{"id":14322,"date":"2022-12-22T00:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2023-03-22T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:06:24","slug":"luis-brueh-night-parade-of-a-hundred-yokais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/luis-brueh-night-parade-of-a-hundred-yokais\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Bru\u00eah, Night Parade of a Hundred Yokais"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Je pense avoir achet\u00e9 tous les jeux de Luis Brueh, ou du moins toutes les grosses bo\u00eetes, car il a peut-\u00eatre fait des petits jeux de cartes dont je ne sais rien. Il y a \u00e0 cela une raison tr\u00e8s simple, je suis jaloux. Je ne r\u00eave m\u00eame pas de pouvoir un jour illustrer moi m\u00eame l\u2019une de mes cr\u00e9ations. M\u00eame apr\u00e8s quelques heures de discussion avec Midjourney, je suis bien incapable de me repr\u00e9senter, et plus encore de dessiner, les images que je voudrais voir accompagner l\u2019un de mes jeux. Parfois, comme avec les illustrations d\u2019Andrew Bosley pour Mission : Plan\u00e8te Rouge<\/em><\/a>, de David Cochard pour Kamasutra<\/em><\/a>, ou plus r\u00e9cemment d\u2019Andrew Hartman pour Trollfest<\/em><\/a>, j\u2019ai la chance de trouver un artiste qui donne tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment sinon vie, du moins forme et couleur \u00e0 ce que j\u2019imaginais. Ce n\u2019est pas si fr\u00e9quent, et j\u2019aimerais tant pouvoir le faire moi-m\u00eame.
Certes, Luis Brueh n\u2019est pas le seul auteur \u00e0 souvent illustrer lui-m\u00eame ses cr\u00e9ations – il y a aussi Ryan Laukat, Dominique Ehrhard, ou mon amie Anja Wrede, mais les jeux de Luis sont un peu dans le style des miens, et ont juste les illustrations que j\u2019aimerais souvent voir aussi dans les miens. Mais bon, jusqu\u2019ici, ces jeux n\u2019avaient pas eu beaucoup de succ\u00e8s dans mon entourage. J\u2019avais bien aim\u00e9 Dwar7s Winter<\/em> et Dwar7s Spring<\/em>, mais les amis avec qui j\u2019y ai jou\u00e9, amateurs de jeux de deckbuilding plus costauds et sans doute plus vari\u00e9s, \u00e9taient moins enthousiastes. Apr\u00e8s une premi\u00e8re sortie, les jolies bo\u00eetes color\u00e9es sont rest\u00e9es sur mes \u00e9tag\u00e8res.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u2019ai insist\u00e9 et tendu \u00e0 mes amis joueurs un guet-apens. Je viens de les faire jouer \u00e0 Night Parade of a Hundred Yokais<\/em>, et cette fois, je crois que tout le monde a ador\u00e9. D\u2019ailleurs, apr\u00e8s une premi\u00e8re partie, on en a fait une seconde pour essayer d\u2019autres factions, ce qui n\u2019est gu\u00e8re dans nos habitudes. Et ce jeu l\u00e0 ne va certainement pas moisir sur mes \u00e9tag\u00e8res.
Bref, si vous pouvez vous procurer, si possible avec au moins l\u2019extension Moonlight Whispers<\/em>, ce jeu malin, original, rythm\u00e9 et diablement bien illustr\u00e9 et \u00e9dit\u00e9, ne laissez pas passer l\u2019occasion. C\u2019est un plaisir \u00e0 regarder et \u00e0 jouer.
Night Parade<\/em> est un jeu d\u2019Engine Building, dans lequel chaque joueur se construit trois petites s\u00e9ries de cartes d\u00e9mons, les yokais, dont il peut encha\u00eener les effets pour prendre le contr\u00f4le des \u00eeles. Les diff\u00e9rents clans sont tr\u00e8s th\u00e9matiques, les ratons laveurs embrouillent, les chats se d\u00e9placent vite, les ours bastonnent, les tortues se planquent sous leur carapace, les grenouilles sont assez fortes en invocation de cr\u00e9atures diaboliques. Il se passe plein de trucs, mais les rang\u00e9es de cartes bien visibles et l\u2019iconographie limpide font que l\u2019on sait toujours o\u00f9 l\u2019on en est, ce qui n\u2019est pas toujours le cas dans les gros jeux publi\u00e9s ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Bref, je recommande vivement.
Je suis pass\u00e9 il y a quelques semaines dans les locaux de Iello, \u00e0 Nancy, et j\u2019ai vu quelques autres jeux de Luis Bru\u00eah qui trainaient sur une table, peut-\u00eatre le signe qu\u2019ils vont sortir en fran\u00e7ais – je dis \u00e7a comme \u00e7a, je n\u2019ai pas d\u2019info particuli\u00e8re, ce serait chouette si ce post emportait la d\u00e9cision ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve probably bought all the games designed by Luis Bru\u00eah, or at least all the big boxes, since he might have published a few small card games I\u2019m not aware of. There is a simple reason to this – I am jealous. I don\u2019t even dream of being able one day to draw the art for one of my designs. Even after hours of talk with Midjourney, I\u2019m totally unable to draw, let alone to imagine, the art I would like to see on my games. Sometimes, like it happened with Andrew Bosley\u2019s art for <\/em>Mission: Red Planet<\/a>, with David Cochard\u2019s art for <\/em>Kamasutra<\/a>, or more recently with Andrew Hartman’s art for <\/em>Trollfest<\/a>, I have been lucky enough to see an artist give shape and color, if not life, to what I was imagining. It\u2019s not always the case, and I deeply regret that I can\u2019t do it myself.
Luis Bru\u00eah is not the only boardgame designer who draws his own art. I can think of Ryan Laukat, of Dominique Ehrhard, or of my good friend Anja Wrede, but Luis\u2019s games are more or less in my style, and have just the art I would love to see in mine. Unfortunately, so far, these games had not been that successful with my gaming friends. I enjoyed<\/em> Dwar7s Winter and <\/em>Dwar7s Spring, but my fellow gamers more acquainted with heavier and more varied deckbuilding games were less enthusiastic. We had fun playing them once, but the boxes then stayed on my shelves.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I insisted, and lured my friends in a trap. We just played Night Parade of a Hundred Yokais, and this time everyone loved the game. After a first game, we played a second one to try the other clans, something we don\u2019t do that often now. An this game won\u2019t stay gathering dust on my shelves.
So, if you have an opportunity to get this game, if possible with the Moonlight Whispers expansion, just buy it. It\u2019s clever, original, fast paced and gorgeously illustrated. It\u2019s a pleasure to look at, and a pleasure to play.
Night parade is an Engine Building game, in which every player builds three lines, or parades, or Japanese demon cards, the yokais. Every round, each player uses the abilities of one line of yokais, in order, to take control of the islands. The different clans in the game are really different and thematic : the raccoons intrigue, the cats move fast, the bears fight, the turtles hide under their shell and the frogs are really good at magical invocations. There\u2019s lots of things going on, but thanks to the nice art and clear iconography, it\u2019s easy to keep track, something relatively unusual in recent games. I highly recommend Night Parade of a Hundred Yokais.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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