Card Shark is best experienced with a controller, and even then you’re in for a tough time if you take extended breaks or have a bad memory. It’s here where I have my one knock against Card Shark - the controls. Go too quickly, and you might make a mistake that costs you the game - and your coin go too slowly, and your opponents will force you to make a hasty exit, lest you end up staring down the barrel of their flintlock pistol. After an hour or two players will pick up around 8 complex tactics, expressed in the form of small mini-games set against a timer - your opponent’s suspicion meter. There are a seemingly endless amount of ways to cheat at cards, which means there’s an equal amount of controls that are needed to pull of these lucrative stunts. …but OH, LA VACHE do you have to practice a ton to get to that point. Once you get the swing of it, Card Shark is a genuinely thrilling experience that left me simultaneously craving more yet exhausted from the constant loop of adrenaline rush and tension release… The actual game doesn’t matter in the slightest in fact, they’ll breeze right through it, leaving you with only the sneakiest of card mechanics to worry about. If you couldn’t already gather, Card Shark is less about playing cards and more about playing your cards right - through cheating, of course. Be it hand signals, cleaning the table in a particular manner, mastering indiscreet shuffling while injogging necessary cards, or even taking a separate deck to another room, meticulously ordering it to be in your favor, then returning to cut it into the existing deck with practically magical timing, you’ll help the Comte rake in the cash… and maybe even more. You see, he’s looking to cheat his way across France, and he needs help to do it - the perfect helper, of course, being a mute young barman.Īnd so, the two of you traipse through France in a horse-drawn carriage, learning sleight of hand card tricks as you go.
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It’s only upon closer inspection that the congenial gentleman shows his true hand, full of aces he had stashed up his sleeve, no less. Take Comte de Saint-Germain, for example - with his powdery, coiffed wig and perfectly placed mole, the well-to-do man of means seemed to enjoy little more than a fine wine and a game of cards. Sure, Louis XV may have lead to the decline of the French monarchy and its lavish way of life, but that didn’t matter much if you liked to live dangerously. So begins Card Shark, a not-so-typical card game that requires players to deal a good hand - or else! Developed by Nerial ( Reigns, Reigns Her Majesty) and published by Devolver Digital ( Loop Hero, Trek to Yomi), Card Shark invites players to “enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.” Set against a stunning baroque background with dulcet harpsicord tones, elegant gold-gilded salons, and, of course, free-flowing wine, Card Shark keeps its cards close to its chest at first, but slowly plays a fascinating hand that’ll have players dealing in time and time again no matter what the stakes.Ĭard Shark takes place during 18th century France, which, if you were lucky enough to be nobility, was an dazzlingly opulent time to live. Now, deal me another hand, and I sha- HEY! How can I have two 8 of hearts? You’re CHEATING! Gendarmes, after them! This comte and his servant boy have taken have taken every single livre on me… not to mention my pride! I… lost again? The cards are really not in my favor this evening! I shall drown my sorrows in another glass, if you please. You there, garçon! More wine, if you please - this riveting game of cards has left me parched, and… what? I lost? No matter, another round and another glass of wine are in order. Card Shark Review: Several Aces Up My Sleeve
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