I'd be interested to see what they have to say about floppy knights, I gave it a proper try on gamepass, loved the art direction, felt the gameplay loop had something to it, but found the game to ramp up hard fast, and it felt like you were limited by the chance of the draw in a genre that doesn't mesh well with that angle
There's not many reviews out there but others were pretty positive it seems.
There is praise for the art but not for the strategising.
"But it also leads to a kind of reverse skeuomorphism. Your deck and discard pile take the form of a desktop folder and recycle bin icon, while playing a card depletes not a mana pool but a battery, of the kind you might nervously watch trickling down on the night bus home.
In both cases, there's never quite enough juice to go around. That deficit provides the grit of Floppy Knights' tactical decision-making, but might also be its biggest flaw. This is the kind of card battler whose action plays out on an Advance Wars-like grid. Every unit gets one free attack per turn but relies on cards for movement, which can often result in dead-end turns a handful of potent attacks dumped in the recycling because every enemy is out of reach, say, or a battery emptied to move Into position and then flee out of range after landing just a single, feeble hit.
Are we just building bad decks? Perhaps. But it's hard to go too far off-piste. Every deck (between 12 and 30 cards) must include five basic movement cards, which can't be subbed out for the more noteworthy and useful variants (move farther after attacking, or when leaving the cover of a forest) unlocked along the way. True, this is not unlike the vanilla attack and block cards that make up Slay The Spire's starter decks, but instead of the Roguelike structure of that game and its successors (which, like drafting in a traditional card game, force you to make the most of what you're given). Floppy Knights favours a CCG-like model, where you fill a binder with cards, then slot them in or out ahead of each game.
At least, that's the idea. In reality, with matches plodding along for up to half an hour, we end up finding a couple of safe (read: boring) decks that more or less pilot themselves, and stick with them. It's a problemt players of actual CCGs might well recognise, and one that's only exacerbated by the introduction of i tactical board. If this were a physical card game, we suspect it' be the kind people buy booster packs for sutely to admire the art within, and never to play with."
