Hand of Fate

I played this game for quite a while and although I liked the general concept of it I find it extremely bad that every advance of your gameplay is determined by sheer luck and good fortune. When I played Hand of Fate 2 they solved this problem by adding items and diverse equipement that could alter your probabilities and help with cards, dice and pendulum (the only one that is somehow affected by your skill) however, in this game you just have to be extremely lucky to get a success card or several success cards in order to progress through events, in the contrary you'll have to start over again and hope that you get lucky enough. Not necessarily a bad game but this problem ruins a lot of sessions and can be absolutely frustrating.

Even almost a decade on this game felt very unique and there's no other game I've played that mixed roguelike deckbuilding and third person arkham style fighting with it. I would say it does both of those things good and overall it is just a "good" game.

This is one of those reviews where a Yes is too positive and a No is too negative, but I'm going to have to go with Not Recommended. There's a lot to love about the game but the combination of both having to deal with worsening odds (in combat particularly) while wrangling the undercooked fighting mechanics is just an absolute killjoy.

I want to like this game but even after coming back to it, it just... gets tiring so quick. The combat is like a very clunky version of Arkham/Assassin's Creed. You got an attack, a counter, shield break, and a dodge. Unlike Arkham, you can't counter two enemies at once, and also if you try to counter a ranged attack at point blank, it just hits you anyways. Also you don't control the camera, it's fixed. That's bad for a 3D melee game. The main issue is that the clunky combat is roughly half of the game, and it takes a LONG time, way longer than the actual card/event part. This makes things get REALLY grating REALLY fast when you're on your 8th King of Dust + Queen of Dust fight in the same run. The enemy variety is pretty small, and combat is too common for how frequently and lengthy it is. But the thing is, the non-combat part is actually pretty interesting at times. Unlocking new stuff for each run and trying out new items. I think the game might've been improved if you could unlock later parts of the event in the same run, rather than having to wait to the end of the run to unlock the next part, but it's minor. The other main issue, someone else put best: The swing of RNG feels a bit unbalanced in this game. Bad luck SHREDS you and good luck just makes combat a bit easier until the bad luck puts you near deaths door. Unlike, say, Hades where the worst luck just means hard enemies or not-ideal buffs that you can power through with skill, bad luck in Hand of Fate actually cripples or straight kills you with random event cards. The combat tends to be one of the least dangerous parts. I ended up finding the best items were weapons that could heal you IN fights to offset the unavoidable damage i'd take OUTSIDE the fights. Another review mentioned that strength throughout the game feels flat and really doesn't seem to increase, and this is true. I believe this is because this game has almost NO SYNERGY between items. At most maybe you can get a blessing that buffs healing and a weapon that heals you, but most of the items and powers are very much standalone things. Your power will not scale as you get more things, rather you'll generally just get side-blessings that do their own special thing while the enemies keep increasing in numbers. There is an entire skeleton king set with a Helmet, Shield, and Sword. None of these items synergize with each other. They all do completely different things with 0 overlap. This just makes it so that between slow, annoying combat that happens too much and almost uncontrollable bad events trying to kill you, the game wears you down to the point it stops being fun before the 10 hour point. By then, you feel like you're doing the same thing over and over just trying to find those nuggets of hidden new events, but it just isn't worth it anymore. I want to like this game, but it's rough and repetitive.

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6.3h通关了，补完同年债。初中，爱奇艺，硬汉阿雷的视频中知道了这个游戏。感觉很有趣。但说实话不知道这个游戏叫啥名字，前几天一个一个视频找就为了想体验体验童年的感觉。正好打折迅速入库。游戏玩法新奇，放在2023年的今天也是一款不错的单机游戏。比较看运气。抽的不好可以退掉重进再抽。我是手残党，选的学徒难度，从倒数第四关卡就得打好几遍才行了。最后俩boss如果没有好装备是很难打的过的。其实感觉有点短，意犹未尽，也没有体验完全，但是他作为15年的老游戏，也能理解。回来2打折合适的话也一定去试试。