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Partial Nudity Many of the characters on the cards are from popular fighting games, which feature comic book style shapely female fighters in scantily clad clothing. Nintendo's portable Game Boy video game handhelds have always been king of the mountain, but every now and then they face strong competition from another company. Back in the late 1990's, one competitor was game maker SNK with their portable Neo Geo Pocket Color. One of the best games on the Neo Geo Pocket was SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash. It was a card battling game featuring characters from SNK and Capcom's popular game franchises. It was a big deal to have both companies' characters in the game since at one point, SNK and Capcom had a strong rivalry with their 2-D arcade one-on-one fighting games. Card Fighters Clash was a fun and simple game, and while the Neo Geo Pocket Color is long gone, you can now battle cards on the Nintendo DS with SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS. Enter the "Card Battle Tower" where you'll spend all the time in the game. Use the touch screen or directional pad to choose opponents and deal and place cards in battle. The object is to use cards strategically to attack' your opponents cards and whittle down their hit points to zero, similar to other card battle games like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Magic: The Gathering. The rules of Card Fighters DS are pretty simple to pick up. If you've played the first game, you can jump right into this one. But if not, a few card battles will get you up to speed. Unfortunately, one new addition hinders the simplistic fun of the first game. In Card Fighters DS, in order to put a card in your hand, it will cost you some energy' that you can acquire from other cards. Basically this adds needless complexity and luck into the mix, as whoever first gets a dealt hand with the best energy' in the cards has an unfair advantage. The best part about Card Fighters DS is all the cards you can acquire with familiar faces and attacks from Capcom's and SNK's extensive line of game franchises. On the Capcom side, you have Street Fighter characters like Chun-Li and Ryu, most of the main cast from the Mega Man series, and even folks from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney show up as cards. SNK familiars include characters from Fatal Fury, Metal Slug, and much more. Trade and battle wirelessly with nearby friends who have a DS and a copy of the game. Unfortunately, the DS version of Card Fighters just lacks the fun and charm of the original game. It may be the added complexity in the card battle rules, or the lack of different locations to travel to, or something else entirely that's hard to put a finger on. Even worse, most copies of the game have a bug that will freeze the game if you talk with a certain person after you beat the game. Luckily, if you do have a buggy copy of Card Fighters DS, you can visit SNK Playmore's Web site and get information on how you can return your copy of the game for a bug-free one.  
While the game features cards with characters from fighting games, they're only on cards and don't really hit each other here. Reading skill is helpful as everything is text based, but the translation is full of poor grammar and spelling mistakes, so it's still a little confusing sometimes. Many of the characters on the cards are from popular fighting games, which feature comic book style shapely female fighters in scantily clad clothing. Because of the rules and gameplay, SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS is best for older kid gamers.
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