
Player movement is slow, aiming with any ranged weapon has far too much acceleration, and swinging melee weapons has an annoying amount of input lag. Everything you do in this game, at least on controller, feels off.


My main issue with the game is not the card system, but the actual combat and complete lack of any real platforming. It is a beautiful game, and a world I loved being a part of. Animations vary between great and stiff as a board, though I’d say they trend to the former far more often than the latter. Things can be a bit sparse NPC-wise at times, but as you progress to the fancier areas of the world the tonal shift is noticeable and welcome. The environments have a nice variety to them, and the world feels lived in. Exaggerated features and odd anthropomorphized objects are everywhere. Graphically things are quirky in a Tim Burton-esque manner. This is the period in time where you can choose the cards you want to play and it’s a great mechanic. In this land rolling a die leads one to the Dice Dimension in which time stops. Thankfully the story of this game carried me through, as it was well-written, and featured superb voice acting. I enjoyed the interplay between my character and Dicey, the magically powered and forbidden dice that I befriended early on. Your journey to find her takes you across varied landscapes as you meet a wide variety of interesting characters.

Your sister believes she’s rolled a one, and you’re happy as that means she gets to stay home! Suddenly the dice flips over to six, and she’s taken away by the Queen. Depending on where it lands the child is taken and forced to live in one of six separate cities. At the 12 th birthday for children, the malevolent Queen comes to visit and rolls her die. The story centers around two sisters, Even and Odd. This is a tale of a world where evil has seemingly won.
