Board Game Review
Since the days when Tokyo was known as Edo, or even earlier, the Japanese have always pursued an ideal of aesthetics. The so-called Iki. I can’t claim to fully grasp the concept, but, roughly speaking, it’s about showing off refinement and wealth. Quite an easy feat, perhaps. Yet, the swagger must be done without crossing into outright bourgeois arrogance. From what I’ve read, it’s… a pretty nuanced philosophy.
For centuries, if not millennia, El Rio Nilo, or the Nile River, has symbolized prosperity and the lifeblood of Egyptian civilization. Its significance is chronicled in the Book of Exodus. From the infant Moses drifting in a reed basket to prevent death out of the Pharaoh’s decree, to the first of the Ten Plagues of Egypt, where the river turned into blood. So paramount the importance of Africa’s longest river, even GDM Games desires to romanticize and capture the founding and flourishing of civilizations along the Nile’s banks. Nilo will narrate this story.
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