Games With Garfield

I have always been hesitant to review games because I think negative reviews are important, but it pains me giving them and for a game designer it can seem self serving to give them. But I do have a lot to say in terms of game review and have recently come up with an idea of how to approach it. My main interest in game review is to evaluate games in terms of a criteria that are important to me, and often, I believe, underappreciated. One game that scores well in terms of these criteria is Poker – not Texas Hold’em or any form of poker in particular, but poker as a family of games. Another game that scores well, and may cover any weaknesses poker has is Cosmic Encounter. My game reviews are going to focus on my search for their lovechild – Cosmic Poker. Games will have these characteristics in varying degrees – which won’t in generally correspond to them being good or bad in anyones mind, but perhaps closer or further from Cosmic Poker.