It's been a while, is splinterlands still the same? / Starting again??

Good evening buzzers!

Recently, I was asking for new game recommendations on Hive. Someone mentioned Arcade Colony, so I had a little nosey and was reminded of Splinterlands! (PS, still looking for 'all' Hive games to add to our Gamefolio on slothbuzz.com)

I used to play Splinterlands, many moons ago. I lost my account, refound it some years later, then transferred all my cards to the alt I was using after losing my main. Or something rather confusing like that! Typical sloth with buzzy brain behaviour to be honest! Is Splinterlands still the same game? What's changed, what's new? Let's take a fresh look at Splinterlands, Hive's biggest game, and probably the reason most of you are on Hive!

So, is anything new? Let's start from the beginning!

I mean, first off, I'm drawn to little red circles! Interestingly, someone has invited me to a guild. I guess being on Hive for many years has some benefits!

Did Splinterlands always have those little notifications? Who knows, I know I can't remember! I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of that throughout this post! Onwards...what's new? a Tutorial? Book 1 - Waur Medge Academy.

Let's head off to the academy, although there's already a warning that this won't be plain sailing. I guess we need to face these challenges if we truly want to become a champion! What do we have in store?

A BATTLE?!??! OMG! We have only one card in our hand? Can we achieve victory from the jaws of defeat? Let's see!

Oh wow! There's even cool cutscenes! Let's hope we don't fizzle a bit too much! I don't want to face that dragon!

Hehe, the lazy old codger set our first task, to move a tree! Love it! But, just when we've moved it 30 minutes later, he got spooked and made off with Fizziebit's card! oh no!! Now it's upto me to defeat a DIRE BEAR?!?!? WHATTTT!!!

It looks like I'll need to play my only card, a Dread Tafarian. I mean, it looks pretty cool! A hefty shield, only 1 damage though, let's select it and jump into battle!

Thankfully, the Direbear isn't much stronger and has lower health. Let's click through the rest of the tutorial and see if we can overcome it!

We won!

Hurrar!

I mean, it should have been expected, otherwise our journey would have been over before it even began! Well, on with our journey, let's see if we can find fizzies cards!

We've earned our first cards and completed the first stage of the Prologue. We're on our way to world domination!

I think I'll leave the post here, though. This could be a fun little mini series of posts if I get the buzz again! Looking forward to getting back into Splinterlands, one slothly step at a time!

Unril next time,
Sloth out!