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Duel
Masters: Kaijudo Showdown is a game based on the children’s anime of
the same name. It is also the sequel to Duel Masters: Sempai Legends. (I
am not familiar with the anime at all besides knowing that it existed
before playing the game, so don’t expect me to mention how faithful
the game is to the series.)

Players
must choose any card from their deck and place it in the “mana pool’
which enables players to cast spells or summon monsters. Spells are cast
right away while monsters get “summoning sickness” which prevents
any use of them for a whole turn. There are also five different classes
for cards: Darkness, Light, Nature, Fire and Water. To summon a monster,
players must sacrifice one of their card classes. It’s pretty simple
and kids should be able to pick up the concept quickly. What’s
annoying is memorizing the card descriptions. If you want a description
for a card, you have to wait for the screen to fade and another screen
to pop up with the description. Some people may not have a problem with
this, but I lack patience and I’m sure there are many other people who
would also get frustrated with this.
This
game was definitely inspired by Magic: the Gathering and from what I
remember of Magic, Duel Masters doesn’t play much differently at all.
I could be wrong since I haven’t played Magic in a very long time so
I’m not going to get all technical of saying how original Duel Masters
really is.
Visually,
the game isn’t that bad. Battle animations are all right and the towns
look pretty good. I’m not very fond of the character designs but then
again I realize that this game is targeted towards children and it’s
not meant to have the mature anime like look, so I bet that the kids are
very fond of Duel Masters’ character designs.
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