Comments on: Board/Card Games Report #2, Part 1: Anime Zombie School Fight!

By: Ninetail

Ninetail — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:44:09 +0000

Looney Labs makes some terrific games. Fluxx is amazing in that it doesn't seem to matter how many players you have -- it stays fun. (I think my record for one game was 22 people, playing with a mega-deck.) If you want something with a bit more strategy to it, you might look into their Chrononauts. As for the anime, I'd suggest Trigun. And if it's kung fu films, you've got to take a look at Kung Fu Beyond the Grave. It's got to be the best bad movie ever. Seriously. Ninetails last blog post..A Pack of Vicious Grithiks

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:17:29 +0000

@Bartoneus: I can totally imagine that. Good thing games don’t last really long. When next we meet, you’ll have to show me the games that you really like.

@Norman & PM: I concede that my Movie culture is limited enough. I didn’t see all that many of those Kung Fu Matinee movies…. except one really bad Bruce Lee knock off in the early 80′s.

Yeah, re Ping-Pong Playa, I want the memory of that awful movie wiped from my mind!

By: PM

PM — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:43:19 +0000

@norman

Yeah, Chatty might know the ins and outs of RPG and gaming in general, but he’s a pretty mainstream movie amateur. I try and have him watch some stuff that’s usually found off the beaten path… so far we’ve had a few hits like Rurouni, 36th Chamber of Shaolin and Ping-Pong and a few misses like Cowboy Bebop (Firefly simply made this series redundant), Onee-chan bara (but failure was the whole point here) and Battle Royale…

aside @ chatty

I don’t count Ping-Pong Playa in this… you walked straight into that one on your own.

By: norman harman

norman harman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:36:18 +0000

@chatty by the videogamey approach to calling your fighting style and strikes in advance. Woa there youngin, I'll have you know your new fangled video games got it from high cinema. Specifically that high cinema known in years gone by as "Kung Fu Action Matinee". Or at least that is what they called the three back to back martial arts classics (ya know the ones were the masters talk faster than sound so their lips don't sync up with their words) that aired every Saturday afternoon. Shaolin Shadow Kick! norman harmans last blog post..Links O' Maps

By: Bartoneus

Bartoneus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:14:09 +0000

Lunchmoney is definitely one of my all-time least favorite card games. I think it reached this point after several games where nearly every card/hand I drew was essentially useless and the rest of the players had just done damage to me gradually. Losing a game before you ever really get to play solidifies it as a not so good game to me.

By: kitsune

kitsune — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:49:50 +0000

Ah! Lunch money! So many hillarious hours of violence in the college cafeteria… You’re making me nostalgic, man :p

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:00:58 +0000

@ Donny: I still have a box full of those INWO cards. Its funny to see Bill Clinton and Bush Senior on those cards,

By: PM

PM — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:22:43 +0000

Anime Zombie School Fight!

I just bought the option rights to that name from Chatty for a developing project of mine…… It’s just too good to pass up.

By: Donny_the_DM

Donny_the_DM — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:25:38 +0000

Sonic boom samurai cuts? I’m in : )

Anyone still play Illuminati the CCG?

My Nazi girl scouts destroy your mind controlled QVC shoppers…

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:51:28 +0000

I’m sure that game exists, I’d almost swear to it.

Sorry to disappoint

By: Asmor

Asmor — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:33:13 +0000

After reading the title, I was expecting an actual game called "Anime Zombie School Fight!" Hmm... Asmors last blog post..Treasures & Trinkets: The Deck of Many Things

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:58:51 +0000

@ Dave: I dove into the series head first. The first episode sets up the characters nicely. I’m up to the 9th or 10th episode (I forget) and I remain surprised at how much has happened in so little time.

I don’t know if it will stay like that or if the series will devolve into 20 minutes long monologues between two sword strokes (like DragonBall and Naruto). I’m definitively amused by the videogamey approach to calling your fighting style and strikes in advance.

Thanks for your insight into Fluxx. This basically means I don’t have to hurt my brain trying to ‘get’ some hidden strategy. I’ll thereby classify it in the ‘don’t think too much about it’ type of game and enjoy it as is.

By: Dave T. Game

Dave T. Game — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:35:01 +0000

Kenshin was a mid-tier anime that I enjoyed. I don’t know if you saw the opening movie to it or just dove into the series, but there’s serious Rule of Cool going on there. Being able to cut someone faster than the speed of sound qualifies.

I have tons of experience with Fluxx (having worked for the company that makes it and hanging out there every week) and really, there’s no deeper level to it. It’s always going to be a tactical game of making decisions on your turn and rolling with the punches, but it’s still fun and there’s still plenty of choices to be made. Of course, I recommend Monty Python Fluxx more than Zombie Fluxx, but I’m biased. You can also combine the two into one crazy game, along with any of the other Fluxxes.