![]() These last issues are mine, and maybe mine alone. Then you add the lack of included magnifying glasses and the diminishing eyesight of yours truly, and you have some essential problems playing the game. That’s more an issue with my eyesight than the game, but you will blame a friend for trying to play this game in a dining room that is not lit well. The major issue comes when you try to play this game in a room that is poorly lit, because the white-and-light-gray map is so hard to see without exceptionally bright light. (I’m looking at you, “The Mysterious Disappearance of Lisa Lindt”!!!) In a couple of the cases, it was tougher than expected to simply identify where to start a search on the very first card.Īnd those are just the minor issues with the game. Some cases still require an incredible leap of faith, assuming you have looked at every single nook and cranny on the massive map. The game still only comes with a single magnifying glass multiple friends have purchased their own because the ones included aren’t great and you will likely play this with others. (A special shout out to some of the character names in Full House comedy!) The way stories are told, the use of time and space to work backwards through each crime, still really lands well.īy the same token, Full House fixes none of the minor issues from the base game. The backstory for what really happened for each crime still made me laugh out loud. Everything I liked about the base game is here, just on a different map. My sense of Full House is that it’s MicroMacro: Crime City v.1.1. I can’t talk too much about the specifics of the case without spoiling the whole game, so I’ll move right to where I land on the game.įull House is a fun ride, but I wish that more was done to really shake things up from the original game. Plus, many of the cases in Full House are playable with the entire family, not just teens and adults. You can play Full House at your leisure, just like the base game. If I could figure it out on my own, great, and if not, I just flipped the card over to find where I was stuck before continuing. ![]() The first couple of cases took anywhere from 5-10 minutes, and I took each case casually. You’re not going to blow through this box of 16 cases in an hour. That’s great, because that gives Full House quite a bit of life. But even the 2-star cases have at least one section that is a little tricky. A 5-star case is gonna be a doozy but there are only 2 cases like this in the box. There are 16 cases in Full House and, save for the tutorial case, all the cases are rated from 2-5 stars in terms of difficulty. Many of the cases in the first game are very short, sometimes less than 10 minutes to work through the 4-5 questions in a simpler scenario. (If you are curious about how to play this series, Andy does a great job summarizing the basics.) I also played 3 cases from the first game at a friend’s house last year, where we spent more time debating its merits as a game than we did actually playing. Let’s just say you should run out and buy your own!) If only I could see that map a little more clearly without having to sit right over it! Two Stars, My ***!Īndy reviewed the original MicroMacro: Crime City and really enjoyed it. (I use the term “magnifying glass” loosely here. MicroMacro: Crime City-Full House (let’s go with Full House for short) smartly sticks to the script, and just gives you another massive map, 16 cases to solve, and a not-nearly-strong-enough “magnifying glass” to solve crimes. The original game, MicroMacro: Crime City, swept nearly every award it was up for in 2020 and this sequel builds on a strong foundation to provide more of the complex deduction the first game made famous by staring at a very large map with a magnifying glass looking for clues. That game is MicroMacro: Crime City-Full House, designed by Johannes Sich and published by Pegasus Spiele. My friend and colleague, Andy Matthews, handed me a game to review the last time I saw him in Nashville. Now, whenever I’m reading at home, I usually read with my specs on a side table. I knew I was nearsighted, but my sight has taken a turn for the worse. The last time I did an eye exam I was met with a frightening reality: I have to remove my eyeglasses to see anything well up close.
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