Runespell: Overture

Mixed but positive review. The poker mechanic where you can see and steal your opponent's cards is very creative and a lot of fun...at first. After awhile it gets very old and you basically want to stop playing forever as there's little change in the playstyle as you progress. Fortunately, the game doesn't quite wear out it's welcome and then you've beaten it. There's a Continue+ option after doing so, but the enemies aren't scaled at all to your 2nd run loadout so it's very easy and dull. At this point you've already had enough of the poker gimmick, anyway. The lack of multiplayer, minigames, game balance, and more makes this a tough sell at full price. The overly dramatic music was actually pretty good. I had a bug where just the music cut out for the final battle, and it definitely was missing something without it. The Inventory and Store interface was pretty bad. For example when buying spells you can't see the price when clicking in the active card area at the top. You never really get hints as to what types of enemy skills that you need to prepare for, so I mostly went with: Health Buff, RP Buff, Healing spell, +4 AP spell, and 3 allies. That pretty much covered most situations, and I only had trouble with the second 2,000 health boss, otherwise the rest was easy once you got the hang of it. 6/10 - get it on sale and enjoy it for a few hours, but know that it doesn't much better as you keep playing.