HiLoween

The card flip mechanic in this one is so barebones it practically creaks, like a browser game from a decade ago that someone forgot to finish coding. You get a card, you guess higher or lower. Miss and the blonde on screen keeps her clothes. Guess right and, well, you know the deal. Standard stuff really. My friend's cracked version of Solitaire from the Windows 98 era had more visual polish. But here is where my brain short circuited, right. The model they used, this Red Devil character, she is holding each pose for just a beat too long with this deadpan stare that is not at all sultry. It is unsettling in a way that I cannot stop thinking about. There is a Halloween theme slapped on with some plastic vampire teeth and a capelet but the real horror is the audio cue when you guess wrong. A dreadful little clown honk that makes you feel genuinely scolded. I found myself intentionally guessing wrong just to annoy myself with it. That being said, the stripping sequence itself is choppy, like a slideshow made by someone who just discovered the arrow keys on a keyboard. I guess you'd call it a pole dancing segment but she sort of just magnetically clings to it without actual physics happening. Halfway through I realized something. The game works better as a weird anti strip poker simulation. The longer you play the more uncomfortable the friction gets between the clearly professional photo model's glamour shots and the janky devil filter they slapped on her. That friction is way more interesting than the nudity. I actually forgot I was supposed to be aroused by the end, I was just trying to break the logic of the card shuffler. She never fully strips either by the way, just so you know. Maybe that is the Devil's trick. Why does the undo button delete your entire progress? That is malicious design and I respect it.

• blonde
• card game
• halloween
• pole dancing
• strip