Heroes of Newerth

0.05 pencil, a black pen and a couple of markers. A scanner and a little bit of PS magic.

I got a little nostalgic after seeing the last title of a small independent franchise I once really liked, Savage.
I shouldn't be talking about this, it's like trolling, if you don't have anything good to say don't say anything they say, and I really hate the "They changed it now it sucks" kind of fanboys but seriously; They changed it, now it sucks. I needed to say it.
So I'll make a little summary "review" if you may, just because I need to take it out of my chest.

What I liked more about the first title, Savage: The Battle for Newerth, wasn't only the fact that it was a free online game with an innovative gameplay mechanics and a virtually infinite replay value.
The setting itself was very creative and unique. I loved the setting.
The original game had the look and feel of a rather primtive culture, along the lines of native americans that verged toward viking-arabic stylings and used randomly advanced tachnology, fighting evolved beasts with mystic powers.
Ok, it sounds kinda random and schizo tech ruled nonesensically, (it was set in a very distant future) but it looked rather cool.
Picture youself as a nomad going through a forest, grass up to your knees (all including your clothes, toned down between nice hues of realistic browns and greens) and then suddently you heard some steps and wow! it's a massive bear-creature! you draw your shotgun, and make a couple of shots, but it's mostly useless, you draw your hatchets as the beast leaps in your direction ZACH!
There you are dead, but it was pretty awesome!
Now I was very thrilled when I heard there was a second game coming but when I saw it.. something was wrong.. the setting looks all changed. Ok, this scenario is little bit more colorful.. but the humans are all medieval fantasy, just look at the chaplain, what are those colors? Hmn.. well it's probably cool anyway.
*reads further* the the what know? DEMONS? now there are demons. Now the plot of this franchise includes demons for some reason. Visually now most things in this game could perfectly fit inside the Diablo franchise. Why?
Should I really be this shocked? well I liked to think that in the original things just got that way naturally, humanity after a couple million years was bound to fall every now and then and the beast species just naturally evolved, then the plot kicks in.
Apparently it was demons all along!

Then the last game, I won't even make a heavy research on the subject, yes I'm judging a book by it's cover.. or not, I'm just judging the cover of a book really.
So anyway, the concept sounds fun, but man, it's Blizzard all again. Only instead of Diablo, this time is the Warcraft universe. I give up.
I swear I saw some characters that look exactly like elfs and orcs and goblins and dwarfs!
There are paladins and a pandaren monk (I'm not making this shit up) They have lost any reminisence to the original theme in favour of a generalized fantasy kitchen sink..
Fuck that S2 Games! I want to go back to crawl out of the jungle to terrorize a terracota village as a slightly anthropomorphic predator clad in bone armor and devour the villagers while I'm shot at with magnetic rifles ; _ ;

PS: Dear S2 Games, the behemoth according to the first game descends frome elephants so those things on the head are tusks, not horns, they should come out of the mouth, not the sides of the skull > _ <

But oh well...