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devtesla OP wrote

Reply to comment by neku in Balatro by devtesla

this is fair tho part of what makes Balatro so good is that it's basically in another dimension entirely from the rest of the genre. the dev has said that when he first started this game his only exposure to the genre was watching a video about one of them Lol

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cute_spider wrote

I disagree with this assessment but in order to tell you why I'd have to keep putting down balatro and I just started up the Knife's Edge challenge soooo

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cute_spider wrote

okay now that I'm between rounds I can tell you that it's a really good rougelike deckbuilder, but I wouldn't describe it as transcendent of the genre

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cute_spider wrote (edited )

also I find this dubious:

his only exposure to the genre was watching a video about one of them Lol

was the video "northernlion binding of issac COMBINED ALL KNOWN FOOTAGE" because IMO Balatro is quite genre aware

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twovests wrote

this is the only thing that could make me interested in this genre

if it is expected for >10% of people to beat the game on the first playthrough then my interest is piqued

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devtesla OP wrote

You probably won't beat it on first play but the rounds are very short. It's a minesweeper kind of game.

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anethum wrote

minesweeper

now you've pickweed my interest

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anethum wrote

oh i'm so sorry i checked out the store page and you didn't literally mean minesweeper

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devtesla OP wrote

Sorry, I meant it was a more casual style game Lol.

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