The card drag feels like shit. Not in a bad way, more like you’re thumbing through a deck with greasy fingers after a bag of chips, and that jank somehow makes the whole thing work. Girls-Knights throws two redheads at you from either side, each with their own stack of knight cards, and you have to mash your numbers against theirs before they push into your zone. Lose a row and the girl on that side peels off a layer. That’s the loop.

I didn’t expect the Nier thing. Like, 2B’s outfit, white hair, a sword that clips through her hip. One of the girls is basically a cosplay photo stretched over a card frame, and when she strips it goes from black lace to that weird android bodysuit tan line. The real model tag is doing some heavy lifting here because her skin doesn’t look painted. It looks like someone scanned a camgirl and then slapped a striptease mechanic on top. And you know what, it works. The arcade pressure makes you forget you’re just grinding for jiggle physics.

The enemy AI cheats though. Sometimes a knight with 2 attack will tank a 5 and I’m just staring at my screen like, really? No one told me this was a roguelike. Also the sword does nothing. It’s just there for the aesthetic, like a prop at a convention. But when both girls are down to their underwear and one of them does that little hop animation, suddenly the broken math doesn’t matter. You will lose on purpose just to see the redhead’s stockings come off again.

Wish the arcade mode had more than two opponents. Maybe a third girl with a different fetish, like a goth or something. But the game knows what it is: a fast tug before the browser history fills up. And the soundtrack loops the same 8 seconds of chiptune no matter what. It haunts me.