SNK vs Capcom CF for the DS! Looks fun different than Pokemon & Yugioh. Highly recommend for SNK & Capcom fans.

User Rating: 4.9 | SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters DS DS
By Varkyle | Review Date:
Since I've always loved the original Neo Geo versions of the Card Fighter series, I was hoping they'd bring back the feel of the game onto the DS. Not to say the Japanese version of the game isn't good, but sadly the folks over at snkplaymore for the American version just didn't game test the game. It also at times seems as though they only put HALF effort into what could of been something along the lines of Yugioh... often noticing simple spelling and grammar errors... as well as without a lot of translation and game play errors. Thus the game suffered from what one didn't know of the special powers that each of the cards had. Half the time one had to guess and play them just to see how it was used. Instead of explaining the directions clearly for the player to understand the usage of so said card. One fine example is Juni's card that requires (1) colorless energy & 1 red energy. In the American version the power of the card says something along the lines of discarding a card to raise this character card by 100 BP... her cost of doing this special required (2) red energies. Meaning regardless of whatever card discarded into your discard pile at random in your hand + pay the (2) red energies will increase the attack power, by BP +100... Now when I tossed a card, instead I noticed it went up not +100 but by +300?! Which isn't bad but it totally isn't what her ability is! It wasn't until I visited the Japanese website of the Japanese version and clicked on her card to read that it was in fact raising the attack BP +300...

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/cardfighters-ds/

So why was it so hard to translate that? Last but not least, I swear someone needed to fire the nimrod that game tested the American version. I mean who in the world game tests a game and totally MISS out a FATAL flaw in a game that prevents the player to finish the game? After you finish the regular game to unlock New Game+ and reach the 9th floor, you'll talk to a character NPC named John which will say one line over and over to cause the game to crash, thus preventing one from ever progressing beyond the 9th floor cause he for some odd reason will KEEP spewing out the same line and won't battle you. Did I mention there's 20+ floors in the game? Not to mention that there are two sides of the tower and that he's on both sides regardless of which side you choose? This totally blow chunks! So some would say oh but you did finish the game on regular! But seriously, you haven't because all of the rare special cards, like the rarity (A) & (S) class cards and most likely some of the more popular and well known characters... not to mention some that are favorites of are unattainable! In example: to name a few... Sakura Kasugano, Morrigan, Lilith, Ken Masters, Ryu & Chun Li...

Thankfully Snkplaymore was nice to plan a recall program for those who have already bought a defective copy! But still imagine all those hours that some have spent trying to collect all the cards just to find out that they couldn't collect them all? I myself spent 20+ hours with over 150 card battles played not just in Story mode but also in Battle Mode to unlock two (S) rarity cards. I'm hoping there's a way that they'll be doing for those who wish to keep the defective one and trade out the cards that are inside the defective cartridges... and onto the new ones whenever the new ones get shipped.

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