Balatro

This game is so much better with cheats

Game no: 533
Genre: Board (Card)
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Release Date: 2024

Balatro. The name that I hear everytime I listen to all podcast. The best game of the year. I can't stop playing this. So I had to try it and I have some mixed feelings about this game. Let's get started with the review. Ok first of all Balatro is a rouge like card game. It follows two types of rules. First it follows the rules of poker like a straight flush, a full house, a pair, a two pair. Rule number two this game is a rouge like so you need to survive rounds and rounds (call binds) and beat a boss in each turn. So there are total of 3 turns per stage and 8 stages. So that's about it. 

That is where the game rules end and the rest of the game gets confusing. So you get points by multiplying your hand. To aid your game there are Joker cards that give you different boons (abilities) such as double multipler, better stats on card and such. In the end of each round you get money to buy perks such as boosters packs, celestial cards and such. This game has a lot going on it.

That is the extend of my explanation of the game. Other than that, I don't see the appeal of the game too much. It is fun if you run works. But that is so random which means that you have to be at the right moment and the right time to unlock the right set of cards to get in order to advance the game. But most of the time you'll get cards that doesn't even give you anything good to start the run. They say the more you play at it the more you get good at it. But honestly unless it a skill based game. This game depends too much on luck. I played a couple days of it and the highest run I got was till level 6. I am going to play this again but this time on PC and with cheats and I'll give another review on that. But for now this game I'll give it an B-Rank.