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(More customer reviews)This is a cute little game: Each player a circle of 12 princesses, placing poem cards on them to win points. Gameplay is fairly quick (though there's a fair amount of addition to calculate the point totals), and you can plan your next move during your opponents' turns, so you're never totally uninvolved. Once everyone is up to speed on the rules (which takes a while--the rulebook is far from perfectly clear), a game lasts a nice, brief half hour.
But the game gets old quickly as the novelty wears off. There's no deep strategy, no reason to think more than one move ahead; most of the time, the cards you're dealt tell you what to do next. And players who score a few points early tend to keep their lead for the whole game.
There are also a few production issues: Everything in the box is absolutely beautiful, but fragile. The cards scratch easily. The tokens have a plastic film that starts to peel off right away.
Of course, Genji is inexpensive for such an elaborate card game; but all in all, I can't quite recommend it.
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A Game of Romance from the Height of the Heian Period!1010 AD: In the Imperial court of old Japan, one book title is on everyone's lips: The Tale of Genji, the story of the greatest lover in all Japan. In a world where nights are filled with furtive romances, all men at court want to imitate Genji's success. The most prolific lover will go down in history as the real Genji!You are a courtier in the court of Emperor Ichijo in a time in Japanese history when poetry and the arts reigned supreme. Your goal is to increase your reputation at court by secretly visiting Princesses and winning their hearts by writing them the greatest love poetry. At the end of the game, the player who has the most Reputation Points is the winner!Players place beginning and/or ending Poem cards on Princesses in order to match the symbols of the season, the court fashion, and the taste of the princess being wooed in order to give the poem Beauty.
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