A neat idea that unfortunately gets more tedious and frustrating as the game progresses. The general idea for this game is interesting, you play a mute who, with the help of some shady new friends, starts to cheat at card games across all of France.

Cheat successfully, win the hand. Fail to pull off the trick, lose the hand. It's a pretty simple concept and at first the mechanics are fun. The longer you take though and the more suspicious you'll become. The more suspicious you become, the closer you'll become at being called out and lose the game.

It all works relatively nicely, at least at first, but as the game progresses and the tricks and mechanics get more technical (and you have to start remembering even more steps), the more tedious and annoying it all becomes and the less fun it becomes. Near the end of the game I felt like I was tuning a lot of the game out in an effort to just remember the steps I had to do more than anything. It's a bit of a bummer since the game has a nice visual style, solid music, and a nice charm to it. The story is also not half bad, though it does start to become pretty convoluted near the end and the twists are all laid out.

There are multiple endings to this game as well. I'm not sure exactly what changes and effects this game in effort to get these endings since most of the game's story beats are very linear. If you can get this game on a deal, if the general idea intrigues you, I'd recommend it. Maybe the mechanics will click better with others.