Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards. Cheat your way to the top of 18th-century French society. Master deceptions using card marking, false shuffles, deck switching, false deals, and more! Use your ill-gotten gains to buy your way into the closed world of high-stakes tables. Card Shark is a new adventure that’s all about playing your cards right.
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This is such a neat game. I really want to rate this higher, but multiple crashes in the last 1/4 of the game, combined with sometimes finicky controls (at least on Switch) for some of the mini-game "tricks," took some of the fun out of it for me. I do recommending giving this game a try.
Time played: 5-6 hrs
Time played: 5-6 hrs
This review contains spoilers
Je n'ai fait qu'une fin sur les 3. J'avais vraiment ma dose de ce jeu, mais pourtant il est très bon. Juste j'en ai eu marre mdr, devoir le recommencer 2 fois, non merci
A lovely game about cheating at cards. I think personally this game excels at everything it's trying to do and everything it's trying to do is absolutely my shit. The art is beautiful and makes it a treat to go to new areas and meet new characters. Another reason it's such a treat to meet new characters is the games writing, I found every character in the game to be compelling to play with. Whether it be a funny encounter with 3 people who have more money then they know what to do with it, or it being a casual game of cards with a young man down on his luck that eventually brings him to ruining his life. I won't say much on the story itself other then that I think it's a very compelling mystery. As for the gameplay itself I think it's pretty good both in it actually being pretty fun and a proper challenge as it goes on. Now overall I feel this game was absolutely amazing and you should play it if you want a very compelling story about deceit and betrayal with some WarioWare style minigames about cheating with cards attached.
PS: the only reason why I'm not giving this game a perfect score is that for some reason I started having a bug happen where it would read A button inputs before pressed even before I did anything which caused me to fail a minigame once or twice
PS: the only reason why I'm not giving this game a perfect score is that for some reason I started having a bug happen where it would read A button inputs before pressed even before I did anything which caused me to fail a minigame once or twice
After a dull opening act spent cleaning tables, the playpen made of WarioWare busywork gives way to la terreur when suddenly you're left to your own devices, combining the comte's mega-microgames into tangible thoughtlines that video games don't often afford us; now we're suddenly playing with the cards adults use!
Later sections often take a psychic toll upon the gamer's undeveloped brain, and it's only right that a game about the pyrrhic toll of cheating eventually becomes so mind-destroying that you end up looking at videos showing you how to cheat at cheating - any% WR for this game is just a guy turning on cheats and then letting the dialogue roll for 50 mins.
Don't want to spoil the potential endings for anyone (because this game is hinging quite a lot on its so-so-story), but I'm glad the developers were following my train of thought as it pulled into Epilogue Station. Bravo gentlemen! The first person to combine this gameplay with an existing card game is gonna clean out the gambling hall. I wanna slip-cut a Pot of Greed into a Yu-Gi-Oh draw deck while sipping a glass of Gamer Fuel.
Later sections often take a psychic toll upon the gamer's undeveloped brain, and it's only right that a game about the pyrrhic toll of cheating eventually becomes so mind-destroying that you end up looking at videos showing you how to cheat at cheating - any% WR for this game is just a guy turning on cheats and then letting the dialogue roll for 50 mins.
Don't want to spoil the potential endings for anyone (because this game is hinging quite a lot on its so-so-story), but I'm glad the developers were following my train of thought as it pulled into Epilogue Station. Bravo gentlemen! The first person to combine this gameplay with an existing card game is gonna clean out the gambling hall. I wanna slip-cut a Pot of Greed into a Yu-Gi-Oh draw deck while sipping a glass of Gamer Fuel.
I LOVED this game. One of my favourite tropes in books/TV shows/movies is the con artist character.
Here, you have a whole group of them, teaching you how to do REAL tricks and cons, with cards, coins and more, to rake in some money.
It doesn't stop there though, this is actually, primarily, a game about the story, which is a masterful alternate history tale with political intrigue and drama that could rival game of thrones.
The art style put me off at first, but along with the music, it really serves to just suck you in to the story and I now think it is fantastic.
This is vastly underrated and one of my favourite games.
Here, you have a whole group of them, teaching you how to do REAL tricks and cons, with cards, coins and more, to rake in some money.
It doesn't stop there though, this is actually, primarily, a game about the story, which is a masterful alternate history tale with political intrigue and drama that could rival game of thrones.
The art style put me off at first, but along with the music, it really serves to just suck you in to the story and I now think it is fantastic.
This is vastly underrated and one of my favourite games.
Ahhhh the French