But as someone with hundreds of hours sunk into deck-builders, it’s lovely how refreshing and exciting one clever twist on the formula can be. Is it a better approach? Not necessarily – it has its own downsides, including leaving you much more at the mercy of probability. By the time you hit the final boss, you’re thinking on your feet every turn. And far from becoming more predictable as you go, combat only gets more complex. Rather than refi ning down to a perfectly balanced machine, you’re bolting new parts onto your unwieldy engine of battle, trying to find the larger synergies that make each addition a boon instead of a liability.īy the end of a run, a good deck will have multiple complementary strategies. As you add more cards, you gain powerful perks for your characters, many of which are further empowered by adding even more – and you get almost no opportunities to trim. At its core, it’s a similar game to Slay the Spire, but the feel is very different. It’s fascinating how much rejecting the idea entirely makes Roguebook stand out. Turning your deck into a tome in Roguebook - Robin Valentine
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By going through the Blackwell series game by game, you get to witness the creative journey of one of the best writers in videogames. You can feel both the writing and artwork maturing alongside its existentially wayfaring protagonist.
I really enjoy seeing the clear creative progress through the series too. The diversity of the city’s denizens is well represented, while the hand-drawn locations are instantly recognisable. No games capture the spirit of a real-world city like Blackwell captures New York. Once you gather information, you return to the ghosts and try to jog their memory by getting them to accept the fact that they’re dead. Once it finds its feet, the series settles into a rhythm of journalistic-style investigations, as you listen to people carefully for key names and places, then type them into Rosa’s computer to unlock new locations or dialogue options. Their hauntingly lifelike stories and lonely limbo existence as ghosts invests you in helping them move onto the next realm – whatever that may be.
Suicide, depression, and mental illness all come up – young lives extinguished too soon, a businessman buried in debt, a musician who drowns his talent in alcohol. Gilbert uses ghosts and the supernatural to maturely explore some serious themes.
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