🎮 Platform: PC
⌚ Time to finish - 12h (75% completion)
🏆Trophy completion - 75% - all base game and no kaycee mod trophies were completed. This is a card game and act 1 is heavily random, so some of your trophies may take a while to get thanks to RNJesus. However, I did not mind and went for it.
🤬Difficulty - The game starts of very difficult, and I would say act 1 is still the most difficult. I slept through act 2. Mostly slept through act 3. I have experience with at least 200-300 hours of hearthstone, so that helps a lot here. Act1 - is midrange deck, act 2 is aggro deck, act 3 is ramp deck. Generally i find the game too hard or too easy. It never gets the difficulty right. For example... you can get a bunch of 1 cost 3/1 cards in act 2 and after easily....and you only need +5 damage on opponent to win. If you have some experience in card games you know how OP this is.
🌄Graphics – Its fine.... nothing to write home about. Sometimes it was overly dark... I don't know why. It doesn't add anything. Their creepy vibe was already in full effect without this extra frustration.
I am not going to say more but they try to do interesting things and change things up... however I feel they change it up too much! I get why they do it but things change all the time. Sometimes even boards change fight to fight and you keep having to adjust and learn. I guess overall I did not mind this as it forced me to not auto pilot the game.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – Loved it. As with the whole game Act1 does it the best... then each act subsequently has less of it.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Not going to say anything to ruin it. But I liked the unique way the story is told. It reminded me of this one 90s movie that everyone was obsessed about. B******** (you know what I am talking about if you played the game :))
However, if you are looking for any sort of closure or clarity... well there is none of that. Its all just theories and sometimes far-fetched internet theories. Some of them are pretty cool.... apparently the internet has deciphered some polish note hidden in game clues, that explain the actual story of the game... I did not like this that the actual story is never told. What they do tell you is interesting but leaves more questions than answers. Very frustrating.
🤺 Combat – This is a card game. Are you familiar with Hearthstone, Magic, etc? Then you know exactly what to do. However, the most interesting parts of this game is the boss card battles, who bring super unique mechanics, and the slay the spire like game play. I guess the best way to describe this game is its a mix of slay the spire + hearthstone + escape room game. Its all very interesting..... up until the point where you hit the issue every card game has.... RNJesus and Counter decks, bad draws.
Overall the AI you play against feels smart, and never overly cheap.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Worth doing! Explore everything!!!!! don't rush it. Press every button, go to every spot, try every card. DO EVERYTHING! there are so many mechanics in this game and exploration is rewarding. You often get something to help you if you are struggling.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Apart from unnecessarily dark walkways its fine.
📣 Voice acting – actual gameplay have no voice cutscenes do. It’s fine.
🥇 Best thing about the game - A mix of interesting card game elements and mechanics. A unique way of telling the story. Boss battles are the best. I wish i had a boss battle mode.
👎 Worst thing about the game - No real clarity on the greater story. I feel like we see one act in a large story. Possible string of bad RNG can F your runs. Act 1 is the biggest offender rest aren't bad.
💡Final Thoughts:
Definitely play it. It starts off strong a 4-4.5, ends as a 3.5. The boss battles are the best. I wish I could just play the bosses in a gauntlet so I can really experience their unique mechanisms. I also gave Kaycee mod a shot, which focuses mainly on act1 and playing it interesting and hard ways. However, I soon was reminded why I stopped play hearthstone, slay the spire, and more. There is so much RNG in card games that many runs are dead on arrival. And its just a grind. No thanks!
⌚ Time to finish - 12h (75% completion)
🏆Trophy completion - 75% - all base game and no kaycee mod trophies were completed. This is a card game and act 1 is heavily random, so some of your trophies may take a while to get thanks to RNJesus. However, I did not mind and went for it.
🤬Difficulty - The game starts of very difficult, and I would say act 1 is still the most difficult. I slept through act 2. Mostly slept through act 3. I have experience with at least 200-300 hours of hearthstone, so that helps a lot here. Act1 - is midrange deck, act 2 is aggro deck, act 3 is ramp deck. Generally i find the game too hard or too easy. It never gets the difficulty right. For example... you can get a bunch of 1 cost 3/1 cards in act 2 and after easily....and you only need +5 damage on opponent to win. If you have some experience in card games you know how OP this is.
🌄Graphics – Its fine.... nothing to write home about. Sometimes it was overly dark... I don't know why. It doesn't add anything. Their creepy vibe was already in full effect without this extra frustration.
I am not going to say more but they try to do interesting things and change things up... however I feel they change it up too much! I get why they do it but things change all the time. Sometimes even boards change fight to fight and you keep having to adjust and learn. I guess overall I did not mind this as it forced me to not auto pilot the game.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – Loved it. As with the whole game Act1 does it the best... then each act subsequently has less of it.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Not going to say anything to ruin it. But I liked the unique way the story is told. It reminded me of this one 90s movie that everyone was obsessed about. B******** (you know what I am talking about if you played the game :))
However, if you are looking for any sort of closure or clarity... well there is none of that. Its all just theories and sometimes far-fetched internet theories. Some of them are pretty cool.... apparently the internet has deciphered some polish note hidden in game clues, that explain the actual story of the game... I did not like this that the actual story is never told. What they do tell you is interesting but leaves more questions than answers. Very frustrating.
🤺 Combat – This is a card game. Are you familiar with Hearthstone, Magic, etc? Then you know exactly what to do. However, the most interesting parts of this game is the boss card battles, who bring super unique mechanics, and the slay the spire like game play. I guess the best way to describe this game is its a mix of slay the spire + hearthstone + escape room game. Its all very interesting..... up until the point where you hit the issue every card game has.... RNJesus and Counter decks, bad draws.
Overall the AI you play against feels smart, and never overly cheap.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Worth doing! Explore everything!!!!! don't rush it. Press every button, go to every spot, try every card. DO EVERYTHING! there are so many mechanics in this game and exploration is rewarding. You often get something to help you if you are struggling.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Apart from unnecessarily dark walkways its fine.
📣 Voice acting – actual gameplay have no voice cutscenes do. It’s fine.
🥇 Best thing about the game - A mix of interesting card game elements and mechanics. A unique way of telling the story. Boss battles are the best. I wish i had a boss battle mode.
👎 Worst thing about the game - No real clarity on the greater story. I feel like we see one act in a large story. Possible string of bad RNG can F your runs. Act 1 is the biggest offender rest aren't bad.
💡Final Thoughts:
Definitely play it. It starts off strong a 4-4.5, ends as a 3.5. The boss battles are the best. I wish I could just play the bosses in a gauntlet so I can really experience their unique mechanisms. I also gave Kaycee mod a shot, which focuses mainly on act1 and playing it interesting and hard ways. However, I soon was reminded why I stopped play hearthstone, slay the spire, and more. There is so much RNG in card games that many runs are dead on arrival. And its just a grind. No thanks!