Card Hunter

I’m sure that at everyone in America has heard about Dungeons and Dragons. Actually maybe about 90%. Or maybe about 75%. Now that I think about it, there’s a good chance that only half of America has heard of it. Maybe just a third. I should really shut up now.

Anyway, Dungeons and Dragons is what people used to play instead of video games when people wrote letters and dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The game centred around a few characters (controlled by you) hopping around a game board, killing plastic cut-outs of monsters, and looted imaginary dungeons that sound like they were named in the 1400s. All of this was decided by the player and a few die rolled to decide the success of an event. For example, if I wanted to jump off a cliff, I would have to roll a dice to decide the outcome. If I rolled a 6 I would successfully jump and survive. If I rolled a 1, I might die or get struck by lightning.

Card Hunter is the modern day version of this “classic” (Please note that some may find Dungeons and Dragons to be offensive. If you believe that rolling a dice and casting imaginary fireballs is witchcraft, I suggest you proceed no further and play Call of Duty or something because apparently committing war crimes is more ethical than using your “imagination”.).

Card Hunter is an online game that is about playing a “dungeons and dragons” type game with your “game master” named Gary. Gary and his brother Melvin are your everyday geeks (Not nerds, geeks. There’s a big difference) who have obviously promised their souls to the game. This premise of playing a board game inside of playing an online game provides the comic effect of having two story lines and the fact that Gary constantly breaks the fourth wall (and make unintelligible grunting sounds along with playing medieval music). In the game, you control a party of three adventurers who fight monsters and loot them through turn based combat.

Through the game, you progressively become stronger through a levelling system and better gear. Since this is a board game, everything takes the appearance of one. There is no blood, the entire playing ground is on a table, and everything looks like it’s made out of plastic (Which can be good or bad based on your preference. If you want blood, gore, and better graphics, may I suggest not reading and playing Call of Duty.).

The game is very intriguing for the first few hours and you feel the need to continue playing but the going becomes tough around two thirds through the game. Only the smartest and dedicated finish the campaign as I have heard of a few people having to try as many as 50 times to finish the last level. If you somehow do finish, you will have the “luxury” of replaying the entire campaign over again about 5 times each with a different handicap. There is a multiplayer mode if you don’t feel up to the challenge…or just rage quit like I have. I’m writing this review right after rage quitting, after this I’m going straight back and trying again which is the beauty of Card Hunter. Every single time you fail, it invites you back with open arms and another chance and even if you don’t beat the game, you get to tell your children in 30 years about how back in your day you used to play “Card Hunter”.

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Originally published at jerryyang8.wordpress.com on February 19, 2015.