Addicting
I was playing this game for awhile, getting all the way to blue belt. Its very challenging, but I'm too good. I had about 28 hazumi points, then the enemy stole them from me. I thought i lost when i drew a card that deals the amount of hazumi points to life points, he already had about 12 so instant death!. Very good game, but the enemies are smart and challenging. Keep it that way
Sometimes you say "Why not?"
This game has interesting concepts and is much like Magic:The gathering, except all the good cards have been removed and you struggle for hours to get a single damage card.Other than sifting through pointless single effects cards and picking cards only to have them not work, this isn't such a bad game, although fixing the bugs in it might be a good idea.
Good game, good gfx, addicting- but a few quibbles
I really wish I could get in touch with the author, as the "community" part of the game is gone from his website.
The game itself is quite addicting, despite a few flaws that have mostly already been mentioned in other reviews. Shortest game I played was (1) card - I had (4!) "More damage with combo" cards dealt to me, and the Enemy was obliterated with one stroke! :)
OTOH, the LONGEST single game I played was over 180 cards! And if you get tired of the slogging, and hit Page Reload on your browser, it says "you fled your last match!" and gives you a loss. A "save this game" or "Resign" would be nice, or even "re-randomize the deck"!
The graphics/humor is pretty well done; every time I see the "Fumble (last attack is reverted)" card I have to laugh. Although, the cards are really only "seeable" in 800x600 resolution.
Two great flaws in the Tournament (OK, three):
o You can't keep your reward (Gain offense/defense/health points AND still play a card during your turn) and reuse it indefinitely in subsequent games; you use your bonus once and then it's gone.
o You lose, you lose your belt ranking - a better idea would be that you have to fight 1..2..3..4..5(max) Training fights before trying for another Belt increase after you lose a Belt trial.
o Your LIFE points go from 120 to whatever you had after defeating the last opponent - if you had 8 health, too bad - that's your max unless you get the +5 -> Max health card. That's a bit much!!! (So during a Tourn, NEVER play the "both your lives are Halved (Epidemic) card!!)
o (Ok, four, sosueme) - you have to win SIX FIGHTS for a lousy couple of bonus points?! See below!!
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If you're using XP, the savegame is a .sol file stored in a path similar to this, without the brackets: (and replace ! with . to get around the NG website filter)
C:\Documents and Settings\[blitzmach]\Applicati on Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\xxJPGTPG JP\www!urbanprophet!com\gekise n_d.swf\[YOURID]gek.sol
Those with hex editor experience could possibly alter their stats, as well as give themselves "prize" (tournament) awards. You have to know how numbers are stored in the file though.
Default belt: 3F,F0
Yellow belt: 00,05
Orange belt: 40,08
Green belt: 40,1D
The order makes no sense (to me) but that's all I'm giving out. ;-)
good game but...
the random generation of the the cards, the inability to discard, very frustrating. Also it seems at even the low levels the AI has clear and overpaowering odds over you. I would suggest being able to make decks yourself, or choose a type of deck such as healing or attack or skill based. That way you know what kinds of cards you have coming that could save you. It took me 3 hours to get my yellow belt, even when I had my opponent down to 3 hitpoints and I had 30. I stopped getting cards I could use, and he then whomped on me. Good game, a few tweaks on the decks and I think you'll have it
Beat the game?
So i got to a belt where I cannot do any more trials...after black belt 4th dan you get blood belt then there is one more (no spoiler:) The enemy strength is 110. Why no more after that....?