With the unexpected death of the archmage, the book of spells requires a new keeper. There’s only one reasonable course of action for the archimages’ protégés to take. A duel to the death to determine who will take the archimage’s seat.
It’s distressingly easy to disregard any game with simplistic visuals. Steam has poisoned the well, so to speak. Take a gander at the new release page at any given time and your eyes will be assaulted by low-effort asset flips and a disturbing amount of hentai. The thing is, there are some gems buried in that rubbish, but few people are willing to shove their hands into that sewage to fish them out.
Clank Catacombs turns the concept of treasure hunting upside down, at least compared to its previous iterations. While Clank has always featured some unknown elements, between random card draws and secret tokens. The actual act of spelunking for treasure felt less like a dungeon dive and more like a preplanned heist since you had the equivalent of a completely accurate blueprint to the dragons’ den.
Mahokenshi puts a neat twist on the deckbuilding genre by applying a game board element to its card play. It’s not just a simple gimmick either. The two are intertwined in every way, and it gives Mahokenshi a unique identity when compared to its brethren.