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Homecoming honestly made me sad. I got into the Gwent beta very early and was super flashed: "Wow, look how clean this board looks! Look at all these unique cards! Look at how little RNG this game has! So much synergy! And flavor!" And after a long break I came back for the big ol 1.0 HC release. What do I see? Horribly cluttered board, and hella ugly 3d leaders to boot. Then the cards: I haven't exactly checked every single card yet, but doing a few Arena runs it sure feels like 90% of the cards now are "direct/slightly conditional boost X" or "deal direct damage X" on a stick and horribly bland. I like how they culled the power bloat down, coin flip changes and made ST traps actually useable, but in pretty much all other regards it feels like a step back or treading water. Certainly not the grand homecoming I was promised months ago. I'm back to MTGArena for a while till people figure out what's worth my scraps I guess then give it another shot.

Interesting so far. Quite a departure from their previous narrative style, but you can definitely still ... how to say this... feel the 'supeprgiant touch' on the world building, quite impressive stuff. Only thing I'm not sure on is that your companions speak only in this fantasy-language, while the other thing is full English VA. Wonder if that'll be explained at some point.

I really hope that they won't take it too serious. I'm interested enough to play it anyways, but if they just do a standard story in the minecraft world it might just not be different enough.

@quid_pro_bono: You're a saint!

Damnit, I saw it for a second, clicked the link, but now I'm getting a 404 and it's no longer on the frontpage ;_;

Man, this woud be the best. First Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away, then Grave of the Fireflies for the ultimate emotional beatdown.

@james_hayward: Sweet, thanks a lot for writing that up!

@fcdrandy: $10 would already get me 1/10th of the way to my goal and get you 2 Entries towards a Nighthawks Poster :D My Donation Page

Since EU and AUS are using the same Region, couldn't anyone from EU just import it from Australia without region problems?

Podcasts I can recommend:

• Spieleveteranen
• PC Games Podcast
• Retrozirkel
• GameOne Plauschangriff (Unfortunately they are no longer doing new episodes, but there's a HUGE backlog)

Hm, I really liked the matte surface and overall finish on the DSi, and I'll propably cave in just for that. Also, I've been running down my day 1 3DS a lot, and I really should finally get a XL. The Name is terrible, but damn, I'm sold.