I've always wanted to try those 三国志大戦 card arcade games but didnt know how to play but looking at those players moving those cards around the board just looks like so much fun. This is another game similar to that and Ethan and I happened to chance upon it @ Illuma(the new shopping centre at bugis) and decided to give it a try. MAN IT WAS FUN! To start of we need to get a SGD $10 starter pack and this will entitle you to play 99 times after which you will need to purchase another renewal pack at $4 for another 99 plays. You'll still need to pay for each game you play so this 99 times IS NOT FREE.
Ok to start off, we need to decide what cards we will be using on the screen. Each individual card have a summoning cost or level requirement (Lv1 being weakest and the strongest I've seen so far is Lv5) and players have only 10 casting cost or level to select their cards. (i.e u can use a Lv5+Lv5 card or Lv2+Lv3+Lv5 card, u get the picture) This will prevent players from using multiple strong cards at the same time to make the game balance. So you can either use an army of weaker cards or just a few strong cards. (Each has it's own pros and cons)
The aim of the game is to kill off the enemy summoner on the other half of the screen while protecting yourself from being killed. (yea like I'll need explaination of this lol) This is how your summoner looks like
Like you, the enemy will also deploy troops to attack so you'll need to kill off his troops and then attack the summoner. Units are divided in 3 main categories: Keepers(STR heroes, using DOTA formulation), Seekers(AGI heroes) and Masters(INT heroes). Str moves slow but can destroy and build crystals the fastest, Agi has overall average stats but moves the fastest, and Int are slow and weaker in atk but they can shoot from afar!
STR > AGI > INT > STR
It's a chain so there's no really weakest or strongest type of unit in the game.
Another key point to this game is that you must build crystals on the playfield to summon your so called "GOD" to attack the enemy or do some other shit stuffs (we've only gotten the first summon so we dont really know what the other Summons or Gods will do. These summons are shown on the first picture of this post and supposingly there should be a 7th summon but I think Singapore doesnt have that latest version yet...) To build a crystal, just move any unit to any area on the playfield and hit the BIG RED BUTTON on the right of the machine(You cant miss this unless you're blind...) Your enemy and you can build a maximum of 6 crystals on the playfiend and the crystals will connect to each other to form a so called big force field. (As shown below)
The bigger the area of the force field you create, the longer your ultimate summon will remain on the playfield to fight for u and these summons are really fking strong! However, to be able to summon you not only need the big force field you have created but also you need your summoning gauge to be full also. And to fill this gauge real fast you need to put more crystals on the play field. That means if you put out all 6 crystals (that's the max) your gauge will fill up really fast compared to just 2 or 3 crystals. Get it? :) To summon, just hit both the BIG RED BUTTON on the right of the machine and the BIG BLUE BUTTON on the left of the machine at the same time. How hard can this get?!
Most units you deploy will have their own passive ability which will activate automatically when the requirements are met and a skill that you can use once the action point AP of the card is filled. The AP fills automatically over time and will be gone and replenish after each use. To use the so called skills just select the unit(by touching the card) and hit the BIG BLUE BUTTON (Yes the fking big blue button!) heh. Easy enough yea. Some skills include healing la, movement speed up la, change weather la, decrease enemy atk la, this and that la... And also if your own summoner's HP is flashing red and if you have your ultimate summon out, you can supposingly hit the BIG RED BUTTON and BIG BLUE BUTTON again to activate some fatality move of your godlike summon. Havent really tried this yet so... Like what Ethan has said, this game can be played by 2 person cause there are simply too many things to do at one time if you're still a beginner and somehow the seats at the machine is so long u can probably fit 3 backsides onto it lol~
Oh and did I say that each game play cost SGD$3 to play each game and you get an option to continue playing again once at $2? That average out to like $2.50 per game. BURN MY CASH YEAAAAA!!!
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