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Rating System:
5 stars - a perfect game
4 - very good
3 - decent but flawed
2 - I wouldn't recommend it
1 - I would actively recommend against it
0.5 - literally unplayable
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Nice pixel art work here, and it has some nice gimmicks with trying to figure out the synergies to build decks around. But there's far too much grinding necessary, and far too much repetition between games. And for a deck-building game there really didn't feel like enough variety in cards. Maybe I just didn't make it far enough into the game, but at least early on it doesn't feel like there's enough cards for there to be very many different strategies, and it takes a round or two to get enough resources to unlock a single new card.
The gameplay also feels a little awkwardly paced. With your character auto-battling and you just putting new cards down as they come in, it feels like you want to just leave the game idle, not giving it your full attention. But then with the speed cards come in, and the limited inventory size, you can't idle too much or you just won't get anywhere and end up losing. I think the issue is just that there's too much in the way of menial tasks to do with putting the same cards down over and over, without enough meaningful decision making in between.
The gameplay also feels a little awkwardly paced. With your character auto-battling and you just putting new cards down as they come in, it feels like you want to just leave the game idle, not giving it your full attention. But then with the speed cards come in, and the limited inventory size, you can't idle too much or you just won't get anywhere and end up losing. I think the issue is just that there's too much in the way of menial tasks to do with putting the same cards down over and over, without enough meaningful decision making in between.
A combination rogue-lite dungeon crawler and town builder. These two gameplay sections feed into each other to create a satisfying game loop: doing the dungeons earns you materials to build up your town of cultists, building the town earns you better weapons and spells for the dungeons. However, neither of these elements are strong enough to stand out on their own.
The game does have a lot of style and it's fun enough for a while. Just would have liked a little more depth.
The game does have a lot of style and it's fun enough for a while. Just would have liked a little more depth.
Got this game through Jingle Jam 2021.
I'm not much of a VN fan, but I do enjoy some Picross, so I thought I'd give this one a try. I played for about an hour, and in that time I only got to play 2 or 3 Picross puzzles. I would hope that was just because it was the intro to the game and they wanted to get the exposition out of the way, but it really put me off. I thought this game would be mostly Picross with some story elements on the side, but there was a lot more story than I anticipated. And the story wasn't really hooking me in, I didn't really care for any of the characters. I'm sure this game might be great for the right audience, but it wasn't for me.
I'm not much of a VN fan, but I do enjoy some Picross, so I thought I'd give this one a try. I played for about an hour, and in that time I only got to play 2 or 3 Picross puzzles. I would hope that was just because it was the intro to the game and they wanted to get the exposition out of the way, but it really put me off. I thought this game would be mostly Picross with some story elements on the side, but there was a lot more story than I anticipated. And the story wasn't really hooking me in, I didn't really care for any of the characters. I'm sure this game might be great for the right audience, but it wasn't for me.