[Drem]

I am the only person on Earth who owns Bombastic. I am also the only person who has heard of it. Google turns up zero search results if you search for "Bombastic ps2 game." Go ahead and try.* It is lacking love, and the Aqui are sad and depressed.

So sad and depressed, in fact, that they have started to walk around on dice and make them explode. That is right; they make dice explode. They roll dice around all over it's various sides, trying to line up the top face number with other dice with the same top face number, with the total number of dice lined up together equaling that of the top face number. By this, I mean they line up six dice with the 6 face up, or four dice with the 4 face up, or two dice with the 2 face up. Then, after a short time limit that varies depending on the top face number, they all explode. That's right; they explode. And their explosions set off other dice with the same top face number, or dice with the top face number one less than the ones that cause the explosion. That is how dice with the 1 face up must explode; they must hit by explosions from 2 dice. If you roll around a die that has been set off and will soon explode and are able to roll it next to die with the same top face number as whatever the die you are currently on happens to be at the time, that one die will set off as well, allowing you to achieve massive chains from you rolling and from the explosions.

All they wanted to do was meet their Grandfather in the Land of the Clouds, blowing up any monsters that tend to stand in their way. In fact, blowing up every monster so as to get a perfect clear in the level. But of course, it is not easy, for they live in a puzzle game, which forces you figure out how to place the dice and set them off in such a away that all of the monster will get blown into smithereens, and out of the way of the Aqui. They even fight big, cute boss monsters that require difference strategies from normal to defeat.

They also wanted to play 5-players with a multi-tap where they all run around in a small field of dice and try to blow each other to smithereens. It is very hectic causing me to always lose, but it is still fun and would be even more fun if I had people to play it with. But alas, no one has heard of it.

Why does no one love Bombastic or it's precursor, Devil Dice?


*Don't. I was lying.

[mechanori]

I am posting in this thread to tell you I own this game, but did not play it for more than five minutes.

Bye~.

[dessgeega]

[Drem]

[108]

in japan this game is called "xi" and i guess i've owned it for like forever?
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[duomo]

My brother got me this game last year, but I have yet to play it.

[haze]

i own it too.

i'm not fond of quest modes so i only play the deathmatch type.

by myself.

[Focus]

I liked Devil Dice back in the day.
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[mechanori]

[firenze]

[100Proof]

Own it, played through the Quest Mode, played through all 100 levels of the Attack Mode or whatever it's called with my girlfriend. Great game. Especially like that you can change games styles so it plays like Xi/Devil Dice or Xi Jumbo.

[Scofflaw]

[another coma]

I have Bombastic and Devil Dice


HOT TIPS

if you own devil dice just pop it in your console of choice, load up endless or puzzle mode (this is not too convenient for 5 minute timed mode), and pause the game. load up your COMPACT dISC AUDIO of choice and flip it to any track you want in the pause menu. This is great for puzzle mode, since it loads all 100 or so puzzles at once(!) and I've spent up to an hour in endless score attack before so it works quite well there too. the original was Total Zen and Bombastic was okay.

I finished every puzzle in the the original.
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[boojiboy7]

I own this game as well! I actually really like the deathmatching in it, though I haven't played too much of the quest mode. It is a lot of fun once you get a hang of the dice sides.

[luvcraft]

I played mass quantities of Devil Dice on the Playstation, to the point that walking around outside afterwards I saw rolling cubes everywhere.

[skelethulu]

I purchased this having owned Devil Dice.

The multiplayer is pretty nice. I haven't played it in a long time.

[Pijaibros]

I see it for like 5 dollars used at every Gamestop/EBs I visit in this great land. Some still have it new.

I played that tar out of devil dice years ago back in my dorm days. Right between bouts of Puzzle Bobble 4 and Puzzle Fighter. I never bothered to pick it up as a result of the hours sunk in to that game so long ago.

I have wanted to get Bombastic for maybe 4 years now.
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[parkbench]

I have both Devil Dice and Bombastic. Fantastic multiplayer games, though I prefer Bombastic myself.

I'm noticing a strange trend in puzzle games which have surprisingly awesome/party-ish multiplayer modes.

[guest253]

i have this game too.
i like it a lot, even though i suck at it.
it was my very first ps2 game.
i had this game before i even had a ps2.
this is true.

it's the US version though, and my ps2 is japanese.
so i only get to play it on the chipped ps2 of a friend of mine.

also!
i believe this saw a budget port/remake/whatever for psp as "xi collosseum" in japan.

[Swimmy]

[Moogs]

I used to have Bombastic and I played for, like, a day.

Then I stopped playing it and I traded it in.

[108]

[Brock]

I used to play it for hours on end a while back. Once you get a hang of it you really can't stop.

[dark steve]

Yeah. I don't play it anymore because a single round can eat up like an hour once you start getting the swing of it.

[Sub]

Yeah, I had to stop myself because I was enjoying it too much. I would sit down and play for hours and hours.
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[Cryo]

Anyone like No One Can Stop Mr. Domino?
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PS3 - Cryoh
X360 - Cryoh

[dark steve]

I like it okay.