Posted on: August 30, 2024
ElDoRado1239
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-1⚝ for the dungeon
A deceivingly complex game with an extreme amount of polish. Unless you dislike the genre, you ought to enjoy this one. From graphics, atmosphere, music and unobtrusive Simlish-like voice overs, to flavor texts on the cards—all perfect. Well, almost, but more on that at the end. As a card-based game, it's natural to expect some randomness, but it is a "curated randomness". You do have direct control over what happens in most instances, many cards trigger specific events, give you specific status effects, make specific cards appear or become available. Most of your choices *will* be purposeful. Moreover, each decision shows its rough effect on the 4 stats you have to keep within 0 and 100 in order to survive. You rarely depend on sheer luck, beyond not knowing what card comes next when no fixed series of cards is currently active. But even the pool of available cards is partially under your control. So, why the -1⚝? Basically, there is an important dungeon which requires luck to even enter, has a strict real-time limit, randomized chests, randomized paths, and a lot of fencing, result of which is random too. And unless it's just me, it's super easy to assume the dungeon is not important, only when you try everything else to get the best ending you might start to think "ok, it's probably the dungeon after all". Game Design Lesson: NEVER EVER force the player to face low-chance RNG and unknowable trial-error actions accessible only after they complete a series of events that are *also* random and/or require time-consuming preparation, let alone give misleading hints that might make the player go "heureka!", only to repeatedly undergo this ordeal and try performing the "correct" action in several ways. Especially not if it involves the main storyline... ____ P.S.: If you are not a completionist and using a walkthrough or leaving the game at "99%" doesn't bother you, ignore this last bit and make it 5⚝.
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