Huh? Who are those people you are speaking about? Never heard of them tbh

@@SlavaRybka Who actually runs this channel anyways? It's just been a bunch of still shots of board games with no one in them for as long as I can remember.

#theStandardReferencePearisall #allhailtheStandardReferencePear

Is that what people mean when they say ‘cut the deck’?

I could not get a copy of Colossal Arena and was looking forward to this. I am sad to see the unnecessarily big cards

The version I have is called Titan the Arena, from Avalon Hill, 1997. Smaller cards, great game.

I thought I recognised the game. Thanks for clearing that up. I was thinking cheaty mages or camelup but, no, it is CA.

I guess this means I've been playing games long enough to be confused as this review went on that this is a straight reskin from, I guess, 'olden times'? Haha...

@@jonathanklabunde6639 you know you've been playing games long enough when you buy an expansion, and it doesn't match the copy of the game you own

Where's my boardgame about mangroves of big burly himboak drylads showing off and admiring each other's thick, sturdy branches?

Never fear. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove from M:TG is always there for you.

@@CheshireCad himboaks xD that's perfect

Agree. To reference another Knizia game even, the most recent production of modern art: love the big cards. Big cards make sense there because they are supposed to be these beautiful paintings that everyone is bidding on as the sole focus of the game. Here, it just seems to make the game's footprint too big. There's a lot of empty space on these cards, and you could definitely get the same information across with normal size cards.

Yeah I agree that big cards are generally unnecessarily cumbersome. I guess you could argue that big cards allow for better appreciation of the artwork, like in Dixit, for example. But it looks like there's a lot of empty space with the cards in this game.

It's clearly a game for giants in the future. Little modern people need not apply.

Meh, if Pink Floyd can make an experimental "song" that's just silence in the recording studio and get away with it, I think SU&SD can get away with this.

What video?

@@Shenaldrac Who are SU&SD?

@@totalvoid6234 Who's Pink Floyd?

@@Shenaldrac What's an idea?

Me likewise!

Cards too big for me

I was also thinking this game was a "skin" for colossal arena as I was watching the review. I think the theme of an arena of monsters fits better the mechanics of the game... also, no big cards in the original Colossal Arena, so... win win?

I still own it and played it back in the day but would say it's design is pretty dated at this point. It could have been spruced up and maybe been worth this treatment.

I'd just like to add that Colossal Arena was itself more or less a re-skin of Titan the Arena, which was also implemented as Galaxy: the dark ages. I always liked Galaxy best out of the set.

I love how Ava and Quinns are doing their normal day-to-day activities, while Tom is busy being a duplicated dancing gnome. So. A normal day-to-day activity for everybody, I guess.

@@IslanKleinknecht Tom is just vibing

@@IslanKleinknecht I don't believe for a moment that Quinns waters plants

Inis fans are coming for you, Munch Moo. We will find your milk farm. We will burn it to ashes. And from this ashes The Grate Card will be reborn. Like giant fenix or smth..

@@user-gp8nr8od2p uh oh what did I do? Edit: oh does Inis have big cards?

Right? I guess they decided that was a touch too spicy!

It's back now, I dont know what it even got changed to lol

@@lucasmartin6335 "You favorite animal no longer exists."

And vice versa

I think the idea is that you just put the videos on a smart TV and play them during game nights for added ambience. It's the only thing I could think of.

I'll tell you why I subscribe. Its the drama. Im always being taken on a British roller-coaster of emotion

you forgot ... the worm

Yeah, turns out being almost always unable to recover from a broken leg is a bad survival trait. Especially if you're expected to spend your life racing.

They're fine, actually.

Take a look at clossal arena, this game seems to be just a reskin of that. ^^

I played it as colossal arena but really liked it. Apparently it was originally Grand National Derby. Over 25 years ago.

@@Confoundedjoe Oh, I liked it/like it, too. It's just so funny to think that the soft fairytale element is literally painted on top of what was once a game of gladiatorial combat.

He was the gnome who disappeared. Well, did he ever exist in the first place?

I retract my statement, I did not watch the whole video and am an actual moron

@@tc9694 no worries

I did the same. It was well played.

I could see there being situations when big cards could be useful. In this game the cards are exclusively just art and iconography though (at least that's the impression I got from the video, I don't own the game), so it seems a little much. I think you have a good point though, I'm imagining how much easier cards like the Flare cards from Cosmic Encounter would be to read if they were simply a little bit bigger (though, even then, perhaps not that big)

They also present obstacles to accessibility for people who lack the dexterity or hand size to shuffle such a wide stack, and even holding them can be a problem because while they may be more readable on the surface, they also take up more space in the hand (again, dexterity) or take up more space in a card holder, possibly necessitating two or three card holders for people who need to rely on them, rather than just one. There are other ways to make a card more visually accessible that don't involve making them bigger. Of course, there's also the issue of table space. All the "accessible design" in the world doesn't matter if a person can't fit your game on the table. It really becomes a question of context. Is the card trying to present a lot of information, or does it serve a purpose where it needs to be big (Mysterium, for example)? Is the deck small enough to be easily shuffled with large cards? If so, large card away. If not, there are other ways to create access to a game that don't get in the way of themselves.

Big cards are good, in my opinion, when they don't have to act as cards. If they are acting as tokens, or a space, or something similar? Great. No Thanks, Mysterium, others I'm sure, they use the card size for important reasons. It works for them. Most games, however, are quite poor for this. #TeamBigCardsWhenParticularlyAppropriateOtherwiseNoThanks lol

I came in to make this comment as well. Titan then Colossal Arena. I love Knizia to death as a developer, but come on, why do you have to keep rebooting THIS game.

Normal playing cards are the correct size. Mini cards are just as bad as too big