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 http://fruitbatfactory.com/100orange/index.html - English website. http://store.steampowered.com/app/282800 - Store link on Steam. 100% Orange Juice is the 5th anniversary game of Orange Juice, a doujin group that mostly does shmups. This is not a shmup.  (Art by Solmyr2000) SO WHAT IS 100% ORANGE JUICE? 100% Orange Juice is a four-player board game for the PC that brings together a lot of Orange Juice's iconic characters, such as That Girl In A Skirt and That Other Girl In A Skirt, and puts them at the mercies of the cold and unfeeling random number god. Part dice game, part card game, you will frequently find yourself battling birds, robots, and other anime girls on a quest to collect shinies. Utilizing a combination of a carefully managed deck of powerup cards, tactical strikes, and a lot of dice rolling, you'll be gathering up a lot of stars and making a LOT of gambles. These gambles very frequently go sour, often resulting in you losing absolutely everything without any warning. Despite its cute exterior, the RNG is just as cruel a mistress, if not moreso; if you tend to get emotional at video games then this game may make you angry. 100% Orange Juice provides no endless amount of opportunities for surprise upsets, precision backstabs, trolling endeavors, opportune betrayals, and chances for sheer bastardry. In short: It's loving amazing. SO HOW DOES IT PLAY? At its core, gameplay plays like a traditional board game. Everyone picks a character, you draw cards, you take turns, you play a card, you roll the dice, and you move the number of spaces according to the dice. Depending on the square you land on and/or the card you played, things happen. Simple, right? The goal of the game is to be the first to accomplish five missions (called "normas" for some reason), and your missions are always either one of two things--either collect a lot of stars, or murder everyone and collect wins. You collect stars by either landing on squares, murder, stealing them from other people via cards, and at the start of turns--they're generally pretty easy to gain. Unfortunately, they're also very easy to lose, by landing on other squares, getting murdered, having them stolen via cards, etc. Murdering people is significantly more straightforward. You simply bump into people on the board and then you can challenge them to a fight. The attacker rolls a die, and the defender rolls another die--the results of the dice are modified by the chosen character's stats (if the player rolls a 4 and the character has +1 to a stat, then the result is 5), and then compared to each other. Whoever rolls higher wins. If you kill them, then you get a nice little win and it can't be lost. Likewise, if you bump into a monster, you can kill them like a player and get another win. Complicating things is the card system. At the start of the game, everyone builds a deck of 10 cards, and upon starting the game all of these decks are shuffled into one randomized omni-deck. Everyone gets one single card to start with, and as the game progresses players can either draw more by landing on a green square or random events. All of these cards change the effect of gameplay slightly, either by allowing you to roll two dice for movement instead of one, allowing you to draw two more cards, moving players to other panels, laying traps for other players that land on that spot, or etc. And in combat, cards can modify stats on the fly, allowing those minor +1 and -1 buffs to become +5 and -4, changing the flow dramatically. All of this comes together into a massive chaotic bundle, where the rules are changing constantly and the unexpected could happen at any moment. Any unlucky 1 or a surprise card played out of nowhere can ruin any strategy, which makes the game incredibly hectic and unpredictable. A more in-depth guide lies on the Steam forums. SO WHY SHOULD I PLAY IT? - You have a secret masochistic side and want to suffer. - You dearly want to bully your friends. - You're bad at viddy and want to pretend you're good at rolling dice. - You have a gambling addiction and want to feed it in a safe way. - You have a weak spot for anime girls. - You're a DnD player and want another reason to praise/curse Norebo. - You're a statician and want to go insane. - You want pure chaos. The sheer RNG of the game is going to be a huge turn-off for a lot of people, but in many ways that's also it's biggest draw. It's a great game to relax with because it doesn't require a lot of strategizing or really in-depth thinking. It's a great game to run with a group of friends, especially when alcohol gets involved. And, well, there's a primal fun to everything. Seeing the wheel of fate come flying off its spokes and bring everything crashing down or seeing everything spin just right and everything come perfectly together are both the most satisfying things. So hey, throw the dice and see what happens, yeah? You just might get lucky.
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Game is currently on sale for 75% off, for a pittance of $1.75. If you wanted to give it a shot, now's probably the best time. Which is a good thing, too, as new DLC just came out for two new characters, Kiriko and Noname, the girl who can't heal and the guy who can't loving die.  (Image from the Steam store) Kiriko's gimmick is pretty straightforward, having the absolute highest HP out of everyone ever (sans the Castle boss) but being unable to heal. She can hold her own in a fight for a while, but longer games tend to drag her out. She's good for hit-and-run playstyles, but gets victimized the most to guerilla/harrassment-type opponents. Noname is much more of a bastard--when he dies in combat, instead of giving money to the opponent he instead flops about as just a head for a bit of time. This head is incredibly weak, but it gives him the opportunity to run away. And if people still pursue, his Hyper allows him to drop a loving boss battle out of nowhere on his opponent's head. There's also a new map, which is...pretty warp-happy! Lots of movement. Freeze tiles and warp tiles put juuuuust right. Playing with Random Warp or Home Roulette is not encouraged. 
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