Bombastic Game Review

Bombastic is the second release in Bitewing’s series of travel games, after the charming Trailblazers and before the upcoming Gazebo. I must confess to being enamored of the cases for these games. Those rounded corners, the pleasant plumpness, the choice of a bright and contrasting color for the fabric around the zipper; it’s all good. You look at Bombastic on the table, or clipped to someone’s backpack, and you can’t help but want to look inside.

The contents are equally as appealing, those chunky bright orange tiles. They sound so good when you shake the container, or dump them on the table. They also immediately give the game away, so to speak. If you didn’t know what type of game you were getting into before opening up a copy of Bombastic, you’ll figure it out pretty quick. It’s hard to gaze upon nine tiles with X’s and O’s and not put two and two together. You can feel, even before you know, that this is a variation on Tic Tac Toe.

In many gaming circles, putting Tic Tac Toe on the table would be considered something akin to an insult, a threat.…

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