Miniature Market Reviews

"The miniature sort of surprised me when it came End it had an excellent paint job, an opposing stance, and was great fun when I placed it down honestly the only complaint I have is that some of the back spikes were pushed over and he broke off of his base when he arrived (Note: just use some superglue and he went right back on)"

"great miniature that comes upainted based on Beatrix \"The Bride\" Kiddo from Kill Bill. it does not come with a character card for play. that can usually be found on the zombicide wiki."

"great sculpt, that comes unpainted inspired by Gail in Sin City and Vasquez in Aliens. it does not come with a character card for play, but that can usually be found on the zombicide wiki."

"great miniature that comes unpainted, based on Jane Smith from Mr. & Mrs. Smith. it does not come with a character card for play, but that can usually be found on the zombicide wiki and printed later."

Fast shipping and easy checkout. Had what I wanted in stock and received it quickly.

"Noctiluca ended up being a fantastic family game for my daughters and I. The game has just enough theme for an abstract game that my 6 year old thought it was very cute. She\u2019s also into coral reefs right now so this game being about tiny, bioluminescent creatures called noctiluca and we need to use their healing power for our potions that we are creating.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ll breakdown the game using 5 categories for people who don\u2019t want more info:\r\n\u2022 Theme\r\n\u2022 Component Quality\r\n\u2022 Aesthetics\r\n+ Gameplay\r\n+ Replay-ability\r\n\r\nScore is 5\/5, if you enjoy collecting dice to finish potions with your family, add it to your board game collection!\r\n\r\nThe theme of the game is cute, like I said my daughter that it was cool, but the game is mostly an abstract dice collection game, the theme doesn\u2019t drip out of the game. Maybe if there were rubber noctiluca tokens to replace the dice after collecting the dice, but without something like that the theme just isn\u2019t there without someone trying to amp it up.\r\n\r\nThe components are fair, a bunch of dice with normal pips of several colors are wonderful. The pawns for placing on the edge of the board work, the board works. The cards are a decent thickness, and the other cardboard tokens are great.\r\n\r\nThe aesthetics of the game are tough. I love the rainbow of dice. The board for some reason just isn\u2019t as colorful and I\u2019m annoyed that the main board side is the solo variant, the back side is what you\u2019ll mostly play and it doesn\u2019t really lay perfectly flat. If I was publishing the game I would swap the sides of the board. Also the pawns are egg yolk colored and that is not the best. But the cards and tokens are wonderful, sometimes it\u2019s hard to see blue on the cards, but other than that the cards are great.\r\n\r\nGameplay, which is the most important part of the entire review, is luck based but you have control over the cards and dice pips you are collecting. Players start with 2 potion jars to fill up with noctiluca, they\u2019ll place a pawn on the edge of the coral reef and take one of two paths of dice they can take. A player says they want dice with X number of pips showing, so they collect all of those and fill up their potion cards with the dice. If there are any left over dice the player passes them to the next player and they will either take one or pass the dice to the next player until those dice are used. Cards score points once filled and points for making the same kind of potions increases because of the tokens that you take for finishing the potions. Once the game ends you score four different variables and it isn\u2019t entirely obvious who wins.\r\n\r\nReplay-ability is fine, the dice will have different pips next time you\u2019ll play but the cards won\u2019t change. Maybe you\u2019ll get a different favorite noctiluca for scoring at the end, but more than likely you\u2019ll see everything this game has to offer in one play. But I would play it again right after if my daughter asked me to, and that isn\u2019t the case for every game."

"Noctiluca ended up being a fantastic family game for my daughters and I. The game has just enough theme for an abstract game that my 6 year old thought it was very cute. She\u2019s also into coral reefs right now so this game being about tiny, bioluminescent creatures called noctiluca and we need to use their healing power for our potions that we are creating.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ll breakdown the game using 5 categories for people who don\u2019t want more info:\r\n\u2022 Theme\r\n\u2022 Component Quality\r\n\u2022 Aesthetics\r\n+ Gameplay\r\n+ Replay-ability\r\n\r\nScore is 5\/5, if you enjoy collecting dice to finish potions with your family, add it to your board game collection!\r\n\r\nThe theme of the game is cute, like I said my daughter that it was cool, but the game is mostly an abstract dice collection game, the theme doesn\u2019t drip out of the game. Maybe if there were rubber noctiluca tokens to replace the dice after collecting the dice, but without something like that the theme just isn\u2019t there without someone trying to amp it up.\r\n\r\nThe components are fair, a bunch of dice with normal pips of several colors are wonderful. The pawns for placing on the edge of the board work, the board works. The cards are a decent thickness, and the other cardboard tokens are great.\r\n\r\nThe aesthetics of the game are tough. I love the rainbow of dice. The board for some reason just isn\u2019t as colorful and I\u2019m annoyed that the main board side is the solo variant, the back side is what you\u2019ll mostly play and it doesn\u2019t really lay perfectly flat. If I was publishing the game I would swap the sides of the board. Also the pawns are egg yolk colored and that is not the best. But the cards and tokens are wonderful, sometimes it\u2019s hard to see blue on the cards, but other than that the cards are great.\r\n\r\nGameplay, which is the most important part of the entire review, is luck based but you have control over the cards and dice pips you are collecting. Players start with 2 potion jars to fill up with noctiluca, they\u2019ll place a pawn on the edge of the coral reef and take one of two paths of dice they can take. A player says they want dice with X number of pips showing, so they collect all of those and fill up their potion cards with the dice. If there are any left over dice the player passes them to the next player and they will either take one or pass the dice to the next player until those dice are used. Cards score points once filled and points for making the same kind of potions increases because of the tokens that you take for finishing the potions. Once the game ends you score four different variables and it isn\u2019t entirely obvious who wins.\r\n\r\nReplay-ability is fine, the dice will have different pips next time you\u2019ll play but the cards won\u2019t change. Maybe you\u2019ll get a different favorite noctiluca for scoring at the end, but more than likely you\u2019ll see everything this game has to offer in one play. But I would play it again right after if my daughter asked me to, and that isn\u2019t the case for every game."