{"id":18899,"date":"2019-04-05T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18899"},"modified":"2019-03-11T01:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T01:27:27","slug":"unplugged-street-fighter-exceed-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/05\/unplugged-street-fighter-exceed-card-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplugged: Street Fighter Exceed Card Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Street Fighter is one of the most popular video games ever made and helped jump start arcades and the one-on-one fighting game genre.\u00a0 And now you can play a card game with characters and themes from the famous franchise.\u00a0 Exceed is an existing card game with fighter style mechanics, and their latest series includes characters from Capcom\u2019s classic series.\u00a0 You can read more about it here<\/strong><\/a>, but before you do, please make sure to read my review below.<\/p>\n

Here is a larger picture of the box of cards that I reviewed.\u00a0 The game is for two players and each box comes with four character decks for you to try.<\/p>\n

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My review copy also came with a handy mat.\u00a0 The mat doesn\u2019t come with the box, but you can buy it separately on their online store (or in a bundle).\u00a0 If you are really serious about playing this game, I recommend getting the mat.\u00a0 Even though the box comes with laminated cards to use as markers for you to put your cards on, the mat also has a place for you to put a coin to mark how many hit points you have left, and a place to put cards to fill up your \u2018gauge meter.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Each box has four characters decks for you to try.\u00a0 Each one has special attacks and moves for that character.\u00a0 For instance, Sagat has cards representing his Tiger Uppercut and whatnot.\u00a0 The set also comes with little boxes for you to hold each deck in, but you have to put them together.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little bummed that the box I got to review has the most boring-est characters ever: Ryu, Sagat, Zangief, and Akuma.\u00a0 It\u2019s too bad I didn\u2019t get the M. Bison box as it has my favorite character Cammy in it.\u00a0 And the Chun-Li box has Chun-Li and Dan, two of my other favorite characters.\u00a0 Oh well, beggars can\u2019t be choosers.<\/p>\n

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The game is a bit more complicated than I can explain, but I will do my best to summarize it.\u00a0 Each player takes turns and can do one action on their turn.\u00a0 They can draw a card, move their character card on the board, among other things.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to make sure your character card is in enough range to hit the enemy if you attack, kind of like how you have to move left and right on the 2-D Street Fighter stages.<\/p>\n

Attacking is how you win the game, as whoever runs out of hit points first, loses.\u00a0 You can also lose if you reshuffle your deck once and run out of cards, but the way the game is played, I imagine this would rarely ever happen. Especially if you play aggressively like my friend and I did when we played.\u00a0 When you choose an attack from your hand, it\u2019ll have numbers on it.\u00a0 The range number tells you how close you have to be to your opponent for the attack to work.\u00a0 The power number tells you how many hit points to take from your opponent.\u00a0 But you\u2019ll have to subtract points if they block with a certain number.\u00a0 And the speed number tells who attacks first.\u00a0 Certain attacks also have special effects like knocking back your opponent a few spaces, or stunning them, preventing their attack.\u00a0 So you have to watch out or your attack will be negated completely.\u00a0 When you take a hit, or cause a hit of your own, you can put your used cards into the gauge meter.\u00a0 You can then use these cards as currency to do even more powerful moves or upgrade your character.\u00a0 And that\u2019s really the game in a nutshell.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a picture of a game in progress.<\/p>\n

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I liked how this game uses themes from the fighter series in its rules.\u00a0 Like moving on a 2-D plane and making sure you have enough range for attacks, using special moves and your gauge meter.\u00a0 What I didn\u2019t like was how complicated the rules were.\u00a0 After a few plays, it becomes easier to understand, as it only takes 20 to 30 minutes to play.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t really play complicated card games very much. Anything more complicated than Hungry Hungry Hippos and my eyes glaze over.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happened when my friend was explaining the rules to me.\u00a0 So I\u2019d say this game is best for older kids.\u00a0 It would be neat to see other fighter franchises get the Exceed treatment, though.\u00a0 Like Soul Calibur or SNK\u2019s fighters.\u00a0 Oh man, wouldn\u2019t a real version of SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash be neat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Street Fighter is one of the most popular video games ever made and helped jump start arcades and the one-on-one fighting game genre.\u00a0 And now you can play a card game with characters and themes from the famous franchise.\u00a0 Exceed is an existing card game with fighter style mechanics, and their latest series includes characters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unplugged-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18901,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions\/18901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}