Yeah, analysis paralysis really slows the game. The first time I played was with 3 or 4 players over 12-14 hours, mostly because we didn't know what we were doing. Then we played again about a year later and the game lasted about 8 hours with 4 people and another time a couple months later, we played a 4 hour game with 5 people.

One thing in that game in particular, would be to give everyone a little notebook so that they can write down what they think about their next turn. Sometimes it crawls so much that you forget what you were going to do by the time of your turn. It definitely helps when you play the game a little more frequently and don't have to relearn everything.

Not saying that you have to watch the video, just saying that it can be faster than a first time player reading the rules to everyone while figuring out how the game goes. Its a lot of information and the game has a lot of steps to it.

I fully disagree. I am one who hates to watch video's and would much rather read something. Especially with my ADHD and not retaining spoken words as well as written words. But when it comes to learning to play a board game I first look for the existence of video instructions before reading. I always use the two in tandem when possible.