Arena of Shaelo

Arena of Shaelo is a Czech 2D retro pixel local co-op battle cardgame where players share the same PC mouse + keyboard and select various cards/attacks to use in battle with various enemies in a modestly sized story driven campaign. While the concept is novel, the implementation here is a complete mess. You have to step through a ridiculous EULA just so you're allowed to play this rather deficient 2D retro pixel card game... that's a little on the nose, but at least there's no indication of any kind of privacy invasion. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. Comically, the game was written in Java (I'm not making this up). Talk about not using the right tools for the job. Might as well try to bake a cake with a screwdriver. The extremely poor choice of game engine here is a major contributing factor to the defects with the game. There's an equally comical text-to-speech engine used to read out the mediocre storyline to players... it just sounds so bad. I don't know anyone who would have thought that was a good idea. While the controls can be customised, it's a bit of a hamfisted and clunky arrangement, it's unclear why such a poor general control scheme was used. Online co-op would have been a much better (and more accessible) strategy. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The game isn't really free as the developers have their hands out for whopping $10 USD paid donation DLC, basically digital panhandling.

Interesting

игра в целом неплохая

Piksel grafiklere sahip garip bir kart oyunu şahsen ben kartların dizaynını beğendiğim için oyunu çok sevdim.

Without time limit this game will be boring as ♥♥♥♥ (it's still quite boring) and I wasn't expecting a reaction game, but rather a game with interesting combos between the hands of the 2 players

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