Racine (on Steam) Demo First Look (streamed Jan 2023)
Combat is fully automated. You just make slight adjustments by using cards. To use cards costs Chi energy. Unfortunately you begin each battle with no Chi energy and have to wait for it to accumulate. Evade or Block is expensive and you could not get the Chi quick enough if the first enemy was a kamikaze bomber. And defence doesn't replenish over time as far as I know. Cards in hand was three and yet my deck size was ten. That meant I was very limited in the way of what card I could play. Which made most of the cards useless or not worth putting in your deck. Forcing a new card draw would cost Chi as well, when you already do not have enough anyway. I think a lot of work needs to be done in balancing and improving the core mechanics of the game.
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