Elemental: War of Magic is a game built on solid core concepts, refined and honed in an attempt to distill them down in to their "fun essence." The team at Stardock has a lot of experience refining their core elements down and allowing the player freedom to explore those concepts how they'd like. It may sound like a simple concept, but execution can be troublesome. At the same time we're going to look at an indie title out of Japan, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, who provides us a simple game that manages to be entertaining despite repetition. How do these two games relate, you ask? I'll tell you once you click that "Read more" button...