This year at Origins Game Fair I had some time to kill, so I wondered over to the Mayday games booth and played a demo of Dungeon Busters. What drew me to it was the cute JRPG style characters depicted on the box and cards. After trying it out I decided to pick it up, it was on deep discount and had a fun theme, so why not? But is it worth its full asking price? Read on to find out.
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Lisa the Painful, Score: 7 ~ (PC)
Hilarious and heartbreaking.
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The last few card games I looked at were big complicated games featuring lots and lots of cards. I love games like these, but some people may take one look at the stacks of card board and run the other way. I thought I’d take a break from 100+ card count games and look at something much simple, the 16 card game, Love Letter.
CCGs in RPGS part 2
Thinking back about Triple Triad (referred to as TT from here on) I’ve broken down four key points that I feel are most important to its success as a minigame:
– Simple rules
– Optional, but fleshed out
– Card game feel
– Card Value & High stakes gameplay
Now I would like to take a look at Tetra Master (referred to as TM from here on) to see how it failed an all four points.
CCGs in RPGS part 1
This is the first post in a series called “CCGs in RPGs”. I put together a list of 7 RPG video games that each have their own mini-game featuring some sort of card game where you can create your own deck:
I decided to start with Triple Triad as it was the game that made me want to start this series. But going forward I will do them in chronological order of release, continuing with Arcomage Tetra Master. (While I was researching the Arcomage game, I found out that it is not customizable. Therefore I had to remove it from the list.)
Cantrip 