complexity, or simply love the 50's Hollywood theme, then this is the expansion you want for Picture Perfect.
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