Not every game needs to be an epic experience.  Sometimes you just want to have a little, innocent fun..... remember fun gaming.  Unfortunately, the major gaming studios seem to have forgotten that and are churning out multi-million dollar titles that promise a virtual lifetime of gameplay, such simplistic gaming fare is hard to find these days.  Attempting to fill this void is the plucky little game called Kingdom Elemental, by Chronic Logic.  Taking a decidedly unique take upon the fantasy battles genre, Kingdom Elemental might be just the game to fill those slower moments in your gaming life.

 A booming James Earl Jones wannabe voice bids you welcome quickly dissolving in to laughter poking fun at those games that take themselves too seriously...... for those of you who are serious about your rpg this perhaps isn’t the title for you.  The tutorial takes you through the basics of moving and rotating the map and zooming using either the mouse or the keyboard. You also cover buying and placing units and selecting them for battle.  Even though my laptop more than met the specifications for running this game, i found it lag and play slow even through the tutorial.

The light hearted nature of the game is reflected in the map which shows you the progression through the game.  Even the loading screen that proclaims “There was a skill that ended up being cut from Kingdom Elemental called “nag”. The sound clip for the skill was to be the developer’s girlfriend asking him to pick up some things from the store on the way home. The skill would kill all enemies on the board.” Not all us women nag you know... well at least not all the time anyway ( honest!).