Journey to the West (2023)

It's a ripoff of Slay the Spire, but in a good way. Bunch of new mechanisms. Great replayability.

The spiritual prequel to Black Myth Wukong.

love the game coz of wukong

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A great StS clone with innovative mechanics, engaging story and great music, hampered by the small fact that it is utterly and completely unplayable. Not only are something like 50 per cent of the English card texts plain wrong, but the mechanics are so convoluted that by the second or third act you spend most of the playtime doing arithmetic. Will I do more damage if I attack seven times for 23 % (yes, one of the cards actually says 23 %) of my hit point total plus five flat damage for each consecutive unblocked hit, or if I attack X times for Y, where X is two plus the number of status effects on my leftmost minion and Y is the number of attacks in my discard pile multiplied by the number of letters in the enemy's name? The problem is, even if you are good at arithmetic (or have a calculator), this does not lead to interesting decisions, because the game is not that hard, and unlocking higher difficulties is an insane grind. Gameplay decisions usually boil down to "do mental computations for one minute, then play the card that deals the most damage, repeat every turn", which is not challenging, just annoying. And then your run ends because you forgot that if you play a card th…

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