Calico, Cascadia & Verdant - A Tricky Triple-Review

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[DeyaViews]

1:00 "When did that kid learn narrative framing?"

I laughed so hard at that. Perfect opening for this video. Quinns makes for a great straight man to the Tomfoolery.

[mattiamolicacolella]

Tom's reviews are the definition of chaotic good

[Hamfrags]

"Any random selection of cards in this deck sounds like lovely words."

*Cut to 'corpse flower'*

[Veggieman]

I love the teamwork on this one! The jumping between each of the crew's reviews felt like a throwback to the early days of SUSD, tying different games together with silly narrative bits, and Matt's cameo at the end was a great little Pythonesque "man on the street" gag.

[Le_Codex]

I'm convinced Tom is secretely some kind of eldritch god that has taken the shape of an Englishman and uses his phenomenal cosmic powers to just prank his coworkers and make better videos

[Technochaos]

We love a video where everyone is present and accounted for. Tom's really hitting his stride as an agent of torment for Quinns and Ava's more laid back segment paved the way perfectly for Matt in his creepy basement. Great work gang! Really feels like you're a team.

[fernandobarajas]

I love the particular energy of each of you, I really enjoy this format :D

[sloopdoopyh]

The bit with Matt at the end was way better than it had any right to be

[Drowninginantimatter]

A kinda important note: the tokens in Cascadia are fir cones, not pine cones. Firs are far more common and ecologically important for the region than pines. Signed, a lover of Cascadia the region and the game.

[recklessroges]

SU&SD is turning into a full sitcom and I'm living for it. I love each of the reviews and all of the word play that I noticed, (and the word play that I'll realise after reading the comments.)

[DenisRyan]

This was an incredible triptych of reviews, with exquisite work from everyone involved. Ava's shower scene...er...that...er...that sounds wrong, but isn't, I swear and Tom shouting at Quinns had me laughing out loud! I imagine they both burst out laughing only frames after the cut. Excellent work.

[SpencerDub]

SUSD reviews often make me chuckle, but this one brought me genuine peals of laughter. Tom continues to bring a fantastic madcap energy to the show, and it's so good to see Ava in her first video review!

[Saturnine]

So wonderful to see Ava make her proper video review debut!!!! As a big fan of the podcast, I really value her opinion.

[olivierjodoin]

11:59 I wanna see Tom's collection now... So when is his video of all the board games he owns (like Matt's and Quinns') ? 😉

[kentslocum]

This is my go-to channel for game reviews, because no one else manages to properly convey the atmosphere and feelings that a game invokes. When considering whether to acquire or play a game, the practicality of the game mechanics are less important than the length of the game, the ease of introducing it to others, the frustration or enjoyment it induces, and the theming it provides. This channel covers all of those things excellently.

[miistercrayon]

For me the difference is that Cascadia is basically impossible to plan properly but it's possible to map out the whole of Calico. The rub is calico almost always ends in failure while the freewheeling nature of Cascadia shields it from disappointing feelings.

[RustalWolf]

After Tom's kitten overthrew Reference Pear, it was only a matter of time until Tom overthrew Quinns...

[benediktbartosch]

This Intro was the best since the start of the pandemic. Pure chemistry and alot of the ol' buddy comedy with the old grumpy boss and the young lovable weirdo. And then in comes Ava with a mixture of ASMR, LSD Dream and weird fixture on the corpse flower. Perfect! Thanks for making life better!

[FanKiyoshi]

Excited for the arc where Tom reveals himself to quinns as a god and quinns must defeat him

[VirtualMarmalade]

The end segment is so funny. The videos coming up over Quinns' face so only Tom is visible makes it even better lol. Also kudos for Ava's big debut, and rip to any plants in her vicinity I guess