Hand of fate 2 physical2/12/2024 ![]() He looks like Raistlin but sounds like Sean Pertwee (though what I strongly suspect to be an Australian accent irregularly breaks through the faux-Brit), and while he’s almost avuncular at times, the desire to defeat this smug SOB who quietly revels in your misfortune can become overwhelming. Throughout the game, before and after almost every action you take, he’ll offer a warning, sneering chastisement or grudging respect. There are many things that Hand of Fate does rather well, but the standout is that you spend so much of the game staring at this guy: ![]() They’ll often offer us someone we want to defeat because they’re shown to do terrible things or have a skull for a face, but they very rarely offer us someone we want to defeat purely because they are our rival. Videogames, usually, offer us the canned, meaningless soundbytes of a hundred thousand slain foes, but they don’t often offer us a single, overarching opponent who lets slip irritation or indulges in crowing. ![]() It becomes a true contest, its cards and dice these physical extensions of your will to defeat another lifeform. It’s because having an opponent who voices their frustration and exhilaration as the game goes for or against them makes it seem so much more than it is. The reason I so often want to play boardgames despite having a hard drive full of more videogames than I could ever hope to complete isn’t simply because occasional contact with other human beings is unfortunately necessary in order to remember how to talk. Hand of Fate is a CCG/roguelite in which a masked, magical figure challenges you to play an increasingly deadly card game against him, switching to high-speed, stabby third-person combat whenever you get into a fight.
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