Boneraiser Minions, Splatoon 3 and Cult of the Lamb all have great secondary games inside them
.)You move around an arena summoning mobs who fight a horde of enemies for you. It all gets wilder and wilder as you unlock new mobs, new spells and all that jazz. Eventually the screen is filled with action and you can barely keep track of it. Beautiful!And yet I discovered in a side menu a little game called Clashful Cards. Clashful Cards uses cards that you unlock in the main mode.
It's wonderfully elegant stuff, and I love watching the way ownership ripples across the board as a new card is dropped, changing everything. It's all down to having the best cards, sure, but there's the deal to contend 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 and then return with whatever you earned. Lovely stuff, tactical and generous.
Tableturf is sort of genius. It works very much like the main game, in that your aim is to cover as much territory with ink as you can, while your rival does the same. The difference is that rather than a 3D arena, you battle it out on a grid, and you lay down ink by selecting cards with certain ink formations. Both you and your rival play simultaneously, and if you both claim the same territory, the card with the lower number wins out.
There are clever tweaks to the formula, like special squares you can capture to earn points that allow you to pull off special moves. And yes, you can buy or win new card packs so your options are always expanding - making a new deck in Tableturf is surprisingly fretful stuff.But what I really love is the way that the simple tactics have so much flair to them.
What I really, really love, though, is that I did not buy Tableturf. I bought Splatoon 3. Just as I didn't buy Clashful Cards, or that dice game in Cult of the Lamb. It's the Gwent Impulse. Isn't this brilliant? Long may it continue.We want to make Eurogamer better, and that means better for our readers - not for algorithms.
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