Bullet Game Review

BULLET BOARD GAME REVIEW

 When a friend expressed interest in playing Bullet, I found myself in the unusual position of having to tell him to read the rules. This almost never happens, but the circumstances were exceptional.

 When I returned fifteen minutes later, I asked him if he knew how to play. And indeed, during that time he had managed to learn everything in detail.

STAR EXPRESS

 Bullet is essentially a mobile app. 1-4 players race — it’s a real-time game — using cards and abilities to remove colored balls from their game boards. These balls are randomly drawn from each player’s personal bag and added to their personal game board. The balls have numbers that indicate the number of empty cells they cross before stopping. If a ball accidentally reaches the bottom of the game board, it takes away some of your health.

 Balls are removed by playing cards from your hand that depict something like a tetromino. Certain cells must contain a ball, some must be empty. Once the ball tokens are lined up properly, which almost never happens without using one or two special powers to move them, they can be discarded.

 The incentive to move quickly in Bullet has two aspects. First, any balls left in your bag after the time runs out must be added to your board in full, without any mitigation. The more balls on your board, the more likely it is that the next one will fall to the bottom. This deluge of penalty periods can be devastating.

 Second, any bullets you manage to remove will be passed to the player to your left in the next round. The more bullets your opponents have, the harder their job will be, and the better for you. Bullet Star is a knock-out game. There is no winner, just the one who can last long enough to see the bodies of their enemies float by.

BARGAIN?

 I think mobile apps provide a kind of mindless dopamine rush. The closest I've come to that in my desktop experience is probably the crazy pinball mania of Ganz Schon Clever!. Bullet and its big sister are a little too cognitively intensive to evoke the bliss of a mobile app gaming experience, but they still feel like video puzzle games come to life.

 You definitely get good value for money. The set includes eight characters, each with a unique deck of cards and asymmetrical abilities. Bullet Star also includes rules for various modes, including boss mode, co-op mode, team mode, and solo mode.

 The experience is insane. You have to sweat. There's a strong feeling that you could figure it out if you could just see the one thing you're missing. My only complaint is that you could play alone, as you won't really notice the other players at the table. The only time you think about other people is when one of them throws you a fresh batch of balls that you've taken out so you can add them to your bag for the next round. It requires such intense concentration that you don't even start swearing madly. And where's the fun in that?

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