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Tidal Blades - Banner Festival: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Area Control, Trick Taking Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 5 Players Time to Play:  30 - 45   Minutes  Game Designer:   J.B. Howell, Michael Mihealsick Game Artist:  Lina Cossette Publisher : Lucky Duck Games, Druid City Game Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  1.86 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the VR Distribution. Rundown: The Banner of Festivals has arrived in the coastal city of Tidal Blades. Over three days (rounds), you are a merchant trying to sell the best wears and bid successfully on the watercraft races. The gameplay of Banner Festival works as a trick-taking and area control game. There are four quadrants that each have their own hierarchy of best to worst suit out of the four colours. These colours are teal, purple, orange and yellow. The lowest player of the last trick will be able to move the trade gate 1, 2, 3...

Guardians Call: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Bluffing, Set Collection, Social Deduction Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  2 - 5  Players  Time to Play:  2 0 - 40  Minutes  Game Designer :  James Hudson Game Artist:   Noah Adelman, Lina Cossette, Damien Mammoliti Publisher : Druid City Games, Skybound Games Year Published:  2019 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: 'Guardians Call' is a social deduction/ bluffing game that I can best describe as a mix between 'Cockroach Poker' and 'Sheriff of Nottingham'.  The main action you will perform each turn is offering a player a certain amount of the same card while claiming that they are a specific card type. This may or may not be the truth but there are rules to this. You cannot mix and match cards or lie about the amount you are offering, but besides that players are able to lie about what the card t...

Sorcerer City: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Real-Time, Tile Building, Tile Placement Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  45 - 60   Minutes  Game Designer:   Scott Capulto Game Artist:  Lina Cossette, David Kegg, Damien Mammoliti Publisher : Druid City Games Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  2.25 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. I have recently decided that I would try a new review format that focuses more on my thoughts than how the game runs. This new format is called a R.A.P.I.D. review and the categories are Rundown, Alteration, Production, Interaction and Determination. Rundown: Each year sorcerer city is built, reset and  re-built. You and your fellow players are playing as rival architects and will try to gain the most prestige over the course of five years. This occurs by players laying tiles in real time to score in areas of influenc...