The Siblings Trouble: Expanded Deluxe Edition

"Describe something soft to reduce the Mechanical Tentacles' Star Rating by 1" …… and that was the precise second my heart ripped in half.

This game is not for me. I thought this would be a light narrative choose your own adventure game. But unlike Adventure Games, there is no provided narrative … instead you create improv based upon prompts. And unlike Escape Tales, there is no choosing your own adventure … there is no branching path, there are no choices … you draw a card, you roll the die, you succeed or fail, you describe how you succeeded or why you failed. For all of its focus on storytelling, there is an incredible lack of player agency in the story as it develops.

And so many cards state "and add a +1 to the value if you describe how you used it." So +2. Can we just put +2 on the iconography? I'm not going to choose not describing it, so can you we just put the true value on the card and not just on the tiny type? Sigh, this would make a great classroom activity, or team-building exercise, or college writing workshop. I would rather play Final Girl or Call to Adventure and tell my story as the plot unfolds, then play a game whose main drive is to dictate how I need to tell that story.