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ozzi9816 rated DeathJack

ozzi9816 rated a game 1 year ago
A downloadable game for Windows.

This game is a very poorly thought out clone of Buckshot Roulette that copies a handful of its items without thinking what role they serve and what effect they have on your game of choice.

To start with, I think your whole premise is flawed- Blackjack is a notoriously luck based game and unless you add a drastic twist, I can't see any amount of items removing that aspect of the game- one of the things about Buckshot is that while there are elements of luck, you can in most situations use your items to drastically reduce the amount of uncertainty. Which leads me to the items:

First, there's the soda can. Because you only ever lose 1HP per round, the soda can having a 1/3 chance to come out means that in round 3 the host just lives forever (as do you) because you get to immediately heal any damage you take. Honestly given how the game is set up, I think just removing this item straight up would be best.

The phones also kind of suck. The fact that the only way you can change your cards is via 2 phone uses is really bad. Soda cans already clog up your inventory because you can't use them while you're full HP to get rid of them (for god knows what reason) and having to use 2 phones on top of that for a single card change means that most of the time you're pretty much just leaving each round to lady luck. The ace is nice but it's too situational, being useless if you have a starting hand higher than 11.

Finally, the dealer seems to serve little to no purpose. Once one person busts, what the dealer has is inconsequential and I feel like you could skip the check entirely to save time. Even when both players don't bust, usually the person with the higher hand is the one that wins meaning that, again, the dealer doesn't have any reason to be there. I think the concept of the dealer should be removed entirely, or the host should become the dealer- the idea of an unfair dealer is kind of cool as an idea and I would be down for it.

Also, everything takes forever to happen because the host narrates every single thing she's doing. You either need to speed up her dialogue or have her talk waaaay less (basically silent after the tutorial).

ps. I ran into a bug where the host busted and took no damage.

Overall I feel like this was just a trend game made to take advantage of the current popularity of Buckshot, but if you actually decide to commit and put some elbow grease into it, it could become something decent. I still think that you shot yourself in the foot with the game choice, but you have to sleep in the bed you made for yourself there. Good luck.