The Suits
The first rule of The Suits – we’re not talking about The Suits .
Enter the dark basement: an assassin, mafia, mechanic, seducer and cook. Sounds like a joke, but it’s about a duel very seriously. Melee weapons, firearms and… coffee will be used. Also cards in the hand and we fight!
The Suits is a duel game – we play as one of the available characters and try to defeat the opponent.
We perform the turns alternately. The active player takes three from his hand of five cards, and from these blinds, the opponent chooses one to resolve. Discard the remaining two cards and refill the hand back to five cards. The opponent takes the turn and takes turns until someone loses the last life point.
By the way, the cards we play have minimalist but charming graphics and are very legible – even in low light we can recognize them without any problems.
Coming back to the duel – each character has special abilities and deck composition. The cards include weapons that deal damage to the opponent, a heart that means healing, coffee and money used to activate abilities, and a skull that is undesirable to play, but can sometimes work to our advantage.
The essence of the game lies in the interaction between the abilities of our characters. These can do wonders – from simple effects that increase damage and the number of cards in your hand, to more complex ones, such as discarding cards from your opponent’s hand, keeping certain cards for the next turn, searching the deck, weakening your opponent’s deck. There is a lot of it, because each character has its own unique style of play.
It is worth mentioning here that in each of the three boxes (seasons) of the game you will find 5 characters. These are compatible with each other and nothing prevents you from freely combining them in deadly duels. The number of possible combinations is then huge.
Okay, but why aren’t we talking about The Suits ?
Well, after you play it once and check your abilities in action, the next game with the same character will not bring anything new to the game. Over time, we notice that our opponent is “that guy who heals in a different way” or “that guy who can do extra damage for coffee.” At the same time, we are not able to react to his abilities in any way. And that’s the point.
The Suits game in its assumptions is a light, highly random card game for 10 minutes between assembling one larger game and unfolding the next one. Luck is the main factor determining the victory – we have a negligible influence on what our character will do in a given turn, and we cannot disturb the opponent in any way. Sometimes the moment of using an ability is crucial, but in the vast majority of cases the game is played without making any important decisions.
Is it wrong?
It depends on what we expect from the game. If we want to figure out an intricate plan and then implement it, we should definitely look elsewhere for that. However, if we have some time and want to move a few cards without too much effort, The Suits may suit us. This text would be better in English: “Then, The Suits would suit us”.
Playability: 5 Build
Quality: 7
Originality: 6
Replayability: 4
Our rating: 5.5
