Matthew BaileyNote: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group.
Toby(4) was off sick today so what was going to be a rare term-time day at home for me turned into entertaining a sick (but not that sick) child all day.
So off to get some fresh air we went and back we came with “Dragon Rapid Fire the fire crystals”… an odd title that doesn’t really make sense but go with it. Now this game is almost the same as “Unicorn Glitterluck: Cloud Crystals” and comes from a time when Haba was experimenting with “boy & girl” versions of their games.
The first thing I thought when opening the box was “Man, Haba do sure get their money’s worth out of those gem moulds”.
Anyway, this is a fairly simple roll and move game where players move their dragon picking up gems as they go. When you move over a switch it changes and when you roll a whirlpool it changes.
These then send you down different paths which may or may not have more gems.
The first player to the end gets 4 gems and the most gems wins. What is nice is that at the end you can turn the board onto a track that helps with counting the crystals which Toby enjoyed.
Now, this is where the praise kinda ends… This might as well be snakes and ladders. There is no decision making and the game is 100% luck.
Equally having orange and slightly yellower orange as the 2 paths make it even for an adult super hard to tell which way to go.
Toby thought it was fine and enjoyed it because he won but I know this won’t get more than another play before he says it’s boring. Going to keep hold of it as this will be a good first game to teach Henry(11months) when he is a bit older.
One for very very young kids or older kids with little to no board game experience.
