TEPPEN 9+

Fun game, stupid unbalanced. You’ve seen the other reviews: you just face the same cheap combos over and over and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. At a certain point, it means only specific characters with specific cards are actually viable for play. Sure, I could do it too, but the whole draw for me was “oh cool, I can play a card game as Mega Man X!” or “oh neat, I can be Dante!”, but the reality of the situation is that the vast majority of your opponents will be the same character, same cards, same combo, same inability for you to do anything about it.

Got all “target friendly” spells in your hand? There’s no mulligan or discard, so you gotta forfeit. Not playing Ryu or spamming spikes with Nergigante? You already lost, don’t bother. Didn’t bring flying? You’re gonna waste a lot of time on the way to that loss. They were pretty generous with the card packs from level up and such, I only ever bought the introductory crystals for the season pass and managed to get a good spread of cards, but you can only level up so much from the missions before you’re left with two unfair missions that force you to create special decks over and over to try and overcome their grossly cheap conditions. Might wanna just come back to this one after they use the early players as game testers a bit more and save yourself the headache.

Just for some context, I’ve played magic, hearthstone, yugioh, and a few other card games on and off with my friend group and dabbled with tournament play. My first impressions of this game were strong, and the stylish hero arts, player friendly crafting system, and new updates kept me playing for a long time. It did have its problems with balance, but I am happy to say as of 4.0.5 this is the best card game I’ve ever played. The balance changes were spot on, and fixed every problem I had with the game. Ryu burn won automatically against other red decks, purple halt decks were able to run over your units without any counter play, etc. etc. This is all now addressed with this recent patch, and I will be playing this game even more than before. To top it all off, If you used these cards that got nerfed they are letting you reap these cards for full return on crafting materials. This development team deserves high praise for what they’ve done, and that’s what led me to writing this review. If you’re a new player on the fence, or an older player wondering when to return, I 100% recommend this to anybody that likes card games or capcom. Good job Dev team!

I really enjoy this game. I really do. No ptw bull! You can get card packs naturally through doing challenges or raising in the ranks in ranked mode or even just “leveling up” different heroes. However leveling up doesn’t mean you will have an unfair advantage like more health or something. Also setting this game apart is no level ups for cards! So as long as you have the card you want to play it is equal to your opponents of the same kind! What a novel concept!

However there is a drawback. Temporary I hope. Three times so far when I get into a really good match that takes longer then two minutes and I was coming back from a potential loss and just as I removed my opponents last line of defense bam! Everything goes haywire. My units won’t attack. My opponent plays no cards. I disconnect and LOSE even though I had more life and was on the verge of winning. That pisses me off so bad :( it even happened to an opponent of mine who was whooping my backside. I won because he or she “disconnected”. Rage inducing I assure you.

But given if they fix that or those bugs I will be happy with this game to the point it gets five stars. Oh and if you are the type who likes shelling out hundreds of dollars on card games don’t fret! Even though you can’t gain an unfair advantage you can still collect “foil” cards and even secret cards that are animated! Overall a worthy game.