Rococo Deluxe Edition Playthrough Review

hey welcome to that live games where our board game playthroughs are always unpaid and ad free i'm your host francis i'm anthony and today we're going to be taking you through rococo so rococo is a worker placement game for one to five players uh designed by matthias kramer and stefan and lewis maltz published here in the states by eagle griffin games plays about 60 to 120 minutes cool so rococo is an interesting theme game where we are going to be playing as taylors who's taylor taylors uh in 18th century france under the reign of king louis the 15th yes that is correct um it takes place actually the board is the palace of versailles it is and uh yeah hall of mirrors and the whole bit yeah so uh we will be building and putting together dresses getting resources uh all sorts of good things uh in an attempt to get our dresses rented out for the big gala event this evening kind of like the red carpet of king louise it is absolutely right this is the the final ball of the season so join us at the table and we'll show you how it plays [Music] all right welcome to the table welcome to the palace other side of versailles so here uh we have a whole lot going on and i think what we're gonna do is we're gonna jump right to um the setup kind of explain all the because there's a lot to cover here right um we want to get through it pretty quickly because the game itself is kind of meaty but um we have a pretty much every expansion possible thrown into this that came with the game just to give you a flavor of what what's uh what's in store for you so take a look at the table here we have uh the lovely palace um and if you've not seen this game i'll kind of explain a bit but i won't go into too much detail so you have in on the board you in the palace you've got five halls one two three four five the most important hall being the royal hall this is a hall that you're gonna send um your dresses up to the fireworks show right and the people in them and the people in them yes so you're you're clothing again we're tailors right so we are um outfitting the royalty as best we can yeah so this is this is all about gathering materials crafting dresses selling dresses or renting them out to customers and sending those patrons into this lavish party right to display your dresses so you want to make sure that they're basically shown everywhere and all around right um on the board there are a number of different actions that we can take and they are as follows if you want to take us through real quick absolutely so uh briefly on the left-hand side here we have our employees and this is important because this deck of employees is also going to be our round tracker for the game so there's gonna be seven rounds four new employees are going to come out every round for us to hire uh second here we have the queen's favor so as an action you can take queen's favor which essentially is gonna give you the lovely first player marker thimble um as well as five bucks if you're in a pinch uh over here we have the market so we have uh both fabrics and also uh we say accoutrements accoutrements so like our notions like our little lace cuffs and some threads and other things you need to make dresses and frocks below that we actually have the designs of the patterns for the dresses and frocks that we'll be making so you can go there with your tailor and uh and and create them up on the all the way on the right hand side here we have one of the expansions and that's the jewelry box the jewelry box yeah what makes this expansion unique is that we're actually adding jewelry as well which we can get into later but that's an action that you can take on top of uh well when you rent out your outfits then optionally you can do this um these are some passive opportunities for you to send your uh either your assistants or your apprentice or your journeyman out to get trained up we'll explain that in a little bit and then finally the only other thing you can do really out here on the board is purchase these decorations so not only will we be outfitting the nobility but we're also going to be trying to support the party in other ways by buying these either helping out the kitchen staff i think thematically buying these statues and most importantly getting securing our spot up there on the fireworks displays that our fancy schmancy folks can go each hall has its own um basically spots for dresses spots for master crafted dresses and and musicians to play the music for each floor obviously because that's what you need to do um the other action i'll go through in a second but just want to talk you through how the player turns work so we each start with a hand of five employers right this is your deck employees employees not employers you are the employer so you've got two of these gold master tailors these are the guys who um can do most of the prestigious type work right you can do everything they can do everything then you've got your journeymen who are you know on their way to become masters and you've got your apprentices who are basically just starting out they're very limited to what they can do um so at the beginning of the game you're going to draft well choose three of the cards from this deck it doesn't matter which ones you can pick whatever ones you want and those are going to be what you're going to be playing for that next round so those go here in your available pile right once they're used they'll go face up here and your discard and then once you go through your deck you flip them back over to this side and they all become available again so you get to choose what you want as long as it's available um this player board basically tells you the flow of the game this first section is for for the cleanup at the beginning of the round which we can skip in round one uh this section here tells you to draw your three cards to play this round which we'll do in a second and down here it outlines every action that you can take right that francis already went through so you've got the market you've got the funding a statue you've got um deputy which is slightly different and we don't do this a lot during the game because what this does is it then thins the deck right and it gets rid of one of your cards uh you do get money for it and you also get to use their bonus action but they're gone so it's a good way to thin your deck out a little bit but with the jewelry box expansion because we're training like workers we end up kind of doing that instead of defeating them so yeah you do it in a way you kind of trade up so it's kind of good um it's a good way to get money though um yeah if you will so then there's the the the taylor action the queen's favor action which cannot be so there's certain limitations on what employees can do what so the tailor the the um queen's favor and hiring new employees is not possible by the apprentice they can't do any of that um the only one who can hire is the master right outside of that is pretty much fair game um up here is is the new expansion so this is the jewelry box as francis talked about with the jewelry we'll go through in a second but what you'll start to notice is that we are actively taking actions and if if we um if we actually achieve any of these actions if you take those experiences yeah yeah with one of our apprentices this this is their training to become a journeyman it's the journeyman uh exams right and then there's a master exam right so they're like we're gonna test you go out and buy pink or blue fabric and once you've done that with your apprentice then you can say okay you did that once you complete that then you can actually uh take an action with an apprentice anyone in your hand on a subsequent turn to have them take the exam and we'll go through that once we do it so that's really all there is to it we're going to run through this seven times and make the best tailor movement and then go to a great fireworks and have a great fireworks display at the end so let's let's get this started so first thing we're gonna do is just decide which three uh definitely gonna do that one definitely gonna do this one and uh probably gonna wanna do [Music] yikes some i'm already i'm already stuck yeah we'll do this see how that works yeah so this your first round is always tough so go ahead and uh kick us off all right i am going to start by um playing my expert taylor my master tailor and he's actually going to go shopping for a worker so um yeah okay five uh libre and i'm gonna hire this dude um so when you hire a couple of things there are four on offer they're five dollars to hire when you have four on offer they get cheaper as there are fewer to choose from same goes for our lineup of fabrics and notions too when you hire they come right into your hand that is correct so i'm going to go ahead and copy that because now it's super cheap for me to do this yeah so i'm going to use this master to hire for three that master okay and that goes right into my hand nice well now it's super cheap [Laughter] oh my goodness all right okay i guess i'll do maybe i'll do some shopping might as well right um so i'll play this guy and he will start off by maybe i'll start stocking up i'm gonna pay two because these don't come around that frequently and i'm going to buy this now how this works is we each of these has either the linens that you can choose to take and store here or at the bottom you have your notions that you can choose to take immediately i'm going to take these because there's nothing on the top so that actually gives me one thread and one place now the cost if the drawer is full it costs two if the drawer has only two in it it costs one if there's only one left it's free um i just noticed those are drawers yes they are drawers um could i please also draw one you get your bonus action his bonuses pay zero dollars a token from the resource bag so he's a pretty good uh apprentice that's a good one oh wow yeah that's tough yeah when you draw you get to decide which one you're going to take just like if you had taken it from a drawer and i will take the cuff and the thread again yeah those are tough to come back so awesome all right so i'm going to put out my other master and i'm going to recruit for a dollar this guy the journeyman yes that one of course but he also his bonus is to get a dollar so she was actually that's great well done wow so i've done a couple of things and i still have three employees to play la dee da you're just filling up that deck i know there's some cards that'll help me later on with that all right i'm gonna play my apprentice um oh and something we didn't i actually didn't do so i bought notions with the support that doesn't count the first actual first one yeah the bonus doesn't count so but the first one does the first one because you bought notions with it so you get credit for that yes um now i'm going to go shopping with this dude um and he is going to buy for one dollar so you get credit for green buying green fabrics there you go it's part of the test part of the test he gives me two dollars two bucks okay so i might as well get to it now so i'm going to play my apprentice and he's going to get this one for free so that counts as getting a red fabric nice for nothing and he gets a bonus action of doing another shop so i will pay two and grab that so now i get credit for pink you can get one credit per action as long as you take the action you can get credit you just you can't get it for two things with one action all right so then i'm gonna play my journeyman and he is going to craft a dress so he's gonna just spend this two green fabric no thread or lace who needs them and um he's gonna build this gown um now the gowns and frocks down here the last two all the way to the right are free to build and these ones you have to pay for i guess like you're maybe you're buying the pattern or something now i can decide if i want to sell this for twelve dollars or i can rent it out and actually put it out in the display and i can't buy jewelry for it yet which is unfortunate um i'll put it out i'm gonna put it out i'm gonna put it up here and okay that allows me to take any of these that i desire right so you're gonna be able to cover up um some of these like bonuses as you put your folks out there take this okay these are tough i know okay so i will i will send her out to shop okay so i will pay it's only gonna cost me a buck because those drawers are kind of empty one two three four i'm going to take this green her bonus is to get two dollars so i'll get two dollars and be done with that i have one more card are you done i'm done yeah all right so with her i'm actually going to sew that dress so it's going to cost a green and a pink it's a lot of wasted fabric but i don't have a choice and a linen or a lace and i'm going to sell this for 18 wow so immediately just sell it 10 15 [Music] 16 17 18 and her bonus is to do a shop and i might as well oh this is a tough call i know what are you gonna do i'll take this one for free well and i'm just not sure if i want the blue i want to take the thread all right so that is the end of the round yeah and we go down to income so income is five libre plus one levre per jewelry item yes and one leverage per decoration if you've paid into the kitchen correct yet so we are not there okay so yeah the next thing is if we had taken the queen's favor we would change player order but we're not so these last two would drop off everything slides down to the right yep these stay in the drawer last one drops these slide down we have here you want to fill that i'll fill the last two dresses um and we can now talk a little bit about the other expansions yeah i didn't really discuss that well because the first the first uh set that you bring out i think we try to make sure that they're not yeah they're not you're not supposed to have them in the initial setup um and they will come out after they are coming out now so there are three expansions that are in the tiles only yeah there's the festival dresses there's the fancy dresses and then there's the expert tailor so there's three different um expansions that come out in resources and addresses and they really just kind of mix things up a bit yeah they just kind of make it more difficult it doesn't change gameplay really no but it gives you better and different scoring bonuses and and ways to earn like so for example this this outfit this uh gentleman's frock you can't sell it it has to be rented out and um you'll get bonuses for it right by doing that okay all right i used to choose our cards yeah so um yeah that's the next step three cards so we only have two left so you have to take these two into your hand and then you choose from the remaining stack when you bring it back to the left yeah that's the different thing about this game is you're not necessarily like drawing from the top or shuffling or anything you're just taking to see who i have these guys i think i want to do wait a minute that oh he's there hmm yeah yeah we'll do that okay maybe that okay good yep all right what are you gonna do i'm going to i'm gonna do this play this guy um he is going to go shopping so let's see so for two he's gonna go let's see what i want to buy though yeah here like that and i will take this one and his bonus is to drop the bag all right another thing to notice is we have these apprentice cards kind of sitting off to the side so these are with the jewelry box expansion these are like specialized apprentices that you randomly draw at the beginning of the game and they become available to you to hire only to you if you meet the prerequisite right and the prerequisite on her is to have at least um three uh ladies dresses basically because ladies dresses only come in blue and green right and gentlemen's frocks only come in red and pink so that's just how it is so if i get three of those then i can get hire her and let's be like the colors of the season maybe um my apprentice i need to have 30 levre in my in my pocketbook um so you're good i'm done alright so i'm going to play my master right off the bat i'm going to pay for levre okay and i'm going to craft this gentleman's frock it will cost me 1 thread and one red which is exactly what i had and i'm going to sell it for 25 libre bold i'm swimming in money now so i can start buying some pretty interesting things i was thinking of doing something similar but i don't know but i don't know if i want to do that um all right i'm gonna play i'm gonna play my expert taylor um and i think actually i'm gonna i am definitely gonna build this gown so i'm gonna do here's a dollar or a leverage um and i'm going to pay all of this fabric and a cuff so we've got three blues three blues and a cuff a lace cuff and now i have a big decision to make so i could cash this in for 28 yeah um or i could take the four points and turn it into a dress um which i kind of want to do i sort of want to do that okay um all right so i'll do that i'll and i'll put this up near the king that's fine there don't act like you're all okay with it i am actually i know you are but you don't need to say it like that yeah okay i got any bonus for that no bonus there's no bonus just to be next to the king really okay well in that case i'm going to play my apprentice and i'm going to pay 22 libre [Music] to claim the three time spot a triple bonus of course you are fireworks display window you're you're taking my strategy for end game his bonus is gonna be to get some stuff here okay so first of all he's gonna he just bought a decoration so he gets credit for that he is now going to pay two levre to take this and get the two lace from it nice and since he bought accoutrements he now completed his apprentice training so now on a subsequent turn i can train one of my apprentices into a journeyman very nice all right all right well done well done thank you i spent a lot of money but it was a lot i did have a ton yeah wow not great fabrics out there right now a lot of blue hmm yeah i'm not like feeling that too much all right so i think what i'll do here is actually spend six levre and i'm gonna make i'm gonna go buy a decoration out in the jewelry section so the way that the jewelry works is that you have to have actually bought a decoration in jewelry um in order to purchase any of the jewelry items to rent out and then she gets to take another action so i'll cash that in for well i'm paying a dollar um and i will take yeah so she gets a market action bonus i guess this one okay okay um all right so my last card is this so i'm going to pay six libre and buy this decoration and i will get one libre income for every decoration i have included in this one so that's just right now i'm just starting to build a cash engine hopefully that's good because right now i have two on the board and my bonus is to pay a leverage to buy a lace or thread one two three four so i will buy a thread and that's it all right so let us clear it up so actually first is income so i think you get five yep and i get seven now because of my decoration so we are getting rid of these sliding them down these don't ever slide you just fill them in the last one falls off on the jewelry uh what is this this is dresses i'll bring out the dresses i should have brought the dresses out two three and four all right there you go uh jewelry and jewelry all right okay good yep and we are to draw our three cards okay all right so i'm gonna take these three cards okay i only have three so all right that's an easy decision easy uh i'm still first player um oh my goodness yikes i don't really like those fabrics sitting out there no they're not great yeah they're really not good um all right well i guess i'll start with start with this guy um i'm going to use this blue pink green to build that dress and i'm actually gonna sell it i'm gonna sell it for 12 bucks yeah all right there you go yeah i know your money i go broke really fast in this game so i'll try to get some cameras yeah you want to buy i think yeah i do what do you want um i'll take a thread all right what to do what to do so let's start off by let's go ahead and pay five and hire this guy into my collection very nice yikes oh this is no bueno um yeah i want to buy fabric but i don't really like any of these all right i'm going to go i'll take him shopping so i'm going to spend two and you're going to get to get it back so i'm just going to take this pick your poison yeah okay very good and i get to put this up there because i bought pink oh okay thanks sure okay all right so i'm gonna go ahead and train her okay so how this works is i'm gonna pay five levre one two two three four five and then i can activate her bonus which will give me two back and she's actually going to go train off at the school because i've met the criteria so i remove all these disks um now i get a victory point and by trading her in i get to look through this stack yeah of a printai and take her okay let's see i will choose which one i want here and that's pretty interesting because what happens is you you exchange two of these cards with two of the cards from the offer when you set this down right yeah i know and one of them happens to be a gold which is really good interesting um oh also now i move up here because i'm i've done this exam i can actually start working towards a master if i want to now my master's your master's my best friend's in business yes do i want another one i don't know uh wow this one's not good this one's actually quite good yeah these are good these are actually really good um but it's really uh yeah i think i'll take i'll take this one into my hand okay into my collection all right um all right this is kind of silly but i don't want to spend money for no reason so i'm going to play my king or my king to me he's a king he's my my expert he looks like bilbo baggins he does look like bilbo baggins um and just to get the queen's favor just to get five i'm gonna get five bucks wow thank you interesting i've got literally three turns to take all right you go do that i should just buy more people you should just keep running that thing i mean you could i i really could yeah so i'm actually going to use her to or him to do some sewing i've had that already yeah i just want i just got it from there that's a good one so i'm gonna actually buy some materials so for two i'll take this it doesn't really matter which one i want um because i'm going to use it now because i get a build action for minus one pink if i so choose right yeah so i'll pay five it's expensive but i do need to get so this was just no accoutrements so it's just to get somebody on the board yeah um yeah so what i think is a good pick here is put in the far left on the bottom floor of this one yeah because i want to take a tile okay so the one your distance is a tile uh here's a disc and that's that's that's his turn okay so for my next turn i will bring out this master and i will sew do you like a partnership like a taylor taylor partnership lots of messages master tailors yes master taylor semester so he's gonna he's actually gonna sew this guy for free okay for a red and a place okay and i'm gonna put this on the top floor on that one okay dollar so i'll earn that and a disc there's a disc it's not a master sewn one but it's something um and he gets a dollar for every decoration i've got two so he's gonna earn me two bucks yeah it's important to note that even though the master anyway he tailored he tailored the frock actually he tailed the frock out of that dress [Laughter] he really did oh my god anyway um he can't put it on the expert thimble because it's it's not an expert pattern yep so my last master is going to buy this decoration so i can get some jewelry going here nice boom and his bonus is give me a buck done all right cool done and done done and so let's uh income you get five fiverr i'm gonna get five six seven eight all right this goes back these guys come off uh yeah so everybody's running through it here yeah just moving along yep we did not put much of a dent in the uh the materials here uh yeah if you can start buying something that'd be great but they're not good that's my problem these green dresses remind me of tinkerbell do they mhm um too unfortunately we don't have the material to make them we do not that's this is like yes this is not great to be honest with you uh did you pick your cards i did not no one i have all of mine to choose from i do now one buddy i need that two i think we'll go three i actually need oh man this is a tough tough stuff all right uh i'll do that i'll do that and i'll do maybe like that i guess i'm so unhappy about this what i'm just looking you're just looking looking around see what's available ah i just thought of something okay i'm looking at this because what she does is she lets you tell her for less too green there's a lot of dresses out there there is however she is not an expert she's sure she's not she's just a journeyman you're gonna get your grimy hands on that one well i might take it anyway because there'll be more cream dresses so good all right um yikes they're all so good so i'm in a predicament i'll explain to you what's going through my head right now i have now 30 libra so do i want to take this into my employee i get him i can hire him automatically i don't have to pay the five for him right right because he's not technically in this office correct you just have to spend your master to hire them changes things i'm just gonna swap this out then because i kind of forgot about that so i'm gonna do this instead this is a big bold move i don't know how i feel about it to be honest oh we'll see all right so i'm gonna do this and i'll hire him okay so that's it that's great it's actually a really good move [Laughter] but was it though okay here we go what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna play her and she's gonna do a shop i'm just gonna buy this pink she's gonna get a bonus shop to grab this other one all right end of move end of move all right all right i'm gonna play my other expert taylor to pick up her she's discounts on she is but she's going to cost you five yeah she will cost me five bucks so here's that yeah i never really am interested in her because i don't well whatever well you don't buy these i do but i don't think that the bonus is really well worth it don't talk me on my move oh no it's already done you can't take it back so here we go i'm gonna play this tailor now i'm gonna pay for libre to get this sewn for a discount for a discount for one pink discount and how much did you pay for that four okay libre so now where do i want to put oh the englishman the englishman because this is one of the newer tiles they have little flags on them so you know where they're coming from so like you get a bonus here it which is for every blue which i don't have any blues i don't even get the bonus but um it's kind of lame mm-hmm for this one because you don't get any real points for him either right if you notice no i didn't give you points yeah but he takes some spots but he does take up a spot so i'll take the three dollar spot over there okay at least he'll earn me some cash one two and three and helps me with majority so good you're up all right so so so buttons what that was a pink it was so that does satisfy because the journeyman just crafted a pink this is all the same no originality coming out in these patterns here unfortunately oh man that's unfortunate what would you like to do now um i'm gonna pay four one two three four and do the ring yeah you should because so the thing is with with jewelry when you when you put out a a frock or a dress if it's a frock it has to be a ring if it's a dress it has to be a necklace you don't have to match the color right if you match the color you get a free material resource which would have been nice but whatever but this will give me uh increase my income by one now supposed to be points at the end again that's good it's worth it definitely hmm all right so i guess i will place this socks with this all this blue fabric i'll take our shopping to buy some blue fabric that maybe i'll need in the future potentially we could need it um yeah because the pink isn't doing anybody any good right now so here's two and i'll get this i guess and i'll pay an extra for her bonus and take this okay okay um can i see that card on the end there this one for hire yeah yeah she's like employees in your deck all right good i want her so i'm gonna hire her with my master so she's only gonna cost me three um she goes into my hand he's gonna give me one levre for every decoration so i have one two three so she was free that's good yep your turn i gosh i guess i'll play this i'll play her like i don't really have anything i want to craft right now with those expert ones out there that's kind of tricky plus all that red that we don't have it's like ridiculous um all right i'll just take this for free then and she's gonna do her buy a thing for and i'm thinking if i want to go i guess i'll do this one so i'll do i'll pay four and i'm going to put one out here okay very good all right so my final card is this apprentice now she is gonna shop and she's just gonna take this for free and depending on how many cards i have i'm gonna get paid i've got one two three four five six seven eight nine employees nine employees pays me ten leverage oh my god that's crazy wow she is a cash cow mm-hmm okay and i will play this guy um i guess he's gonna go shopping um though i could put him out um he could go buy me another decoration you certainly could which would be nice um yeah maybe i'll do that i'll spend um i'm gonna spend nine [Music] and i'm going to put one out here okay for more income yeah good library per dress yeah that's good he's good good engine okay so uh income so you're going to get five i'm gonna get five plus this is for my decorations i have three six seven eight plus i'm going to get a dollar for each nine ten take a ton yeah that's a good that's good i need that money this time you do um i'm gonna get five six seven eight nine so i will put one in and get ten oh man yeah good guys are coming out all right and after this round we only have two more rounds left actually so oh wow so it's getting down to the nitty gritty okay [Laughter] so we've got um and he bought a decoration didn't he didn't i just or did i shop with him you no i bought a decoration so can you put that out on that thing right there yeah you've completed it you can actually take the example i did finally change yeah all right slide and did you you trashed those dresses already i do where's all of our blue dresses uh right there oh my goodness you can build that one all right you ready um picking hold on i need three of these guys you already know which ones you're getting three cards yeah i've got a couple of options here um one [Music] two yikes those aren't bad two um [Music] three all right these are my three all right lead us off yikes i have no experts in mind at this moment that's not good you should not hire anybody uh well yeah i'm like not doing anything yeah wow shaiza um well i could do i could do the following i could go do my exam you could do that yeah actually because i can't even build this one freaking blue dress because he's the next expert um so let me send him away i'm gonna go send him to take the test you're gonna get two bucks for him and i'm gonna get i'm paying five so give me the two bucks there's your two give me the five all right so you paid for him you're gonna get a point you're gonna trash him yep and you get to pick from the stem and there is an expert which is [Music] he's a good okay there you go all right you move my little yellow chicken up there okay so i'm gonna start with a shop so i'm gonna spend two to buy this and i'll spend one more to buy this and take a cloth and a spool okay your turn i am all right i'm gonna spend him i'm gonna use him to make a dress he's gonna spend a thread two pinks one more pink and make this gown and rent it out okay boom oh that's a no pointer that's correct no pointer oh he only gets that if i don't put him out right no i think you get it automatic because you can only rent them yeah do you have any blue dresses out there one so you get a point okay um now where do i want to put him that's a tough call um let's put him on the spot to get some money two bucks uh and you said i get a point for that right and he i use this silver guy that's a blue dress and then i can pay a dollar to get a thread or a thing i'll get a thread okay thanks okay put your chip on them oh yeah all right i'll play my master to craft this for free for one thread and two green cloth and i'm going to put her so she gets me one victory point per decoration yeah so one two three victory points for me wow okay one two three uh but she's worth no points that's the killer that's the rub um yeah i'm gonna put her here take five bucks ooh no i'm gonna put her here and grab a tile instead because there's no damn cloth i know it sucks that's the problem it sucks i'll take this one your turn okay play him um i'll play two to get this and then i'll drop in the bag oh we've got as a master tailored dress that actually gives me the top yeah i'll drop him back please you're drawing from the bag yeah for his bonus oh okay for free hold on a minute what what i wanted to pay five more dollars i'm still thinking my moves out here because i'm like in my head i removed from last time well i built my green dress you're pulling one of my one of mine well it's like i i'm just trying to think of all the things that i should be doing and why would i not buy jewelry with that dress a matching jewelry that gives me yeah a pic of the bag as well like so i'm just trying to hear you no you definitely complete there's really no reason not to do that right so you went i did all right so i'm gonna go what do i do here i think i do it again yeah and i pay a dollar and i build this green master dress okay for this and a thread why not right yeah no more jewelry though no more jewelry um yes i could buy one of these oh you could yes another point yeah of course i'm gonna do that spend time to get six dollars back and give her a blue necklace it doesn't match but it's still yeah point so i will put her she's another no pointer she's killing me but she is gold solid gold she's selling gold and she's gonna go right here yeah and that just earned me presents in every hole oh very good so you get the presents a six there's presents in every hole so i'm going to get one of these for going there all right that was her bonus it was oh no no it wasn't drunk it was take a tile from here yes i'm gonna take this one and grab an accoutrement of each yeah good job all right thank you i'm gonna play this guy mm-hmm um and i'm going to pay six bucks sorry i get a victory point per thing again so i get three more okay i just there's a lot to there lot this is the expansion tile so right good sorry are you done okay i'm gonna pay six dollars to build this dress with two cuffs and lots and lots of blue fabric so you're going to get two victory points for every pair of red men and woman yes dresses and frogs which i think i only have one pair because i have a blue and i only have one pink okay you have a red though nope okay so then you have one so you get two points so yeah two points okay and that is an expert master taylor chinese lady all right and she is worth no points either you get them to make them you know what i mean it's a different way to score yeah yeah no that makes sense um and actually i think i will slide her down here so i get four dollars she goes there now his bonus is for each blue outfit dress i get one dollar for each green i get two and i have two blue for two and one green that's four times four dollars there you go thanks thanks a lot one two three four five here that's it yep so incomes all right yeah you're gonna get 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. right yep and i'm gonna get five 6 7 8 9 10 11. um oh and that was a master dress that i built and throw that up there too okay so now we have to choose um let me before we choose let me recycle these because that may change your mind oh yeah absolutely this should be the second last second last round yeah we are getting close people too close too close okay it's like the same three right there it's weird so i'm gonna need yeah i'm thinking about what i need to do here it's tough and you can only take three cards because you have so many good ones i know well and you want to think about what you want to save for next time too and when's going to be the best time to use some of these [Music] all right i think i got mine you figured yours out huh for some reason i'm playing this game very differently than i normally do you know what i mean like yikes okay i'm ready you ready um okay this is so freaking tricky um okay let me use him first and i'm just going to two bucks take this and i'll just get two cuff cuffs please and then i'm gonna do his bonuses just to draw from the bag okay then i will use her to pay a dollar and just take that one and her bonus is i have nine employees so i get ten dollars okay i'm gonna play him and i'm gonna build this dress so three dollars so here's two back [Music] and it's going to be one two three blue fabrics two cuffs so expensive but i'm gonna get this bonus again so a pair a green and a pink for two two victory points points i don't think i have any other combos two um and then i can put her out she's worth nada um i think i will put her ooh yikes maybe i'll put her over here i'm gonna put it right there and get five bucks [Music] let me make sure oh and i want to rent out that thing too for four dollars this one yeah okay so there's that it matches so i can draw from the bag [Music] tile okay and it's another blue um i think i may do i'm gonna swap this out yeah i may you want the cuff i may need a cuff i don't know but i may i'll take it all right all right um i think that's it for him did you get paid oh no i didn't that's right that's the other thing i need to do so i've got how many blue one two three blues out so that's three plus two it's five thank you um i'll play my master [Music] yes i'll play him and i'm gonna actually craft that dress for four dollars so there's four bucks uh three pink and one lace and that's going to go right there that was big points that's good all right yeah i don't get any bonuses with them interesting it's so interesting how this game scores can't wait to score yeah i'm anxious to see where we land um all right so i'm gonna play her and she is going to cuz i'm thinking about do i what i'm doing more stuff six bucks all right ring oh yeah yeah don't forget about those i didn't i just paid for it don't forget to do that um i'm thinking like what makes the most sense you know what i mean which is interesting um all right i'm going to use her to buy some stuff i'm going to spend 20 to go here okay then she gets to do a discount yep and i think i'll do this one up here so we'll do it's like is it worth it do you know what i mean yeah i don't know yeah all right what is it gonna be seven to get up there there we go okay not super thrilled no huh i'm not no all right i'm going to use her to build a dress okay this red one here could cost me nothing or a frock actually but it's a three-pointer big one and i'm going to put them right here it's thread yeah um been a dollar and i will buy one of these guys with that um that's it all right income yeah so okay it's like ah so you're gonna get not good five um six seven eight nine ten ten plus one one two three four five fifteen and i'm gonna get five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve oh and this yeah okay um that's it that's it all right this is the last one last round this is for ready for the money this party crept up on us way too quickly it did it's no good wow okay holy moly yeah wow those are some that's bold big ones here okay one two three and four okay that's it so we get to choose our final oh my gosh what is gonna happen here i don't know nothing good i don't think i don't feel great about this one two hmm three that's the best i can do i think wow definitely need him and i think probably that's probably the best it's probably the best that i can do all right all right let's do this yeah all right you ready yeah i can't believe i didn't ever finish that dude i know that's a shame [Music] such a shame um such little little money i have here too unfortunately all right um this guy stinks because like you have to buy him and then if you want to use him you're already down five dollars that's [Music] true right off the bat five bucks right yeah that's rough okay um so we'll spin this guy [Music] i don't like this at all like any piece of this just for the record two bucks okay uh give yourself three points um higher okay that guy on the left yeah that's five bucks uh he gets a ten dollar discount on statues uh decorations rather than a buck could be a statue could be could be might very well be it could be all right he is going to craft something for four dollars i'm gonna make this one two one back thank you for a red and a green oh wait a minute just in case i think i will use this one instead yeah because this has a red oh it doesn't have green you have to use that son of a gun garbage ah this wasn't this wasn't well planned one bit ah i would have really liked to make that guy though i'm sorry um all right i'm not gonna build that one then um maybe i'll do this one instead i'll do that instead actually that's better um so that's actually five which i gave you a five right i gave you change yeah so here's one there you go all right um i'm gonna do this and he is gonna go up here interesting and then i can spend a dollar to get an accoutrement yeah i'll do that i'll get another um linen piece please okay um i'm gonna use him and here is fifteen dollars [Music] i'm gonna buy the two left top what balcony spots both of them yep because i got a 10 dollar discount in the second you do both first action oh and second section i'm like what are you doing buying all those things yeah so he gets one action anything he wants and then he gets to do a all right thanks again thank you good job all right last last guy the last guy i feel like i'm the only person that knows about that game you are because i don't know i always try to explain to you what that game is it's called the last guy and if anybody knows this game then uh you should comment and let me know that i'm not crazy it's not the me guy um all right now i'm gonna build this okay six change please thank you so cuff thread all of my fabric lots of leftovers i must have tested out a lot of different fabrics and boom and he is going to go so you want to go over there or over there over there boom okay there he is that's it very good oh i don't get those okay yeah not if you rent this type you get the points because you're putting her out right um so there you go um and i'll spend five bucks and get the jewelry oh the jewelry there you go and that means i can grab an extra fabric you can i'm not sure what that will do for you we'll see you're out of action okay so why don't we go ahead and one dollar finish this off now so i think i'm gonna go with this one okay i'm gonna spend a dollar to buy this and now he can do a craft action to build that all right with this okay well you've got a discount side you did could have built whatever i wanted yeah you could build that one i don't even know what that is what it's a beer it's a frock no but i don't know what that reward is it's like that or that i'm not sure what that is but he's gonna build this and put it out he's gonna put it in the main hole boom okay um so he's done this guy's gonna go and he is going to recruit this one okay there you go and he's gonna get a dollar for every decoration which is one two three four five very good um that was stupid why didn't i buy the damn ring when i put my pink eye out would you like to buy the ring i had the money not like it was going to change anything um would it give me fabric but it doesn't matter because i can't sell anything with this guy yeah but with this guy i'm gonna buy i'm gonna fund fund educa i can't afford that that's for sure no you cannot um but maybe you can buy one of these little little jobs here you know what that's a really good idea i'm gonna buy this one for 17. okay sounds good flip it up so your swan is showing oh i will so we all know whose it is oh we know who that is okay uh that's it oh my gosh did you get your bonus you didn't even get points i get points i have wait that's end game that's end game yeah that's exactly right exactly right all right so let's uh let's do some scoring all right all right so walk us through the scoring let me walk you through it all right and games end of game all right so after the collect income phase so we have to we do get income we do get income so let's uh let's count your income okay um so we have five so let's start with your decorations five six seven eight nine ten and then right for how many girls do you have one two three four five six seven seventeen seventeen dollars there you go and i get five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen oh i get two more actually which matters okay so that's income um and now we are going to get first everyone converts any remaining money into prestige at ten to one so i'm gonna get one point i get two so one point two points all right now evaluate any bonuses from employer cards right on your stack and you do who have the velvet background i'm the only one who got one and that's just this guy and it's for however many cards you have so i've got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven gets me 11 points like an enterprise i do okay all right so now we're going to do majority in each of the five halls so each hall the players um with the most and second most garments but in two players just with the most get the prestige so we're not going to do second place every hall so let's start on this one okay so you're going to get two points i get zero okay this hall yep do we need to put them at the fireworks first no that happens after okay are you sure i'm 100 um all right so we are we're absolutely tied right so we're tied we will get the points or we both don't get the points it doesn't matter we won't get the points we'll just work out um here um you are actually going to get majority because we're tied but you are on the master correct spot so you're going to get three one two three down here same thing but i'm gonna get the points i'll get four three four here i have uh we're tied again you have i have this decoration so i get five points sucker that's why i paid that flatist over there whatever to kind of stand in front of your majority up here too you're gonna get six for this correct one two three four five six so now uh statues you're the only one who funded stacks i did right so for every one of your trademark tokens on a statue decoration you're gonna earn two prestige points for each different color of your garments on the board up to four right so you're gonna get a maximum of eight points right so i have a blue a green a pink and what's the other color you have a red a red and a red it's like you have eight points you get to pull eight i didn't have any blues so i wouldn't have gotten yeah we got six points uh now trademark token scoring so we're going to actually score the trademark token so prestige points for all trademark tokens are garments decorations and whole bonuses okay um so let's do yours first um oh actually no we got to do the uh fireworks so we now we assign one garment per balcony slot that you've paid for correct only from the royal hall okay so this one's pretty easy all right so i'm just gonna go she's going oh that's you i'm sorry i'm blue right yeah yeah sorry he's going here uh and these two are just gonna go here and here no big deal so now you get to assign and so i will sign right so now we get points times the multiplier right so i'm going to get eight eights um and you're going to get 4 8 and 12. 20 is 20. so 35.50 five is down here somewhere here there you go all right so yeah now we're on the trademark so we're gonna score prestige tokens yep all the rest of them right okay so i'm going to get 2 3 4 5 10 for dresses 11 12 13 14 14. [Music] and you have 2 3 4 5 6 12 13. [Laughter] plus five one two three four five five you get two more that's it very well done you smoked me got lucky yeah you got lucky hey let's go talk about that you took my strategy [Laughter] okay so there you have it rococo deluxe edition in all of its glory in all of its glory yeah i missed out on some opportunities there i think but that's okay you did um but that's okay as long as you had fun doing it this is um this is actually one of uh if we if we haven't mentioned it enough um this is one of our favorite yeah we'll cut right to the chase and spoil this i know i'm gonna spoil it spoiler review for you um this is uh one of our was one of our favorite games um prior to the deluxe edition coming out and i think the deluxe edition i only made it even more of an attractive experience right and why you ask is it because of the components partially um but i think it's because of all of the add-ons right i think they may not seem like much i mean the jewelry box is a pretty significant add-on uh we didn't have any expansions for the original base game right but the jewelry box add-on does add quite a bit of meat to it with a bunch of different um some extra stuff to do yeah and the workers and the jewelry it does give you a different uh scoring opportunities but i think where the true um scoring opportunity change comes in to play with the um with the other mini micro expansions because you've got all of those that's correct um fancy and festival dresses and the expert trailers so you've got all these different ways of scoring dresses not just by put these victory points on the board and score it at the end of the game and try to get control so now you can use address to get control of an area but also use it to trigger a scoring at the time as opposed to end game which i think makes it a lot more challenging and a lot more fun as well because um you know and not that not that the base game uh of rococo is vanilla in any way shape or form but i will say it was it was very clear about okay here's how we're going to go ahead and get points and this is much more kind of poinsality in a way where you are able to take multiple routes can't do everything as you saw uh but i think that from kind of a replayability standpoint you do have a different experience every time with this right um i know that one of the one of the times that we played with this edition um i had actually had um one of the assistants let me take a card from my face down kind of uh available for the future workers pile and play it as um and play that person for their bonus and i had this kind of engine going like i was just using that for the three points and i would just have a small kind of hand and just continue writing yeah because this points that up they really do i really just loved how the synergies worked in this one um with all of the new uh you know kind of expanded employees and then also as you said the opportunities to get points other ways with different dresses and frocks yeah yeah it's it's really cool i mean the game the game moves along pretty quickly with two of us i mean for that heavy of a game you know for to take about an hour yeah i think that that really says a lot because i feel like by the time that hour's over i'm like like my brain is it's pretty full yeah so i i think it's close no it's fine i i wanted to tell them the secret about this game this particular playthrough oh what was the secret that we played it once before we filmed this one oh we did uh yeah because only because it speaks to it speaks to how much we enjoy this game so i'm gonna i'm going to tell you anyway so we actually ended up playing through the way that you have to seed the deck because of all the expansions and stuff is a little bit um you have to be very careful with you have to take your time with it when we seated it originally for our playthrough that we had sat down to film um we we did not remove all of the cards we we needed to i think for whatever reason we picked up the wrong pile or something yeah i did it i i did it wrong i was trying to save you but it boils down i'll take i'll take ownership of that what ended up happening was i think we played like maybe two at least two extra rounds yeah i put a lot of extra cards and we're just like playing and i'm like this is really great we've got these engines going we're filling up the whole palace and we got to the very end and it was like there were two employee cards left is opposed to four should never be which is the only way we would have known this i know so yeah but we were having so much fun with it that we played this extra long version of over coco and then immediately obviously we couldn't post that video because it was wrong um and we're like no clean it up dude we filmed the whole thing up to the very last the end of the second to last round realize this issue and then just reset and start over again like it was so um and that's how much we enjoy this yeah yeah like it wasn't a matter of like all right we need to take a break let's get back to it we were right back into it and enjoyed it just as much and i enjoyed it twice as much because at that time i knew exactly what i wanted to do because you took my strategy and i just looked the key to that game is own that palace area control get your people where they need to be take majority and you will score it is true it's true and i will say this too because we've played this at different player counts as well um i do believe your strategy will change with different player counts so with two we don't actually get the second point yeah so it's kind of an all or nothing thing which makes it a little more i don't say cut throat but it does make it it is a little bit more more you don't get that you know secondary majority i guess but if you're playing with more people then you do have the opportunity to get like that second place kind of prize more people are kind of vying for different things taking up it's just absolutely super super yeah i like i'd like to play that smaller side of the board with three right just to see how a little bit because it gets definitely gets tighter it does um from what i remember in the past when i was playing so we're definitely it's definitely want to play again so uh in short um what was one of our top five games is has become one of our top two it's probably our one our all-time favorite game period i think i think we can safely say that and also i want to add to that because i like i always have trouble committing to like what's your favorite game top one game yeah um but the thing that i do like about this and this has been tried and tested with us on several game nights is that this this game is accessible so it is thinking it's crunchy it's it's a it's a lot of game as you saw yeah but we have been able to pull this out and explain it the theme helps people kind of understand what's going on you're not like transferring you know cubes and other cubes for your resource generation and everything um you know so it's just a really really good one to have on your shelf yeah nothing turns a new gamer off than a game where you're converting one cube into another cube and that that is just the driest right which we enjoy we're fine with it but for someone who needs theme to really enjoy a game now i appreciate that more obviously but i'll still get enjoyment out of a dryer euro um lignum where you're really just converting a wooden cube into another wooden cube um and it's very abstract this one is like you're turning cloth into dresses like that is it's right there it's in your face it's easy to grasp that you don't have to tell you don't have to try to tie the theme into the action yeah it just works right and i think those are the best i wouldn't say entry games but those are the best games to teach somebody mechanics without it really hurting their brains or turning them off right exactly because they really get to to kind of assume that role yeah so with the deluxe edition and all the components and everything as you saw you even get more immersed into that with the metal coins and symbol that you probably actually use as a real thumbnail yeah this is definitely one of the top tier produced games like production which we expect kind of yeah like this is this is yeah a lot eagle griffin games like they they do pretty much all the lacerda games that come out yeah you know it's in the lacerta game size box it's got all of the the thickness of the cardboard it's got all the upgrades it's got the metal like it's just phenomenal production phenomenal um we couldn't couldn't love it anymore i don't think i think it's about as it's about as good as you would ever hope that they would do a deluxe edition of a game um absolutely fantastic yeah um yep anything you want to talk about no i think i've uh spread my love all over this game yeah so there you go rococo deluxe edition uh definitely go check it out if 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Length: 89min 22sec (5362 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 16 2021