#173 - Bashing Our Brains On Bitoku

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Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this spiritual episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are talking about just one game - a game that has sat alone on Tom’s ‘To-Play’ shelf like a bottle of brown sauce in a wetherspoons sauce caddy. That’s right, it’s Bitoku, a game about splodging sauce all over a beautiful forest until various bears, otters and raccoons come to lick of all the liquid from the branches and leaves: yum yum yum.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the very 173rd episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, the podcast all about board games, board games and the people who love board games. My name is Matt Lees. I'm joined by Tom Brewster.
0:22.1	Hello, my name is Tom Brewster. And on today's episode of the podcast, we're going to be talking about
0:26.1	one game that we played last week, but it's a big game, big game in a lot of colors, lot of pieces.
0:30.7	That game is Bitoku from DeVir. But before we get into that, what have you been up to, Tom? You've been hiding any cakes under any floorboards or anything like that lately?
0:39.3	None cakes under none floorboards, uh, but I have been, I've been in the lands between Matt, but we can't talk about that on this podcast.
0:46.3	We've got to reserve that for our secret bonus video game podcast. We don't have one. Yes, but doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. You could listen to that podcast if you just found
0:57.1	me and Matt in a pub and then you'd be an audience of one to me and Matt rambling about
1:01.8	how we've not really done enough of anything. Until we caught you listening and then
1:07.7	you'd be an audience of none. So watch your backs and keep on listening. Have a
1:12.6	lovely podcast. So Bitoku is an absolutely huge and visually stunning board game from DeVir, who we've
1:22.5	previously really enjoyed their designs. We've enjoyed Paris La Cite de la Lumiere. We've enjoyed silk. We've enjoyed the
1:29.3	Red Cathedral and these little small box delightful little compact things. And by contrast,
1:35.1	Bitoku is this huge and super decadent Euro game in which players are playing these forest spirits
1:42.8	trying to replace the current head honcho of the forest,
1:46.5	represented by a sort of deer with magical antlers.
1:50.6	And the way that we're doing this is by churning out a shedload of points,
1:53.3	by doing loads of woodland activities.
1:55.3	And I could get into all of that by explaining the dragonflies and the spirits,
1:59.6	or I could talk about how you build buildings, or I could talk about how you build buildings,
2:01.6	or I could talk about how you walk up the path to ascension.
2:04.6	You have all these different systems,
2:06.6	and you can have a dabble in every single one of them,
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