Sometimes there are games you really hope will come over even if you never expect them to. Pocket Card Jockey was one of those for me so I was super excited when it was announced and had a lot of fun playing the demo today. You can watch my playthrough of it here. While I don’t think I will do a recording everytime I play (Maybe at least the first time playing the full version and then an “end” kind of play) and I definitely will not be doing an entry everytime, I did think it’d be fun to have a page set up for the game which I will do my best to keep updated.
The demo is roughly 2 hours and really lets you experience the game with about 35% of that time being with First Ride before you get to pick between two horses (who look identical, but have different genders and slightly different stats) and even get to name them. I named mine Princess Brownie and am kind of tempted to do royal names for most of the horses I get to name, though, I may make First Ride II after the first Horse you technically get to ride and Strawberry Moon which is my favorite from the competitor horse list.
I would say the one thing that threw me off is the game isn’t traditional solitaire which was a bit of a bummer as it’s my favorite type and the one I’m best at. That doesn’t necessarily make the game less fun, but there is still a lot of luck involved and there have been plenty of races where I felt I was doing really well and ended up losing.
For now, my goal is to try and get at least one of each horse along with getting all the trophies. The game will be out next month so I am looking forward to playing the full version and making Princess Brownie into a proper champion:
Now if only I could be pink all the time…