by elrond3737
HuginnGreiling wrote:
Excellent review.
You nailed it. Things get so tense during the game that my wife (she loves the game; I think we played it once a week the first couple months we owned it) sometimes has to step out to blow off steam when we hit about the 1970s. She's embarrassed to admit it, but this is the one game that can make her face turn red when plans go awry, the tension is so high.
I get a knot in my stomach before playing this. It really does feel like you're in a real, live knife fight—the entire time. The tension never lets up.
The U wrote:
Poker gave me a feeling I hadn’t ever experienced from board games. It’s a feeling I get when I’m making a big play with a marginal hand, or maybe a total crap hand, or when I know I’ve got the nuts and another player is considering whether or not to call my massive bet. I can hear my heart beating in my ears and my face gets hot, and I pray no one can tell. I love that feeling. But even with poker that feeling only comes a few times a night. In most games of Twilight Struggle I get that feeling for the whole game.
You nailed it. Things get so tense during the game that my wife (she loves the game; I think we played it once a week the first couple months we owned it) sometimes has to step out to blow off steam when we hit about the 1970s. She's embarrassed to admit it, but this is the one game that can make her face turn red when plans go awry, the tension is so high.
I get a knot in my stomach before playing this. It really does feel like you're in a real, live knife fight—the entire time. The tension never lets up.
All I can say is DIDO. My wife loves the game as much as me. Weird.