Tatsu: Japanese Spirit

Between shadow and light

Tatsu is a trick-taking card game for 2 to 4 players, where you capture spirits to earn points by playing cards from your hand while sometimes choosing when your opponent plays for you. Carefully choose when to play your strongest cards and when to take a chance with fusion cards to collect even more cards from your opponent. You and your opponent have the same card decks; however, they can counter just as strongly as you, so always think two moves ahead to win the most cards and (most importantly) your opponent's multiplier spirits. The spirits are divided into two distinct clans: red/black and yellow/white, and you can play Tatsu in teams or head-to-head. The game ends when a player reaches 500 points, at which point the player/team with the most points wins the game.