Watch “The Fanatics Review: Aethermon Collect - a monster catching set collection game by Aethermon Studios,” a board game review on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Adam the Fanatic on YouTube:
Welcome back one and all, today my nephew Kayden the Fanatic joins us to take a look at Aethermon Collect, a monster catching-themed set collection game by Aethermon Studios! They clearly have the artwork down, but as I often say: Artwork can't make a bad game good, but it can make a good game great; so which is it this time? Let's dive in and find out!
DISCLAIMER: The developer of this game has provided me a copy for the purposes of this video. I will always endeavor to give my honest thoughts of any game I review, regardless of review copies provided. All opinions contained herein are mine and mine alone.
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Setup
1:48 - Basic Rules and Artifacts
2:47 - Endgame and Scoring
3:55 - Cooperative Mode
4:52 - Components and Artwork
5:57 - Pins (Yes, it needed its own section!)
8:16 - Conclusion
Links:
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Music:
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Mainly reviews. Aethermon: Collect is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, and 3 recorded sessions.
2 - 4 players
10 - 20 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Aethermon: Collect, from BoardGameGeek:
Join Rika, Haru, BEB0 and Followoof, four lost souls who have come together to explore the World of Aethermon!
Aethermon: Collect is a quick, set-collection game with both co-operative and competitive game modes.
Players take turns to move the shared Group Token horizontally or vertically around a grid of Aethermon cards, collecting any Aethermon on which they land. At the end of the game, the values of each player's collected Aethermon are tallied; if a player has every Aethermon of a family set the points value of that set is doubled. Scores are combined to form the team score (co-operative) or kept separate as personal scores (competitive). The goal is to achieve the highest score.
Co-operative mode invites players to work together in order to solve the unique puzzle presented by the board. Competitive mode introduces powerful, rule-bending artefacts to out-wit opponents with one-time-only changes to movement or gameplay.
-description from the publisher