ollymckinley

An excellent game poorly ported to the PC. All controls are designed for the console and the PC implementation is awful. Starting from basic things like the Escape key not being 'go back' in the menus, to essential combat maneuvers requiring 10+ minutes to google online. Halfway through the tutorial [actually on an online forum], I learned that you need to tell the game you are not using a controller to get tutorial tips for the keyboard + mouse. It would be incredibly simple to make sensible defaults for the keyboard (like using the numbers 1-9 to select weapons, spells or items), but no such effort has been made.

Superb storytelling, gameplay, music, combat, voice acting, graphics and ideas.

As a lover of Magic the Gathering, I have a long list of complaints about Magic Duels, but I somehow find myself spending more time playing it than any other game on the iPad. The changes made with the arrival of Shadows over Innistrad improve the game a lot, speeding up the action somewhat, and fixing the problem of the AI always playing the same decks. Despite bugs and a limited card pool compared to paper Magic, Magic Duels is still deeper in strategy, more addictive and more satisfying than most iPad games.