i actually REALLY enjoyed this, it made me wanna keep playing and i ended up playing for quite a while! definitely brought that balatro feeling of getting addicted and “one more run!!!”! visuals are really great, hovering over a card feels great, the dialogue box and opponent dialogue is also great, i love the red highlights on text, the ui is really great too, and the way the game is presented reminds me a lil bit of inscryption, even, which i love!
i have some criticism and feedback, but i wanna preface this by saying that they’re mostly due to how much potential i see in this game more so than me not liking the game
the first thing is that the game is a little hard to understand at first due to the card ability mechanic not having in-game visuals. for example, when you chose two cards to do a half-xinho, if at that moment it showed on screen what the effect was going to be, it would immediately make everything much more intuitive! the balatro mult mechanic was also a little underutilized so it felt like a bit of an afterthought, especially because it’s only used on 6 and 7 (which… i just realized the numbers…). the shop felt a little bit like an “extra mechanic” too, in a similar fashion to the mult, i didnt get enough pearls to end up using it as much. in the end, healing and doing damage were both the only things that really seemed worth doing. finally, the ending minigame when you bring the opponents health to 0 is a little abrupt- it gets you super off guard, and goes on really fast so its easy to get whiplash and end up losing the whole match because of the surprise and how fast the gauge drains (which happened to me too many times…). also, the font has some really similar looking letters, like the V which looked a lot like an U and i couldnt understand for the longest time why pressing U didnt work…
again, please dont take my feedback the wrong way, i dont typically type this much unless im really invested in something, but i see so much potential here i couldnt help myself! if you guys were to make a full version, id be super down for it!
all that said, really great job, seriously!!!! also super happy to see another brazillian dev around!