![]() Some will mean success while others, failure. When you face a challenge, you’ll oftentimes be forced to choose a card from a group. His actions and events will force you to lose life, gold and food and if you’re not careful your game will easily come to an end. You can’t guarantee your own victory though, as The Dealer will be trying to trip you up at every turn. You can design the challenges you’ll be facing and try to tip the scales in your favour. The best part though is that before each level, you get to design which cards will appear. ![]() Equipment, food and life can be equipped prior to beginning each level. Each card you reveal on the game board will hold an event for you to complete. There are events, equipment, food, life and more. Especially considering that these tokens are how you earn new cards. It adds a level of replayability to the game. Often, these conditions are unknown and can only be won through trial and error. Some cards will hold a special token which can be won by meeting the card’s requirements. Counting CardsĮach ‘level’ in Hand of Fate 2 features an overarching goal, with sub-goals discovered within the overturned cards. These disparate elements don’t sound as though they’d go together all that way but in Hand of Fate 2 they go like wine and cheese. Others are tests of skill and luck and some are third-person hack n slash combat. Some are simple scenes told through text which require you to make a decision. ![]() As he deals cards, you move your token across them and turn them over to discover the challenge they hold. When you begin, you’re introduced to The Dealer a mysterious figure who forces you to play his game. As mentioned, it’s a hybrid RPG, tabletop and action game that combines great elements from these genres and combines them in a stunning way. Hand of Fate 2 was originally released in November 2017 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One and has now been ported to Switch. Going into Hand of Fate 2 can be a bit daunting at first, but once you’re in, there’s every chance you’ll have a hard time getting out again. What holds it all together is incredible attention to detail and an obvious love of narrative. Hand of Fate 2 from Australia’s own Defiant Development is a brilliant combination of Dungeons & Dragons storytelling, card and dice tabletop mechanics and Batman Arkham combat. Being able to play a game in this genre and of this level of quality on Nintendo’s portable console makes it even more enjoyable, which I honestly didn’t think was possible. Playing it on Switch makes it somehow, even better. ![]()
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