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Features: - Spirits of the Wild: Awakening is an easy-to-learn board game for game night that immerses players in an engaging world of traditional storytelling and nature.
- Earn points by collecting stones for the animals in the specific way that they want them. Special iridescent Spirt Stones can also double points.
- Watch out for Coyote! When he is on a player board, no more stones can be given to that animal.
- The game includes a real cloth bag, bowl, stones, and coyote figure for satisfying, tactile gameplay, perfect for game night.
- This 2-player light strategy board game is great for older kids and adults, making it perfect for family night or date night. With so many player boards, the game is different each time you
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But why do most games have to go into idol-istic spirits, idolistic gods, and idolistic deviations.
Nobody is going to take the element of the spirituality seriously when playing such a game, but it just intrigues me that the human nature pulls us towards using that as a theme for a game.
Looking across the room I see games about bird watching, dragons and math, sinking a naval fleet, fitting pieces together, feeding hippos, escaping from a laboratory, and smuggling. I do have two here with exploration themes and there are little statues to collect. But one of them has the idols sent to a museum, the other uses the little statues to build a vehicle. Neither involves worship.
I'm sure there are all sorts of spiritual themes out there, especially if you stretch the definition a lot. But most?
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And it is a fair point that there's a lot of games I guess that I am not accounting for that don't use them.
Just to further the conversation, I will say Lord of the Rings Monopoly introduced a new mechanic I would enforce on anyone wanting to play it. One figure, let's say the tophat, is a roaming millionaire (the one ring) that if he is on a property that is un-owned, becomes free of someone lands on it, but you pay double rent if it's owned. This player moves every time a 1 is rolled (lotr version there was only one die with the eye of Sauron on it but who cares) and once that ring made it to Boardwalk (Mount Doom) game is called.
Now, tell me your stance on Harry Potter.
Someone was high when they came up with all that.
Just go into it understanding that it's a game about collecting colorful marbles and you'll enjoy it.
I do hear @feistykite520 's sensitivity to the developers' instinct to turn to new age bullshit when picking a theme for a completely abstract, untheme-able game. They could just have easily picked baseball, quantum physics, or basket weaving, none of which would have been any worse a candidate for a theme for this game. However, honestly, I didn't really get "idol" vibes from the game, just animals. Even going along with the stupid animal theme, the "the animals have been dead the whole time and are ghosts" aspect of it didn't really come through.
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