Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden

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6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 4 out of 14

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  1. 2random
    Jun 24, 2022
    2
    The game is not what I've expected. It's boring! It was supposed to be fun to play, but there's no fun at all. Can you imagine walking around the map and being attacked by monsters at random? "Wild pokemon appears" type of attack every time you move with a 30% probability. You spend more time fighting same boring type of monsters getting nothing in return. Unbelievable! And the plot... itThe game is not what I've expected. It's boring! It was supposed to be fun to play, but there's no fun at all. Can you imagine walking around the map and being attacked by monsters at random? "Wild pokemon appears" type of attack every time you move with a 30% probability. You spend more time fighting same boring type of monsters getting nothing in return. Unbelievable! And the plot... it is just bad. MC has no memory and your companion is mute. These 2 facts can give you an idea of how little interaction there is at all.
    But that NIER DLCs sure are there. And minigames? Don't even get me started. Those are purely random, impossible to win.
    The game is really short and feels cheap. They didn't even hire a voice actor for girls, so every character speeks the same male voice.    … Expand
  2. Rhizian
    Jul 26, 2022
    3
    The first Voice of Cards game was a charming and simple jrpg with a good, humble story with several twists. It knew what it wanted to be and it achieved that in a fun and interesting way. The Forsaken Maiden kind of suffers by comparison by trying to go a little bigger with it's plot and doesn't quite meet the expectations. The story turns out to be a bit too formulaic and relies on tooThe first Voice of Cards game was a charming and simple jrpg with a good, humble story with several twists. It knew what it wanted to be and it achieved that in a fun and interesting way. The Forsaken Maiden kind of suffers by comparison by trying to go a little bigger with it's plot and doesn't quite meet the expectations. The story turns out to be a bit too formulaic and relies on too many anime tropes, and the gameplay is padded out with frequent unimportant combat encounters.

    Firstly the narrator: they changed the narrator, and he's not as good. The charm and warmth of the first game's narrator practically made the game, but the new guy just doesn't have it. Nothing specific to say about him, he just doesn't feel right.

    The art for the characters in this game is inconsistent, either being too generic (your character) or too ridiculous (other main characters, townsfolk, etc.). In the first game the character designs were also pretty wacky sometimes, but it was being playful and silly on purpose. This game really lacks the same sense of humor.

    You sail to the north/South/East/West of your home to meet other maidens with supernatural abilities and their attendants, and solve a mystery or local problem. Every new island has one dungeon, one city, one maiden story, etc. You get pretty bored of this formula after the second one, and sometimes the plot twists really don't feel impactful because you always know you're just moving on to the next island after each chapter. The relationships between these maidens and their attendants also lean heavily into anime tropes and I find that boring.

    The combat encounters seem far less engaging than in the first game, with the enemies kind of feeling like they're only there to pad out the game time. The spells and abilities provided to the player don't feel comprehensive enough sometimes to deal with the enemies quickly, and it just becomes a total slog after a little while.

    My expectations were almost subverted one time when it turned out that one of the maidens was actually a boy, and I was thinking this game was actually starting to get interesting, that maybe being a maiden actually has nothing to do with your sex or gender, and whatever implications came along with that. No, it's soon revealed that this boy is actually a girl pretending to be a boy, a very overused trope found in lots of East Asian media. I wouldn't say that nobody could like this game, but there are so many disclaimers that I can't really recommend it. As a jrpg it's pretty mediocre on every front    … Expand

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79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
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  1. Cubed3
    Aug 29, 2022
    90
    The bittersweet themes of Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden, with brilliantly worked plot twists, a flawless battle system, and a captivating story all make it a near-perfect game. Perhaps the only downside is that it is not an overly long one, but the hope is there will be more instalments to what is proving to be a thrilling RPG series.
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  2. Nintenduo
    May 29, 2022
    77
    Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden is a rather continuist game in regards to the original installment of the franchise. However, that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. At the end of the day, it is an independent role-playing adventure with very original ideas that make it worthwhile. Of course, it is not a marvel, but it is more than enough to have a good time.
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  3. RPG Site
    May 16, 2022
    70
    Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden does do enough to stand out on its own, mostly due to the narrative. If you weren’t impressed with the first faux tabletop experience, the minor combat changes won’t be enough to persuade you. Likely, due to the closeness to its antecedent, there aren’t enough improvements in this entry to really qualify it as being notably better than the first. Nonetheless, it is a complementary experience that fans of the first are likely to enjoy just as much.
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