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Fortune Street: Down with ploperty value!
Gilder
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So there's a little game called Fortune Street that came out today for the Wii. Known in Japan as Itadaki Street it's a board game that has been going on for about 20 years in Japan. English speaking countries have finally gotten one entry in this long running series, and it stars Mario and Dragon Quest characters. Also Miis but fuck them.
I'm not giving any pictures because there's not much to really show from screenshots since like I said above it's a board game. It's kind of like monopoly, except with stocks. Here's the general idea of how a game works. You go around a board buying properties, making money by having people land on yours and losing some when you land on others' property. If you land on your own you can upgrade any property of yours to make more money when people land on it. As you move around the board you try and collect all 4 suits (Spade, Club, Heart, and Diamond) so you can return to the bank and get a promotion. Whenever you return to the bank you can buy stocks and then sell them later. Or keep them and make small dividends off of other people's property. Prices can go higher or lower depending on if properties in the district the stock is for gets upgraded or is sold. As you make money your net worth goes up. Return to the bank when you reach the game's net worth quota and you win. While simple in theory there's actually a lot of strategy to the game that I have no idea of because this is my first time playing it. Stuff like buying other people's property and making good trades is a part of it I'm sure. Anyway it's deceptively deep.
So is it all just boring stuff like that? Well no, because there's also bonus squares to land on. You can go to chance time mini-games, pick a spot on a "scratcher" (While Yoshi's Island music plays no less) and see what bonus or penalty you receive, and more like that. Also don't think the boards are simple squares you walk around and get all the suits. Oh no, they're all kind of shapes and in later boards I think you can change the layout. So was someone on their way to their last suit? Not anymore. Now they're in Yangus Pier, home of 8 shops in a row that Yangus somehow managed to purchase.
So does that sound like it's your idea of a fun time? Because if it does then you're in luck as this game has online play in addition to local multiplayer! That's right, somebody said that the game should have online play and Nintendo/Square actually listened to them. You can battle against randoms or with friends (After entering in friend codes uggggh) for all sorts of fun "Fuck you" matches that will make them hate you by the end of it. If people actually care about this I might even have to put friend codes in the OP or something! So hopefully I got some people to actually care about this little gem of a game because I'm afraid it might get overlooked due to Zelda and the fact that the Wii is on its way out. If you're in the mood for a board game that isn't about mastering mini-games and you like Mario and Dragon Quest then don't pass this one up. Give it a shot. There's a reason this series has been going on for 20 years after all.
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Heres a pic of the end game.
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Also wow, a pure stock win. That's ridiculous.
yah it kinda sucks cause I had this gamewinning region set up. 9K on all of em
(this was on the second map of the DQ campaign, the rotating region.
Playing more rounds with friends earlier yeah the game has a bad tendency to favor one player over the others, but at least it's sometimes reasonable about it. Like it'll favor one person, but second place can be pretty close. The computer though? You don't stand a chance beating them. How can you possibly win when they always roll over your shops?
"Wow the Starcraft board game looks pretty ballin' but they should make a video g--....oh."
Of course you'd need a strict punishment system for rage quitters.
whoa... matches last 3 hours? That might be a little too much like Monopoly for me.
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Protip: Never go to the sectioned off part of Yoshi's Island. It is a horrible place that you may never escape from as our friend blaze learned.
I suck though!
That is all.
Also something lame I have learned: You can't have matches without 4 people. How lame. For every human spot not filled it has to have a computer in its place.
Everyone needs to hurry up and get online so we can play.
I would totally buy a computer version of the Starcraft board game. It'd get more play than my copy of Starcraft 2, at least.
COME FORTH, AMATERASU!
Also you should probably mention that for some asinine reason you can't play as Mario/Dragon Quest characters online, so you'll have to settle for raiding the Check Mii Out channel and screaming "Waluigi Number One!!!" over Xbox live instead.
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The win condition seems poorly designed, but I am a board game nerd. So flaws from games like Monopoly bug me.
The problem with this is that the game can allow for large fluctuations with net worth. Without any other limit on game length, it's very to tell your friends a game of this will take X amount of time.
I did three games in three hours tonight.
I have this but it's going under the Christmas tree. I'm waffling on returning it now though based on game session length and I don't know if it would be a real hit as a family game in my house.
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2. The AI will always go for lower cost buildings on their turn if they absolutely must pay somebody. However this is bad, because even if the person they'll pay is in first they don't give a shit. If it's less they go for it. This is why winning against the computer is so hard, because a human would rather give more cash to the guy in last than help the person in first. For this reason you should not upgrade your properties right away. You of course want to wait until you have stock, but even then play it by ear. It's better for you if you have sucky stuff in the middle of expanded enemy districts because if your stuff is on a split path they'll go the other way if you're too much. Even if it puts them one space from the bank and they have all the suits.
3. This is the big stock one that I took a risk in confirming but I was pretty sure on how it worked. If you expand a building and it puts you into debt you can sell stock. This is obvious and one of the best ways to expand, as your stock will probably rise more than it'll drop and you'll make money. But what happens if you expand and that expansion causes your net worth to go over the quota? Won't it drop if you sell stock to cover the costs? Yes it will. If you only sell part of it. While other actions that affect stock sometimes take until the turn is over to kick in, such as buying stock at the bank to raise its value, expanding has an immediate effect. So does selling stock right afterward. If you sell all your stock in the area you just expanded that put you in the red in the first place, you will have absolutely no consequence except that you're out of stock for that place. But since you sold all your stock you won't be affected when the price immediately plummets afterward. So you can gain 4000 net worth, get the quota, be 2000 in debt, sell all your stock, and then walk away with a fat wad of cash as well as hurt everybody else that was invested in your area because you don't give a shit about it anymore. If you do this while you're, say, one space away from the bank then you're homefree.
I'm sure this stuff is pretty basic, but it can be hard to think clearly when you're fighting the computer because they're so ridiculous at times that you panic. In my run where I finally came in first on the Observatory the Slime almost won. Stella actually came in last. It's like the letters to signify AI don't mean anything. It's all about their traits.
Edit: Oh, one more thing that's easy to gloss over in the manual: There's no auctions in online matches. If you sell a shop it just goes to the bank. So if you're selling a property that would give someone else control of the district they'll need to get over to it first.
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But I think you're right in that the mix of characters is weird. One set are extremely popular and instantly recognizable, the other are interesting in their own right, but RPGs are much more niche outside of Japan, and at least in North America, we aren't constantly bombarded with their imagery in arcades, commercials, or turn Dragon Quest release dates into national holidays.
The person with the highest net worth at the time someone bankrupts.
Also, ploperty value.
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