Welcome to another review from the BATT team. Eila and Something Shiny is a narrative adventure scenario/campaign game designed by Jeffery CCH and published by NorthStar Games (though it's original printing was from ICE Makes). It was acquired as a Christmas gift and so this is not sponsored by the publisher. It should be noted that the entirety of the Final Thoughts section is going to heavily spoil the game, so please keep that in mind if you want to listen to the first half of the review. We do timestamp and call out when that spoiler territory will be crossed and give ample time to stop listening.
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This review's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:30 - Gameplay
00:04:50 - Learning Curve
00:05:31 - Art and Theme
00:06:03 - Components
00:08:28 - Iconography and Font
00:10:02 - Ease of Teach
00:10:16 - Replayability
00:11:11 - Final Thoughts (00:11:37 for getting past the spoiler buffer)
00:22:16 - Outro
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Links!
As stated, here are safe links to go read RubyQuest and NanQuest at. Please keep in mind that these become very adult and dark relatively quickly and I wouldn't recommend reading them around children or at work or on work devices.
Ruby did come out first and I think is a better first read to get acquainted with the style but push comes to shove I actually think NanQuest is the superior of the two.
RubyQuest: https://mozai.com/quests/RubyQuest/
NanQuest: https://mozai.com/quests/NanQuest/ ---
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