Yokohama - Playthrough & Review

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Welcome to the start of our monthly "Shelf of Opportunity" segment where we play through a board game off of our shelf that was voted for by our wonderful Patreon community! This is "Yokohama," a board game designed by Hisashi Hayashi and published by Tasty Minstrel Games in 2016. This video includes a rules overview.

JUMP:
00:00 - Overview/Rules Teach
15:26 - Playthrough Start
1:06:05 - Review

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[Dilwen_Boardgames]

Hi Monique and Naveen. It's important to to boost this video as Yokohama is being re-released on August 16th 2024. I know it is for sure in France, but I believe also worldwide. Thank you for all of the great work you do. Your playthroughs and discussions are invaluable. 😊

[ArsenalLT]

You guys deserve more views here. Silently you become prolly best teaching/playthrough channel.

[KillJoy]

This is one of my favorite games of all time - I absolutely love this one, there's something so tactically engaging about the way the worker placement and resolution works with setting up the paths, but I've only ever played it at 3 players which I've heard is the sweet spot for this one.

[makedonka]

from all the reviewers and how to youtubers, yours is the best explained. concise, interesting, just enough of info to get me interested in the game and decide if i want to buy the game or not. well done.

[stivomali]

Your play throughs are incredible! I've been watching more frequently, and I'm digging your level of preview rules vs rules + tactics during play. You also do a great job of reasonable editing for rule checks, extra thinky moments, or whatever. Other folks don't take that extra effort and end up with 2-hr videos when you are typically hitting us with 60-75 minutes for prep, full play, and discussion. Thanks!

[snarfleezcattleprod]

This is definitely one of our "forever" games - and we did get it when it first came out.
I describe this game as a race with several finish lines. We love trying to be first to grab that sweet spot on the Church and Customs board, as well as racing to grab those tasty Import bonus tokens. It really does make you adjust your strategy based on what your opponents are doing, and that just keeps it fresh for us. We recommend this game quite often!

[diarysupirbanget]

my top 3 game is yokohama, & it's my number 1 game at all time !! Great explanations, great vibes, you guys are awesome. Cheers from Indonesia

[dougmatic]

Really enjoy your shelf of opportunity playthroughs. I'm interested in the new hotness as much as anyone else, but playthroughs of slightly older games are great too.

[aaronp]

3 days in a row?? It's like Christmas!!

[macximchic]

+1 on the forever games list or shelf tour. That would be a nice present to your fans :)

[brentvolper]

I love Yokohama. It's in my top 10 or all time, I'm glad you guys got the chance to play it! Thanks for the content!

[damiencosgrove]

This is in my top 10 games and one that I don't see ever leaving my collection. However it's one that I've played only once at 2p and don't think I'd ever take it from teh shelf for 2 again, not because it sucked, but because some other mid-weight Euros just are more interesting at 2p. The level of interaction, both on board movement, and on getting blocked on church and export boards as well as buying from the technology boards is really high in 3/4 player games, and we've found that once people have played it a couple of times, it really flies and doesn't feel like it runs long at all.
Cheers as always for the excellent videos!

[Stormzbowler]

😮 I love this game so much! This is such an overlooked game. Really enjoy the interesting assistant placement puzzle.

[watshisname]

I'm so glad ya'll played Yokohama! I know we've been promising ourselves at Strategicon to play this for years. My mind was blown the moment you made a mechanics connection between this and Istanbul, I totally didn't notice that. In terms of replayability, I agree, similar to Istanbul, the game can get samey over time. So that's why I generally bust this game out maybe a few times a year.

[jchangaus]

Rumour has it that you can work out the actual order of the videos by the length of Naveen's hair.

[yiweili]

Your videos always be my best teach & learn video, helps me a lot ! And watch you play is so much fun~ Also your language is easy to understand. Hope to see the new playthrough with new version of Yokahama😝

[Tabletop_AshleyRose]

Thanks guys! I agree with you totally, kinda samey. We also played at 2p and only once, so take that with a grain of salt. Always a pleasure to watch you play! :)

[docteurslump]

One of my favorite games of all time ! Thank you so much 🥰

[mariepdn]

Thank you so much for your videos. You make me want to try and buy all the games you present to us !!!! MERCI !

[nathanspillman]

I love playing this game, but with it being "Variable Setup: The Game", it takes forever to actually get started playing. I have the Deluxified version and the presentation, once it gets completely set up, is amazing. But so many games get to the table faster and therefore more often.