For a moment, I'm going to go against the various labels that have been given to Celestial Heavens during the past year (did I hear whiners and elitists?!) and declare my love to Hammers of Fate. Since I needed the expansion for my work on this site, I went out and bought the expansion on Saturday afternoon. I started the Haven campaign last night just to see what it was all about, and I'm been playing my way through the fourth mission, which represents nearly half of my progress on the original campaign, believe it or not. I hope you guys won't burn me if I say that Freyda's campaign gave me flashbacks of the Restoration of Erathia.

The fact that the Dwarves make their first appearance in the fourth mission is not a problem at all in my opinion; it's actually useful for the progression of the plot and replaying a familiar town is probably a good idea if you have left the game on the side for a while. I also thought the design of the maps was slightly better than the first campaigns of the base game, but maybe my judgment is biased because of the time I spent in Dark Messiah's awful spider nests. From my window, I could even see the first snow of the season fall as I got closer to the dwarven territory in the game. Now, if only Ubival didn't rely so much on spoken dialogs to tell us what is going on between missions. Maybe what this game needs is a frickin' narrator...