Since I reviewed Kronologic: Paris 1920 in January, now we have gone on to play each state of affairs and restarted with Grandparents. Identical to I discussed in that evaluation, if there may be sufficient time between sport performs, there isn’t any approach you’ll bear in mind the ending, which ensures its replay worth. That being stated, the household has been asking me when one other model was popping out, and now I get to inform them Kronologic: Cuzco 1450 is right here.
The query is, did it reside as much as the hype?
Gameplay Overview:
Please learn my evaluation of Kronologic: Paris 1920 to be taught the mechanics of this social deduction sport, as I’m solely going to focus on the variations. This sport just isn’t an growth; it’s a new setting with three new situations and requires nothing from the unique sport. Identical to the unique, there are three situations (with 5 distinctive video games in every state of affairs), every with completely different difficulties from 3 Stars to 7 Stars. The sport is performed by one to 4 gamers. Every state of affairs has six suspects, six areas, and 6 time frames you can examine. Every suspect is in a location on the map of Cuzco always and should transfer to an adjoining location every time. Aside from in State of affairs three, they’ll solely transfer one location at a time and by no means keep in the identical location. New to this model, every location has a passage to 3 different areas not simply 1-2, however a few of these passages get blocked in particular person video games.
Within the first state of affairs, The Golden Sceptre, every participant is making an attempt to establish the 2 characters chosen by the Solar God to put the Golden Sceptre within the sacred location. You’re given the beginning location of characters and what passages are blocked and wish to find out who the chosen characters are, which location is the sacred location, and in what time these two are in that location collectively. The one trace is that this will likely be a location that solely the 2 Chosen characters go to, and nobody else visits it.
Within the second state of affairs, The Curse of Amarinta, every participant is making an attempt to find who was cursed by the goddess Amarinta in timeframe one. You’re given who was cursed in time six and that at any time when a personality is in a location with the cursed character, they gave that character the curse in every of the six time frames. It’s like tracing a sport of tag again to the beginning.
Within the third state of affairs, The Ritual, it’s all about sacred dancing. Every character strikes in clockwise circles in accordance with a dance assigned to them, which is a sequence of three strikes that repeat in a cycle (ex: 1-2-3-1-2-3). You are attempting to search out the situation of every character in Time 6 and also you additionally solely know a number of character’s dance sequence at first, however not the place within the sequence they’re in Time 1. It’s practically as sophisticated because it sounds.
Recreation Expertise:
As a substitute of asking gamers questions like in Clue, every participant takes turns discovering out details about one suspect’s actions by means of a location or what number of suspects have been in a location at a given time. In a continued nice mechanic, every question offers the energetic participant a chunk of secret info and a chunk of data that they have to share with the opposite gamers. Gamers then write down the general public info, and the energetic participant additionally writes down their personal info on their word sheet.
The Golden Scepter resulted in a number of ties for my household, which by no means occurred within the unique sport, so I’m not positive if we’re simply conversant in the sport or if it is a flaw. My spouse favored that we tied; my aggressive youngsters hated that we tied.
In the course of the Curse of Amarinta, we had a number of video games the place folks guessed improper, which I believe is nice. That is partly as a result of, since all of us did so nicely within the first state of affairs, we have been making an attempt to infer some info with out having all the particulars in an try and win.
The Ritual has so many issues to unravel that your mind hurts. You should work out every character’s dance/sample and the place they’re in that dance to then predict the ultimate location. That is the toughest state of affairs in all the video games and isn’t for everybody, however the problem is enjoyable.
Closing Ideas:
Should you like homicide mysteries or deduction video games, exit and purchase Kronologic: Paris 1920 first. If you wish to have further challenges, choose up Kronologic: Cuzco 1450. The variability of 15 video games throughout the three situations is once more a adequate variety of video games to permit for replaying. The sport simply didn’t seize me the best way Paris did. It was complicated to be complicated and was not fairly as enjoyable. It’s nonetheless good, and worthy of a choose up for those who already like Kronolgic: Paris 1920.
Closing Rating: 4 Stars – Enjoyable Deduction sport with good replay worth, that’s simple to arrange, simply not as simple to play or asa enjoyable as the unique, however the three situations nonetheless really feel like a unique sport every time that you simply play.
Hits:
• Excessive replay worth with very completely different situations
• The Kronologic system continues to be a superb approach to play a deduction sport.
Misses:
• State of affairs three is complicated to be complicated, however remains to be gratifying
• I’m not a fan of the a number of ties that we skilled.
