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Shadowverse: Champion's Battle
Late to your first class as the newest transfer student at Tensei Academy, you run into Hiro Ryugasaki, self-professed super fan of the popular card battle game Shadowverse. He introduces you to his friends and they eagerly show you how to play the game. Explore all the unique locations in and around your new school, where events and encounters awa...
Details
- Released
- November 5, 2020
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Adventure · Card & Board Game
- Publisher
- Marvelous USA, Inc.
- Platforms
- Switch
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Shadowverse: Champion's Battle Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle is a turn-based card strategy game. A really well-done card battle game. You get the usual mechanics, but how Shadowverse goes about utilizing them is quite clever.Read More
Shadowverse comes to the Switch with a game packed with content and addictive gameplay.
Speaking of quests, Shadowverse: Champion's Battle has an entire world to explore outside of its card battler gameplay. Between scenes, players can roam around the school and the surrounding area in a good number of fully 3D environments. There are collectibles to grab, side characters to chat up, and a few bonus objectives hidden around each map. On top of that, there's a Persona 4-style set of quests that lets players dive deep into their relationship with each of the main characters, and it's all done surprisingly well considering the source material. It's a real effort at worldbuilding tha...
I have to say I’m impressed with the juggernaut that is Japanese developer Cygames. Sure, their bread and butter is making mobile games infested with gacha mechanics. But whenever they decide to make a game aimed solely at consoles, they actually put a ton of effort into their titles, porting their existing mobile franchises into full-fledged console experiences with little to no microtransactions. Not to mention decent visuals and gameplay. A good example was when they teamed up with Arc S...
The music and voicework in Champion’s Battle are quite well-done. The English voice acting is quite spirited and enthusiastic, which sells the exciting atmosphere of Shadowverse rather well. The music is just as lively, with some truly bumping tracks that get you in the mood to throw-down at a children’s card game.
While the look of the characters and the way you navigate the world calls to mind some of the recent Pokemon games, the card battling seems very much inspired by Hearthstone. I haven’t played enough of that to compare the two more thoroughly, but I can easily say that I’m coming away from Shadowverse both impressed and eager to see and learn more. Even if some of these feel like window-dressing, the sheer amount of voice acting, the light story, and the rankings and tournaments hooked me from the get-go and kept me invested for dozens of hours. Collecting as many new cards as I could and t…
I have really enjoyed Shadowverse, and I will no doubt keep this on my Switch as my go-to game when I’m stuck on the Tube. The problem is that if anyone looks over my shoulder to see what I’m playing, they’re probably going to make a snap judgement about me and what I’m into.
I’m really happy to see Cygames take the console adaptation of Shadowverse seriously and, rather than try and shovel a free-to-play thing on players, use this as an opportunity to broaden the appeal of Shadowverse, give the card game itself some context, and give fans the same kind of joy that they took out of Pokémon TCG all those years ago. With taut mechanics, a fun, light-hearted narrative, excellent production values and an almost obscene level of depth Shadowverse: Champions Battle is a genuinely impressive effort, and the best digital card game currently available on the Switch.