>>13979502
Its really fun but Square is not pushing it at all. I've gone to its booth at comicon and its a table with a demo deck and mats left unattended every time.
Basically imagine a none pozzed magic with elements of duel masters and YuGiOh! but intended for fast best of 3 matches inspired by a random turn based battle in a FF game.
You draw 2 cards per turn and always need a hand below a certain size so the burn is fast. There are elements for each card and a CP or crystal points value. A 6 in a red crystal means 6 cp to play. This could mean tapping 6 fire element backups or discarding 3 since a discard is a one turn only 2 power for a temp boost.
Forwards are your attackers and they can party up and combine their stats at the risk of one dying taking them all out. Backups are basically spell cards and act as buff/debuffers. Along with summons and the new monster type in Opus 4 that just came out for bigger game changing effects.
Basically the goal is attack your opponent directly 7 times. Each time they take a card from the top of their deck and put it in a damage zone, first to 7 damage loses. But theres a catch. If they place a card with EX in there you may have damaged them but you also triggered that card. Every summon is an EX card along with most powerful characters so every victory could be a landmine.
Plus there are types that benefit each other like knight or summoner but also archetypes like FF7 or FFCC so characters from the same game have extra effects.
Throw on top of all this 'Signature moves' or S moves where a card has a second effect that requires discarding a card of the same name to activate it. The neat part is different versions of the character still have the same name. So a starter deck 6 cost Cloud can be used for the legendary must have Light element 3 drop Clouds S move Climhazzard or the new Opus 4 Gabranth where the cheaper card spends the costlier, more base power one for a move thats often devastating and turns a game on its head.
Its really fun and if you have a friend to play with there are decks for 7,9,10,13 and type zero now and ones for 12 and 14 coming next. 7, 10 or 9 is your best bet as fire/earth is the intermediate, water/ice is beginner and lightning/wind is expert in terms of difficulty for a beginning player.
The big problem was they released it in the EU and forgot to print any US cards so released half the EU stock in the US and everywhere was starved. Scalpers charged over $500 for a box of Opus 1 boosters and we have to scour fucking videogame stores and music shops or even toys r us to find some. Square Enix then stopped shilling it but now the cards are easy to find, especially online.
Except Shantotto. She is god tier and rare as rocking horse shit.
Fun game though i can recommend it.