You’ll also want to avoid raising the bet early on, but later in the match it will incur less suspicion so if you know you’re going to win the stage in the next hand it’s probably worth increasing the stakes to clean them out. If the meter gets too high, it may even be worth intentionally losing a hand to decrease suspicion, if the sage allows a failure. If the meter fills up, you’re kicked out, or possibly worse, so you need to be fast and accurate. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see a suspicion meter, which constantly increases as you perform your tricks and even more if you make a mistake. While you’re cheating, you have to make sure your opponents don’t catch you red handed – literally, in some cases. If you lose your life instead, Death is pretty easy to cheat too. If you lose a bunch of money, you can easily make it back in the reappearing stage while also practicing more techniques. I do think some of the explanations later on in the game were lackluster, but thankfully failing a stage isn’t too punishing. It’s usually intuitive, but if you’re having trouble each tutorial allows you to practice as much as you want. and the A button to select cards or perform other actions, but occasionally you’ll also use the rest of the face buttons mostly for quick time event things. For the most part you’ll be using the right stick to shuffle, skim, etc. The techniques only get more complicated as you progress, with the final levels even challenging you to improvise your own techniques.Įach technique is a lot of fun to master, and the controls for doing so likewise get more complicated. In The Mirror and the Fan you catch a glimpse of an opponent’s hand by moving a hand mirror around, then communicate their highest set by opening your fan to a certain length and fanning yourself the number of times that set appears. You don’t have to be at the table to cheat either. Then when dealing, you can give high value cards to the Comte and low value cards to his opponents by dealing from the top, sneakily skipping a card, or dealing from the bottom of the deck. As you play cards, you bend them when placing them down either inwards or outwards to mark low and high value cards. On the more complicated front is The Bent Dealer. Then, when putting them back together, you riffle your stack slightly slower than the other using the left stick to guarantee a good hand for the Comte. On the simpler side is the False Riffle Shuffle – after picking out a hand of high value cards (only the Ace, King, Queen, and Jack really matter), you “shuffle” making sure to keep those cards on top when the deck is cut. There are 24 in total, with some being more complex than others. He’ll be doing most of the actual playing in your journeys, while you gently guide him to victory by marking cards, cutting decks, shuffling, and even slipping in a few extra cards.įor each destination, the Comte will teach you a new technique you’ll use in that location. Yes, the Comte De Saint-Germain was actually a real person! He was something of an Alchemist, philosopher, and was even called “a man who does not die, and knows everything.” It’s not too much of a stretch to say he was a notorious cheat as well, and used some of his winnings to aid his Romani friends. The Comte and the boy are now on the run, with the general blaming them for the murder, and the Comte takes the boy as his new apprentice as they travel all over France to lie and cheat their way to riches all while unraveling a royal conspiracy that may just spark a revolution.Ĭard Shark is part of a genre that we don’t often see in games outside of Assassin’s Creed: historical fiction. In a horrible twist of fate, the general discovers the ruse and accidentally shoots the boy’s caretaker. In a small village in the south of France just before the revolution in the 18th century, a young, mute boy meets the Comte De Saint-Germain who invites him to help cheat a general at cards later that night. Playing card games may take some skill and a little bit of luck, but cheating at cards – well, that’s where the real challenge lies.
0 kommentar(er)
