by Hvazadi
At the risk of sounding like someone who is selling the game (which I am not) or someone who is involved with the publisher or designer in any form or fashion (not that either, except for participating in the Kickstarter-campaign), I have to say to everyone who's considering buyng VivaJava that the production of this game is amazing!The game comes with a lot of components, and all of them are of such good quality that I spent all evening yesterday just touching them (almost).
The wooden pieces that come with the game are big and easy to handle, except of course for the "bean" tokens, which are round and just as small as they need to be.
The bags are really sturdy, almost feels like what jeans are made of, and they're much better than the ones in Quarriors for example.
And then the cardboard, which besides having some great artwork, have a super sweet finish which makes it pure joy to handle. the "blend"-tiles are big and all of it is thick. Some of the tokens may seem a little small, but then it makes sense when you see them on the boards. Even the cutting of the tokens and tiles is great. I basically just had to touch the tokens to get them out of the frames.
Lastly the rulebook is huge and colorful. And huge is this case is a good thing, because it has large writing and big pictures
Ooh, and the game actually comes with extra plastic bags to store all of the bits and pieces!
So yeah, felt that the page needed a post about this. I have never experienced just opening a game, punching out the tokens and bagging them being so enjoyable as it has with VivaJava. Dicehateme Games (and TC of course) really deserve praise for this production.