Runespell Overture is a puzzle game with cards. You try and beat your opponent by getting the best poker hand. The cards are laid out in solitaire style. On your turn to play you can take up to three actions. You can move a card. You can cast a spell or attack. You have to make stacks of 5 cards like a poker hand and that will be an attack. If the hand is very good, the attack will be powerful. Eg, a pair is 8 points of damage. A royal flush will be 50.
You will pick up on the game as you play. You will be thinking all the time and making decisive decisions is all part of the fun. You will be thinking if you should take another card which could be useful to your opponent, or ruinous to yourself. The game seems to be interesting at the beginning, but as you progress you begin to feel it's not making any sense.
You get rage points every time you receive damage. You can spend these points on health, buy damage, or deal damage to your enemy. You have to get into a fight first to know how much damage you are sustaining or to know how much damage you can cause. Does that make any sense?
The levels get more and more complicated as you advance. Mythic Poker is similar but seems to be more fun than this. The spells become more powerful in the advancing levels. Some battles have to be won with cards and you can't use spells. If you use the wrong card you can get damaged.
The story doesn't seem to make much sense either. The characters are displayed with beautiful graphics and art. The music isn't too bad though. The game looks good visually and there is no denying that the colors and sharp contrasts add visual appeal to the game, but there is no depth in the story. It's like reading a book and the story is haphazard and has no ending or finalization.
If an author wrote a book and then suddenly ran out of ideas halfway through and gave up, his book would be a failure and wouldn't make it to the printers, but that's what happened in Runespell Overture and the author went ahead and published it and started selling it, so your story has no closure or ending.
The only opponents you face are those in the computer. The multi-player is absent. This is a huge let-down as almost all games nowadays have a multi-player function. It is a well known fact that when games fail to deliver, the multi-player mode is what makes it still acceptable as players like to play against live opponents who are unpredictable and can deliver a good few surprises to an uninteresting game.
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