Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days

**Truly a Game for Cardfighters** I started watching CfV Season 1 when Yu-gi-oh no longer scratched the itch for me. Someone told me that CfV is a commercial but a very good commercial. He was right. I bought this game for $80 CAD. This will not be a game for all. Buy it if you love CfV because it will scratch that itch perfectly, as my playtime should indicate. The game could do with more explanation of certain mechanics and the DLC is a racket. But the base game is well worth the money if and only if you're a fan of the anime. And FYI, all the DLC cards are available in the second game. I plan to pick it up. Contrary to what the Steam page says, the game is playable on Steam Deck as long as you don't bring up any prompt that requires you to type. Very happy with Dear Days.

My game stop working when I enter story mode. Such a good experience huh.

残り一手で勝利というところで3連続ヒールトリガーで負けるという現象が三連続で起きました。 ２度とプレイしません。

I suppose I can't be too angry, given that I got this game for 93% off. It was interesting to learn a new game and figure out how things worked, plan strategies, and make a deck that felt like it could fire on all cylinders. But playing the AI (my only option, since online is probably dead at this point) was such an agonising experience I couldn't keep playing the story. Instead of making an AI that plays the game functionally but is maybe a little undertuned so the player can win if they know what they're doing, this game will trigger sack the hell out of you for the sake of being 'challenging'. The worst offenders for this are absolutely the Lyrical Monasterio players. LM seems to be heavily focused on filling the board with a lot of creatures for multiple attacks and synergies, but if they don't draw well then they can struggle a bit. So I suspect the AI will tweak its draws so it always has enough gas to go off, AND have enough defensive cards in hand if you just try to rush them. This means that they have an unusually high ratio of triggers left in their deck, so expect them to hit those and delete you even if you do somehow survive their initial assault. I had a duel against Mika where she threw away five cards on one block, and the last three cards in her hand happened to be exactly the cards she needed to refill her board and Persona Ride. And then she hit two triggers on her drive check to blow me out. And that's ignoring the TWO times she hit her over trigger and gave all her cards a permanent boost [i]on turn 1.[/i] Could I push through this? Probably. The Easy AI is barely capable of playing the game and any half-decent deck can wipe the floor with them to grind out money for more cards. But there's no fun to be had there and even if you DO show up with the best deck possible you can still lose because the AI out-RNG'd you. I'm sure that sort of wild variance is a selling point for a lot of Vanguard players, but in a single player experience it's miserable.

Truly atrocious. The Ai's chances to get a trigger during their turns are just boosted to an insane degree that it does not matter whether you're playing normal or hard mode. The trigger rates on your end on the other hand are just bad that you are likely to draw trigger cards at moments you don't need them, it is just so bad. In addition, some cards are locked unless you pay for them with real money. Moreover, the story is pretty bland, they even made it way sloppier to read from the start of the overdress series/anime. Overall, its a 4/10 for me despite the sale price.

Good way to learn how to play Cardfight Vanguard if you are like me and was curious. So I would recommend it on that basis alone assuming you get it at a good price (definitely not worth it at full price, I got it at like 92% off). Given that most of the card sets are locked behind DLC, I can't really recommend getting the game if you are interested in more than just learning how to play the game like I was. Might as well get the sequel game that has more cards if so. The story difficulty curve is rather interesting, there were a couple of points in it where I felt like I hit a difficulty spike and had to really think about deck comps in order to counter play them, so kudos to the game for not making things too easy.

Possibly the worst card game AI I've ever played. AI was very much visibly given boosts to trigger rates at all times. Even worse when you add D-Skill into the calculation. Honestly, such a shame, because the Vanguard itself is fun, but the horrible hardcode of the AI is beyond playable. How do you code this and then think "Hmm, yeah, this is definitely the best type of accuracy and fun!" for a card game and slaps the atrocious price, before all the DLCs? If you like Vanguard, then sure, get this game, but maybe on a sale. If you're new? Start somewhere else. There are other starting points. I love Vangaurd but I have to be honest, I can't really recommend this game.