Detective: City of Angels - The Best Crime-Solving Board Game?

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[DensetsuVII]

3:59 "You could drive there, but that takes your entire day!" - LA Resident here, this is accurate to life.

[gabrielbloopbla]

Geologist here! Gem plasma does not exist! Most (if not all, looking at you Cubic Zirconium) gems are defined as minerals, meaning that as part of their definition they must be defined solids with specific chemical formulas and atomic arrangements. A gem turned to a plasma would lose that atomic arrangement meaning it is no longer a defined solid so it is no longer a mineral and therefore not a gem! This being said, some “gems” or minerals are pliant, they have defined chemical formulas but can have different elements swap in and out of those structures and so can be crazy different colors and types! An example is corundum which can be blue, red, pink, even white-yellow but still be the same “kind of gem!” Hope I helped ruin this joke!

[Rodrogiar]

The ace attorney argument shown being the dumbest boy alive workout argument got a good long chuckle from me lol

[ashleyturner]

That Seagull has tremendous comedic timing

[muskyoxes]

"What made you think you could get away with this murder?"
"Well, the cops only had time to ask three questions, and they kept hiding information from each other just to advance their petty careers."

[dylanbrannon]

"Big knife" might be the hardest I've laughed out loud at a SUSD video. Brilliant delivery Tom.

[AshleyTheSwift]

"A games master. Or a games master who hates you. So a games master."

The best jokes always have that kernel of truth and this one hit hard. I hate my wonderful players.

[talon]

Loved the review, Quinns is getting a lot of mileage out of that trenchcoat.

[FictionRaider]

This review convinced me to put this game on my list and I finally got it. I've played the first three cases in Solo mode (intended to run it as the Chisel for some friends later) and I'm having a blast. I do have some notes on Case 3 which you brought up though below. (MINOR SPOILERS):


Heist to Nowhere (Case 3) is actually really fascinating since you're looking for stolen money rather than solving a murder. It's biggest failing - like any of the cases really - is that some suspects are far more valuable to talk to than others. Your friend's sheet tells me they spent a lot of time talking to the guy who can give you only two clues and can give you a lot of false info, especially in a case where solving the crime isn't the key, finding the missing money is. As for solving the case, you can totally just chance into finding it by searching the right location, brute forcing it, but there is actually a hidden feature in one of the clues which if you ignore all the text and just look at the art tells you where to look. When I found that and got the money on the first try it was the smartest the game made me feel. And that's not even mentioning a second crime takes place DURING the investigation and if you confront them with the right card you have the opportunity to arrest the culprit, moving them from their usual location to the nearest police station. There's no added reward for doing it, you can still only "win" by finding the money, but the fact it's even in there blew me away and made me realize this game was special, especially since it was already pulling stunts like this on me in just the third case. I'm plowing through it and seriously considering the expansions if it continues to impress. Can easily see it doing what you said and pushing things past the "breaking point" and causing you to run into things in the wrong order which breaks whatever twist or thrill it was setting up becoming more common, but I think the fun factor when it works outweighs any of the possible drawbacks.

[gothamcity]

Someone dies.
Random detective: whoever finds the killer gets all the donuts; ready? Go...

[Kend]

Personally, I think this game should have been called Dicks: City of Fedoras, but that's besides the point.

[crash]

You guys need to start giving publishers a heads up when you review an older game that doesn’t have a print run coming soon. :D

[terriblegames]

This looks wonderful. Quints always brings so much enthusiasm to these reviews, a joy to watch.

[z-beeblebrox]

This both sounds like a really fun game, and is also an incredibly accurate depiction of the LAPD

[lopezmt]

The awkward silence and then the seagulls squawking that sounded like laughter at the end was too funny.

[pheregames]

Still one of my favorite games of all time. I've brought so many friends in for a random game night to join veterans and the mechanics allowed everyone to fully understand what they could do. I get to play as the chisel and it's great to play this multiple times.

[richardsaunders]

This game is fantastic and is one of my favorite coop games: that's right, we don't play with the Chisel.

[singularrookhart]

As a film noir fan (I took a course at a university... over 20 years ago... 😃😐😪)I have been anticipating/dreading this review.
And, God damnit... its good.
Well, there goes that cash 💸

[valkilmerscareer]

Van Ryder Games has become my favorite games company through the course of the lock down between This, Hostage negotiator and Final girl. They really gave me some amazing solo adventuring at a time where I was all alone

[jasonc]

The joy and excitement you guys portray during your reviews is why I keep coming back. I've seen reviews of this game elsewhere and knew it was good, but your word tipped me into purchase mode. Thank you again.