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Doug Herring
United States
Pflugerville
Texas
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iPadGhost Stories
First off, It has been a while since I have added a blog entry but I started a new job and RL gets in the way. I am going to make an effort to do some reviews and blog, etc more often now that I am settling in.
Anyway, I was on app shopper last night(If you have an Ios device and don't have app shopper, get it) and saw Ghost Stories FINALLY on there so I immediately grabbed it. I never feel that the price of these games, even at 6 bucks, is out of line either.Compared to the board game counterpart it is a steal.
Uhm...I liked it, yes, I did. I have had to convince myself of this because of some things I will note but overall it IS the same as the board game if not a little harder (for me) for some reason, even on the lowest difficulty.
I played five straight games and I will first touch on what I see needs to be in a patch already.
1) If you are using this app to learn to play Ghost Stories, forget. The help interupts the game with the e-rulebook and as peopel who have played know, it take some time to get the iconography.
This is the biggest flaw in the app. They have a nice blank sidebar on the left that COULD dispay the power of a tile, or ghost, or monk when you hover over it but it does not. You must know the icons and even for me who has played it I immediately found this entirely annoying and had to doe the "now what does that do" thing to often. Heck, I almost went and got the reference sheet from the game box.
BIG flaw that needs to be looked at as I am one who uses the apps to improve my skill on or learn a board game. This is definately directed at those who already know how to play.
2) This one might be user error but I could not for the life of me find a way to play all four monks in pass n play/ hot seat gameplay. Maybe on line play will be different and all four monks will be playable but I could not figure out how to do that at all.I can't for the life of me understand this restriction.
3) The game seems really tough. I started on the lowest difficulty to get to know they game and lost the first four of the five games and only narrowly won the last one. They may need to tweak the difficulty.
The Good Stuff:
The gameplay is exactly like the board game which is great. All the board game art is used and the app runs nicely. It is a quality production with the exception of a better way to know what the icons do.
They need that if they want to draw in new players.
Overall, I am happy to have bought it and I can already tell, as frustrating as losing often might be, that I will play it alot along with Ascension, Ticket to Ride, Carcasssonne, Small World and a few others.
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