Reviews: Eila and Something Shiny

Welcome to another review from the BATT team. Eila and Something Shiny is a narrative adventure scenario/campaign game designed by Jeffery CCH and published by NorthStar Games (though it's original printing was from ICE Makes). It was acquired as a Christmas gift and so this is not sponsored by the publisher. It should be noted that the entirety of the Final Thoughts section is going to heavily spoil the game, so please keep that in mind if you want to listen to the first half of the review. We do timestamp and call out when that spoiler territory will be crossed and give ample time to stop listening. --- This review's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:30 - Gameplay 00:04:50 - Learning Curve 00:05:31 - Art and Theme 00:06:03 - Components 00:08:28 - Iconography and Font 00:10:02 - Ease of Teach 00:10:16 - Replayability 00:11:11 - Final Thoughts (00:11:37 for getting past the spoiler buffer) 00:22:16 - Outro --- Links! As stated, here are safe links to go read RubyQuest and NanQuest at. Please keep in mind that these become very adult and dark relatively quickly and I wouldn't recommend reading them around children or at work or on work devices. Ruby did come out first and I think is a better first read to get acquainted with the style but push comes to shove I actually think NanQuest is the superior of the two. RubyQuest: https://mozai.com/quests/RubyQuest/ NanQuest: https://mozai.com/quests/NanQuest/ --- You can email us at [email protected]. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music.