Tesla Reviews – Sentinels of the Multiverse

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As you’ve probably figured out by the rest of the blog, we’re a group that likes card games. Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic the Gathering, Cardfight Vanguard… if it comes on an overpriced cardboard rectangle, someone here has tried it. I’m no exception, and might actually be the biggest card game nerd of us all.

So it was a great day when one of my friends outside the blog group introduced me to Sentinels of the Multiverse, a card game about superheroes fighting supervillains. It was as far removed from my normal trading card game bubble as possible – decks are pre-made without any alterations allowed, and the game is cooperative instead of competitive.

It took some getting used to, but the game soon became one of my favourite tabletop games… despite a whole bunch of flaws. Let’s start off my return to this crazy old blog of ours and dive into Sentinels of the Multiverse.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s, Aki Izayoi, and Rehabilitation

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s, Aki Izayoi, and Rehabilitation

While composing my thoughts for the follow up to my last post I realized that while I could easily talk about the big themes being conveyed in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s and touch on which characters represent which aspects in an abstract manner, I wouldn’t really have the time or space to touch upon some other aspects. I regrettably had to gloss over much of what 5D’s has to say with Aki. So let’s fix that. While this is largely a companion piece to my post on The Fortune Cup, I will be discussing Aki Izayoi throughout the series, rather than focus on how one single story arc used her character. There will be spoilers.

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