Board Game Reviews Ep #48: EXCEED: SEVENTH CROSS - HUNTERS VS. DEMONS

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[dyldragon]

One of the cool things they introduced into this season you're reviewing is that each character comes with a Reference Card for their movelist. It tells you your opponent's Special and Ultra Attacks.

That fighting game analogy you made at the end was pretty spot on

[just-a-silly-goofy-guy]

You really are a pro at being a ZD, whatever that is

[Kahedro]

This game is so good! Definitely worth checking out. The lucky flip thing isn't actually about luck, most of the time you can figure out what your opponent is likely playing

[i-win]

Who needs XBOX when we've got board games?

[dyldragon]

YOOOO WHAT

PROZD REVIEWING MY FAVORITE TABLE TOP GAME OF ALL TIME?

[Dirkoin]

Like i barely know how to play black jack! So i have no clue what is going on here.

[neocyndaquil]

Make sure you have enough milk counters for the Cheese Tasting Phase...!

[Cyanicide]

Love this game. Fair criticisms, though the cards-as-board is necessary to keep the cost down (you can get mats from L99's site if you want them, sleeves work too), and the random feeling with high speed/guard thing is only for the first couple of games, as you get to know the characters more, the middling speed/guard cards become more relevant. Much like a fighting game, the early plays feel like button mashing, more plays reveal its inner depths.

The next set is Street Fighter, so bit more on the nose with the fighting game theme.

As far as a highly replayable game that I can play over and over again goes, this one's great. Stands alongside Innovation and Race for the Galaxy for me. I'd recommend Church vs Empire or Guardians vs Myths for a starting set though, this one has more obtuse characters (though Renea's one of my mains).

[Madnessimmortal]

I'm really glad you were able to touch on why people love this game, while expressing why it isn't a good fit for you. This is my favorite game in the whole world, and I love studying the matchups :)

[ThatNotSoAznKid]

Listening to end of the review sounds almost exactly like someone trying to learn fighting games for the first time.

[thecardboardstacker]

The flipping mechanic isn’t really complete luck based and it’s never always who has the biggest number unless you’re playing blindly. The game allows the fighter to mitigate all sorts of possibilities. (Power>speed, speed>defense, defense>power) It seems that you’re playing style that is way in the offensive side, which has it’s risks. The game is about trying to get in you opponent’s head and see what is the best way to react.

[TheMechanicritic]

I do have to say that you NEED to check out BattleCON (EXCEED's sister game) which does have the board and stuff and feels much less random since it's a perfect information game.
It even has a video game version called BattleCON: Online. A certain king sounds a lot like you.

[Keasarr]

Highly recommend you check out also other Level99 games they've made, especially games like Millennium Blades (imagine Yu-Gi-Oh The Board Game Card Game Meta Game), Argent Consortium (Hogwarts but every teacher is a scheming arsehole after Dumbledores post), Sellswords (Final Fantasy's Triple Threat Triad but actually done well), BattleCON (like Exceed but a bit more strategic, a lot less luck and more figuring out what your opponent is gonna do, very open information game) and Pixel Tactics (strategic/tactical unit placement game with a ton of variety).

Also recommend checking out their upcoming games like Empyreal: Spells & Steam and Seventh Cross (the board game your copy of Exceed is based on). If it isn't obvious, kinda a big fan of Level99 games, even if their games doesn't turn out the best I always find them to have something quite interesting going for them. For you SungWon, I'd definetly check out Millennium Blades if able to, they are about to release their next big expansion on Kickstarter as well.

[misterknite]

SungWon does a really good job explaining these!

[usernamenotfound]

ProZD: "That is a mouthful"
Me: 🙂

[mrhidie]

Why do I watch this, I need to get a life but watching ProZD playing board games is so appealling

[simonmtkwong]

Exceed without character reference sheets is 6/10, with the sheets it's 9/10. It's a poor memory game or a brilliant pure fighting game.

[heyimsasa]

i love fighting games and this is really interesting...maybe i'll give it a go. i also hate roadmap pamphlets and thank you sungwon for giving me a name for it.

[BrotherMingGames]

The instruction booklet is garbo though haha

[neilthepeel]

There is no board. You lied to me. I trusted you