Back in 2019, I reviewed a fantastic-looking cube chucker known as Dice Throne Season 2. It’s a dueling sport that can have you ever taking management of one among a handful of distinctive characters, hoping to take out your opponent. The gameplay was participating, streamlined, and a ton of enjoyable. Since then, I’ve gotten in additional than my justifiable share of video games of Dice Throne, and it has became a kind of video games that I’m all the time prepared to play.
Today, we’re going to be wanting on the latest providing within the Dice Throne line. This time, with a theme that only a few individuals might have heard of. Enter Marvel Dice Throne. That’s proper, the gameplay from Dice Throne joins up with the legions of different video games within the Marvel universe. Excited to regulate Captain Marvel, Thor, or perhaps even Loki? Then learn on as we dive deeper into Marvel Dice Throne.
Gameplay Overview:
If you need to know the ins and outs of tips on how to play Marvel Dice Throne, then begin by studying my critiques of Dice Throne Season 2. The core gameplay in Marvel Dice Throne is similar to the unique Dice Throne Seasons. The solely issues new listed here are the characters.
But for the uninitiated, the fast of it’s that you simply select a singular character to regulate, begin with 50 hit factors, and a few fight factors. Each flip you’ll be able to play some playing cards, roll your six cube (with 2 rerolls), and try to get some runs or units to activate your character’s powers to assault your opponent. Reduce your opponent to zero life and also you win.
Game Experience:
Since I’ve already gone over my ideas on the gameplay of Dice Throne in my Season 2 assessment, I’m not going to rehash what I stated there. Nothing in regards to the gameplay has modified, and neither has my opinion of it. It’s nonetheless fairly superior. So we’ll focus as a substitute on the characters that include Marvel Dice Throne and the way they play.
Thor: As you would possibly anticipate, Thor is a little bit of a beat stick. However, he doesn’t completely concentrate on excessive quantities of harm. Instead, he has his trusty hammer, Mjolnir, that he’ll throw at his opponent. Whenever he does, he’ll plink his opponent for some extent of harm. But then he’ll have to spend a separate motion to retrieve it, however doing so earns him an electrokinesis token, which he can be utilized to attract playing cards or enhance skills. Thor is a stable, all-around character that doesn’t actually concentrate on standing results, however focuses extra on harm.
Scarlett Witch: Another spell caster, the Scarlet Witch makes use of the facility of chaos magic. She has 4 completely different standing results that she will be able to name upon, and lots of are used to vary issues in regards to the sport. For instance, her chance manipulation can change the consequences of her cube, whereas actuality warp will drive her opponent to substitute one among their cube for one among hers throughout their flip. That makes it so no matter image they roll on that die is ineffective to them. She additionally has powers that can switch standing results between gamers and even do harm for the variety of tokens on a personality.
Loki: Oddly, the one villain to look in Marvel Dice Throne, Loki can also be one of many extra complicated characters within the sport. As you would possibly anticipate, Loki focuses rather a lot on trickery. He additionally SUCKS to play in opposition to. One of his major powers is his phantasm standing impact. When he’s attacked, he can spend an phantasm token to drive his opponent to decide on one among his three phantasm playing cards: one is an entire miss, one reduces the harm to half, and the final is full harm. I can’t even depend what number of wasted assaults I had in opposition to Loki. He additionally has a spellbound energy, that can cease his opponent from utilizing skills on their board for a flip. I’m all the time pleased when my opponent doesn’t select this slippery constitution to play.
Captain Marvel: Another simple character is Captain Marvel. Like Spider-man, she has a problem of two out of 6. Her greatest energy, arguably, is her cosmic ray. It lets her add the worth of two cube to one among her assaults. Her cosmic flare token could be stacked as much as 3, and does some extent of undependable harm throughout her maintenance section for every token she has of that sort. If you’re in search of a straightforward character that received’t take a lot studying to get to the desk, Captain Marvel is it.
Miles Morales Spider-Man: One of the simpler characters to play is Spider-Man. Most of his powers concentrate on doing harm, and his skills go together with that. His major capability is Combo, which lets him get a second offense roll section in a flip. That one could be fairly punishing for his opponents. He additionally has a webbed impact, which lets him flip his defendable harm into the undefendable sort. And to go together with that, his invisibility energy lets him defend in opposition to his opponent’s undefendable harm. He additionally has two completely different defensive powers and might select whether or not he needs to try to keep away from some harm, or dish out a counterattack.
Black Panther: Following Captain Marvel and Spider-man on the complexity scale, Black Panther is singularly targeted on his Kinetic Energy. He can stack as much as 8 of these tokens, and for each 2 he has, he boosts his assaults by 1. Once he hits his stacking restrict, he beneficial properties two fight energy, attracts 2 playing cards, and offers 5 undependable harm. Almost all of his powers concentrate on giving him Kinetic Energy tokens, and he has a passive that permits him to achieve a token each time he takes harm.
Dr. Strange: He is, certainly, essentially the most distinctive and complicated character within the set. He is the one one with the usual “upper left” capability that simply doesn’t simply do straight harm. Instead, he’s extra so targeted on his spell e book. He has 9 completely different spell playing cards that he can put together and solid. They all do quite a lot of various things from dealing harm, to therapeutic, to making use of standing results. His three completely different standing impact tokens will both cease his opponent from drawing playing cards, enable him to attract playing cards, or enable him to restart his offensive roll section. His complexity is at 5 out of 6, so be ready to get artistic when controlling Doctor Strange.
Black Widow: Finally, there’s Black Widow. She is a flexible character who has the flexibility to improve her powers in a short time. She begins the sport with all three of her Covert Ops tokens, which she will be able to spend to place a capability improve straight into play. Once she has 5 upgrades in play, all of her assaults add an additional level of harm. The different fascinating capability she has are her Time Bombs. She has two of them, and in the event that they keep in your opponent for 2 turns, they explode for 4 factors of harm.
Final Thoughts:
This was one of many tougher video games to assessment for me. I feel that’s as a result of it’s simply extra characters for Dice Throne. I really like this sport, it’s glorious. But there wasn’t a ton for me to say in regards to the gameplay that I didn’t already say again in 2019. My emotions for the sport haven’t modified, so, once more, return and learn that assessment if you wish to know in regards to the gameplay. However, I can say the characters in Marvel Dice Throne all really feel actually thematic, and as a lifelong comedian reader, I feel Roxley Games did a fantastic job of tying them to their supply materials. And in case you had been questioning, sure, the sport is totally appropriate with Seasons 1 and a pair of. So you’ll be able to have the monk or gunslinger face off in opposition to Black Widow or Thor if you happen to so select.
If you are attempting to determine which model of Dice Throne to get, it actually comes down to private desire. Are you a Marvel fan? Get Marvel Dice Throne. Don’t like Marvel? Get both Season 1 or Season 2. Just love dueling video games? Get all three!
Final Score: 4.5 Stars – An already glorious sport that takes its gameplay to the acquainted confines of the Marvel Universe.
Hits:
• Excellent manufacturing values, as anticipated
• Character skills really feel thematic
• Nice selection within the characters
Misses:
• Doesn’t department out very a lot from the core sport
