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Runespell: Overture
(Steam)
I really liked this game for the first hour or so. The concept drew me in and seemed really well executed. Poker with Puzzle Quest, simple but effective. Unfortunately, the Poker mechanics really wear thin after a while. In Puzzle Quest, you are constantly putting gems together to build up mana, health, do damage. In this, you spend a lot of time just kind of waiting for the right cards to appear. Several turns there wasn't much to do. It's not as ACTION PACKED as puzzle quest (lawl).
Also, the magic system really annoyed me. You don't have MP in this game. Not in the traditional sense anyway. You build it up over time by doing damage and getting hit, then you can use it. The catch is, rather than just spending the amount and thats it, you also only have so many "uses" for magic. Whenever you use magic, it's gone, unless you go and buy another "use". Since you don't level up from battles, you basically fight, get a little gold, spend that gold on more magic to use for the fight. It's not a very rewarding system.
Puzzle Quest always excelled outside of battle too, with a cool little map, storngholds to take, etc. Runespell doesn't even let you move your world map around, much less do other cool stuff on it. It's very bare bones.
Basically, it's a cool concept, and while the poker stuff gets old, I might have been able to stick with the game though if it wasn't for the lack of rewards for battling, and the lack of anything fun to do on the world map.
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