I added this to the database/Backloggd not just because all games should have a record on here but also because this one is GOOD. I can barely understand Japanese beyond katakana and I still had a ton of fun with this game.
It played like a simplified variation on the physical Zatch Bell Card Battle game that ran while the series was still going on. You have 2 cards in play each turn, but unlike the real CCG, you pick them from a larger hand instead of having them on the next pages of your spellbook. You also only play as one mamodo team at a time instead of up to 3, but you have a wider variety of attacks you can use, with many low-level spells being usable by any character.
But the strategy here is surprisingly deep, I was only able to scratch the surface with my basic understanding of the language but if I was a Japanese speaker I could have created some gnarly decks with the cards I'd gotten from the gacha. The cards that WERE only usable by one character were often tied together by a specific strategic theme that made that character's playstyle unique.
Accompanying all that are visuals and audio that use sort of third-person view of the characters you're playing as, with little elemental effects (and newly-recorded voice lines!) when you attack.
It was super fun and I really enjoyed having a Zatch Bell gacha game I could log onto every day for awhile. I stopped playing quite awhile before it shut down, only because my lack of understanding of Japanese meant I could only strategize so much, and lost easily in multiplayer.
Luckily for anyone who's still interested in this game, not only is there a detailed walkthrough of much of it courtesy of ZatchBellGamer on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTb_RJUpG-rhv3brXAu6V99oc-_QY5hEe
But he's also replicated the game and all its cards on Steam's tabletop simulator!
If you're feeling the Zatch Bell love right now due to the currently-running manga sequel, watch those videos or give that version of the game a shot!
It played like a simplified variation on the physical Zatch Bell Card Battle game that ran while the series was still going on. You have 2 cards in play each turn, but unlike the real CCG, you pick them from a larger hand instead of having them on the next pages of your spellbook. You also only play as one mamodo team at a time instead of up to 3, but you have a wider variety of attacks you can use, with many low-level spells being usable by any character.
But the strategy here is surprisingly deep, I was only able to scratch the surface with my basic understanding of the language but if I was a Japanese speaker I could have created some gnarly decks with the cards I'd gotten from the gacha. The cards that WERE only usable by one character were often tied together by a specific strategic theme that made that character's playstyle unique.
Accompanying all that are visuals and audio that use sort of third-person view of the characters you're playing as, with little elemental effects (and newly-recorded voice lines!) when you attack.
It was super fun and I really enjoyed having a Zatch Bell gacha game I could log onto every day for awhile. I stopped playing quite awhile before it shut down, only because my lack of understanding of Japanese meant I could only strategize so much, and lost easily in multiplayer.
Luckily for anyone who's still interested in this game, not only is there a detailed walkthrough of much of it courtesy of ZatchBellGamer on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTb_RJUpG-rhv3brXAu6V99oc-_QY5hEe
But he's also replicated the game and all its cards on Steam's tabletop simulator!
If you're feeling the Zatch Bell love right now due to the currently-running manga sequel, watch those videos or give that version of the game a shot!