The Land of Glass

So, you get to walk around the map heaing the conversation of the two main characters as they expose the story. The combat is card based, but not like most games. The trick is you must put red attack cards in a grid that represents the enemy armor. You simultaneously must maintain postive number in your blue defense grid. The cooldown is longer if you attempt to overload a single spot so you have to spread it around. Grid shape changes from time to time. The other cards do something to the battlefield or grid to provide variance. You do not get to see the AI intentions, you will only know what happens when your defense grid breaks. There are 4 stories- humans, drax, frogs, and some sort of jackal looking dude. You will get to play through the events from each race's perspective. Very appealing look and the combats only take a minute to play out. If you get stuck you can go back to previous over-world map and take another path. No leveling up, but you get gear that helps...

This game is an interesting experiment, but I don't think it works. You've got action combat with a fancy grid and people being knocked about, which sounds cool... however: The stamina bar, knocking about, and aoe blast effect stuff is both fiddlier than the grid, and less important, so I'm not sure they're better elements than a simple health bar with regeneration would have been. Drag and drop just doesn't feel particularly good to do as an action game thing, so the game ends up feeling physically less fun to play than it should. Many of the fights end up playing out the same. The music is very repetitive.

frantic repetitive movements.

Weird game (and I'm a big fan for it being weird), but too simple. The game is centered around throwing cards onto a grid in order to reduce defenses and eventually knock enemies out of the ring, sumo-style. You get to construct a deck to determine what you use to attack enemies, which is good since there's little reason to hold middle-weight cards or a large amount of grid magic or field magic. Because each of attack, defense, and two types of magic are bound by separate cooldown timers, the deck construction simply allows one to streamline their deck to [spoiler] one grid spell, two field spells (heal and slick/damage), big defense cards, small attack cards to soften, big attack cards to kill [/spoiler] After coming to grips with the general pace of the game, you learn that all the stats of monsters shown prior to each encounter really don't matter. The same strategy works the whole way through the four campaigns and amounts to [spoiler] little more than throwing cards as fa...

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I'm saddened that a game like this doesn't have that many reviews, so here's mine. While certainly not a masterpiece I found it to be a competently made and reasonably fun to play collectible card game with decent variety, likable characters, and a unique card battling system. Cards are placed on a grid in real time with a variety of effects, mostly serving to break through defense cards with attack cards. While this is happening your characters rush toward the enemy behind the grids, providing a helpful and dynamic visual representation. Keeping your character strong enough to get knocked off the edge while maintaining the aggression to knock off the enemy feels pretty rewarding. The game has four campaigns, and at this time I've only played through one, but that alone was more than six hours for me. I think I'll return to do the others at some point, thanks to how humorous the dialogue was between the amphibious magical protagonists of the first campaign I picked. The story is...

Land of Glass is a beautiful game with an interesting combat idea but gets worse over time. Pros: +Interesting combat idea +Gorgeous looking artstyle +playable with both mouse or controller +great soundtrack +Good Balancing Cons: -not enough variety in the cards. Every fight feels kind of the same which makes them boring after some time. There are just a few different card effects you can play and most of the time you play simply attack and defend cards. There are no new cards which change the way you play. This also makes the deckbuilding pretty boring. -Equiable items are just stat increases and do not offer any decision making of what to equip as everyone would equip the +10 stamina increase instead of the +5. -Combat is more focused on looking at both the offensive and defensive grid than seeing what is happening in the fight -Not enough variety in the soundtrack. Even though the songs themself are great, if you hear the same song 5 times in a row it gets annoying -You can't exp...