51 Worldwide Games in the Test

Who does not know the Problem? The holiday is coming! Needless to say, museums, theatre lovers in the Stranger, optionally, a priority, because Austria, as you can see the policy recently, is an art – and culture of a nation, be called these two potential destinations – first shopping, mountains or simply the beach and the sea in the tourist’s favor. And yet, it is also for closing times, bad weather, or to arm unexpectedly long become evenings. Suddenly, the suitcase proves to bursting with Board games, as well as dazugehörger pawns (game pieces) filled, and neither the robe, nor any other travel items in the space. Nintendo is preparing now to remedy to create: with 51 Worldwide Games brings the rich tradition of video game and console manufacturers from Japan, an opulent collection of traditional and more unusual (party)Games on the market that has no equal.

Previously, we had to put in the face of drastic lack of space in the suitcase priorities of the whole family gang went rarely to break, at the latest, namely, when on holiday, the first game Board, full of anger together with the characters from the table to the floor swept, and thus was imposed the Imperial ban on the same. Could only dream of, we at that time, of Merlin’s shrink spell – as in disney’s animated movie Merlin and Mim (engl. The Sword in the Stone) to be used – that it is the blue-robed magician in the truest sense of the word-allowed rooms, a kitchen and a Cabinet in his small travel bag to store. Nintendo makes this dream with 51 Worldwide Games for not magically gifted beings partly true.

51-Play the world

According to the title of the games-anthology, Nintendo feeds us, however, not easy with a long list of Games, but provides a grading staging also allows Undecided a cautious start. 51 Worldwide Games opened with the views of a globe – the digital Imitation of a cheap metal globe with visible Palatinate, the Northern and southern hemispheres together. The same is freely rotatable. Your only oceans and continents are not shown, but rather are on the same (initially) a few figures that turn out to be as Guides for up to five games. The games for which the respective Guides are nothing however a rule, with the geographical positioning in common, but are grouped according to certain themes: for example, the Scandinavians Henrik games for single-player (such as Solitaire of Klondike, Spider, or Mahjong variant), Olivia from Singapore, presented to us again five different card game classics invites us to try the Jamaican Tyrone presents us with the big Four (Backgammon, Blackjack, dominoes, and chess) that are never old. Notable exception to this is in the disconnectedness of the geographical location and game collection this was from Japan. She introduces us to games with Nintendo history. Because before Nintendo games in the 70s of the last century on the production of video and console focused, sales of the company since its inception in the year 1889 games, namely, Japanese traditional (card)games. Known Nintendo’s Hanafuda cards are not least.

The Guides this was Henrik and co. the primary purpose of a guided discovery journey through Nintendo’s games anthology or a first decision-making aid (for this purpose, there is also an Auto selection, the random outputs generated proposals). We can let the games are also very classic in a list or all at once on the screen in a sequence which is not able to open up to me on the eighteenth-view display and according to the own preferences to the Fullest.



All of the games in 51 Worldwide Games Overview.

The contents of the anthology

1) Mankalla On a game Board with six pits and two target players glass stones from the six holes need to redistribute hollows in their own target trough (Kalah) (for max. two players).
2) cheese boxes By means of a pin, the player to connect to a piece of paper painted dots with a line, resulting in squares; and who shall be able to close more squares wins (for max. two players).
3) Yacht Dice Game Dice poker (for max. two player)
4) four series Four in a row (for max. two player)
5) color code-breaker Mastermind (for max. two player)
6) mill (for max. two player)
7) Hex In a Board game using hexagonal tiles is a closed line from one end to the other of the game Board are placed (for max. two players).
8) lady (for max. two player)
9) Bunny hunting Through a clever game of the day, the pincer movement by means of three dogs, a rabbit, or hare said dogs to escape (for max. two players).
Five in a row – the aim of the game is the first to position to a closed row of five game pieces on the game Board (for max. two players).
10) Five in a row The aim of the game is the first to position to a closed row of five game pieces on the game Board (for max. two players).
11) Domino (for max. four players)
12) Sternhalma (for max. three players)
13) Ludo Man does not get angry (for max. four players)
14) Backgammon (for max. two player)
15) renegade The players, according to certain rules, turns in playing the stones; who could place the most stones on the Board wins (for max. two players).
16) chess (for max. two player)
17) Shogi The Japanese variant of chess (for max. two players).
18) Mini-Shogi A modernized variant of the Japanese chess (for max. two players).
19) Hanafuda The 48-card game to the 12 months of the year (for max. two players).
20) Japanese Mahjongg (for max. four players)
21) put All Uno (for max. four players)
22) Blackjack (for max. four players)
23) Texas Hold’em (for max. four players)
24) President One after the other, all players must lay their cards on a single stack in the center of the table, with always a card with a higher value than the player previously played card is discarded, it must be (for max. four players).
Map of Domino (for max. four players).
25) map of Domino (for max. four players)
26) Speed At the beginning of the game, two cards in the middle of the table; the player must place the bet the cards with a higher value of the two exposed cards (for max. two players).
27) Equivalent Memory (max. two player)
28) war and peace The higher card beats the lower card. The Trick: neither you nor your opponent know your cards (for max. two players).
29) Takoyaki-Card Game Each player has face down in front of ten cards. These need to be quickly turned around (for max. two players).
30) pig tail The game cards will be downturned and placed in a circle. Then the players alternately choose a card and place it face up in the center of the circle. The own card has stored the same color as the opponent’s previously, so I must pick up the whole stack. The aim of the game is to Uncover the circuit to have as little as possible cards in Hand (for max. two players).
31) Golf A rudimentary Golf from the Top-down view, with nine different rates (local two-player limited).
32) Billiards (local two-player limited)
33) Bowling Thanks to the gyroscope Sensor of the Joy-Con with motion control to play (on local two-player limited).
34) Dart Thanks to the gyroscope Sensor of the Joy-Con with motion control to play (on local two-player limited).
35) Carrom Finger Billiards (for max. two players).
36) Mini-Tennis On given paths, we move a figure, and in Front of lead and rear hand punches, to score points (max. two players).
37) Mini-Football On given paths, we move five field players and a goalie to score goals (for max. two players).
38) Mini-Curling By means of a spring it is out of a total of 10 Curling-stones, at least, to position a closer to the center of the circle on the game Board than the opponent (for max. two players).
39) Mini-Boxes Through targeted strikes and counter-attacks to carry the opponent’s game piece from the boom (for max. two players).
40) Mini-Baseball (for max. two player)
41) Air Hockey On the touch screen perfectly playable (for max. two players).
42) racing track Digital Carrera (for max. two players).
43) fishing (in mosaic mode, four playable)
44) Tank Battle (Vs.) Defeat enemy tanks (for max. two players).
45) tank battle (Co-op) Beat together with a Mittstreiter enemy tanks (in mosaic mode, four playable).
46) target shooting Shoot at targets using a gyroscope Sensor of the Joy-Con.
47) 6-Ball Puzzle A mixture of Puyo Puyo Tetris and Bust a Move (for max. two players).
48) sliding puzzle game Make a (slow) turtle parts or a (fast) hare a way through the Moving wood (single-player).
49) Mahjongg Solitaire (for single player)
50) Klondike-Solitaire (for single player)
51) Spider-Solitaire (for single player)




Let the games begin

Among the 51 Play different card, happiness, sports, puzzle, Mini-and party games in which all introduced by means of a small Video carefully so. These short introduction videos to have always the same structure: Up to four characters entertain themselves in (more or less) witty dialogue about the game and explain at the same time point rich the underlying rules as well as the actual goal of the game and sometimes even its name or its history. Although humorous is not always entirely accurate, are the Videos, but a very successful staging of the discourse, as a rule, the customer and especially a very low-threshold introduction to the game.

Who wants to be on the safe side, has to be read in the menu of the ausgewhälten game will also be the additional opportunity under “How to play” in more detail. But even here, the rules remain comfortably clear. For some of the explanations may be a little too superficial. Because to know the rules of a game does not mean the game is in its tactical finesse to master and to have a look. This is evident in Mankalla or Hanafuda. Here is reading material for me, more is definitely helpful, not to say necessary – to have been. After all, there are a few of the cultural chunks in addition to the introduction of video and lights rules exist in written form, also playable Tutorials with multiple lessons.

Multiplayer Fun

The rules of the advice we can drive to us and then immediately alone against the CPU or other human players both locally and online – our game indulge. For this purpose, Nintendo has three Multiplayer modes available: A Nintendo Switch Online subscription provided we can except us in the different Games – single player games against friends, or the whole world. But also a local multiplayer mode implemented by Nintendo. For one thing, we can, provided four different Joy – Cons – of three games with up to four-With or against players at a Switch in attack. Via the menu item “Local game”, we can associate via W-LAN but also up to four Switches together. The W-LAN Multiplayer to activate it needs only a copy of the game, on the remaining Switches must have only the free Demo of 51 Worldwide Games to be installed.

A very special multi-player mode, the second local option is the mosaic mode. Here, up to four Switches can be placed together to create a larger game Board. So, for example, can be in the game of fishing, several Switches to form a whole flow together. We, in turn, a Switch diagonally to the other opposite Switches, so we create a small waterfall. Likewise, multiple Switches can be achieved by stringing Together the authors train Nintendo Carrera-zoom in offshoot.

Also, the cloth screen in the anthology with a variety of Games (optional) are used. So we can control about Air Hockey with the Finger on the Display and us the disc, you can exchange side, the buzzing in the ears. The power mainly to the second-in the mood.





Multiplayer Frustration

That for the common to Play four in a Switch to four different Joy-Cons must come, however, is more than incomprehensible, since we are based in most Games of this round and do not play at the same time. So, too, Ludo, Domino, and the Like, it is not, for example, in the case of Darts or Bowling, but to understand why we can’t just let two Joy-Cons go around?

Even more incomprehensible is, however, that games such as Golf, Bowling or Darts can be only played to the second. Not), and Blackjack means that for local multiplayer games only Sternhalma, Ludo (Ludo are available. To a four, we can choose local at all, only between Ludo and Blackjack. In this respect, the local Multiplayer fun is Essentially limited to two players.

Alone, alone

But after all, Nintendo has also thought of all the single-player. Not only are there the different Solitaire variants also have a dedicated Solo-games, but also games against the AI to keep us – thanks to multiple difficulty levels – on your toes. In addition, we can degrees in the Play of personal records, medals (for example, for the Defeat of the AI on different difficulty) and the info-bites (after each victory we get interesting Trivia to the game) to collect. In addition, figures on a wait sometimes, after a number of games won, on the map of the world with gifts for us, in which is about alternative Map designs (e.g. a Set of Mario cards for Memory) are located.

The game is fun without the ambience

The games themselves are kept mostly graphically rather useful, but always very lovingly and tastefully decorated. So we do not sit in the case of Texas Hold’em on a Studio table with spectators and give our virtuosity on the Queue in no Bar to the Best. Rather, the scene is the same in both cases, a suitable felt table in the Top-down view. Since the Poker games in Red Dead Redemption 2 and the billiard-rounds in the Kiwami series Yakuza – not just graphically – a lot more. The colorful design of games, as well as the successful Strum of the tiles, the deep Placement of the chess pieces or the typical Sound of the card boxes to make this for me, though.

Disturbing falls as already the weight that some games are kept very simple. So we are not able to increase in Texas Hold’em games are variable, but are set at the fixed amount of double the Big blind. The devalues for example, Pocket Pairs tactically immensely, since I can’t make my opponents Go expensive enough, without having to go All In. Billiards, in turn, is hisnicht to the control, which is far too restless, not a pleasure. When target shooting, the gyroscope must be aligned with Sensor constantly re – by pressing the X button, because our cross-hairs, otherwise, acrobat only the price of dislocations can be accurately aligned.







CONCLUSION

Nintendo (company)games-anthology 51 Worldwide Games is Packed with game values, titles that just me as a Board game Aficionado delight. A whole travelling bag on the Board and playing mini-games at any time ready to hand to have in hand Luggage with the investment to me is more than worth it. The rules will be explained in-game by means of video, so a quick introduction to the different games, nothing stands in the way. For the deepening in most of the games and their strategic possibilities, there is a need, however, mostly secondary literature. The Clinking of the tiles, the Scratching of the pencil on the paper and the Flicking of the cards when you Drop it, give, in addition, an almost haptic impression.

The game collection has dropped just in terms of the local multiplayer options, given the good quality of the anthology is a great pity. Third, only three (Sternhalma, Ludo, and Blackjack), we are of the formerly 51 Games available to fourth-we must then at all, only two games (Ludo and Blackjack) attack. Also each player must have his own Joy-Con is not quite understandable. Multiple Switches are in a household, however, it seems better, especially for the W-LAN Multiplayer only a copy of the game must be present; all the rest of the players need to install on your Switch only the free Demo. Overall, 51 of Worldwide Games , therefore, a round thing, the I all lovers of Board games recommend can.

What 51 Worldwide Games is it? A digital anthology of Board, corporate, and mini-games for all tastes.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Tested: Nintendo Switch
Developer / Publisher: Nintendo / Nintendo
Release: 05. June 2020
Link: Official Website