I was able to play Cult of the Lamb in a quaint little dice-battling game. It was a mini-game, although it was so well handled, with plenty of strategy and depth, and it felt like it could have been distinguished off as a game in itself. Look it out, however, inside this perfectly good game, here''s a smaller, also well-known game that is seemingly included through sheer generosity.
With the Gwent Impulse, I have always been very happy. Is this a trend? I hope so.
I mean, when I say fortunate, that I played two games over the weekend, which both proved to be having secondary games tucked inside them. The first is Boneraiser Minions, a frighteningly compelling auto-battler in the style of Vampire Survivors. (I discovered it thanks to Hit Points.) Every time you enter an arena, you will encounter new mobs, new spells, and everything you need to get done. So many thanks to this tutorial.
Clashful Cards is a two-player game that you can play against the CPU, and you both take turns dragging a selection of cards onto a playing grid. If the number on the opponent''s card is higher, the card will be taken on the board at the end of the hand.
It''s very elegant stuff, and I like watching how ownership flows across the board as a new card is dropped, changing everything. It''s all about having the best cards, sure, but there''s a deal to deal with, and since cards are earned in the main mode, it''s yet more of an excuse to go and play a standard game of Boneraiser Minions for a few minutes before returning with whatever you earned. A fantastic piece, tactic and generous.
In Splatoon 3, I encountered Tableturf as I was looking for happiness. It''s not the game I already knew, but it now is packed with new skills - new weapons, a new campaign, and this funny tactical card game.
Tableturf is a type of technique that works very well with ink, as long as your opponent can. This way, you enlist ink from cards with certain ink formations, and you avoid ink from the grid. If you both claim the same territory, the card with the lower number wins out. It''s a series of blind hands that results in general map dominance.
The formula is incorporating very good techniques, like special squares you can capture to earn points that allow you to accomplish special moves. Yes, you can purchase or win new card packs so your options are constantly expanding - making a new deck in Tableturf is surprisingly frustrating.
I really like the way that simple techniques have so much potential to them. So for the first few turns the aim is really to advance up towards your competitor as far as possible and cut off most of their potential territory. At times, it almost reminded me of Go, a Nintendo ancestors.
I, really, love, though, was not buying Tableturf. I bought Splatoon 3. Like I didn''t buy Clashful Cards or that dice game in Cult of the Lamb. It''s the Gwent Impulse. Isn''t it fantastic? Long may it continue.
