mrimer
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Honored to have received a nice review of Twisty Little Passages by Tom Vasel on Dice Tower.

He loved the maps and puzzles, though he thought the story and fantasy art were kind of generic (which was kind of the point, actually).

"Approved!"



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You had so little space to do something with the story in that format. I thought it was the right design choice to keep it simple and reuse fantasy conventions. If you depart from the familiar, you need more time with the audience to explain things.

Nice review.

-Erik

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There's a review on BGG from House of Nerds that's in Greek and is quite favorable. The only criticism they had was how it can get a little fiddly to track the changing health numbers on larger levels, otherwise strongly recommended.

Something of a niche group within a niche group (Greek boardgamers) but I thought I'd mention it.

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Thanks, Erik

LeoS wrote:
There's a review on BGG from House of Nerds that's in Greek and is quite favorable. The only criticism they had was how it can get a little fiddly to track the changing health numbers on larger levels, otherwise strongly recommended.

Something of a niche group within a niche group (Greek boardgamers) but I thought I'd mention it.

I appreciate the mention of this review. I'd like to read it and can't find it. Can you provide a link?

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I've found this review
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/278373/twisty-little-passages

aaand the greek one?
https://boardgamegeek.com/video/314049/twisty-little-passages/paizoyme-twisty-little-passages-solo-house-nerds

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Yes, that's the one, not particularly useful unless you're fluent in spoken Greek...

On a side note, this past weekend I took an airplane trip for the first time since early last year and took out TLP to play on the tray table. The daughter who was sitting next to me asked me what it was and after I described it, her comment was "Oh, it sounds a little bit like DROD."

So +1 for cross-platform recognition, Mike!