Review

Rather than cloning the popular farming concept on Facebook, Qunify Games is taking on a less popular social genre with the card-based strategy game, CLASH: Rise of Heroes. Though it is a little difficult to play in the beginning of this game, you will find the doohickey soon. If you want to have a good command of every game factor, you need to spend a lot of time on it.

Essentially, the game comes from a comic book: Warstorm. However, while some elements are similar, some are different as well, including a more colorful means of storytelling and cliff-hanging game background.

Clash has an interesting means of starting things out, tasking players with the creation of their own personal superhero. When entering into the game, you can choose two skills from ten such as water, electricity, fire, psionic and so on. Every skill has its own feature. For example, water gives you the power of healing your allies or harming your enemies. If you choose electricity, you can command the power of lightning and unleash it on your opponents. Meanwhile, you can create your unique avatar as your wish. Maybe the avatar is a strong man with a ferocious face or a handsome appearance. Also you can choose your favorable color of hair and armor. After finishing creating your own avatar, you are able to enter into the battlefield and face the real challenge.

On the battlefield, your hero has three stats associated with it: Focus, Strength, and Health. Your objective is to reduce the hero’s health of your opponent to zero. The most basic means of doing so is to simply “attack”, which is related to your hero’s strength, indicating how much health it will take off the enemy. Well, this is not the most important ability of your hero. What’s the most important is how to use your hand card reasonably in the game. You will have five cards when the battle starts, and each one costs a certain amount of focus which is like the set of energy in other games. If you don’t have enough focus, you won’t be able to use some cards. The longer the game runs, the more focus is generated. As a result, it becomes a strategic game as to the choice when to play certain cards. Some puissant cards need to consume a lot of focus, while some cards need to continually be used so that they can arrive at the most outstanding effect. Therefore, it is a key to consider how and when you should start to use your hand cards.

In Rise of Heroes, you will have some allies who are among the most powerful. They can be placed into four slots adjacent to the hero, attacking any of the enemy’s allies that lay across from them on the battlefield and attacking the enemy hero if none are present. Additionally, allies often come with special abilities such as double attacks, forcing enemies to lose turns, and so on. If you can  take advantage of your allies, it will be a key to win a battle. In order to keep them alive, your have to play items, defensive spells, and offensive spells. These are the real money makers, so-to-speak, as they can be used immediately. Sometimes they will do direct damage to a target, while sometimes they could heal a friendly card or even protect it from damage for a short while. In this game, you should also concern about how to earn new cards. The most direct ways to earn new ones is to level up or win single player battles. Aside from this, you can participate in the single player campaign or short missions to earn what is called VP (Victory Points) that can be used to buy new cards.

As far as a different form of play goes, Rise of Heroes is pretty interesting. The game puts players not only  just into random battles, but in an actual single player story-mode. It takes the approach that Exorcists vs. Demons did in a fantasy world and gives the players a few pages of a comic to tell the story. Once you have finished one chapter, more campaigns will be released. But likely, they will jump into the battle-mode.

To some extent, Rise of Heroes is a game suiting those who are clever and patient to play because in this game you have to consider which strategy to use or how to defeat one of your opponent’s allies in one turn if necessary. Even sometimes you have to consider whether you ought to abandon one of your allies, whose aim is exactly to protect other allies and yourself(sometimes you should abandon your must-be- defeated ally in the next turn so that you can consume opponent’s puissant cards, storing your power to counterattack in the next turn). At the same time, you should be patient to wait for the right time to attack the opponent. Sometimes you have no good hand card. If you attack your opponent at this time, it is possible for you to be in hot water in the next turn because of no focus to use those super cards. Too many factors should be considered in Rise of Heroes if you want to experience the wonderful gameplay. In this game, you will feel that you were like a strategist who is always planning various of plots to defeat the opponents and win the final battle.

All in all, Rise of Heroes is a surprisingly addictive game on Facebook. Whether one prefers the single player or the multiplayer, it’s still pretty fun if you like strategy. And you can acquire the achievement in this game through defeating your opponents by your strategies. If you’re a fan of strategy games, CLASH: Rise of Heroes is worth checking out.

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