It's maybe pure ignorance on my part but I've never seen a huge number of board games that sit within the organised crime genre. There seems to be more Sci-Fi than Scarface. I own The Godfather: Corleone's Empire, which was a grail game for me and was its own tale of negotiation and acquisition and offers that couldn't be refused. Wise Guys from Gale Force Nine enters the fray with a Goodfellas attitude on how you win at life, which is to gather up as much money as possible, without effecting your influence and clout and your ability to make money on the black market. It is a remix of a Sons of Anarchy game from a few years ago, but this time it returns without a connected IP. There's an attraction to this kind of genre of game, because these are criminals, but also the ultimate in non-conformists to a societal norm. Most of us don't want to work a normal job with a steady life and pay check if given the choice. Some of us already live on an edge, working fr
Recollect And so we scratch our heads once again, in vain. As we try to recall or remember what that item was. Neurons fire and flicker and our eyes dart back and forth as though we are watching a tennis match. Over those shapes of card that look like brains. Those five challenges that mock our gaze. As we scratch our heads once again in vain, while the objects that we thought we had grasped in our minds eye escape us once again. I gasp in frustration. Was it a bath? A watch? An Aubergine? Some pills maybe? A car? A Key? I can't recall. And all the while the hiss goes on as torturous time forces us to make speedy guess which in turn morph into speedy messes. It was cake. I'm sure it was cake. The sand falls as it does like a small impending storm. As we scratch our heads once again in vain while the vein in our heads throb and pulse, that vein. Was it rain? And the brain like card is turned over and we laugh and moo because it turns out it was a coo. There is a sigh