{"id":22006,"date":"2022-01-21T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22006"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:29:36","slug":"snk-vs-capcom-card-fighters-clash-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/snk-vs-capcom-card-fighters-clash-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in the late 90\u2019s\/early 2000\u2019s, game maker SNK released a handheld called the NEO GEO Pocket Color, to compete with Nintendo\u2019s Game Boy Color.\u00a0 I loved that handheld, and I\u2019ve been super happy that over the past few years, many of those games have been re-released on the Switch.\u00a0 But every time I reviewed one, I would always want and ask in my review for them to re-release SNK vs Capcom: Card Fighters Clash on the Switch<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 That was my favorite game on the handheld.\u00a0 I liked it even more than Pok\u00e9mon!\u00a0 I have a lot of great memories playing that game with my brother, and also playing it with SNK employees at E3 back then!\u00a0 So now I\u2019m SUPER HAPPY that they\u2019ve finally re-released it!<\/p>\n

Gameplay is kind of similar to the Pok\u00e9mon card game on the Game Boy.\u00a0 You walk around in 2-D top down fashion, visiting various card and hobby shops, challenging other players to matches.\u00a0 Your goal is to win a medal at each of the locations so you can compete in the final tournament.\u00a0 When you win matches, you earn cards.\u00a0 You can then add them to your deck, or trade them for rarer cards if you have a bunch of extras.\u00a0 A lot of the shops have various Capcom and SNK references, so that\u2019s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

Card battles are simple and straightforward, but complicated enough to keep you interested.\u00a0 Although fans of cards games like Magic may still find this one too simplistic.\u00a0 On each players\u2019 turn, they can draw a card and put a card into a row of three.\u00a0 You can choose to have a card attack the opponent, but they can use a card to defend.\u00a0 You can use fighter cards to whittle away at other cards, or if the opponent has no cards to defend with, you can chip away at their HP.\u00a0 Whoever can make their opponent\u2019s HP go down to zero first, wins.\u00a0 You earn points each time you draw a card, and you can use those points to activate special card effects or have two or more cards attack at once.\u00a0 Each card has a Capcom or SNK character on them, and you can even double up certain cards to increase your attack power.\u00a0 For instance, you can combine Mega Man and Rush cards together.\u00a0 But sometimes you can mix and match SNK and Capcom cards, too.\u00a0 Like for instance, Galford has a dog named Poppy, but you can also use the Rush card and combine it with Galford or Poppy cards!\u00a0 So previous knowledge of SNK and Capcom characters is helpful.<\/p>\n

I was worried that you wouldn\u2019t be able to trade cards and battle another player in this one.\u00a0 This game originally came in two different versions, SNK and Capcom.\u00a0 And like Pok\u00e9mon, the only way to get all the cards was through trades.\u00a0 This Switch port lets you pick one of the versions to start out with, but you can reset the game and play the other version as well.\u00a0 So it\u2019s like you\u2019re getting two games in one.\u00a0 Then you can trade cards with both save files!\u00a0 So it\u2019s nice to see you can do that.\u00a0 I tried to do a battle, but either the game froze up on me or I wasn\u2019t doing it right.<\/p>\n

Since this game came out 20 years ago, it doesn\u2019t have all the quality of life features that a lot of today\u2019s games have.\u00a0 But luckily, there is an option screen that takes care of a lot of that.\u00a0 You view the action on a mock up NEO GEO Pocket Color handheld (which is weird when you are playing the handheld on the Switch handheld mode), but you can choose to zoom in on the screen to make it much easier to see.\u00a0 You can also toggle various screen filters, and rewind, too.\u00a0 And one problem the original game had was sometimes battles lasted too long, but here you can pause the action on the Switch and come back to it later at any time, so that\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n

As much as I can gush about this game, it does have some problems here and there.\u00a0 The learning curve can be a bit steep, but luckily you can view an original scan of the print instruction booklet, and there are in-game tutorials, too.\u00a0 Back in the day, SNK was notorious for bad translations, and this was no exception.\u00a0 It was a bit more acceptable back then for some reason, but not now.\u00a0 Also, since this is a handheld game from 20 years ago, some of the menus are a bit clunky and I would\u2019ve liked to have been able to see what each special card did at any time.<\/p>\n

But otherwise, I really liked this game!\u00a0 And I don\u2019t usually even like card battle games.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely one of the best NEO GEO Pocket Color games, if not THE best one.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019ve finally gotten the NGPC game I\u2019ve wanted on the Switch, what else is there to ask for?\u00a0 Well, I guess I could ask for them to port Crush Roller, or maybe one of the puzzle games like Puzzle Link.\u00a0 Actually there was a sequel to Card Fighters Clash on the NGPC that never came to the US.\u00a0 It would be neat to have that, but then they\u2019d have to translate it and that may be too much to ask.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want the DS version of Card Fighters Clash, though, because they added some rules to the game that I didn\u2019t like, and the original DS cartridge had a game-breaking bug in it!<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, and Mild Blood.\u00a0 Some of the characters on the cards are holding sake bottles and others have streaks of red stuff around them.\u00a0 But the cards are so cartoony that I\u2019d be OK with just about any kid playing this.\u00a0 Strong reading skill is needed for all the text, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the late 90\u2019s\/early 2000\u2019s, game maker SNK released a handheld called the NEO GEO Pocket Color, to compete with Nintendo\u2019s Game Boy Color.\u00a0 I loved that handheld, and I\u2019ve been super happy that over the past few years, many of those games have been re-released on the Switch.\u00a0 But every time I reviewed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006","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=22006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22008,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions\/22008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}