Welcome back to Rulebook Review! We left you last time with a Before and After for Street Food Fighters. Today mouths watering we come back to give it a Rulebook Review! If you'd like to see the rulebook for yourself click here and scroll to page 2.
Organization and Layout: A pretty standard layout, everything goes in a proper order. Nothing seems out of place and you can read the rules while learning how to play your first turn, always a good sign.
Clarity: None of the rules were particularly complex, the way the rules are written everything is put forward in an almost conversational tone however which may not always be perfect for explanations but it keeps to the theme of the rules well and doesn't make the rules difficult to learn. You can definitely sit down and learn the rules easily minus one point. There seems to not be a section in any way that explains how recipes are actually made and how that works. A HUGE flaw. A flaw that makes the game unplayable. Ew...
Graphics: The graphics are very simple being a PnP game but they get the job done.
Depth: The most complex section is about how roles in the game work and he provided an entire page to help explain them fully and it does a great job.
Writing: The writing flips on and off from standard rulebook fare to casual as he occasionally jumps in and talks about things from the PnP standpoint explaining things for parts printed and such. There is a little fluff written around as well, the rules could have been streamlined better.
But let's face it, you want to hear about rulebooks from a mustache, not just a person! On the Susan Rating Scale this rulebook receives:
Susan's Explanation: The rulebook has issues so it couldn't have a curl up rating, however it could have had at least a rating right in the middle if it didn't miss putting a part into the rules that is necessary to play. That alone is what forces this rating.
Hopefully a valuable lesson is learned from this rulebook. I'd like to thank Stormtower again for allowing me to review his games, you will probably see more of his games here in the future. Do you agree or disagree with Susan's rating? Let me know below!
Organization and Layout: A pretty standard layout, everything goes in a proper order. Nothing seems out of place and you can read the rules while learning how to play your first turn, always a good sign.
Clarity: None of the rules were particularly complex, the way the rules are written everything is put forward in an almost conversational tone however which may not always be perfect for explanations but it keeps to the theme of the rules well and doesn't make the rules difficult to learn. You can definitely sit down and learn the rules easily minus one point. There seems to not be a section in any way that explains how recipes are actually made and how that works. A HUGE flaw. A flaw that makes the game unplayable. Ew...
Graphics: The graphics are very simple being a PnP game but they get the job done.
Depth: The most complex section is about how roles in the game work and he provided an entire page to help explain them fully and it does a great job.
Writing: The writing flips on and off from standard rulebook fare to casual as he occasionally jumps in and talks about things from the PnP standpoint explaining things for parts printed and such. There is a little fluff written around as well, the rules could have been streamlined better.
But let's face it, you want to hear about rulebooks from a mustache, not just a person! On the Susan Rating Scale this rulebook receives:
Susan's Explanation: The rulebook has issues so it couldn't have a curl up rating, however it could have had at least a rating right in the middle if it didn't miss putting a part into the rules that is necessary to play. That alone is what forces this rating.
Hopefully a valuable lesson is learned from this rulebook. I'd like to thank Stormtower again for allowing me to review his games, you will probably see more of his games here in the future. Do you agree or disagree with Susan's rating? Let me know below!