Perhaps from this visit will come a new day of understanding for distributors everywhere and an end to the cheap slams they get in my column. Or maybe not. Pure Blue Curacao is just a very, very bad idea. You'd expect me to love a game about traveling through time changing and unchanging history, saving the world from Paradox gone rampant, and stealing dinosaurs from your friends to put on Shakespeare's lost play about the Mona Lisa. Otherwise, you're just playing Dino Hunt, and that game has more dinosaurs.
Game play probably needs a hex map, although the rules earnestly support tabletop and inches gaming.
The alleged space combat has no altitude rules, but has a nice system for reconciling relative thrust that reminded at least this journeyman minis gamer of Silent Death. In fourteen days, these virtual pages will again illumine with mordant commentary, news, and yet more exciting game review goodness.