Recesses

I played hours and hours of the demo. Had an absolute blast with a friend back-seating to build decks, weigh probabilities... Before fully exhausting its contents, I decided to purchase the full game. That's how much I love it! At first, it seems like the first idea someone might come up with for a digital card game; you and your opponent pick a card in secret, the one with a bigger number wins... Information is tracked in a way that would be impossible in a physical game, which comes off inelegant and fussy... But once you get used to it and see more of the cards, it blossoms. Imagine [i]Love Letter[/i] or [i]Terrible Monster[/i], one of those "Take that!"-style trick taking games, but as a collectible card games. The game has a very particular roguelite structure focused on [i]deck construction[/i] (making a deck freely from a permanent collection) instead of [i]deck building[/i] (like [i]Dominion[/i] or [i]Slay the Spire)[/i]. With that in mind, its structure addresses some issues in campaign-focused CCG video games. Like... What motivates you to refight CPUs? How do you keep refights fresh? How do you enforce a power curve without enforcing a relentless grind? How do you make players [i]excited[/i] for deck-restricted challenges, instead of annoyed? This game has a perfect balance of pain and convenience, and so rivals best-in-class campaign-centered CCG games like [i]Pokémon Trading Card Game[/i] on Gameboy or [i]Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle[/i]... And it has way better enemy AI than those. Not gonna talk about the story, even though it made me holler and cheer, because you should go in knowing nothing about it.