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Developer: Dark Roast Entertainment
Platform: WiiU
Genre: CCG Deck Builder/Strategy
Rating: E10
MSRP: Free (with an optional 7.99 upgrade fee)
Release Date: 11th December, 2014 (US)
eShop details:
Lucadian Chronicles is a free* card battling game from Dark Roast Entertainment (a duo of vets from SquareEnix and Nexon) that is based entirely around the fun of building and testing small decks of heroes to send into battle. To this end, the actual battle aspect of the game is entirely automated. Your cards will automatically fight against the enemy team with a strategy determined by the makeup of your deck. Fleshing the experience out are numerous modes, including a full campaign story mode, draft matches, and player leagues.
Not convinced? All it takes to test the waters is the low low price of free. That's right, simply downloading the base game will give you access to all the game's modes and cards. The simple catch is that free players will be have a daily limit on how much they can play the game's multiplayer modes and parts of the campaign mode will be locked off. Unlocking the full experience (the entire campaign mode and unlimited multiplayer play) will only be $7.99. Dark Roast is also saying right now that they are intending for that fee to also cover future content updates rather than relying on microtranscations.
Modes
-Deck Building: The meat of Lucadian Chronicles. Here you will build team decks of up to five hero cards and one spell card. Each card has a defined point value that will go against your overall point capacity (so no overloading on powerful cards!). Heroes have health, attack, and defense ratings that will determine how powerful they are, along with various little inherent abilities and traits that determine their in-battle strategies (as well as what cards they can or can not be paired with). Spells are persistent effect cards that impose extra rules on the combat. Your overall collection of cards will increase as you earn more gold to spend on the card shop, giving you new packs of cards. Packs are randomized, but duplicates also represent a good thing here, since they can be merge to create a stronger version of their base card.
-Campaign Mode: Lucadian Chronicles main story mode consists of a series of linked campaigns that tells the stories of multiple factions. Each individual campaign has its own series of battles and stories. Completing battles will net you coins to use on the game's card store, and each can be repeated as many times as you want until you've completed every challenge tied to each chapter. Aside from being a meaty experience in its own right, this mode will also be serving as a tutorial for how to play the game online!
-League Mode: This asynchronous multiplayer mode allows you to join a league with other players and pits your selected decks against theirs over the course of a few days.
-Draft Mode: This consists of two competitive modes (2 Player Matches and 4 Player Tournaments) wherein players are presented with a selection of random cards from which they will take turns selecting until everybody has enough to build a deck of heroes for use in matches against each other.
-Daily Challenges: Every day, the game will be updated to present new challenges for players to complete. These take the forms of special battle scenarios that will require players to figure out the best strategies. Unlike the campaign mode, these can only be attempted a few times a day before you are locked out until the next day's challenge.
Extras
-Miiverse Support: Lucadian Chronicles makes use of Miiverse and will show player messages left behind on individual campaign chapters.
-Stamps: Along with Miiverse messages, Lucadian Chronicles has unlockable Miiverse stamps.
-Off Screen Play: Lucadian Chronicles can be played entirely on the tablet controller
-1080p 60fps visuals: Dark Roast Entertainment wanted you guys to know
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80/100 - 8-World News
Developer: Dark Roast Entertainment
Platform: WiiU
Genre: CCG Deck Builder/Strategy
Rating: E10
MSRP: Free (with an optional 7.99 upgrade fee)
Release Date: 11th December, 2014 (US)
eShop details:
Lucadian Chronicles is a free* card battling game from Dark Roast Entertainment (a duo of vets from SquareEnix and Nexon) that is based entirely around the fun of building and testing small decks of heroes to send into battle. To this end, the actual battle aspect of the game is entirely automated. Your cards will automatically fight against the enemy team with a strategy determined by the makeup of your deck. Fleshing the experience out are numerous modes, including a full campaign story mode, draft matches, and player leagues.
Not convinced? All it takes to test the waters is the low low price of free. That's right, simply downloading the base game will give you access to all the game's modes and cards. The simple catch is that free players will be have a daily limit on how much they can play the game's multiplayer modes and parts of the campaign mode will be locked off. Unlocking the full experience (the entire campaign mode and unlimited multiplayer play) will only be $7.99. Dark Roast is also saying right now that they are intending for that fee to also cover future content updates rather than relying on microtranscations.
Modes
-Deck Building: The meat of Lucadian Chronicles. Here you will build team decks of up to five hero cards and one spell card. Each card has a defined point value that will go against your overall point capacity (so no overloading on powerful cards!). Heroes have health, attack, and defense ratings that will determine how powerful they are, along with various little inherent abilities and traits that determine their in-battle strategies (as well as what cards they can or can not be paired with). Spells are persistent effect cards that impose extra rules on the combat. Your overall collection of cards will increase as you earn more gold to spend on the card shop, giving you new packs of cards. Packs are randomized, but duplicates also represent a good thing here, since they can be merge to create a stronger version of their base card.
-Campaign Mode: Lucadian Chronicles main story mode consists of a series of linked campaigns that tells the stories of multiple factions. Each individual campaign has its own series of battles and stories. Completing battles will net you coins to use on the game's card store, and each can be repeated as many times as you want until you've completed every challenge tied to each chapter. Aside from being a meaty experience in its own right, this mode will also be serving as a tutorial for how to play the game online!
-League Mode: This asynchronous multiplayer mode allows you to join a league with other players and pits your selected decks against theirs over the course of a few days.
-Draft Mode: This consists of two competitive modes (2 Player Matches and 4 Player Tournaments) wherein players are presented with a selection of random cards from which they will take turns selecting until everybody has enough to build a deck of heroes for use in matches against each other.
-Daily Challenges: Every day, the game will be updated to present new challenges for players to complete. These take the forms of special battle scenarios that will require players to figure out the best strategies. Unlike the campaign mode, these can only be attempted a few times a day before you are locked out until the next day's challenge.
Extras
-Miiverse Support: Lucadian Chronicles makes use of Miiverse and will show player messages left behind on individual campaign chapters.
-Stamps: Along with Miiverse messages, Lucadian Chronicles has unlockable Miiverse stamps.
-Off Screen Play: Lucadian Chronicles can be played entirely on the tablet controller
-1080p 60fps visuals: Dark Roast Entertainment wanted you guys to know
More Screens
Videos
Trailer
Reviews
80/100 - 8-World News
