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Inscryptionplays well but
unfortunately it just
doesn’t know when to
hold ’em and when to
fold ’em. Shame.VERDICTGame Boy Pokémon Trading Card
Game. It trades horror for whimsy,
and calling it ‘a bit different’ would be
an understatement. What was a
one-card-at-a-time deckbuilder
becomes a CCG where I have to
construct a viable deck of 2 0+ cards
from a collection, then tweak it as I
earn booster packs.
Though there’s an automate
option it doesn’t create viably
competitive decks, and I found
manual deck construction a bit of a
chore. Opponents with gimmick
decks that require specific builds to
defeat make it even worse. Get
through this and there’s a third and
final act, which returns to something
more like the format of the first act
only with a sci-fi theme, but
Inscryption lost me before that.
To be totally honest, I was getting
a bit tired of the first act’s structure
before it was over with thanks to
run-based repetition and multi-stage
boss battles. But for those opening
hours, Inscryption was delightfully
creepy and full of new surprises. I
just preferred being trapped in a
spooky cabin to being trapped in a
succession of less interesting
videogames.ABOVE: (^) Performing
surgery on cardsmay
harm their resale
value.
FAR RIGHT: (^) The stoat
card talks back.
CARDS WITHOUT HUMANITY
More card games you can play alone
SENTINELS OF
THE MULTIVERSE
Superhero brawls
where every card is a
comic bookpanel.
Adapted from a
tabletop game.
DANGEROUS
HIGH SCHOOL
GIRLS IN
TROUBLE
Lead your own girl
gang in a 1920s
boarding school.
HAND OF FATE
A FightingFantasy
book with
paragraphs of text
replaced by cards,
and combat right out
of Arkham Asylum.
FAERIE
SOLITAIRE
Fantasy solitaire with
so many whimsical
additions that it
practically becomes
a PopCapgame.
It’slike climbing
the Spire, but
folksy.