From Splatoon 3 to Cult of the Lamb and Boneraiser Minions.
Halfway through playingCult of the LambI found myself engaged in a neat little dice-battling game.
Since then I have been very lucky with regards to the Gwent Impulse.
Is this a trend?
The first isBoneraiser Minions, a worryingly compelling auto-battler in the style ofVampire Survivors.
(I discovered it thanks toHit Points.
)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 it’s possible for you to barely keep track of it.
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.
Each card has a number on it and an attack direction (or multiple directions).
If the enemy’s number is higher, they flip your card.
The winner is the person with the most cards on the board at the end of a hand.
Lovely stuff, tactical and generous.
Just as I was beaming with happiness about that, I encountered Tableturf inSplatoon 3.
Cor, Splatoon 3 is fascinating.
Tableturf is sort of genius.
It’s a series of blind hands leading to general map domination.
I can’t get enough of it.
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.
