Pairs & Perils Reviews

[h1]A Decent Roguelike That Lacks Replayability.[/h1] [h1]Things I Like About Pairs & Perils:[/h1] [b]The Memory Pair-up Game[/b] Flip the two same cards, and it will always be your round. [list] [*]A simple card-flipping game which you deal damage or cast spells by flipping and successfully pairing up the cards. If you cannot pick the right cards, enemies' attack cool-down will advance. [*]Every start of the round the game will briefly show you each card before flipping them over. This means that you are completely safe as long as you have a good memory and keep pairing up cards. [*]Hero cards offer a variety of damage and survivability, some even specialize in revealing more cards. Spells are your main tools for debuff and stalling enemies. Items in the backpack are mostly for healing or additional effects for your abilities. [*]There are some interesting synergies between cards interaction. For example, buffing a hero card will always highlight both cards, making it easier to tell them apart from traps. [/list] [h1]Things I Dislike About Pairs & Perils[/h1] [b]Problems Regarding Replayability And Others[/b] [list] [*]Each run has little variation between each other. The layout of the stage feels similar in every run, even the enemy team comp feels the same. There are also no special events or other points of interest. [*]"Reshuffling after three pairs" this mechanic is weirdly exploitable. The game always shuffles the three pairs you flip back into the location you flipped them unless you have more cards. So you can just keep flipping those cards and completely ignore the whole deck. [*]On the same note, adding more cards into your deck is actually way more detrimental to your run. More cards mean you have more things to memorize. You already have a good and safe shuffle loop in the beginning, so there isn't much incentive to increase the deck size. [*]This is just my hot take. Taking away the "show and memorize" part of the game is a bad way to handle difficulty. Difficulty should be based on what you have taught the players so far, and ramp up the obstacles allowing less room for mistakes. Straight up removing what is essentially a part of the mechanic feels cheap. [/list] 中文小簡評 →不錯的roguelike小品，可惜重複遊玩性稍嫌不足。 →主要玩法在於開場遊戲會將所有卡片的位置秀給你看，隨後翻面讓你依記憶把相同的卡翻出來攻擊敵人，配對失敗，敵人的攻擊冷卻就會降低。 →卡片主要分角色卡和法術卡：前者多用於攻擊敵人與卡片提示，後者常為敵人增加攻擊冷卻及其他減益。此外還有各式被動道具能強化角色生存力及標記陷阱。 →卡片間有不少有趣的互動，像是為角色卡上增益時遊戲會同時為兩張卡上特效，讓你能輕鬆找到配對、或是故意踩陷阱，靠道具上護盾等。 →不過優點僅止於此，遊戲其實有很多未考量周全的設定。 →每一輪的隨機性低，關卡變化幾乎是零，沒有特殊事件或興趣點，敵人配置也毫無變動。 →「三次配對後洗牌」這個設定似乎未考慮周全，遊戲每次都會將你配對過的三對牌(除非你有超過五對牌)放回你抽卡的位置，這樣你就只需要記得那六張牌的位置你就無敵了。 →同樣的問題，新增卡牌不會讓你變強，反而讓你開場要記得東西變多，徒增負擔，還不如一開始的那五隊牌挑三隊出來無限循環來得安全。 →個人不喜歡遊戲靠移除既有機制來增加難度，一開始就教導玩家先記憶後選卡的流程，高難度下直接取消記憶的部分感覺有失平衡性。

Seems well made, and I typically enjoy this type of game, but I just can't get into this one. It's not fun to play and just seems too repetitive after a single game.