Faerie Solitaire Remastered

I enjoyed the original a lot, but the Remastered version falls far short. It's feels like a commercial for the DLC, with buttons everywhere and the grimoire that does nothing in the base game. Pet collection has become a grind. In the original, you could collect all pets in Adventure mode and evolve most of them. Challenge Mode was enough to let you finish the set. Here, Adventure mode got me 1/3 of the pets and I could only evolve 8. I'm maybe 20% of the way towards completing the set. It would probably take another 100 hours to complete. The "shortcut" is a hidden shop they don't tell you about. Challenge mode is simply not fun. There are no rules and it just feels like Calvinball. One level has cards that aren't explained. One has a completion message that doesn't follow the listed rules. One level I had five Aces showing at once. One level was probably bugged; I had a 4 showing but couldn't put 3s or 5s on it, but could put the covered-up Queen from halfway down the stack on top. The whole Challenge mode is just a mess. The original I'd rate 8/10. Remastered, 4/10.

The latest DLC is more than a bit of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. * The veritable сrapton of new card types, which look almost identical to each other, and you can only look them up by going thru a menu with a list that is just that, a list, you have to scroll and click through all of the remotely resembling ones to figure out what the flying ♥♥♥♥ do you have out in the field -- instead of a pop-up on hover for known ones. * Accessing the arcane tower is also thru the аrse -- it is directly accessible from some menus, but from the actual in-play menu, you need to call up the menu, go to the faerie land, switch to the night, then click on the tower even just to *access* it. The go thru the equally сrappy and unhelpful interface inside it. * The story is... Well, in the main game, the story "twist" was seen in the chapter 1. In this one, you sure can't see it even when it steps on you because the "story" is so discombobulated, you can't figure out what happened within one sentence, there's not only no logic, there's no semblance of cohesiveness. It really reminds something written by a LLM that can't remember the start of the sentence. * The collection/achievement parts are screwed up as well. There are separate nightside pets, and you can only get t hose in the nightside story, and "normal" ones only in the "normal" story. So if you miss one of the "normal" ones, you'd have to grind thru the old one. In addition, the achievement counting gold spent does not count anything spent previously, even if you have the shop upgrades maxed out and cannot further upgrade them (you can still burn gold on mats though). * There's an increased amount of layouts where the value part of the card is not visible, so you have to remember them by the pictures. (I even had to make [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3640541570]this guide[/url] so I can easily look them up.) *Many new concepts are not explained or even mentioned anywhere. What is setting a pet as favorite for? What's the difference between a perfect and a heroic perfect other than well, the obvious? * Said heroic perfects are often not possible (the last gilded card, triggering normal perfect, has more cards under it, and there is no way to tell in advance which cards are gilded, therefore plan for it). * Browsing through the pets is a PITA, too. You can see how many you've found and how many you've evolved, but NOT eggs, hatched and ready to evolve, which you have to check by clicking thru every single page. Seeing what resources you need to evolve them is also only by hovering, instead of just showing it next to their names.