Animation Throwdown: The Quest For Cards Review

Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards is a free to play multiplayer online trading card game. In this game players build a collection of collectable cards to use in battles held in game. This game is based upon various animated series. With a concentration on animated series owned by FOX like Futurama and Family Guy.

In this game each card has its own purpose such as being a character or an accessory to create a combo (which is more powerful.). Cards also have 2 factors that have an effect on where/when you should them. First factor a card has is the strength of your cards, which determines how hard you hit when attacking other cards. This factor is essential for attack but not defence.  The second factor is life points, this indicates how much damage your card can withstand before being destroyed. To add to this a card might also have abilities such as being able to heal other cards or proving boosts.

Although this game is an easy to play upon. Over time it does become complex as you have to balance your deck against what cards opponents may have.

I feel that the game is fun to play and I do like how the game has its tactics. However the battles do drag on as plenty of animations used in game. Which after the first few instances it grows to be stale and time consuming. I don’t particularly like how this game does have so many restrictions with regard to crafting combinations. This is due to the fact that combinations are researched over real time. The exception being of course you pay to bypass it. I dislike that you have to research combos before you are allowed to play them.  This is unnecessary in game and is just an extra cash wall for the game. Another thing I noticed is that this game is a direct port from Kongregate/App Store. This is noticeable as it has tap to continue placed on the games screen.

This game like any another multiplayer online game has no ending per se. But like any other free to play game there is energy restrictions so you can only play for so long.  However if your objective is to complete all the steam achievements it will take over 100 hours to do this. Nevertheless if you wanted to be the best player on the server it is quite some task. One that will take plenty of time (and cash) in order to do the work needed. As you have to constantly play the game in order to get to the top of each leaderboard. Plus having a wide selection of high level cards is necessary for any chance of success.

This game unsurprisingly does have microtransactions present. The game also does advertise them frequently. While some of them are at a lower/reasonable price. Unsurprisingly you can spend obscene amounts of cash on them. For instance I started the game once and a full paged ad popped up on screen. This advertisement was for a deal priced at $99.99 as seen on screen. With this deal you get 10000 gems, 10 packs of cards, 120 hero tokens and 4 legendary cards. Normally for exact same price you would only get the 10000 gems.

Overall I wouldn’t really recommend Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards. Mainly because it is a pay to win game and the game is a direct port from Kongregate/App Store. However I can only recommend this game if you want to play on a free to play card game.  But don’t pay for any extra items that are in game as many items are expensive. It is also possible to can earn all the items in game but you do get them at a slower rate.

 

 

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