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DISAPPOINTED
When I ordered Daydreams, I thought I would be getting myself additional strange and complex pictures I experienced in my first playing of a Dixit game...Dixit Journey. Based on that expectation, I was disappointed..
1) The "Daydreams" seems to refer to the soft-toned pictures, almost entirely greens...blues...beige/browns. There is a conspicuous absence of white, yellow, orange, red and black from the cards. Besides lacking those colors, the cards have a decided muted-tone look to them....not very vibrant.
2) I was disappointed on the over-reliance on people/animals with long weird arms, distorted bodies, or weird hair or hats. Within this 84 card expansion set, I counted 48 such cards---32 people and 16 animals. These images are beautiful to be sure, but that's pretty much all that appears on the card. There is a lack of action or disparate objects/settings included on the card on which to base different interpretations and descriptions (as I had encountered in the Dixit-Journey version I played)..
3) I then did research on boardgamegeek.com and found out that not all Dixit games are done by the same artist.
Dixit-artist is Marie Cardouat
Quest-artist is Marie Cardouat
Odyssey-artist is Marie Cardouat-Piero
Journey-artist is Xavier Collette
Origins-artist is Clement Lefevre
Daydreams-artist is Frank Dion
4) I wrote this review because, had I known all this pre-purchase, I probably would have purchased some other Dixit version that did not have the muted and limited color scheme and over-abundant usage of people/animal creatures that just sit there and don't do much.
December 2014 · Toys and Games · verified purchase