In this review I will only attempt to discuss the art of each card, it's flavor and how it fits into the grand scheme of the set. I will NOT be discussing the strength of the cards at this time. I feel like this is an aspect of cards that often goes unnoticed and that's kind of unfortunate since the flavor in Hearthstone is arguably its strongest aspect.
I will attempt to break up each card into 3 parts
How does the card fit into the set (or its class) thematically?
How does the card's art look and feel? (I will also do this with whatever card audio we have so far)
How does the card's feel synch with what it actually does?
Druid
Kun is new character within the WoW lore as are many legendaries within this set so it's difficult to tell how he fits into the idea of Gadgetzan. It doesn't really make sense that this ancient spirit would just be chilling in Gadgetzan. It's never been established that Gadgetzan has a particularly rich history so why is he here? In the end, Kun just doesn't make sense within the context from the set. You can't look at it and think "this is a Mean Streets of Gadgetzan card" which is kind of unfortunate because I think there was a big opportunity for Blizzard to use the Choose One mechanic as an analogy to a deal with some kind of merchant. After all, Gadgetzan is a city of oppurtunity with Merchants eager to make a deal with you at ever corner.
I give Kun the Forgotten King a 2/10 for Set cohesiveness. Doesn't fit into the rest of the set at all.
Kun's art isn't particularly impressive either, which is a problem because we're supposed to believe he's this cool impressive guy without even having any backstory. His art isn't particularly colorful or engaging and the background just shows him floating in the middle of the street. What gives? In conclusion, Kun's art has to make up a lot for the card's lack of set cohesiveness and lack of backstory but it ends up just looking a little bare.
I give Kun the Forgotten King a 4/10 for Art flavor and appearance. The art itself is decent but isn't flashy enough for a legendary and doesn't help shore up problems in the first category.
As we discussed in the second category the card doesn't really feel epic from its appearance. Thankfully the cards effect helps make up for this. Kun has a really big flashy effect that's very befitting of an ancient spirit of a King. We haven't seen Kun's summoning animation yet but chances are it'll be very flashy.
I give Kun the Forgotten King a 7/10 for mechanical flavor. Pretty fancy cool effect for a big dude.
In this review I will only attempt to discuss the art of each card, it's flavor and how it fits into the grand scheme of the set. I will NOT be discussing the strength of the cards at this time. I feel like this is an aspect of cards that often goes unnoticed and that's kind of unfortunate since the flavor in Hearthstone is arguably its strongest aspect.
I will attempt to break up each card into 3 parts
Druid
Kun is new character within the WoW lore as are many legendaries within this set so it's difficult to tell how he fits into the idea of Gadgetzan. It doesn't really make sense that this ancient spirit would just be chilling in Gadgetzan. It's never been established that Gadgetzan has a particularly rich history so why is he here? In the end, Kun just doesn't make sense within the context from the set. You can't look at it and think "this is a Mean Streets of Gadgetzan card" which is kind of unfortunate because I think there was a big opportunity for Blizzard to use the Choose One mechanic as an analogy to a deal with some kind of merchant. After all, Gadgetzan is a city of oppurtunity with Merchants eager to make a deal with you at ever corner.
I give Kun the Forgotten King a 2/10 for Set cohesiveness. Doesn't fit into the rest of the set at all.
Kun's art isn't particularly impressive either, which is a problem because we're supposed to believe he's this cool impressive guy without even having any backstory. His art isn't particularly colorful or engaging and the background just shows him floating in the middle of the street. What gives? In conclusion, Kun's art has to make up a lot for the card's lack of set cohesiveness and lack of backstory but it ends up just looking a little bare.
I give Kun the Forgotten King a 4/10 for Art flavor and appearance. The art itself is decent but isn't flashy enough for a legendary and doesn't help shore up problems in the first category.
As we discussed in the second category the card doesn't really feel epic from its appearance. Thankfully the cards effect helps make up for this. Kun has a really big flashy effect that's very befitting of an ancient spirit of a King. We haven't seen Kun's summoning animation yet but chances are it'll be very flashy.
I give Kun the Forgotten King a 7/10 for mechanical flavor. Pretty fancy cool effect for a big dude.
That gives Kun the Forgotten King a total of 13/30
I'll do the rest later. This took a lot longer than I thought it would.
To long didn't read.
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