Sunrise City Video Review
In the tile-laying game Sunrise City, players build a city with zone tiles, bid for control of those zones, then place building tiles on the city zones to their best advantage. Each round the players use role cards to grant them special abilities in the various game phases. Points earned during play move score tokens up a ten point track. Players score one benchmark token if their score marker overshoots the star at the top of their score track but earn two benchmarks if their token lands on the star by exact count.
Thus, Sunrise City is not a race to score the most points; it’s a contest to grow the city in a manner that will earn you the right number of points at the right time to maximize your benchmarks. After three rounds, the player with the most benchmarks wins.
~Clever Mojo
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First of all, thank you for this review. I was considering to buy this game in Essen (and I still are) so this was rather helpful.
One point however: Maybe your reviews would be even better if you’d try to improve the summary/conclusion a little bit. For me it looks like you’re making up your mind as you’re speaking and as a result the conclusion appears to be being slightly incoherent. For me, the final summary is the most important part of a review, so I’d write down a few thoughts before speaking to the camera. Furthermore I’d try to put the the various points of my summary in a certain order, preferrably from minor to major points. For instance, I’d start with the components, then go to rulebook, then the overall mechanisms and then the most important part: is it fun or are there major flaws. At the end, one final question should be answered: would you buy the game if you didn’t have it already?
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