Square EnixSQUXCPUPZZZ00 Chocobo Party Up, Mixed Colours

You can get through a game of "Chocobo Party Up" in about ten minutes.The core gameplay is essentially: roll a dice, and you can make that many moves in your turn.Get your Chocobo to the garden in the center, or one of the various "track" spots over the board and you can call out for a neutral yellow Chocobo Pal to accompany you.Bring a certain number back to your own garden and you win.What makes it so fast and frenetic is the fact that the other player(s) are attempting the same thing, essentially turning the game into an attempt at herding cats.You might get a few pals back to your garden and think you are in the lead, but another player can run in and steal them from you. Or they can gang up on your own pieces and "kick" them off of a space and attempt a steal.There are some special cards you can play to give yourself a small bonus, and you can summon your "Fat Choco" who counts as two chocobos (and therefore nearly always has the gang up advantage, but can only move one space per turn). But thankfully, the game is quite light on rules so it doesn't take an afternoon of reading just to get started. You can go from never playing the game to knowing how it works in the space of a few turns.Because of the way the game is played, it does have an antagonistic quality that might lose you some friends if you are constantly kicking their chocobos and stealing their pals. So be advised to only play it with people who can take it in their stride and try to get back at you!My one gripe is that there seems to be a lack of clarity on some rules: such as how many moves you get when your dice result is a chocobo symbol instead of the footprints. The rulebook says this is where you draw a new card, but doesn't specify how many moves you get to make in your turn. However, this is easy enough to get around if you take the reading of the rules literally (we figured it means make only one move since it is only ONE symbol) but could have used an extra sentence here and there to add to understanding.