One World

The One World Tarot
Crystal Love and Michael Hobbs, (U.S. Games Systems, Inc, 1999)

Review
I don't think I've ever seen a deck where I like the back of the card better than the front. Normally I'd complain about the Minors being pips, but since the Majors are little better I feel as though I'd be expecting too much to protest.

Some of the Majors are alarmingly lazy as well. Any curiosity I had as to why Strength involves a pyramid with the Eye of Horus on was firmly squashed by the Hanged Man being exactly the same card upside down. Likewise, Judgement is just the Sun with a different colour filter and someone slapping an Outer Glow on it.

Wait, we have human faces. The court cards are the same faces for King, Queen, Prince and Princess, they're just heavily filtered by the dominant colours of the suit. And while I get why Coins would have ivy leaves and Cups would have starfish, Wands have, uh, little flowery flowers and Swords have translucent spheres. This is clearly a deck that cares more for the elemental correspondence than the actual meanings of the cards themselves.

The sad thing is I'll bet a pure CGI deck like this was mildly exciting in 1999, and represented the pinnacle of digital art, but now it's as dated like a chunky knitwear sweater with dolphins on the front.