Gabe and Tycho are Eye of Judgement savants. The two have been obsessing over the game since they played it in San Diego at Comic Con earlier this year.

So when they read that I had the game set-up in my gaming room, Tycho pinged me to see if I’d like to play a match. Which was great, because I’m working on a review of the game and really wanted to get more of a taste for the online play, besides what I’d seen playing it against the Sony rep.

Match one ended quickly, the cards barely used as Tycho handed me my arse in the game. The next week, yesterday in fact, Tycho asked if I was up for another game. Sure, I said. Great, we’ll set up a game…

We?

Oh, Tycho forgot to mention that Gabe, master of the Pokedeck, was joining him in the pwnage. They play coop you see, sitting around their table wearing velvet robes, I suspect, plotting my demise and cackling over my misfortunes.

I tried a little idle smack talk before we launched into our second match, this one powered by a deck I had recently built just for the occasion. The game was even shorter, and results even juicier in pwnage. Dammit.

While I can’t decide if this is a game that will maintain my interest, it’s certainly one that has captured it momentarily and it’s not because of the visual gimmicks.