Are there any other games with writing this good?
I seriously can’t even remember the last time a VN made me laugh, like, actually physically out loud. The writer for this project actually has something here.
Akabur's games always make me laugh. Especially with the dialogue choices where you're always allowed to say something really dumb.
Four Elements is even better though. The player character is such a lovable asshole and always finds himself in these absurd situations.
EDIT: Of course right after this I started to understand....It just goes by too quick to really realize what's going on.
So anyone else confused by it (though it's probably just me) the two cards, one on top of the other, indicate the card your adding to. The top one being your opponents. It's almost like blackjack. This confused the living shit out of me though. Now to beat zhuli...if it's possible. She pulls out kings out of nowhere.
The different colors and the numbers made it very clear to me which cards were mine and which ones were my opponents', but the UI is very barebones to I can totally see how you had a hard time reading it. It's not made easier by the fact that the game is, to my knowledge, made up by the coder and thus the player cannot immediately just "get it" from experience (compare to Go Fish in the last book, or just old regular Blackjack).
As for her kings, you have the same kind of cards in your decks and the goal is to score higher than your opponent in any given round without going overboard and wasting high cards that could have been used in later rounds. If she places a king, that means she had a king on hand and the AI decided it should play a king this round.
Reading posts here makes it seem like there's not much point in trying to play tactically though, as you can apparently just spam random cards and still win 50% of matches.