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The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls - Card Game Review

The Binding of Isaac is a hugely successful videogame, and thanks to two extremely lucrative crowdfunding efforts that netted around $8 million, you could argue that its a highly successful card game as well. The videogame fits almost too perfectly into begin turned into cardboard, with its roguelike genetics being suited to the randomness of dungeon crawler, variable bonuses and and player powers sitting well within the tabletop realm. There's around eighty thousand people who have some kind of variation of the tabletop game. So surely its extremely good because well funded games are always amazing, aren't they.  I'm approaching this as someone who is away from the hype canoe sailing down the river rapids of marketing and excitement and so this is probably going to be dull in comparison. I'm also someone who is a fan of the game, and has spent many an hour running around randomly generated dungeons of blood and filth.  For those unfamiliar with the videogame, you play

OverDrive Board Game Review - Mantic Games

I think there should be an exclamation mark at this point, maybe even two but definitely one. It should be OverDrive! maybe even OVERDRIVE!! I'm currently still considering whether to deface the box with some coloured crayon. You see OverDrive is a half time show spectacle of a game that slots in between the main Dreadball games in the Mantic Universe, it deserves a bit of shouting but I'm not sure how much at this point. I've got a soft spot for Mantic. I like how they just get on with their games, don't come round your house and drink your expensive coffee and take three gluten free biscuits when you offer them two. When you play their games you kind of get the feeling that they really like what they do and they want you to know how much they like what they are doing.  OverDRIVE! isn't meant to be narratively about good versus bad or even Good Versus Bad. In fact OVerdriVE is all about being a leftover from the main Dreadball circuit, a has-been shunted off to the

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