Spirit Island Full Playthrough - JonGetsGames
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- čas přidán 14. 01. 2018
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I'm lost when playing solo with 1 spirit. That dude plays solo with 3 spirits! Must be a jedi!
It's easier imo to play with 3 or 4 spirits solo than just 1 or 2 since you can chain abilities.
"Is it possible to learn this power? "
"Yes from a Jedi"
In still wondering how was Tom able to pull this off. My brain burns by just evaluating possible actions with a single spirit 😨
@Memphis Enrique noone give a fuck
Jon’s the king.
I’m astounded by this video, Jon. So stinking much to keep track of. Thanks for the insane amount of work that I’m sure went into it.
Great to hear that you enjoyed it so much :) It certainly was a big chunk of work, but I think it was worth it in the end.
50 minutes into this video and loving it so far. You give a great overview of the game while explaining the rules.
Thank you so much for the playthrough. I've been on the fence on this game for awhile, but this convinced me this is a great game.
Now I need to stretch and hydrate after watching this long video! Thanks for all your efforts.
Yeah, I watched the full video. God, what a complicated game. That's wonderful!
So glad you're giving this game more publicity. It was my #1 game for 2017. The first time is always a little rough, but playing it again co-op you see both people's brain working together. The theme just shines.
Thanks so much for this, I just played yesterday for the first time with my friend. Your video helped me to understand and teach him and we both had a blast.
This is brilliant! Such an undertaking to make this video, I'm sure. Thanks, Jon. You've helped me finally understand why everyone's been gushing over this game.
Very glad to hear that :)
@Bachpat, currently on kickstarter there's a new listing for the next expansion as well as reprints estimated date release 2020. Kickstarter is up now, but not for much longer. So if you have the game and love it it may be worth your while to grab anything you haven't got.
I'm psyched for the content myself. The downside is having the wait for it. I already want it yesterday!
Thanks for this awesome video! Can't wait to play this game!
I love your playthroughs sooo much Jon. They give the best idea of how a game plays and I love that you explain all you do and also your mistakes (Imho they make the video better). Of course I watched it until the end. Can’t get enough of Jon!
On another note this sounds like a coop game that’s perfect for me. If all the information is available to everyone and it’s not complicated enough I end up quarterbacking a lot despite my efforts not to. Also I love deep strategy and this seems to have it in spades!
Thanks Jon you are help sent from board game heaven.
This was an incredible effort, thanks for the video
Enjoyed your playthrough/rules explanation. Thank you.
Outstanding playthrough! I must say that your videos are the best because of the pacing, decision making and overall production quality. This one was a joy was a joy to watch from beginning to end!
Thank you so much!! So much love in the explaining and role play part!
aaaaaaaaand it's bought.
Thanks for the great playthrough :)
Yup, I'm buying it too.
Wow! Thank you so much for this. I just discovered Spirit Island a few months ago, amazing playthrough. I'm yet to win a game with a single spirit, getting there. :)
Thank you for this video. We are playing for the first time next weekend and it was nice to see how things work. Well done!
Very impressive, fluent, helpful and entertaining. Thank you
"I want to go against England", so do many of us, mate! :D lol
I just want to say "Congratulations" for accomplishing this gigantic task. The time it took for you to think about the actions of all 3 players in such a complex game with so many powers and abilities... wow! Amazing thing!
Thanks :) It certainly took a long time to film, but it was a very satisfying experience overall.
You don't know, but you actually inspired me to make solo playthroughs in my channel. I tried it once and didn't like the result, I thought it was impossible to do something good and interesting to watch, but then I found your channel (through the Great Western Trail video) and it motivated me to keep trying. You show me that it is possible. And this particular video here.... just kudos! :) Thanks again for all you have done.
This is awesome to hear, keep it up if you enjoy doing it :)
Thanks for the playthrough, this was incredibly helpful as an instructional video! Even though there was a lot of mistakes made, your detailed annotations helped to point them out and help me notice them. Great all around, you're great!
Great work Jon. You have an amazing brain! Soloing 3 players is no mean feat.
Wow what a fun video to watch. You really did a phenomenal job on this. You made things pretty easy to follow especially considering you were playing 3 spirits at a time. I'm a big fan of coop games and you definitely sold me on this one.
Thanks for this video. What an immense advantage was t for me to fully understand this game. By the way: the new concept of teaching only the necessary moves to explain the games maybe even better! What a great job you are doing al those years!
Excellent video, very clear. Thank you!
Thanks for making this video! ^.^ Love this game!
Kudos for doing a full play through of this one!
Congrats on this video! It brought me a greater understanding of the game. Thank you !!!!
Great video! Another fantastic job. Super helpful. As soon as I finish the rulebook I go right to one of your videos to see how it all works. Thanks again man.
That's great to hear :)
Thank you for the video, you are awesome!
Excellent tutorial, thank you!
This is one of the best videos ever, really well done, keep up the good work :)
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Thanks for this Let's Play!
We just bought this game and your video by far has been the absolute best explanation for us!! Thank you so much! I look forward to seeing more videos on other games and only from you!!!!!!!
This is always great to hear, I hope you enjoy the game itself :)
This game really is a brain-burner, which is a really fun and welcome change from the typically super-simple co-ops. Thanks for the fun play through! I'm jealous of your win.... (I have yet to pull one off....)
I played through this game with a friend before watching this video. That helped me get the "gist" of things, but this video has really helped solidify my understanding of things. Your explanation, coupled with your extensive annotations, is exceptionally useful for this complex game.
I'm glad it helped you out Travis, my main goal really is to try and help these games click with people and it's great to hear that happened with you :)
So exhausting and yet so enjoyable!
I've enjoyed this video as though I have played it myself, and I see the game for the first time. Really amazing.
Thanks @Jon. I've had this game BNIS on my shelf for about a month now and you've given me the confidence & understanding to open this up and teach/play this at my next game night.
Awesome, I hope you have been able to do this :)
Thanks for this video! It really helped me understand the game.
Thanks for this video.... this was incredibly helpful
Nice work my man! My first playthrough is happening tonight and I am EXTREMELY excited!
I hope it went well :)
Awesome video, thank you
Great video, Jon. Thanks for the clear playthrough! My kids saw a bit of your video and wished we had this game AND WE ALREADY DO! CHRISTMAS IN JANUARY!
Awesome! I hope you all enjoy the game :)
I must say I love the level of escalation in this game in that the player becomes more powerful over time and can make bigger power plays, like wiping out multiple cities and towns in one shot and then triggering a fear card to take out or push even more towns and cities. But then the adversary also gets more powerful over time as more blight gets added and eventually they trigger special abilities and can attack multiple terrain types. It keeps the game very intense until the last turn. Excellent playthrough as always, you certainly won that game with a literal bang that was just beautiful. XD
I agree with you about escalation, it's a really great game overall :)
Best spirit island playthrough!
Wonderful video. Thanks for your effort.
I ordered this yesterday after several days of trying to figure out if I should buy. If I watched this play through days ago I'd be playing the game right now! Great job! Can't wait to play this :)
I hope you enjoy it, I'm glad you found the video helpful.
Superb video, thanks Jon. I discovered your channel through NPI and the Last Place Podcast. This game is SO much of what I like in a coop.
I’ve looked at purchasing the game, it seems to be about £70 for UK markets though. That is quite a price tag unfortunately. Will be thinking about it though thanks to your playthrough and Efka’s review 🙂
Off-The-Cuff Gaming check out board game prices.co.uk I picked it up £54 last week.
Thanks a lot for this. This explains the gameplay better than reading the rulebook 5 times :p
this was fun and informative thx
This game is incredible, just bought it!
Do you recommend any videos that will help me understand it? The manual they included is crap.
Forgot how much I love this game. Thanks for the great play through! You’re a beast playing with 3 spirits lol
I love this one too, I've been meaning to get it back to the table since it's been well over a year at this point!
Awesome!
Great run through. Props to you for keeping track of all 3 spirits! I think this game is a little too brain-burny for me to be able to play regularly, but I can definitely see the appeal
I thought the same until I tried it solo with just 1 spirit and absolutely fell in love. In fact, I bug my wife by leaving the game setup because I know I’m going to want to play it again the next day 😅 this has been going on for weeks now 😂
You do an excellent job of only explaining what you need to in order to progress the playthrough. It would have been very easy to get bogged down with rules early. A lot of thought and planning gone into this.
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Good job. I was a bit worried you were not gonna win that one.
Great amount of work. I imagine that setting up the video and taking all the decisions must have made the game last twice as long. Game looks very fun, but definitively for advanced gamers.
I'm glad you enjoyed this :) The filming process for this playthrough was around 18 hours, so roughly 6+ times longer than actually playing it :P
How in the world did you do this?!?!? Controlling 3 Spirits with such elegance and clarity?!?! My brain would turn into total mush! Granted this game is rather new for me. Im still struggling in solo mode with just one spirit hahaha I hope it clicks soon, theres just so much forward thinking involved. And I consider myself a pretty avid gamer too! I LOVE deep strategy games! I'm sure I'm just probably being too hard on myself and im just a couple games away from feeling more confident. Thank you so much for the dedication that went into this video. Just out here doing the lords work of helping those like me who want so badly to excell at this game, but currently are on the struggle bus waiting to get off hahahaha
This one took quite a bit of brain power and a LOT of time to pull off :) Glad you enjoyed it.
Amazon quick buy. Thank you. Fantastic video.
I hope you enjoy it :)
Do i want to buy this game? It's been on my list for a long time and this great playthrough makes it very tempting... Good job!
Nice video!
Very impressive, and yeah, missing a few details here and there is to be expected when triple teaming the spirits by yourself! Love all these long for playthroughs.
Would you consider doing another one of these with the expansions? That would be neat!
@@MortlachNL These take a large amount of time so I essentially never come back to do expansion content unfortunately. Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@JonGetsGames No Worries, I was just wondering. I can imagine they take a LOT of time. How many camera's are you using? I saw a lot of different angels in you Feast for Odin review.
And honestly, I think you're one of if not the best rules explainer on YT right now! Great job!
@@MortlachNL Just one camera that's on an easily movable mount.
@@JonGetsGames Seriously? Wow, that's super impressive! I would have sworn it was multiple camera's.
very well done!
Thank you for your amazing work!
Great job with this, I am learning this now, trying to run through a two hand solo game and it is a lot. Not sure how you handled three.
I was only able to do it by spending a TON of time on it. I think the filming for this took close to 10 hours.
This game is so amazing you can play two player in a 1 player setting and use both your brains to get it done.i messed up my 1st three games I thought you didn't gain elements until your power card activated and I was using my innate powers too late
I only watch Jon’s playthroughs now.
Well done
Been meaning to buy this one soon, thanks for the rule explanation! My only worry with it at this point is how you have to use tokens to try and memorize where cards are being in played, and it didn't seem like a super elegant solution to that mechanic. Hopefully it feels less confusing when only controlling one spirit!
I think that it is much less confusing when only controling one :)
1:00:52 But... The town can't Ravage successfully because you have innate Defend 3 due to the Sacred Site.
You should have targeted Thunderspeaker and have them push the explorer out of the eastern most Sands (space #6) or the south-western Sands (space #3). That would prevent a build.
Also earlier you should have pushed the explorer from southern mountains (#5) to jungle (#6) above it. Spreading Invaders around is a bad move.
If the growth action says put your spirit token 2 tiles away from one of your presence, can you choose move 1 or 0 instead of 2?
Yes I believe you can.
You've totally stacked the Power decks. I just can't believe the amount of luck you've had drawing perfect cards.
Call Of The Dahan Ways would have been a better option in the long run.
It's true that I cheat abit in just about every playthrough I film, so it's likely that I stacked the power card deck at some point in this video. That being said, I try to do it as rarely as possible and it mostly happens when I want to force a teaching element into the video sooner rather than later.
Well stacking the game for tutorial purposes is better in some cases. Ease rules onto the player.
Never said it was a bad thing. I just couldn't believe you to be so damn lucky. The odds of perfect draws is so tiny.
Pushing buildings and towns around seems ... odd. Still a pretty awesome game though. I'm buying today! 1 person playing 3 players is always going to be better than 3 separate players. Hive mind and all that.
Nice Video Jon!
The best way to improve this video would be to take a picture of the cards and cut to them, rather than fighting to lift the cards up to be in focus. Many times I was struggling to read blurry cards. You almost always eventually got them into focus, but a hard cut to a split screen showing the card clearly would be great.
Spirit Island seems to be a very interesting game!
Warm regards, Rick.
Yeah, I've been trying to increase the quality of these videos over time and I do think I could have done a better with the cards in this one. Editing cards on screen like that later would have significantly increased the edit time, but it's something to consider.
I have a question... at 16:38 you drew a card that was called "Draw of the Fruitful Earth", that let you gather up to 2 explorers, and up to 2 Dehan, from up to 1 space away from your presence. But the Dehan that you gathered in the forest were 2 spaces away from your presence, not 1. I'm still learning this game, could you explain this? Does the card let you gather Dehan from anywhere on the board, and place them only up to 1 space away from your presence?
With cards like this you must target a region that is within X spaces of your presence, but after that you activate all actions on that card based on the targeted terrain NOT on where your presence is. Does that make sense?
Please clarify the difference between push and gather. They way you are using them they seem to be the same thing. I would feel like in order to gather you would need presence on the area you are moving the dahon to. Where as push you would be pushing them away from an area that you have presence. Around 51minutes you talk about gathering a dahon but it seems that that would be pushing.
Every action has a set of requirements for picking a legal region, and once those are met you can perform the action. In the case of Pull, you can then bring some number of units from an adjacent region into the targeted region. In the case of Push you can take some number of units in the targeted region and move them to an adjacent region. I believe your confusion stems from the assumption that presence is required in the region that is pushing or pulling, but this may or may not be the case depending on the card. The action around the 51 minute mark allows a region to be targeted that is 1 away from a region with presence which is why the region I am talking about gathering to doesn't necessarily need to have presence (and in this case doesn't). I hope this helps, let me know if you would like further clarification.
Ok, that makes sense. Yes, I was assuming you needed to have presence in the area. I just got the game yesterday and haven't had a chance to read over the rule book yet. Thanks for the quick response!
At 21:30, when you moved your purple presence over and you could still gather one more Dahan, does it still have to be relative to the original position of the presence? Or since you now moved the presence, you can gather a Dahan from one space away from your new location?
I believe it's relative to the current position of presence, not necessarily the original position but it might be a good idea to get confirmation of this by asking on the boardgamegeek forums.
Jon, at 17:00 you gathered an explorer 2 spots away and moved them to the space 1 spot away. Are all the targets supposed to be from only 1 spot away?
Oh, I see how it's done now. I'm reading/rereading the rules and you played it correctly, I didn't totally understand gather/push.
Ah good :) Was just coming on to let you know what happened. If anyone else is curious, the Earth character targeted an adjacent zone, and can then gather into it from a zone adjacent to that one (which is why it looked like it was from a zone 2 spots away).
JonGetsGames it's a great playthrough. I really enjoyed this game and I can't wait to play it at higher difficulties!
I have a question about the game. Can you use the Reclaim One in every Card Plays phase with the Thunderspeaker spirit?
Each turn, you can reclaim one card at the same phase where you gain your energy based on your energy track.
At 22:30, isn't that we only gained 2 energy instead of 3 energy in the video? The rulebook mentioned energy gained is equal to the highest uncovered number on the energy presence track. Thank you for the video.
Huh, yeah I think I did misspeak there, thanks for pointing that out.
Hey, on this island there’s nothing saying that those aren’t forests. No harm in being creative!
Can we have a small review video of this game, i need a little push to buy it. I heard the podcast when you talk about it.
I intend to do a full review of this one in the next month or so hopefully. Spoiler: I'm still really liking this one.
Great video, but I am 50 mins in the video and have not seen you talking about Special rules for all of those spirits, at the left bottom side of the spirits board.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. This video was made a couple years ago and over time I have been honing and (hopefully) improving how I record these playthroughs. Now that I focus on making a "tutorial" first before a playthrough I am much better at highlighting all the important mechanics as early as possible. In the past I just mentioned them whenever they applied to the game and it seems I didn't use those abilities for quite some time in this video. Sorry about that.
When you choose one out of the four minor/major powers during the growth phase and discard the other three, are those three powers which were discarded permanently removed from the game? Or is it when the minor/major power deck is exhausted you then reshuffle them into the pile?
Allon Finezilber they are discarded and become a new shuffled deck once you go through the first deck.
Thanks for clarifying :)
Soooooo much better than Rhado. Ssshhhh, don’t tell him 😜 your videos just are much clearer and way less...”spastic”? Sorry Rhado! I do still enjoy yours! 😇
Rhado sucks, don't feel bad saying it
@@michaelblack9776 He may not be your cup of tea, but I definitely would not say he sucks.
He sucks? stfu . That comparison doesn't even make sense. Rahdo basically record his stuff in only one take, no editing, nor anything else. And it's done like that to try to create a similar experience for the person who is on the table playing the game. He is also a nice dude and very passionate about the hobby and has done so much for the board game community.
I love Rhado, and support him on Patreon, but he makes WAY too many mistakes. It completely takes away from his videos. Jon is a lot more thorough and makes fewer mistakes and is a nice break from Rhado's spastic ways too lol.
How long do you think a game would run on average? This play through was 2 hours and a lot of the AP and decision making time was cut out. I'm really liking this game but getting people to sit down for a 3 to 4 hour game can be hard.
Keep in mind that I also have a full rules teach along the way in this long video. I have played a couple 4p games already and in general they took around 2 hours total not including any teaching.
@@JonGetsGames - doesn't take long to lose ;-)
I also hate when I accidentally glue my first two fingers together as well... Its so annoying.
I would like to double clarify, in 32:05, he mentioned that even though the invaders dealt 3 attack to the land, but due to the spirits have 3 presence, there is no blight dealt. Is that really the case? Cause according to the rulebook, in page 9, Whever there are invaders in the shown land, invaders deal damage, damange is done to both land and Dahan. Then sub point number 1. if 2 or more damage is dealt, add a Blight to the land. The rulebook did not mention at all that we can factor in our presence to prevent blight spread, is this explained in somewhere else that I could've missed something? As it seemed like I played the game wrongly if that is the case.
The yellow player's spirit has a special ability which adds defense to a space when they have 2 more more presence there.
Damn thanks a lot..... Indeed I played wrongly cause I thought defend only +defense to the Dahan.
And also thanks for the speedy reply, totally didn't expect that.
@@JackLim927 No problem :) I try to reply to every comment that asks me a question, sometimes I can get to them quickly and other times it may take a couple weeks.
You should do Meko Card Games Farm Game next
I also have imaginary friends when I play solo board games
I recently started playing the app and I got to say that this game is hard 😅
At 32:55 1 dahan should die since damage happens simultanously with the attack of invaders? The other dahan survives
Unfortunately, it's been too long since I played this game to remember the rules enough to answer your question. Sorry about that!
At 1:14:27 how can you push Dahan to the targeted space? I thought you must target a space, and then push Dahan from it?
Unfortunately, it's been too long since I played this game to remember the rules enough to answer your question. Sorry about that!
Jon, you’re adorable! But I sometimes question your sanity when you play a game this long on your own! Hahaha
Bruno .FRod Interesting. People play video games solo for much longer but don’t really hear anyone questioning it.
I like the mistakes as it makes me feel better about my own tragic excuse for game playing. If a pro does it the rest of us stand a chance.
2:08:09 You only pushed 3 total, not 3 each? Unless I'm missing something...
Good catch! I'll add a note thanks.
I am confused about blocking blight. I dont see how this is done in the rules. The rules say that the invaders attack the land and the Dahan. Does defend defend both of this damage?
Defend essentially lowers the overall all attack amount, so it can lower the attack below the adding blight threshold.
@@JonGetsGames yeah, i realized that defend reduces the damage in both the attacks against the dahan and the land.
@13:25 aren't you 2 away from your presence when gathering the dahan?
You target a region that is up to that range (in this case 1) away from your presence and then pull a dahan from any adjacent region to the one you targeted. So we didn't actually need to get range to where the dahan started, just where they ended after the gather action.
Around 40:30 you say your Thunder speaker will gain 3 energy, but the highest number you have showing is 2. You should gain 2 energy, not the 3 that are showing. Right?
I agree that what I said was confusing, It's hard to tell if I was just completely wrong or if I was trying to say that making 2 plus the 1 I saved would be enough. Either way I'm going to add a clarification, thanks for pointing this out.
You only took the 2 a few minutes later, after I made my comment, so you played it right. The game has so much going on, I understand why you said what you said
I tried and tried to get into a game of this at Origins and failed. So I peeked over people's shoulders long enough to get confused, which is why I didn't buy. Then. After reading so much on BGG, I decided I'd buy the game wh, en I ran out of other things to play from my library, and then promptly forgot about it. Then, with ComSim canceled, my friend and i booked a hotel in Anaheim to game our guts out for three days (12 games done!), but before we checked in, we stopped by the Dice Tower. I'd mentally committed to Great Western Trail based on BGG reviews and after buying I asked about Spirit Island, and there it was, high on the shelf, just begging to jump into my library. I bit. At home later, I unboxed and began the rules before decided to shortcut to BGG to get the flavor. After a couple of rather disappointing videos, I landed here, and before that, I was ready to shelve the game permanently. Jon, you changed that! Thank you SO MUCH for talking through all the decision making and game play, and especially thank you for adding the text clarifications (though I wish they'd been onscreen a gnat's posterior longer). I won't be jumping into a 3-player solo any time soon; today I'll be launching my first play, a 2-player solo. Thank you again for all the effort you put into this fine exploration, and also for your diligence in answering questions on this site. Huzzah to you!