Monster Hunter Riders Gets Announced For Mobiles

4 responses to “Monster Hunter Riders Gets Announced For Mobiles”

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   transientmind

   January 28, 2020 at 8:24 pm

   Bloody hell the Japanese love their gacha games.

   Tell you what, though, I’ve been playing the newly-released Arknights and I’m really digging its mix of slick art, music, and tower defence. I love tower defence, so this is one of those ones that really scratches my ‘gameplay’ itch like so many gacha games just treat as secondary guff to get in the way of the real meat of paying for new characters.

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      mad_danny

      January 28, 2020 at 10:26 pm

      ooh that sounds like one for me to check out – hopefully as much fun as the old Defense Witches game, since too many other gacha TD games just knock off Kingdom Rush instead of letting you properly block out paths or use adjacent towers for buffs.

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         transientmind

         February 3, 2020 at 11:50 am

         Hm. It’s not as much Fieldrunners as it is Kingdom Rush. Maps where you get to divert and place paths are there, but they’re rare. Generally you’re stemming the flow with choke-points of ‘blockers’ who have health and a limit to how many mobs they can block, much like knights in KR.

         The real play is in the costs of units, building them up, and how they interact with each other. Buffs, debuffs, etc. You place low-cost ‘vanguard’ units early on who are good at generating resources, and then you swap them out with heavier-hitting, more expensive units, once you’ve built up steam. Some of the maps get very dynamic about swapping, with special units who have very low costs and very fast recharge times to be placed on the map on top of particularly troublesome enemy units as semi-assassins. Etc, etc. There’s a lot of mechanics on, but it’s definitely more dynamic than most place-and-upgrade TD.

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      pylgrim

      January 29, 2020 at 12:57 am

      I’ve been tempted by that game, mostly because they bought absurd amounts of ad space in Reddit and I keep seeing it. Good to hear that it has some mechanical depth besides anime gacha dopamine gambling.

      Too bad that I’m already deep into another anime gacha dopamine gambling game >_>

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