Marking as 'finished' since I beat Top Jockeys for the first time after about 30 hours. Pocket Card Jockey is just flat-out great game looping. There's a good amount of variance & randomness to prevent it from getting too monotonous, although I think the difficulty curve is tuned just sliiightly too high for the amount of randomness – no clue how much, if any, balancing they adjusted from the original 3DS version but it doesn't feel like they changed much there. Foals also feel a little irrelevant compared to several premades that Just Work at an equal level to some of my best foals, though I'm not sure how much my foals will start to get juiced up after breeding some from my Top Jockeys winner, could be significant. All in all, very unchanged from the 3DS version (except for the fantastic new 3d graphics) and that's a great thing. Razor-sharp localization, too – just one of the most raw fun games I've ever played.

Reviewed on Feb 27, 2023


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