Excerpted from the review:
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A strong link between the games remain in the system if not in the express setting.
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Huh? There never was a strong link between the Storyteller games and Ars Magica, and the setting links were weak. As far as I can tell from the review, the only "strong link between the games" in the system is that both games use d10s.
Random references to old World of Darkness games (vampiric Tremere, technocracy, Paradox, et cetera) starting off the review was being targeted to old World of Darkness fans -- but this focus was dropped into the body of the review. In fact, the body was an extremely high-altitude overview of Ars Magica. Not terribly specific to this edition at all, and again peppered with oddly disconnected comments (e.g.,
"even if that character normally began his career 5’4” and ended it 4’8” "). And finally finishes up with an editorial paragraph or two about gaming pdf downloads.
This was a very strange review.