System Crash Reviews

At 18 hours I finished the first story with over 100,000 credits and never buying a single card. It's a very fun game, what you see is what you get. I'm glad I finally installed this gem from 2016. (I play games in my library in reverse-release order--oldest to newest--that way the games are always finished and the community has plenty of threads.) I can't speak to the rest of the game, yet, only the first "module." What I hate: 1) You don't get to play the decks you want; the game determines what you will play. What I mean is, you have to make a bunch of counter decks and trot those out to beat every foe. Sure, you might make a deck that you really like and you might get to play it half the time. MIGHT. About the only way to get to play it even that much is to keep restarting missions waiting for the perfect draw and to go first. 2) The UI is god-awful: You are constantly clicking for no reason at all. The dialog is written in landscape mode with big bright Nintendo lettering, so that you have to swivel your head (not your eyes) left to right to read it. If you're like me, you won't read it. I am okay with text-based story but I want to read at my own pace, conveniently, not whatever THIS is. There is no way to sort your cards. There is no way to filter your cards. (Such as by type.) There is no way to search your cards. (Such as for keywords.) There is no way to auto-sell when you have more than 4 of a card--although I wouldn't normally complain about that, since the rest is so bad, I will. PS I ran into a few bugs. Twice I had to alt-F4, so pretty serious bugs. But my saves weren't harmed.

Not a bad game, but a boring one. I would probably have rated it Yes if it was not so long for no good reasons. You will be literally forced into multiple combats that are all the same, for the sake of making the game last longer. This is usually not a good idea. This game, with a total duration of 5-8 hours would have been fine. Longer is not better: it's just boring!