You're actually responding to a spambot there, L. It has just cut and pasted the post Talbs made on the first page in an attempt to disguise the advertising-signature spam.
The extent of stupidity here could only happen in the sexually repressed americas. Talk about game mechanics or strategy...calling typical japanese anime pornographic means all yall stupidity enhancers are running on all cylinders.
The insolence! Honestly the talk about the artwork and it being lolicon or moe sound off topic but really it's important for users to understand what they are getting into. I played a retheme and loved the mechanics and looked into getting a copy... Seeing the actual theme made me feel uncomfortable. I couldn't think of a single person who I could play against without feeling like a creep. I feel like it would be a disservice to not at least address the theme for those on the fence.
While that's as true here as it would be for any game, the theme is of Tanto Cuore is "Dominion reskinned with a household of anime maids replacing the medieval kingdom". The theme is not "sexy anime maids" or worse, "sexy little girls". The people railing against this game seem to want to deliberately misrepresent it as being all about sexualised eight-year-old girls in their underwear lounging around in provocative poses, which it simply isn't; it's simply a solid kingdom-construction deckbuilder with very tame anime trappings. Every one of the 29 maids in the game is fully clothed in the standard anime take on the French maid outfit, with a single maid showing underwear, and another one in a borderline provocative pose. Both of the latter are bothersome, not just because they're unnecessary and lower the tone a bit, but also because dishonest people keep gleefully pointing to the same two images over and over as "evidence" of what the game is about, while conspicuously avoiding the 27 other images in the game that quickly dash that argument to pieces as the nonsense it is. I do find it interesting that most of the public feedback from males who have taken issue with the game has not actually been, "I have no desire to play the game because I'm fundamentally opposed to its premise and artwork," but rather has been some variation of, "I would play it, but I'm embarrassed about what people might think of me if they saw." There's giving all the facts so that people can make an informed decision, and then there's scaremongering, crass insinuation and deliberate BS. The reality is that Tanto Cuore does no more than take this from Dominion: And replace it with this: It doesn't replace it with this:
No it wasn't; I created this thread, and the title included the [Universal] tag right from the start. Not a big issue, though; the important thing here is that you can play the game on your iPad.
I'm gunna go ahead and repost the end of my last long post cause I feel as if it got over looked and I need some honest feed back before I purchase. So here's my question... Say I never got big into card games like this. I played some TCG's back in the day and have been loving Yu Gi Oh BAM until the last update made it slow. Would I like a card game like this or should I look elsewhere? The deck building I really love, but I also enjoy collecting new cards to try strategy wise. I know there is no collecting in this, but could that be over looked because of the deck building? Thanks guys, again.
It's a fun game but, much like Penny Arcade, realize you are working with a pretty small card base. Each game will feature some 7 cards always available and then another 10 taken randomly from a set of 16. Other than the Private Maids (all 10 are unique and you're only shown a random 2 at a time), you and your opponents are working from the identical set of cards to choose from in the game so the differences in your decks are often pretty subtle.
I read this while on a crowded train, mostly comprised of men, and none of them were looking at "x-rated mangas." Compared to a place where "that simply doesn't exist," any number is going to seem "large." The thing is, I think I've only seen someone reading anything "x-rated" once on the trains here. So yeah, more than in the US, but far from a large number. I showed this to my wife, saying that PlayDek generally puts out good translations of tabletop games on iOS, but that I didn't think I'd want to play it on the train. After watching -- or rather skipping through -- the gameplay video earlier in this thread, her reaction was that there's too much reading, and she almost fell asleep. She also said if I played with the sound off on the train, it would be fine. No mention of sexualisation, or underage girls.
I always love a new Playdek game. Downloaded this with enthusiasm. -The visual theme isn't ideal, but it's not as bad as I was expecting. Having watched my share of anime and read some manga, I know that Japanese maid-themed media can be, ahem, a bit racy. The artwork seems pretty tame in my eyes. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be a point of concern for some players, though. -I find the actual concept of buying up maids with love to be a bit more "ick" than the images. But I figure if I can listen to black metal without being all "Hail Satan!", I can play this without any adjustment of how I view women. -Can't tell yet if the assertion from the first few pages of the thread that this game is more complex than Dominion are accurate. It might be? Having put a lot of time into Dominion and Ascension, this is definitely more on the Dominion side of deck building. It feels more complicated right now, but that might just be the typical "new game" learning curve. -I feel like the game is missing something. And this would be a complaint about the game, not Playdek's interpretation of the game. Like, in the deck building games I love the most--be it Ascension or Penny Arcade or even Dominion--the cards feel like more than just tools to acquire/distribute cards. Each card has its own personality aside from the core mechanics listed. Here, however, the cards are limited to image and numerical accruement for relevant parts of your turn: currency, # of maids that can be played, # of maids that can be acquired, and one other I can't remember off hand. Some of the cards have some additional directions, but I'm failing to really connect with them. Maybe another way to put it would be that there are a number of cards in Ascension or Penny Arcade or Dominion that I simply like to acquire because they're fun, likable cards. Here it feels completely like function. I acquire a card because it is functional for my game plan. -That said, I am enjoying learning the core mechanics and strategy. Time will tell if it becomes a fixture of my deck building collection ala Ascension & Penny Arcade, or if it will gather dust on my iPod like Nightwish.
I do play this game. But I only started a few days ago, so I need some time to be comfortable with the rules. There is a tutorial at the beginning of the game. And the rules are included, so you can get back easily.
