Tainted Grail: Conquest

还行

I love this game so much <3 I hope it gets a sequel someday.

Intresting card battler, with lot of replaying possibilities.

游戏的画风和构筑强度还可以，永久成长比较肝，感觉血法师和召唤师的上限太低了

Fun game.

Yes.

This game might appeal to a certain audience. It has rich and well-written lore, great voice acting, and really cool graphics and atmosphere if you're into this stuff. Mechanically, though, it's very forgettable. Outside of the artistic direction, Tainted Grail's main selling points are its 9 playable classes, the option to burn extra candles or not to supposedly impact everything in the game (kind of reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon in that regard) and overall replayability. Let me adress those. The 9 classes actually function like 3 groups of 3 subclasses. There's only 3 card pools that you can draw from, and all that changes is the passive ability of the class and its starting deck. Passives are quite powerful and every class starts with an ability card (that you can play every turn), that is also very useful, and tailored to a specific playstyle. So every class kind of feels like a post-act 1 StS character, when you've already got some good stuff going on. Basically, instead of working with what you're offered and try to make it work, you get to choose what (already very decent) build you'll be playing. I know a lot of people are into that, but being tunnel-visioned really hard in one direction and changing classes being the only way of actually seeing some diversity goes against everything I expect from a rogue-like. The candle system is very superficial and honestly a bit annoying. Basically, the brighter your torch burns, the more powerful you are, as you get special cards every few turns in combat, and they range from really strong to just detrimental, depending on your light. And, that's it. Not only is it not game-changing at all, but you will also very quickly get to a point where you've got so many candles that you can very liberally burn them to always be at max level when you need to. But what makes it annoying is the fact that certain random events, some of which are mandatory to progress through the story, can only happen when your light is off. The game never tells you that, so you could get stuck for a while. Also, triggering these events can take a long time of walking around doing nothing, which can be irritating, especially as there are quite a few of them and you aren't guaranteed at all to find the one you're looking for. Finally, none of the zero-light events are really worth going out of your way for, and some of them will just harm you, so chasing them isn't an interesting mechanic, it's just some tedious task you'll have to do at some point. As for the replayability, what I said about the classes should already tell you a lot. But on top of that, the game has balance issues, and too many things just feel low-effort. Increasing difficulties don't change much, and a few of the classes literally have all they need from the start to win against the final boss. Not that getting there won't require any effort, but you don't need to drastically improve your build throughout a run - nor do you get to anyway, as only a little portion of the cards are interesting additions to your deck, either because they're broken, or because they clearly fit your starting build and the rest clearly don't. The balance also feels off when it comes to enemies. Most bosses are actually underwhelming, while some regular enemies are absurdly hard to kill if you don't have an unreasonably specific answer to them, and should be avoided until you do (to be noted : all fights besides bosses are optional). Last but not least, the game is very grindy. After getting all the achievements, I'm still probably halfway through the meta-progression. This game doesn't reveal itself quickly. It takes a long time to understand how everything works and get familiar with it, and just taking your time figuring things out and trying out new classes can easily entertain you for 30 hours or so. After that, There's just a lot of red flags.