Card Shark takes the title of Best Design this year 🏆
Most digital card games teach you things like mana curve or deckbuilding. Card Shark teaches you authentic ways to cheat, simulated with precise tweaks of the controller. Flicking the stick lets you arrange a deck how you want and"injog" cards to mark your stacks, directional wipes let you communicate suits to your accomplice. Other moves let you steal glimpses at your opponents' hands, deal face cards in a way that tells your partner what they are, and so on.
It's a system as complicated as any CCG meta, only you'll feel like you learned something valuable at the end of it. As opposed to mastering a mid-range black deck only to have Wizards of the Coast ban Meathook Massacre right out from under you, not that I'm bitter.The way Card Shark simulates the mechanics of cheating is undoubtedly impressive, but I was just as taken in by its confident and eye-catching style.
In motion, it impresses even more, with a novel cutout animation style that makes all the characters move a bit like puppets, and a penchant for switching perspectives so you're always close to the action, watching the tricks from the best seat in the house. I was particularly impressed with how versatile those visuals are.
Like Barry Lyndon, Card Shark also does an excellent job at making you consider the moral values of its protagonist. Sure, the idea of swindling the richest fops of Europe out of their barely-earned coins feels heroic, almost noble—it's what they deserve, right? Occasionally, though, it edges into icky territory, as your mentor pushes you to con every last ounce of gold from your marks, no matter who they are or how it might ultimately affect them.
There are several moments where I'd barely had time to congratulate myself on smoothly and successfully pulling off a number of cheats in a game before the brutal consequences became apparent. One moment I'm deftly false shuffling or marking a card or planting a rigged deck, and the next there's violence, murder, and even suicide.
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