Ocasta

Angelo designed and produced the highly successful game War Angel (well successful in Italy anyway). TaTaTa is the sound the guns of your fighter plane makes when shooting your opponent in this silly/fun dogfight race card game. Often fun games to be a fun idea but no fun to play we found this one to be both.

The game cost €10 and I was happy to pay this for the 45 minutes of entertainment we got from the designer, let alone the card game. The game can be played with 2 to 8 players although with eight chaos may reign. Having played a game ourselves this evening, next time I play I will take great care in the selection of the clouds. Clouds contain nothing, special weapons or events. Too many events slows the game down something awful. While not ruining the game, you may want to cut it short if this happens.

There have been reports from other players that the English rules were hard to follow and if I hadn't already played it I might agree. But its the sort of light, fun game that you can be fairly free and easy with rules interpretations - actually you have to be! The designer suggested counting down slow players (10, 9, ...) to keep people from getting bogged down in their turn planning. I'd recommend it too.

Generally I find fun games to be a fun idea but no fun to play.Often a game you buy at Essen turns out to be rubbish when you get home to play it. TaTaTa may be that game this year. I hope not, we really enjoyed it in the silly but playable category.