A rocking chair is a classic and comforting piece of furniture that many people enjoy having in their homes. It provides a relaxing and soothing motion that can help to calm the mind and body. Home Depot, a popular home improvement store, offers a wide range of rocking chairs for sale, including various styles and designs to suit different tastes and preferences. One unique type of rocking chair that Home Depot offers is the witch rocking chair. This particular rocking chair features a spooky and whimsical design that is perfect for those who love Halloween or have a fascination with witches and magic. The chair is typically made of durable materials such as wood or metal, ensuring its longevity and stability.
"Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes" is back in "Definitive Edition" as of 20th July.
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The chair is typically made of durable materials such as wood or metal, ensuring its longevity and stability. The witch rocking chair at Home Depot can come in various colors, with a typical choice being black to match the witch theme. The chair often has intricate detailing, such as a carved broomstick backrest, pointed hat armrests, and spiderweb motifs on the seat.
Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes - Definitive Edition review: return of the match-3 king?
Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes was one of those Nintendo DS games that I never played at the time but had always heard was very good. Its unusual triple-decker sandwich of strategic, match-three RPG puzzling hasn't really been replicated in the fifteen-odd years since it first came out, unless you count its own HD remaster that came out in 2011. Alas, with that version now having gone off sale on PC in favour of this further spruced up Definitive Edition, this is now the best and only way to play it. Originally developed by the same core team at Capybara Games that went on to make the excellent Grindstone, this Definitive Edition has been handled entirely by remake house Dotemu, and yep, I now see what all the fuss is about. However, I also have quite a lot of reservations about it. For all its clear, obvious brilliance, it's also a very hard game to love. Because it really is very hard, and I still can't quite decide if I'm having fun or not.
Having not played either the original or the HD remaster, I obviously can't speak to whether Dotemu have made any substantial changes to the balancing of the AI in Clash Of Heroes here. But man alive, I'd almost argue that this is the game that should have been called Grindstone, because eking out a victory in these 15-20 minute battles is sometimes like pulling actual teeth - and it will repeatedly whomp you into next week if you don't keep pace with its story missions by completing various side scuffles and bounty contracts - all of which are just as difficult and challenging as its critical path.
As reinforcement calls create an ever-shifting board of obstacles, planning ahead is quite difficult in Clash Of Heroes, and the actual moment of victory/defeat can sometimes feel like a fluke than a calculated tactical strike. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Dotemu
These story missions are spread across five individual campaigns that all focus on different hero characters and their respective army factions. They all play a role in an ongoing story, but once a campaign's finished, you're onto the next one with no carryover between your items, units, money, nothing. This sounds stingy, but it does make rough sense in the moment - after a sudden demon attack causes several characters to fall through a portal, scattering them across the land, each hero character must all build up their respective armies from scratch as they work to fight the big bad. The upsides is that you don't need to be stingy yourself with buying more powerful units, as the amount of gold and gems you earn across a campaign far outstretch what you actually need to purchase them. But it does also mean that the rhythms of each campaign start to feel you're going through the motions again and again as you move from one to the other.
This feeling of déjà vu is kept at bay somewhat by the different battle styles of each army. Each have their own quirks to learn and exploit, and some campaigns are deliberately more puzzle-y than others. The first clutch of battles you fight with Anwen and her forest pals, for example, are mostly straightforward 'defeat the enemy' affairs to get you comfortable with its battle system. Godric and his knightly crew of Ghost & Goblin extras, on the other hand, bring more specific challenges to the table - hit a trio of archers who occasionally peek out from behind a bunch of pillars, for example, or strike two chains simultaneously to let down a gate. It's a welcome bit of variety, but these specific mission types feel few and far between overall. For the most part, you're still biffing large HP bars and trying to figure out how you can possibly one-up the extreme competence of your opponents.
Battles are played out on big grided tennis courts in Clash Of Heroes. Your opponent always rains down from the top, while you steam in from below. Apart from those challenge missions mentioned above, your most common objective is to lob attacks onto the other side of the board to hit that aforementioned HP bar that runs the width of the board behind their units. Sounds simple enough, but with attacks depleting in power over time as they fight through the hordes in front of them, attacks can often fizzle out before they can even get there, so you'll need to plan (as much as you can) accordingly to win the day.
The dialogue is. showing its age somewhat, but it does at least barrel along and doesn't outstay its welcome. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Dotemu What's actually new in this Definitive Edition?
Here's the boring technical stuff. Visually, this Definitive Edition isn't all that different from the 2011 HD remaster. It hides the campaign UI on the overworld node map to give it a cleaner look (though you can still press various keys to access individual menus), and its character portraits have also been touched up with higher resolution artwork and a more obvious anime look.
It also includes the I Am The Boss DLC (which also has a newly created multiplayer boss within it), unspecified "quality of life improvements", and an "expanded, fully reworked and re-balanced online mode". I haven't been able to test this yet, as I've been playing this ahead of it coming out. As such, this review focuses on the single-player campaign mode only.
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Dotemu
All this is the same as it ever was, of course, with the same going for its unit types. Units come in various flavours that differ from army to army, but they all function more or less the same. Whack three of the same colour of your basic rank and file into a vertical column, and they'll start charging up to perform an attack. Arrange three of them horizontally, on the other hand, and they'll transform into a defensive barrier that sweeps forward to the top of your board to protect your lads from incoming attacks.
There are also 2x1 Elite units that need two of the same colour behind them to deploy, and chunky 2x2 Champions that need to inhale four accompanying units of their corresponding colour to really start bringing out the big guns. If you're short on lads for them to gobble up, you can spend one of your limited action points calling for reinforcements, or you can choose to remove a unit to match those threes elsewhere in your line-up, which will earn you back one of those points in the process. Finally, you can chain-link colour types together to do more damage by setting them up to attack on the same turn, and even stack them into columns of six to create a souped up version of them.
It's certainly not short on strategic variety, then, but for me at least, the friction comes from how far in advance these attacks are telegraphed. For example, even basic units can take two or three turns to charge up, with larger units taking four or five, or sometimes more. You can set things in motion all you want, but when reinforcements are constantly changing the layout and make-up of what's in front of you, planning anything long-term becomes almost impossible. Similarly, if there have been any substantial changes to the AI balancing in this Definitive Edition, you can bet it's going to be here, in their ability to plan, counter and defend against your moves, that they'll be most keenly felt (and also most likely to really muller things on the fun scale).
The new character portraits certainly look a lot more modern, but overall it's generally a fairly light facelift compared to the HD remaster. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Dotemu Some battles are more puzzle-focused, such as only whacking this prison cell, rather than a specific enemy health bar. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Dotemu
Your opponents are universally canny old bastards, you see, and will instantly set about blocking every attack you make - often with not one, but two stacked columns of their own units. They're particularly skilled in manoeuvring their units to chain similar colour types together, too, and almost always seemed to have better luck than me in the reinforcement draw. Whereas my units would typically arrive in what I'd almost describe as offensively bad colour combinations, or with oceans of small guys sitting uselessly in front of my larger units (who can only merge with them backwards, not forwards), their units would somehow always fall just so, either into neat little groups, or with elites first and other units behind. I'd then spend numerous turns just about sorting them all out into a decent attack order, while my opponent would have already queued up four chained attacks about to strike on the next go, and probably have a champion queued up to nuke me on the next one. A mild exaggeration, perhaps, but that's what it often felt like.
Again, it's possible that this, too, is the same as it's always been. Matthew (RPS in peace) assures me the DS version was hard as nails, too, and I certainly wouldn't want any new version of it to pander to modern sensibilities just for the sake of it. If it was this hard back then, then it should be this hard now, too. But I'm not gonna lie - the complete and utter walloping I've experienced while playing Clash Of Heroes - Definitive Edition has also come as something of a surprise to me, and I consider myself reasonably well-versed in both puzzle and turn-based strategy games as a whole. So I say this more as a warning than a slight - although if there have been changes made to the way it's been balanced, then it's most certainly a slight rather than a warning. Also, its excessive and seemingly constant loading screens can get in the sea. I literally have no time for them.
Battles give you a lot to chew on, and boss battles in particular can be great fun as you work to defeat a single enemy on the board rather than a health bar at the back. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Dotemu
Despite all this, though, there's still a lot to like and admire here. I can see why people loved it so intensely at the time, and even now Clash Of Heroes feels like a true original. There's simply not a lot else like it - although given how hard it is, I can perhaps see why. Still, even knowing what I know now, if I was faced with the prospect of popping down £15 on a game I'd heard so much about for the last decade and a half, I'd honestly probably still give it a pop, you know? Loading times and all. I'd be more sceptical if it were double that price, say, but fifteen quid is a lot more palatable, and not so high that it wouldn't satisfy my initial curiosity for it. And if its online scene takes off (as it did with the HD remaster), then just experiencing it through multiplayer might lessen the problems I encountered in the campaign. A tentative recommendation, then, although probably more for strategy die-hards than casual toe-dippers.
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Reviews for "Add a Touch of Witchcraft to Your Home with a Home Depot Rocking Chair"
1. Jane - 1/5 stars - The Home Depot rocking chair witch was a complete disappointment. The chair arrived with scratches and a broken armrest. The quality of the materials used was very poor, and the chair felt flimsy and unstable when I sat on it. Additionally, the design of the witch was tacky and unattractive. I regret purchasing this chair and would not recommend it to anyone.
2. Mike - 2/5 stars - While the concept of a rocking chair witch seemed fun, the execution was lacking. The chair was uncomfortable to sit on and had very limited range of motion. The paint on the witch's face started chipping off after only a few weeks of use, making it even more unappealing. The chair also creaked loudly whenever I rocked back and forth, making it rather annoying to sit in. Overall, I expected better quality and design from Home Depot.
3. Sarah - 1/5 stars - I had high hopes for the Home Depot rocking chair witch, but it fell short of my expectations. The chair arrived with missing bolts, making it impossible to assemble properly. Despite contacting customer service, I received no help or resolution. As a result, the chair remains unused and it was a waste of money. I am extremely disappointed with the poor quality and lack of customer support.