Athenion may not have the pedigree of another deck-building card video games out there for cellular, however that shouldn't put you off. It is a sport that's packed filled with shiny concepts, contemporary new gameplay modes and sufficient content material that you may lose hours of your life to.
Battles happen on a 4×4 grid, and see you taking it in turns together with your opponent to put down playing cards. You draw as much as 5 playing cards out of your deck of forty at the beginning of each flip.
These are the items you're enjoying within the struggle, and so they vary from hulking monsters to flighty fairies, from magical timber to fearsome undead dragons.
Your playing cards have arrows on them that you simply present you which of them route they’ll assault. You'll additionally discover a bunch of different numbers on the playing cards. These let you understand the hit factors a card has, how highly effective its assault is and what number of soul factors it grants you.
These soul factors allow you to assault your opponent and so they're the important thing to victory. The primary participant to lose all of their very own hit factors is the loser.
There's much more happening than that although. For one factor it’s good to decide from one in every of six totally different factions earlier than you even get to the fights.
These factions have totally different strengths and weaknesses and determining which ones most accurately fits the way in which you wish to play is step one of a reasonably lengthy journey.
Totally different factions have totally different particular strikes as nicely. Some allow you to hyperlink collectively playing cards to make them extra highly effective, others are all about sacrificing weaker items to create pockets of darkish magical power. One allows you to construct big rock partitions that you need to use to guard a few of your items or energy up others.
There are single-player challenges, common occasions and far, way more as nicely. You're by no means in need of one thing to do in Athenion, and the tempo of the matches allows you to get loads of them in in a single setting.
The Good
The Good
There's a staggering quantity of depth to Athenion. It's going to take you a very good whereas to become familiar with the fundamentals and when you've completed that there are layers and layers to peel again. Each time you win you'll work out a brand new technique and each time you lose you'll be looking for a strategy to proper that incorrect.
The sport seems to be superb too. The playing cards all sport a superb anime art-style and also you'll wish to gather all of them simply so you possibly can verify them out. The pace of the fights is a large plus too – they ship enormous chunks of tactical motion within the kind of short-blast classes which might be good for cellular play.
On high of that there's a superb group to the sport, and also you by no means have to attend lengthy to search out a web based battle. There are a variety of various modes that allow you to apply with totally different decks, participate in intriguing occasions and struggle it out in ranked and informal multiplayer matches.
The Unhealthy
The Unhealthy
There's a reasonably steep studying curve right here, so for those who're not in for the lengthy haul then you definitely could be higher discovering your card-based enjoyable elsewhere. Even whenever you've acquired the fundamentals down you've nonetheless acquired loads to be taught and it may be punishing to come back up in opposition to an opponent who is aware of greater than you do.
There are additionally loads of currencies, crafting supplies and different rewards to determine. The sport does inform you what they do, however the tutorials are fairly temporary and also you're left by yourself for lots of the time to attempt to unravel issues.
Total
Total
Athenion may not be the best sport to know, however as soon as issues begin clicking it turns into one thing actually moderately particular. There are some good concepts right here and so they're woven right into a shiny tapestry of attractive visuals and splendidly paced cellular play.
It gained't be to everybody's style, and it's truthful to say that some gamers are going to place it down earlier than they've even acquired to the nice bits, however that is one CCG that it's nicely price sticking with.
