![]() ![]() Ernestino, Ernesto’s twin brother who everyone thought was dead, makes love to Marcela (who is under the impression she is making love to Ernesto) against a marble statue of aphrodite.Ernesto, the eyepatch-wearing drugs kingpin, fed his lover Maria’s sister to a pair of jaguars for refusing to do his bidding.You cannot really go wrong simply noticing the things that will give you a mechanical benefit and doing them – and if you do, you’ll naturally get both a fun experience and an on-genre experience.īefore I talk any more about how it does this, let’s just look at some things that happened in our game to give you an idea what I’m talking about: The core mechanics and the playbooks point you in the right direction, probably more effectively than any other game I’ve seen. Pasion is brilliantly designed to reinforce the themes of a telenovela even for a complete novice to the genre. Now you might be thinking “why would I play a game about that when I know nothing about telenovelas”, and that is what I thought too. If you haven’t come across telenovelas, my totally uninformed layperson’s summary is: overwrought, over-the-top Latin American soap operas. ![]() Pasion is a (currently ashcan-only) PBTA game based on telenovelas. ![]() I was recently lucky enough to get to play Pasion de las Pasiones by Brandon Leon-Gambetta. ![]()
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