Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I love when virtual card games have a little mini-rpg wrapper around them. I dunno, walking around an rpg map and talking to NPCs in between matches just makes me happy! Much like the Pokemon TCG gameboy game, Card Fighters is charming and mostly intuitive, with gorgeous pixel art. Some of the effect descriptions can be a bit confusing, but my main gripe is that the game is fairly stingy with card drops. You should expect to play against the same stable of opponents numerous times to earn some of the higher rarity cards. That wouldn't be so bad (I enjoy grinding every now and then), but because the drip of new cards was so slow, I never felt like my deck ever evolved past 'disorganized pile of the best cards I own'. There are legitimate card synergies present in the game, so it would have been neat to build into a specific archetype or strategy. Still, the game is full of life and joy, and captures a lot of what I enjoy about TCGs.