Showing posts with label Stained Glass of Sintra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stained Glass of Sintra. Show all posts

14 September 2019

Board Game Review: Azul - Stained Glass of Sintra

The game components alongside the game box. There is a pink bag with translucent tiles in various colours that resemble small pieces of glass, about the size and shape of starburst candies. There are several round tiles, a scoring board, long rectangular tiles with notched bottoms that come in four sets of eight, and wide rectangular tiles with notches along the top designed for the long pieces to fit into. There are also four plastic pawns and a tall but skinny cardboard box decorated to look like a tower of stained glass windows..

Last year, I wrote a review of the popular game Azul. Not long after that, they released a sequel in which, rather than tiling the walls of the building, you're installing stained glass windows. Needless to say, when I got a chance to play it at Geekway to the West earlier this year, I took it. And I really enjoyed this game. It's similar enough to the original that it definitely feels like it's in the same family, yet different enough to justify owning both.

So now, let us look at Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra by Michael Kiesling, published by Next Move Games. I'm going to approach this review as if you've never even heard of the original, just in case there's anyone out there who is brand new to the Azul family. I ask that everyone else bear with me.

We start, of course, with the numbers: