Jon Hansen

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Jon Hansen (9 KP) rated Magic Rush: Heroes in Apps

May 2, 2019

Magic Rush: Heroes

Games, Entertainment

2.0

(1 Ratings)

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Non-buggy (0 more)

Boring (3 more)

Gacha (random character drawing)

Throttled progress

Free to play, pay to progress: Hostageware

The latest in a long line of soulless Gacha

This game gets a solid C for effort. An RPG with occasionally tower defense elements is okay in concept, but this implimentation is sure to leave you feeling hungry for more. As in, more of some other game. Because let me be clear there's nothing satisfying here to playing this game. Take a look at the central gameplay mechanics:
- Energy system arbitrarily keeps you from playong the game at a pace necessary to actually enjoy it (oh, of course, you can insert a quarter in the form of $5 % to keep playing for another twenty seconds)
- hero draw mechanic makes sure that you have no control over what champions you have and whether they're good or not, leaving zero room for customization
- Standard Battles amount to little more than an Idle clicker.
- Alliances encourage you to team up with people you don't know and don't and won't ever care about to do nothing
- weak and meaningless pvp battles because they're still just the aforementioned idle clicker
- re-raid previously completed maps for junk to progress! This of course costs money, and with its poor interface it is left taking days longer than it needs to. But hey, for those of us who like farming but not gameplay, I guess it makes sense.
- constant ads and offers for bundles that cost your life savings and do nothing
- ...and much, much more, ensuring the game is 4x as generic as every other game on the entire app store. 2 stars for good (read:non-buggy) implimentation of this cash grab street beggar simulator.

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Jon Hansen (9 KP) rated Quantum in Tabletop Games

May 2, 2019

Quantum

2013 | Dice Game, Fighting, Science Fiction, Space

7.5

(2 Ratings)

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Fun (6 more)

Replayable

Innovative

Easy to learn

Strategic

Deep

Visually Appealing

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A little too strategic for older folks

Space Battle-Yahtzee

We rented Quantum from our local card shop, and ended up playing it every day. Its out of print, so it was a stroke of astounding luck that the shop was willing to sell it to us.

Quantum plays somewhat like risk, where you advance units to positions to capture objectives. The catch is that your units are dice- higher numbers can move further, but lower numbers are better in combat, and each has a special ability.

The game revolves around placing "Quantum Cubes", which your units build on planets. Each planet has a number and an amount of slots for quantum cubes to be placed, and to build a cube your units (which are literally dice) must add up the the number on the planet they are on.

Building quantum cubes allows you to select an "advancement card", which contain either permanent upgrades to your turns and abilities, or one-time powerful bonuses. All advancement cards feel meaningful and powerful, and which ones you select determine a lot of how your game will play out. You can "build" for combat, research, mobility, and even some weird other things like being able to change one of your dice once per turn either up one number or down one (and thus changing its abilities).

The game board is configurable tiles, so the "map" can be different each time, and support a faster or slower game, or more or less players (the game only comes with pieces for 4 players, but if you had the dice it wouldn't be hard to play extra with improvised pieces).

The game pacing is really well done; if all players know what they're doing, the race to place the final cube can be intense and exciting, as each player will end up with different strengths as they implement unique strategies to win.

We love quantum and have had a blast every time we've played it- we're expecting it to become a family favorite and for our copy to end up very well loved.