Death Howl

氛围好，但是游戏玩法不太行，如果不介意游戏可玩性差的话还是可以入的 因为看到制作组还在搞一些新模式的东西，而不是去尝试加一些能增添构筑据趣味性和深度的卡牌与设计，还是非常失望的，目前对于这款游戏的未来并不看好

Ошибочно ожидал рогалик, оказался скорее карточный соулс-лайк в стилистике Into the Breach, где ты убиваешь зверюшек и их души нужны для прокачки вообще всего Часто надо пройти 2-3 битвы до следующего "костра", если погибаешь, то души отбирают, тебя же возвращают не на костёр, а в стартовую точку именно этой битвы. Если на костре ты лечишься или вкачиваешь души, то все конечно в округе возрождаются, и ты "с кайфом" перепроходишь, из рандома только выдача карт (колоду из 20 карт настраиваешь сам) Стартовый набор карт скуден, враги очень сильны, даже 2 уже могу предоставлять проблему, 3-4 это вообще уже скорее паззл, а не тактика, где тебе надо открыть карты, найти на них ресурсы, нагриндить на них души, создать и потом уже сражаться Наиграл 2 часа, понял, что прогрессия крайне медленная, посмотрел, что вся игра это 30 часов такого гринда и однотипных боёв, и решил рефандить, а жаль, в наличии красивый пиксель арт, интересная эпоха и любопытные находки в колодостроении PS Жаль нет уровня сложности, где души не отбирают, если бы не необходимость очень долгого гринда, то скорее всего прошёл бы

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Most fun you can have with a deck of cards

Just finished the first playthrough. My game of the year so far! Positive: - Story: amazing toward the end, good build-up - Deck building: especially strong toward the end, many synergies to explore and exploit - Exploration/quests: the four regions are very varied, the quests are interesting and diverse (but few) Neutral: - Balancing: bosses are a bit too easy. Normal fights are hard at the start of each region, but get trivial when a region is almost completed - Graphics: strong pixel art style, maybe not for everybody Negative: - Mid-game some grinding to get all cards - Some say, the deck building is too limited. I enjoyed the newness of each region and card set.

[b]Great grid-based tactical deckbuilder that overstays its welcome a little bit.[/b] Death Howl is a 7x7 tactical combat deckbuilder that doesn't invent anything but puts it in a fun package. It's especially fun if you like the progression of a deckbuilder, that is getting new cards and incrementally building up a stronger and more synergetic deck. The game has you going through 4 biomes, each with its own card set that you craft from scratch and replace the weak base cards. This means you get the discovery phase to mastery experience 4 times. The game is also neatly tuned so you have finished the deck by the same time as you've finished the side and main quests in a biome. If the idea of resetting multiple times is intriguing, then it is probably the right fit for you. Each encounter is designed, and most feel different. The card synergies and interactions go deeper than it initially suggests and there is enough fun there to cover ~3 hours per biome. However, there is a soulslike element with dropping currency if you die and encounters respawning on resting at checkpoints (not death). I'd say the respawning is the worst design choice of the game and it would have been a lot more interesting if you only faced each encounter once, but it doesn't significantly hurt the game. Some reviewers have called it out for being grindy, but I found it just right to find and complete all side quests with as few rests as possible - I rarely had to do an encounter more than twice. [b]My biggest con: for a game where they obviously want players to swap between decks - why are totems (passives) not saved as part of the deck when they are critical to the deck building?[/b] Probably the most baffling lacking feature, and it made me not explore deck building beyond my core decks since it was so tedious to manually remember and shuffle them around each time. I also felt like the game ran a bit too long, it comes down to the encounter respawn and that the final act was just a long gauntlet of fights when you have the decks finished.