Every Realationship Has It's Fights

While Liz and I were just waking up, she mentioned she was tiring of playing Super Mario World and that she wanted burgers. With nothing to do for the rest of the day, I knew where she wanted to go: Stanich's. Once we got dressed and we were ready to go, I made sure to grab...

...and then, we held hands. 2 players
This is a game that I got interested in early. It was getting some high praise, but was only available as a print and play. It was on my wishlist for a while and then a few months ago it got a publisher to back it and they put it on Kickstarter. I was able to secure my own copy of the first run.

This is a game with the theme that both players are in a relationship and are in an argument. The players need to move around the board and land on different colors indicated by the current goal card. Each of the four colors represents a mood: calm, happy, sad, and angry. The players move by playing emotion cards that have two sides. You use the side (perspective) that is the same as the side of the board you are on. You also need to make sure that the cards you play don't take you out of balance. Green and blue each add one to your balance and red and black each subtract one. You are never allowed to be more than two out of balance in either direction. Every eight goals that are completed allows the players to move to the next inner ring. Once all twenty-four goals have been met, the tokens may move to the center, but once one player moves in, the next player must move in the turn after.

The rules also indicate that you can't talk about the game, but do allow it for the first game so that you can both become familiar with how to play. We played three games in total. It took a while for our food to show up. We failed miserably in the first game. We made it to the middle ring on the second game, but stalled out soon after that achievement. The third game went well. We made it to the inner ring, and finished all but 2 goals, but we ran out of emotion cards to draw and then got cornered into defeat.
Both of us really enjoy the game. It will take a while to really get the proper moves down. I'm glad it finally got a publisher and I hope to see the game in stores so that more people can enjoy it.

Tally: 148/178  Bonus: 39/50