Digimon Heroes Review – Addicting But Lacking In Depth

<p>I was a <em>Digimon<&sol;em> kid while growing up&period; I watched the first four seasons&comma; watched the movie in an empty screening&comma; and played <em>Digimon World<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Digimon World 2003<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Digimon Rumble Arena<&sol;em> 1 and 2&comma; and the strangely fun <em>Digimon Digital Card Battle<&sol;em>&period; However&comma; as of recent&comma; the series has died down for me until <em>Digimon Heroes<&sol;em> came up on the Google Play Store&period; For those nostalgic for the series&comma; it is a fun ride as it is a match 3 card game that has you collect the digimon you remember from the past&comma; but due to it lacking in depth&comma; it won&&num;8217&semi;t be as memorable as the games I&&num;8217&semi;ve mentioned previously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The main goal of the game is to get through waves of enemy digimon in stages&period; In the beginning&comma; you are given five digimon to start off with and through battling you can get new digimon by defeating the waves and obtaining eggs&period; These eggs hatch new digimon for your party&period; However&comma; if they&&num;8217&semi;re duplicates&comma; you can fuse them with your current digimon party to make them stronger&period; You can also digivolve your digimon through using pre-requisite levelled digimon and a certain amount of evolution capacitors&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s difficult to get enough resources for digivolving without spending money&comma; though&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;98721" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-98721" style&equals;"width&colon; 400px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-98721" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;01&sol;04011130&sol;Screenshot&lowbar;2016-01-30-11-38-48-654x1024&period;png" alt&equals;"Screenshot&lowbar;2016-01-30-11-38-48" width&equals;"400" height&equals;"626" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-98721" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Digimon Heroes&comma; Bandai Namco&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; <em>Digimon Heroes<&sol;em> is extremely fair with its monetary model overall&period; You can get a lot of resources through just playing the game&period; If you add people you have gained the help of during battle&comma; you can get friend points&comma; which allow you to get a new digimon&period; The game is also generous with the chips you need to upgrade your digimon&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m always unlocking new digimon to use for my party&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s fantastic&period; Plus&comma; I haven&&num;8217&semi;t had any stoppages with timers with the first few hours of playing the game&period; There is an energy bar&comma; but it gets replenished from leveling up&comma; so I haven&&num;8217&semi;t had any issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The gameplay in <em>Digimon Heroes<&sol;em>&comma; while simple&comma; is engaging to play if you have time to kill&period; With your party of five digimon &lpar;as well as a guest digimon from someone online&rpar;&comma; you have to battle waves of digimon in each themed level&period; The point of view is similar to a standard dungeon crawler&period; On the bottom of the screen&comma; the player has to line up three cards of the same color&comma; so the digimon can attack&period; There are also multiple colored cards&comma; which can be a replacement for a normal colored card&period; If you have three multiple colored cards&comma; you can make a special attack&&num;8211&semi;called the wild attack&&num;8211&semi;with every digimon in your party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What I don&&num;8217&semi;t like is that the game instantly makes a chain of your cards once you have connected the first three cards&period; It would have been great if we did this manually rather than the game doing it for you&period; The chains continue to chain up the party&&num;8217&semi;s attacks&period; You can also set a digimon as a leader&comma; which can give benefits to your party or switch the type of cards you have in your hand&period; There is no challenge or strategy to the game&comma; but the aesthetic presentation and use of attacking sounds from the game keep me coming back time and time again&period; The enemies rarely take any damage from the party either&semi; most only take 1HP away which is laughably low&period; Plus&comma; the ability to collect the digimon I watched as a kid and recognizing them once again&comma; is a treat&period; It would have been great&comma; on the other hand&comma; if they brought back the music as well&period; I would have loved the soundtrack from <em>Digimon the Movie<&sol;em> and the <em>Digimon<&sol;em> theme songs in the game instead of the generic soundtrack in <em>Digimon Heroes&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; this game is fun for those who grew up with the series and want a fair monetary system in a free-to-play game&comma; but the lack of depth in the battle system is something that will plague the game&&num;8217&semi;s future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you want more <em>Digimon<&sol;em>&comma; you can check out Ethan Buck&&num;8217&semi;s thoughts on <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;digimon-star-rumble-disappointing-digital-fans&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Digimon All-Star Rumble<&sol;a><&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;