![]() ![]() ![]() With the number of tricks increasing, I had to use my brain and a notebook to keep on the right side of the French law. Being fast and accurate is the name of the game. The longer it takes you to pull off a trick, the higher the opponent’s suspicion meter climbs. The tricks you learn become more and more complex, increasing your satisfaction once you pull it off. Fleecing at taverns, saloons and estates becomes second nature, as your coffers grow ever larger. Techniques that would normally take years to learn in real life become mere trifles as you cavort with the Comte, tricking pretty ladies and powerful lords in flickering candlelight. The gameplay revolves around understanding the various mini game-like card tricks such as QTEs and memory tests, and learning about when to injog a card, stacking a deck with extra cards or memorizing an opponent’s suits. Though at times you’re seated on the table itself, interfering with the cards. This information is conveyed using well timed movements of your bar cloth. Your role is to act as the wine pourer, cleverly using your over the shoulder vantage, secretively signaling to the Comte information on his opponent. However, being the assistant, and the person primarily lurking in the shadows, creates a little more of a puppet master feeling. One would assume that you’d usually assume the role of the principal card cheater Comte de Saint-Germain. One I won’t be forgetting for a long time. The game sticks to your memory like the oil-based art style it’s based off of. The storyline is stuffed with all kinds of ancien regime intrigue, backstabbing and adventure, and if you’re a fan of getting tangled up in the seductive allure of pre-revolutionary France, you’re in for a fantastic time. While in real life my poker skills couldn’t win me out of a paper bag, with Card Shark I felt like a sneaky, side-man Robin Hood (how English of me), skilfully fleecing the nobility out of their livres to give to a poor Romani caravan. You’re then whisked off to accompany the Comte around France in his coach, helping him cheat history’s biggest players at increasingly higher stakes. Your nasty tavern lady subsequently suffers a well-timed death. The swindling Comte de Saint-Germain comes for a drink. Would you like to indulge in the decadence of Baroque France? If so, you will play as a young mute who works at a bar that isn’t exactly… reputable. This one is truly worthy of your attention. Another card-based game? I hear you groan. Card Shark was developed by Nerial, a UK based team that was the brains behind the Reigns series of games. ![]()
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