For such an intricate background and art, the gameplay seems surprisingly boring. :/ Too much luck involved.

“Tiny things on a table fetish” 😂😂😂

$250-$1500 for a game with deep rules flaws. Not surprised it was cancelled. Metal coins, metal dice, plastic or resin minis, pre painted or not, pvc cards, plastic game board, hard cover rule book. The game with everything except game. They managed to condense 5 minutes of action into a mere hour.

This game has everything … everything that is considered bad game design: Roll for move/actions, no meaningful decisions, fiddly rules, randomness over randomness and loosing turns.

I felt really really bad for Gaurav. His luck was beyond bad.

Comments here are harsh. No Robo Rally fans? No Tales of the Arabian Nights fans? Random is fun, just gotta learn to laugh it off. The production is beautiful. The relaunch has affordable options and needs support.

7:43 if you already know how to play.

Unfortunately this game was already canceled on Kickstarter due to people feeling the price was to high.

I thought this game looked fun when looking at the rules but in practice it's just extremely random with few meaningful choices.

I just went through the intros in a row, and I've noticed that she seems more and more ummm... relaxed as I progress through them. In the first 2 she sounded like an advertisement, but since then it's noticable how she slowly gets used to this, I'm posting it on this one, as I haven't watched this one yet, and also because I feel that further progress won't be as noticeable.

But can the Maverick trade lumber for ecoculture credits?

i really enjoyed this video, the game looks kinda fun if a bit luck dependent.

Their KickStarter is back up and live now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/340430256/nexus-tabletop-arena-combat

Is it just me or did Becca get color corrected to grey in front angle shots?

Becca looks gorgeous, but where was animated Becca? I want my wink!!! :(

game looks weird but becca makes it enjoyable. seems like her and guest can make playing solitaire fun.

WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY TOOOOOOO EXPENSIVE!

as much fun as light jazz is, I feel like it can be overpowering sometimes.

Not enough rules. Needs more rules.

30:28 Rolls a 6, says he got 4

At 50:28 Guarav took 6 damage from the rolls, but he marked down his health by 11 points. Ouch.

Another example of a "style over substance" game. Randomness in every step. Both players could just roll a handful of dice each, sum up and compare. Would've make it much faster and equally boring. Sorry, wouldn't play that "game" once. Still loved watching Becca and Gaurav presenting it :D

26:50 whey is four awesome? 4 is a unlucky number!

Wow this game is very luck based... Rolling for action points is just stupid

This game does not look like lot of fun.

FOUR MEANS DEATH

Body part mechanics are cool but too much luck like in the action points rolling a 1 and traps don't play much of a role

Banter better than game

191 quid on kickstarter, yea no thanks

would love to munch box

I do like Becca and she does her best to make the game interesting ... but the game really is quite boring and unsatisfying to watch on its own

I would have loved to back this game, the visuals are great. But the gameplay is just wildly random. It is like playing chess with dice to say what piece moves where. Beautiful chessboard, but Not really going to enjoy it once novelty runs out. The gameplay is fixable. D6 for action points--one roll for both players this turn, but only the roller puts the coin on their turnaround rack. The Turnaround cards need to be designed to CAUSE turnarounds. Right now it is just more random good or bad with no purpose other than stacking random on random. They should be called Luck cards. Turnaround cards either hit the leader with a negative or the current loser with a bonus. Simple fix that will help balance the game--which means keeping both players viable to win. Gaurav was losing the entire game with little to no recovery. I see comments about totally random games are fun. No, they often aren't. Just roll dice and add them up. First to 100 wins. Having fun yet? I think each Motivator should have a special attack and move. They would have a high action cost to limit their use. Maybe 3 or 4 each. The big fat guys can charge forward forcing the opponent back. A more lithe figure can flip over an opponent, or use a column or obstacle to swing around it--maybe that can be a landing kick attack. The card would have a darwing show the movement or how the attack must be setup and execute square-wise. This way there is a reason to like playing one mini over another. Then add the two drawn powers--I don't recall the name of the one-use cards that they get two of. Those things would improve the gameplay for me. I'd also consider using a D8 for action points to allow more "action" each round. That might mean altering costs on an action or two. The grapple was useful, but the few action points just led to grapple-liberated-grapple-liberated-grapple-liberated, it was too repetitive. I'd like to see a sort of dice economy per turn. Like you get to use 1 of each d4 through d12 for your actions. You can choose 1 or two dice per action. But so can your opponent. This way I'm expending them like energy and deciding how much I want to stack to make this action a success or that action. Something like that to give the player more control for strategy. You can always have simpler rules for new players that swap strategy for randomness. But, for a lot of gamers, and that is who is going to back this... it needs better designed gameplay.

Looks pointlessly complex.

Tfw you lose

This is why Graphical Designers don't make good Game Designers. The Artwork is great ,the miniatures are fine but the part of the game shown is just - bad. It is slow, random, needlessly complex and success slides heavily from the first hit onward. The amount of dice, tables and specific rules used reeks of early 90s design in all the bad ways. When your game needs a spreadsheet and about every common form of dice plus a specific 'direction dice' - you are either writing a game for a TINY segment of excel Fanatic Die collectors or you have failed.

I don't care if the guest is Obama and the game is Monopoly, I'm here for Becca.

Meh. I'd rather play Battletech

Wow this game was incredibly painful to watch, and not in a way appropriate to an arena brawler; this episode showed exactly why too many random elements just do not make for good gameplay as Guarav never had enough action points, his only turning point was a negative effect (and actually should have been *more* negative since it should have kept going each turn till he succeeded), plus his only special card was wasted. It was a real exhibition for bad game design, and it's such a shame, as a few minor tweaks could make this game so much more playable; e.g- giving characters a fixed AP pool each turn, maybe have leg injuries reduce it, plus add some more ways to spend AP to boost SPS, then remove the weird random fire moving mechanic (it should just stay put, or have a chance to spread into adjacent squares). Too much randomness just makes for a bad game, sorry.

Playing shit with to many rules and complex mechanics. I almost closed out of the video during the explanation of the game.

To much randomness and spikey game mechanics. Miniatures seem okay, but game design is needlessly complex and plagued with linear strategy due to luck making strategy almost just a flow chart.

Becca's enthusiasm and presenting quality are wasted on games like this.

we need new Tabletop , this is just boring