I appreciate how different this game is. It tries an interesting setting with fairly unique gameplay. It has some hits, it has some misses, but is overall a unique package that's worth trying out.
The story follows a land of winged people as they struggle to stop an evil empire from reviving a dead god to destroy the world. It takes some twists and turns along the way but is overall a fairly standard scrappy band saves the world story.
Now the gameplay is where this game shines. The card combat system feels unique as its not just a deck builder, but also tasks you with creating poker hands out of the numbers on your weapon/armor cards for extra bonuses while also holding you to a strict time limit to prevent the combat from taking forever while you pick the ideal card combo. Late game is when this system shines as these bonuses become the majority of your damage and you watch the numbers climb ever higher.
Some downsides to this game however are the card aging system that sees all of your healing food items rot after a set amount of time as well as your consumable key items being that both age and expire the same way and must be refreshed for side quests.
For example, a sidequest asks you for yogurt. You can pick up milk at one location and wait for it to age into yogurt, but you must be quick, because it will then age again into cheese before too long. Managing these consumable key items are a pain the entire game as it makes makes clear what is valuable and worth keeping and what is garbage you should throw away to make space for other items from your limited slots.
The lack of backtracking also makes it frustrating to do sidequests across multiple islands as you wont know when you'll be allowed back and by then your items will have aged into something else you can't use.
A lot of the most annoying parts of this game are optional, so it really is up to you how frustrating a time you have with this game or if you choose to ignore all of that and just enjoy the main story and gameplay for what it is.
The story follows a land of winged people as they struggle to stop an evil empire from reviving a dead god to destroy the world. It takes some twists and turns along the way but is overall a fairly standard scrappy band saves the world story.
Now the gameplay is where this game shines. The card combat system feels unique as its not just a deck builder, but also tasks you with creating poker hands out of the numbers on your weapon/armor cards for extra bonuses while also holding you to a strict time limit to prevent the combat from taking forever while you pick the ideal card combo. Late game is when this system shines as these bonuses become the majority of your damage and you watch the numbers climb ever higher.
Some downsides to this game however are the card aging system that sees all of your healing food items rot after a set amount of time as well as your consumable key items being that both age and expire the same way and must be refreshed for side quests.
For example, a sidequest asks you for yogurt. You can pick up milk at one location and wait for it to age into yogurt, but you must be quick, because it will then age again into cheese before too long. Managing these consumable key items are a pain the entire game as it makes makes clear what is valuable and worth keeping and what is garbage you should throw away to make space for other items from your limited slots.
The lack of backtracking also makes it frustrating to do sidequests across multiple islands as you wont know when you'll be allowed back and by then your items will have aged into something else you can't use.
A lot of the most annoying parts of this game are optional, so it really is up to you how frustrating a time you have with this game or if you choose to ignore all of that and just enjoy the main story and gameplay for what it is.