Watch “Re;ACT The Arts of War Review — Keep Reacting to Yourself,” a board game review for Re;ACT: The Arts of War from Shelfside on BoardGameVideo.
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Yugioh meets chess and Magic the Gathering! All with anime weeb art! Players will pick characters with unique cards and abilities that can react off each other, all while dodging around your abilities on the grid arena board to avoid getting hit while trying to outplay your opponent! You'll each be drawing from a deck of cards while tapping certain cards and standees in order to activate their effects, which all start chain links/stacking that resolves backwards like any traditional TCG. Figuring out how to deal damage by managing your hand of cards and resources correctly while dodging your opponent's strategy means super crunchy combat mechanics and systems involving tons of tokens! But the fiddliness in the components can cause some lack of visual gameplay clarity... aaand then that's addressed with the kickstarter deluxe components with acrylic standees and neoprene playmats. There may also be balance issues, and we'll have to wait and see how that pans out.
Re;ACT Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brotherminggames/re-act-the-arts-of-war?ref=4nph1m
Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
Overview & How to Play - (0:56)
Pros - (3:22)
Cons - (13:32)
Tentative Score - (19:34)
Daniel's Personal Score - (22:17)
Ashton's Personal Score - (26:14)
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Mainly reviews. Re;ACT: The Arts of War is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 11 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
2 players
20 - 40 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Re;ACT: The Arts of War, from BoardGameGeek:
Re;Act is a 1 vs 1 grid based card dueling game about different artists fighting with incredible magic powers based on their different art forms. This cast of colorful characters come with extremely asymmetrical powers and gameplay mechanics including a brazen calligrapher whose sword scabbard is giant ink brush, a mysterious dancer whose flowing steps summon giant fish, and a young sculptor whose creatures come to life to swarm his enemies.
Each character comes with a unique pre-built deck of cards, all of which are either "Intentions", which start off a chain, or "Reactions", which can be played in response to an intention or reaction. All effects are played to the React chain, which resolve only once both players pass on playing reactions, and resolve backwards: first in last out. Inspired heavily by the Yugioh Effect Chain and Magic Stack, Re;ACT aims to combine the crunchy competitive counter play of TCGs with the sleek approachability of modern board games.
As you work to damage your opponent or control the board with your character and summons, you'll also be competing to finish your masterpiece before your opponent, a gorgeous 3 card spread of your character's greatest work. Doing so will grant you powers of your art form's truest expressions, and will be key to victory.
