New Game Round-up: Final Fantasy and The Reckoners Come to the Tabletop; Deputies Do Their Job in OutLawed!

New Game Round-up: Final Fantasy and The Reckoners Come to the Tabletop; Deputies Do Their Job in OutLawed!
Board Game: Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Let's dig out some more recent and not-necessarily-recent game announcements from the inbox:

Square Enix is a Japanese video game publisher best known for the Final Fantasy franchise, and in 2011 the company worked with Hobby Japan to release the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game, which used characters from various FF titles in a two-player duel.

Now Square Enix plans to release Mr. Kageyama's Final Fantasy Trading Card Game in both Europe and North America, with the game appearing in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. As with most trading card games, the game will be released in starter sets — three of them: Fire & Earth, Ice & Lightning, Wind & Water — and booster packs, with twelve cards in the latter and fifty cards in the former, thirty of them being unique to starter sets. Opus 1 of the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game, as this initial launch is dubbed, debuts in September in Europe and in October in North America.


Board Game: Final Fantasy Trading Card Game


Board Game: Chocobo's Crystal Hunt
Square Enix also plans the far lighter Chocobo's Crystal Hunt in the U.S. in October 2016, with this game being for 3-5 players aged five and up, with a playing time of 10-20 minutes. Not much has been announced yet about the game:

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In Chocobo's Crystal Hunt, you send your cute Chocobos on a journey to steal your opponents' crystals...before they can steal yours! Use your intuition and observation skills in this fast-paced, fun and addictive game.

Board Game: Chocobo's Crystal Hunt


Board Game: OutLawed!
Green Couch Games has announced its next release for Q1 2017, another title from JurassAttack!'s Ryan Cowler with the similarly CamelCased title OutLawed! Here's an overview:

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OutLawed! is a social game of bluffing, truth-telling, and out-thinking your opponents. Each player has an identical set of eleven outlaw cards imagined as animals escaped from the zoo somewhere in the wild, wild west. Over a series of rounds, players take turns playing a card face down and making a claim about which character card they played. Players are free to tell the truth about the character played or to make a bold-faced lie! After players have played cards and made their claims, all the characters are revealed and each player assesses whether or not they have met their outlaw's "apprehend if" condition. Players who were successful add their outlaws to their jail pile while all other players place the card back in their hand. Lionel Manesworth, for example, can be captured only if you tell the truth. The Vixen Twins get nabbed when others are convinced to play the same card during the round. Lawman Croc Holliday will catch anybody who isn't on the up and up.

Once a player fills up their jail, everyone compares their total reward value of apprehended cards to see who has earned the most rewards and gets to fill the vacant position as deputy of Bandit Bluff.
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Nauvoo Games has acquired a license to create games based on Brandon Sanderson's young adult fantasy series "The Reckoners", and the publisher has released this overview of what The Reckoners game from Brett Sobol and Seth Van Orden will be like:

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The Reckoners, a game based on the young adult fantasy novels by Brandon Sanderson, allows players to take on the roles of the novels' protagonists and work together to save the world.

In the game, players must overcome multiple ruthless and power-hungry "Epics" – the equivalent of supervillains – that each have unique, game-impacting abilities. Players must decide how to resolve these competing priorities together to eliminate epics and ultimately win the game. How, when, and where you act will determine your victory or failure.

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