Those of you who already know which foot I’m limping on won’t be surprised if I start by saying that investigative games tend to make me quite lazy. However, there are times when, due to the originality of the proposal, it is irresistible to surrender to ideas such as the Micro Macro Crime City.
And it is that in the world of board games, as in that of commercial video games and indie innovations, there is also room for experiences further away from what we are used to seeing. This Finding Wally from Murders in a city capable of occupying the entire table, it goes a bit that way.
A Finding Wally of murders
On an immense map of a city with its buildings, pedestrians and vehicles, different cases are hidden among a tangle of shops, pedestrians and tiny curiosities that invite you to get lost reviewing the thousand and one details that have been drawn for the occasion. .
Far from being like a static photograph in the style Buscando a WallyIn reality, we are shown different moments of the day in which, for example, in one corner of the map we see how someone leaves his house so calmly and, in the other corner, the same person appears after having been murdered.
What is in between, if we know how to follow the clues and the path of that character, is the explanation of what happened between the two situations while he was touring the city. What stores has he stopped at, what vehicles has he taken and, of course, when has someone come up to kill him?
The grace of the game is that, through a series of clues, or just an initial clue if you want to play in hardcore mode, you know how to find the entire route to find out the typical questions that any investigator would ask: what happened, where it happened, why it happened and who is to blame.
How to play Micro Macro Crime City
Hand in hand with 16 cases with 120 clue cards that will be played as if we were telling a story, the idea is that we get together as a family, with friends or alone in front of the 75 x 110 cm map of the city to solve them one by one.
Separated in different levels of difficulty and with different age recommendations Depending on how tricky the case can be, the fun of the game is not only in trying to find the murderer, but sometimes we are asked to find out other questions such as what happened to the murder weapon, what was the motive for the murder, or even rewind everything that happened to find out where the victim lived.
Without pressure or exaggerated difficulty, beyond fighting against the similarity between some citizens and others to see if we are following the trail of the correct person, in reality all you need to carry out each case is patience, a good capacity for deduction to know where the next frame will be on the map, and a magnifying glass included in the game itself in case your view is not what it was.
As easy to play and explain as placing the map and starting to investigate, Micro Macro Crime City It’s one of those ideal games to play as a family that doesn’t require exhaustive prior preparation. A proposal as different as it is fun in which the only possible drawback is that you end up without cases after a good hook up.
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