The wrong way to play: You opened the Hearthstone client.
The right way to play: You switched Magic, where after spending $400 on cards, you still actually have $400 worth of cards if you have a brain.
Seriously, HS just doesn't even feel good anymore. Spend $100-200/yr to be competitive?
@Viredae: I've been playing MtG: Arena since early beta, and while it's still not finished it's clear they have the playerbase as top priority. Faster means to earn cards, more ways to earn packs, a much friendlier Arena system that lets you keep cards... HS better watch out when they launch. ;)
Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou was an ok one with a pretty dark start. The MC goes from wimp to cold-blooded killer pretty quickly. Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari is another one where the normal Isekai tropes aren't entirely played out, mostly since the MC is a justifiably jaded cynic.
@Jack Suyuthie: Shieldbro is great and people are now translating spear pricks spinoff if you want to see naoufumi as an adorable muffin.(sukasuka is the only one on the list i haven't read yet.
2/2 Tales of the Reincarnated Lord (CN), Tsuki Ga Michibiku Isekai, Wortenia Senki, and Release That Witch! (CN)
I'll also recommend Praise the Orc (KR), and Other World Dining Hall even though neither is isekai. And a thumbs up for Vending Machine, its odd but good.
Isekai is very popular genre in light novels now, so yeah there are a ton of badly written novels because its really popular. There are some good ones, and an awful lot of them that started really good and declined as they went along. A few good ones not mentioned: Goblin King, Dungeon Defense 1/2
@Riccardo Vela: Check "Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?". Rebirth as a spider and as soon as she is born she have to escape her brothers and sisters that are cannibalizing each other and she is on the menu too! Them have to frogs and other monsters that want to eat her and if that was not bad enough those
On the subject of isekai, I'm reading some fairly mainstream series (OVERLORD, Log Horizon), some less well-known series (I'm A Spider, So What?), and some really obscure series (I Reincarnated Into A Vending Machine!).
That last one is exactly what it sounds like and I love it.
Well yeah that's a bit of fantasy is, or really fiction in general.
An idealist or dystopian environment created for entertainment purposes and/or to explore ideas. (Of course this doesnt cover everything)
I love the isekai genre, but I'll also be the first to admit it contain some right trash.
Sifting through the pile of bland disappointments and finding the well-written ones is not unlike finding a gem of a game in a vein that's typically poor-quality though.
Yet, we're talking about mankaka in their early twenties, writing fiction where their unfulfilled desires and broken dreams are reality, where wrongs are righted and where their own neet life is saved and even dignified. Maybe the only one able to say something new after hack//sign was Log Horizon.
Aah, I know what you mean Jo. Honestly, isekai mangas looks all the same: someone gets thrown in another world, there he rejuvinates (or stays young if he's already a teenager) with more power than all the others and uses it to wreak everything and leave girls in awe.
i also love isekai genre, but yes most of it all like Transformers Movie of Light Novel. But some are genuinely good. My recommendation list are : Yojou Senki , Overlord, Konosuba , Deathmarch, Sukasuka, and of course the grandfather of them all Rise of the Shield Hero.
Yogg was hysterical to play before his nerf... Back then even if he killed himself he finished pushing out every single spell that was played. Now... well now if he offs himself it’s over...
what self respecting control priest would ever take twisting nether
for that matter how does control warlock play around mind control and cabal shadow priest other than by not playing anything, which allows the priest to divine spirit + inner fire you
When Yogg rotates to Wild, given just how much more CONSISTENTLY overpowered combos are in that mode, I wish they'd restore our mighty Lord Yogg-Saron's power to its original, pre-nerf glory.
(cont) bad guys that embody a pressuring society described in very cynical terms.
I understand why this genre is successful, but I personally find a bit unealthy that it basically represents the escape to a fictional world as the only solution to one's problems...
Isekai is, by definition, a 'wish fulfilling' genre that frequently answers to the complexes of a large part of young Japanese. Which generally results in: edgy MC gets super strong and cool because he knows how to play video game, gets all the girls, and gets a sort of cathartic revenge over (cont)
