Kanagawa Game

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Kanagawa Game

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Pros

Kanagawa is very deep on theme and, befitting a painting game, has great artwork. Once you're done marveling at the art, the game play is actually pretty straight forward. It is a relaxing and peaceful game where you play as an artist creating a tapes... Read More

The object of the game is to make the most beautiful painting for your teacher, the master hokusai, in 1840. An arrow icon allows you to move a brush to any empty landscape icon you possess, not just an adjacent one. The artwork in this game is excell... Read More

It's more entry level than the crunchier euro games i play but there is a simple elegance to this one. It makes a great filler game or for playing with your less intense gamer friends. What appealed to me about the game when i was looking at the produ... Read More

Kanagawa is much lighter than five tribes and plays at about 15 minutes per player, once everyone understands the rules. In both games you are offered multiple goals you could easily pursue, but you can only pursue a few of them well -- and other play... Read More

Cons

There are bonus cards, and opportunities to gather more items, but that's really about it. Decisions that you make along the way really are not all that important. The only other good thing about this game is that you can explain the rules in only a f... Read More

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Quality

They could have easily designed something with cardboard or paper, but the bamboo gives it a very authentic feel.

It really stimulates both the strategic and visual arts part of the brain.

The one poor design choice / lapse in pieces that i thought this game had was regarding the diplomas - it would be nice to have... Read More

The game continues until one of two conditions is met: the deck is empty or when one or more players have 11 cards in their print.

Packaging/appearance

I know some boxes like the raised ink, but really it was a pleasant surprise here.

It has a relatively small box and table-footprint for packing to the library or a coffee shop.

Oh and be sure to make a space on your shelf so you can face the box forward, you’ll thank me for that!

Competitiveness

It didn't make sense to take a column of lesson cards before it was full since we weren't competing as closely for certain combinations.

The publisher must have given away a lot of free copies of kanagawa, given that about 90 percent of current amazon reviews are ... Read More

Everyone's a real competitor until you total up the points at the end.

Kanagawa is a fun little competitive game with gorgeous artwork and some social strategy required.

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This product had a total of 237 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 7 2024.