Toy Story Overloaded, and Disney Villains Unmasked | BoardGameGeek Information

• Jun Sasaki and Taiki Shinzawa‘s Maskmen from Oink Video games celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2024, and to rejoice — or in a case of full coincidence — Oink has launched Disney Villains / Unknown Order, a Japan-only launch that options six Disney villains in roles previously occupied by lucha libre wrestlers.

In Maskmen, gamers have playing cards in six fits, and whereas enjoying a spherical of the sport, gamers decide the rank of those fits dynamically. Somebody begins by enjoying a single card, then somebody can observe by enjoying two of a card of a special go well with, which locks in that go well with above the primary one. Over time, many of the fits shall be ranked in comparison with each other, with gamers making an attempt to empty their hand earlier than others.

• Equally, Oink Video games has launched a Toy Story-themed model of Sasaki’s 2022 recreation Order Overload: Cafe, which itself has been launched in a number of variations already that includes burgers, bugs, and video games at SPIEL Essen 23.
As within the different Overload video games, Toy Story: おもちゃの多すぎるゲーム (which the writer interprets as Toy Story: Toy Overload) is a co-operative reminiscence problem through which gamers see the entire gadgets that they are making an attempt to recollect, then these gadgets are distributed to gamers’ palms, with you making an attempt to call one thing held by others. The sport contains seven ranges of play, and like Disney Villains / Unknown Order, this title is accessible solely in Japan.

• At Tokyo Sport Market, which occurred on Nov. 16-17, 2024, Oink snuck out a brand new Sasaki design that also is not posted on the corporate web site: TRND, a 3-5 participant card-shedding recreation. I’ve requested Oink for extra particulars, however possibly they wish to be tremendous mysterious about this launch. We’ll see!

Replace, Nov. 27: Oink needs to be tremendous mysterious about this launch for now.

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