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Flavor text doesn't seem like something that'd be hard to do, and done well it adds personality. Team Fortress and Sequence have their irreverent humor to set the tone; Diablo, Warcraft and the like have lore that fleshes out the world; and MagicTG has both, often at the same time. It helps color the player's impression of the game, without impacting the game itself* much.

Come to think, I don't think I've run into bad flavor text. I can think of ways it could be used poorly or inappropriately,** but the worst that I've seen is merely informative-- without flavor, but not tasteless, as it were.


*Whatever that means. I could, f'rinst, compare flavor text to art style-- can add flavor, affects the game's tone, fleshes impressions-- but art is necessarily more intrusive than flavor text and may be considered moreso part of "the game itself."***

**Contains offensive or irrelevant content, is too long, is put in places it need not be...

***Whatever that means.