Spectre The Board Game

I love James Bond and so does my dad, so I got him this game as a Christmas gift for us all to play during the holidays. However, when we opened the game, what should have been a simple process took us about 3 hours to learn how to play. Even then, I had to look up some of the information on YouTube to feel like I really understood what the instructions were going for. The instruction manual is confusing, not super linear, and leaves out some information completely about symbols and meanigs in the game. Once we got down to it, it felt like a mix of Catan, Ticket to Ride, and Risk, which should have been super cool, but because it took so long to learn we had to budget "learning time" in to teach the rest of the family how to play the game. It was definitely a frustrating expreince overall. I think the game itself is neat, but it could use some polish and refining for the rules and teaching.