IELLO IEL51310 Kanagawa Board Game, Multicolor

Pros: This game is great to casual board gamers who want something beautiful to play. The pieces, cards, and boards are all gorgeous and it is lovely to look at. It is quite a slow paced game where you are not really interacting too much with other players, so if you don't like being ganged up on it is brilliant. It is very calming and enjoyable for a couple of rounds. Cons: I could see some more competitive board gamers getting a little board of this game after awhile. It is not very competitive, and you are focusing on what you are doing and not what others are doing. People who like more cooperative or attack/defense style games would probably only want to play a few rounds.

Absolutely brilliant game. Perfect for a chill afternoon and those who don’t like overly competitive games.

An excellent game, especially for the price. Easy to pick up but with strategic depth. Game pieces are well made and the art is as beautiful as any tabletop game I've played.

This production is very pretty and game play is relaxing. The rule book leaves much to be desired, though, and most YouTubes leave something out or get things WRONG, so I suggest you visit the Rules forum of Board Game Geek to puzzle out the details of play. Other than that, a nice little game.

Beautiful competitive game

Very addictive little game, we play it a lot, currently our top favourite game, despite owning a wide range of board games. We play as 2-player game and usually finish a game within 15 minutes. Ideal for weekday evenings.

Always feel zen with this brilliant and lovely game. Works well with 2 or more. Also, check out the expansion as it’s fun

The instructions are somewhat difficult to follow and my partner and I spent roughly an hour trying to figure it out, reverting to a YouTube video in the end. However it was great once we got going and the art style is gorgeous. A lot of love and care was taken into making this game and it clearly shows.

Es un buen juego, que al ser de temática de pintores, tiene un arte muy cool, quizá lo único malo es la fragilidad de las cartas, tendré que conseguir micas, para su buen cuidado.

We've had fun learning the game and have played it several times since it arrived. It has exceeded our expectations. Well worth owning.

The first thing that you notice about this game is that the artwork is exceptionally well done. All of the art work on the cards blend together nicely, and the overall look and feel of the game is noticeably better than most board games. My only aesthetic complaint is with the "paint brushes", which due to being designed to mimic paint brushes from Japan look more like "corndogs with crooked sticks" to my heathenistic America upbringing. But, that is certainly a minor quibble given the overall feeling achieved with the wonderfully implemented Japanese Artist theme, with my favorite part being the play mat made out of bamboo, which rolls up nicely when placed into the box for storage. Turns consist of players choosing cards for their use from a central pool. You can end up with one, two or three cards on each turn. Once selected the cards are then placed into your studio (advancing your possible painting skills) or into your final artwork (where most of your points are scored). The size of your artwork, the length of consecutive sequences and the appearance of elements within your painting determine the bulk of your score at the end of the game. The color variety and amount of skill elements within your studio then round out the remainder of the scoring. The overall competitive play seems to be very well balanced, with a great many possible choices to make for each player on each turn, making the loss of initiative to be less of an issue than I've found when playing other games. While there is certainly an optimal turn that can be made given the cards available for selection, you can usually adjust your long term plans on the fly if someone else took the cards that you wanted. Given that there are many different end game rewards to earn along the way,and thus many ways to earn victory points, the frequency of chances to gain the same "similar" cards long the way means that long term goals are not blocked by a single turn. Of course, you still need to keep an eye on how far along opponents are, to prevent the game from ending before you finish whatever goals you were targeting. Overall, this is one of those games that you grasp after a full play through, but which seemed much more daunting and confusing when beginning to play it or even halfway through that first game. It took about 45 minutes to an hour to play the first game, which means that I expect it to take around thirty minutes with people comfortable with the game. Most notably, there were portions of the game, particularly the card placements into your studio and artwork that can be done mostly in parallel without waiting for the other players to perform there choices. This should significantly reduce the length of the game during future game plays. In my opinion, this is one of the more beautiful, interesting and well designed games that I have played. It is certainly well worth keeping an eye on for those that want an excellent two to four player game, with medium/light complexity. I personally equate it to 7 Wonders, in that there are so many symbols to learn that it is very confusing and daunting at first, but after you have all of the symbols memorized, it becomes a much lighter and easier to play game.

Gioco molto bello e facile da spiegare. Ci possono giocare tutti, anche i neofiti, ma riesce comunque ad avere una buona profondità di gioco. Il colpo d’occhio dopo qualche turno è interessante e da una buona sensazione di star creando un dipinto.

Gioco di categoria superiore. Bellissimi disegni e divertimento assicurato.