I’m an enormous fan of fantasy names that sound like somebody choking. Ghisteslwchlohm. Zeddicus. Tolo Ogule Thermalamerkanerat. The first chapter of Hearthstone‘s new adventure, Galakrond’s Awakening, is out at the moment, with a narrative following on from the final couple of solo adventures. As typical, you struggle a collection of singleplayer matches towards bosses with game-shaping powers.
Less typical is the way you get to play as both the goodies or the baddies, who’re intent on waking up “the progenitor of all dragons”. The first mission for staff E.V.I.L is free.
You’ll be taking part in as heroes or villains which have cropped up over the previous 12 months, utilizing premade decks to biff individuals within the identify of excellent or evil. I haven’t been taking part in them however Blizzard guarantee me I’ll “see more of the side characters (I’ve) grown to love”, “including George and Karl”. Good previous Karl. Always prepared with a quip and a smile.
This is a wee bit completely different to The Dalaran Heist and Tombs Of Terror, the place you had some alternative about which order to sort out bosses. This goes again to the older, linear format. Chapters will nonetheless come out on a weekly foundation, as typical.
I’ve loved these previously. They’re low-pressure puzzles with fascinating twists on Hearthstone’s now overly-familiar decks and hero powers. They’re additionally a less expensive (although nonetheless fairly pricey) method of incomes highly effective playing cards for multiplayer. Blizzard reveal just a few of them in this blog post, which additionally has extra particulars concerning the journey.
Buying the entire journey will get you 35 playing cards, earned by taking part in 4 chapters with three encounters every. That’s 24 battles whole.
The complete shebang prices £17/$20/€20. You can nab it within the Blizzard launcher or from their website. It’ll go stay later at the moment.
