The Game:

A choose-your-own-adventure role-playing game in a collectable card game format with segmented 3D sections.

The Quick Look: Running time: 54:56, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro.

Having played up to the fifth level, or 'challenge', already, Vinny goes back to the third challenge in order to demonstrate how the game is played. He turns down the chance to arrange his Equipment and Encounter decks for this challenge, letting the computer choose his cards for him, but he does explain how the deck building works.

The game is turn-based in the fashion of a choose-your-own-adventure game, but the battles plays out in real time with direct control. Vinny compares the combat to Batman. There are also trap mazes that play out in the same fashion, forcing the player to roll past spikes, dodge other spikes and maneuver around more spikes.

There's a part where Vinny is offered the chance to buy something for half his food, which Alex said would be more worth it if he had more food, but then he'd be paying more food to get it, so I don't know how the math works out on that. Alex also often gets confused about what food is for, talking about it as if it were something to do with health when it's more akin to energy, even with Vinny's multiple explanations, and claims to see spiders crawling all over the card table. I never saw one spider in the video and Vinny makes no mention of them.

Vinny moves on to the fifth level, which is the furthest he's reached, and encounters more challenging play but has unlocked more cards to play with. He murders thieves, goblins and skeletons alike before escaping a circus freak show and defeating a rat king, but not the gross type of rat king. Alex compliments the game on its marriage of collectable card gameplay and direct action. Vinny says it's neat and he digs it. Groovy!