The chapters have funny themes and if you enjoy the shows, you’ll get a giggle or two here and there. The Adventure is a campaign of sorts made up of 25 chapters split up between the five shows. So, what do you do when you when you actually play cards against an opponent? Animation Throwdown offers two modes, Adventure and Arena. But you can only have 70 cards at a time in your collection, which means you won’t be able to just stockpile away without first recycling and comboing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The game is very generous with its in-game gold rewards, especially early on (you’ll be hearing this phrase very often for a reason) since the daily quests are usually very easy to complete and you’ll also be getting gold quite easily but, of course, barely any gems. When it comes to actually getting new cards in order to research and upgrade them, you buy packs from the shop with the cheapest pack going for a 1000 and from there on getting better packs either for 6000 gold or gems. You’ll need to be upgrading your cards often not for the early stages of the game but for later on when things get tougher and you need cards with higher stats. Then, the upgrading/fusing cycle begins anew. The upgrading mechanic is pretty simple as you’ll usually upgrade a card to Level 3 and then fuse it with another Level 3 copy of the same card to get a new, improved Level 1 copy of the same card. In addition to comboing, you can improve your cards by upgrading them using Power, which you get from completing quests and from recycling cards you don’t need. Each card has many combos you can discover, and that is a huge part of the fun in this game since the combos are often hilarious and will remind you of various show episodes. Timers, as you’ll see in the rest of this review, will be a very familiar friend as you progress in Animation Throwdown. The early cards take just a few minutes, but as you start researching higher rarity cards, you’ll have to wait for hours for your card to be done. In order to be able to play a specific combo – let’s say playing the Meg card on top of the Sports card – you first have to research it, and guess what? Each time you research a card, it takes time to get the research done. The combo card mechanic is quite fun because of the crazy results you get when you put two cards together. When it’s your turn to play a card, you can either play a card in an empty lane or play one on top of another card to create a more powerful combo card if you’ve already researched that specific combination. When your card’s attack is higher than the opposite card’s defense, the enemy card is destroyed and any remaining damage goes to the enemy hero. Matches play like lane-based CCGs where each card fights the card opposite and if there’s no card on the opposite side, it damages the enemy hero. Cards have attack, defense, and – as you get better, more rare cards – various skills that might for instance automatically increase the attack of a random card or reduce the attack of a random enemy unit. So, how does Animation Throwdown play? The game takes quite a few ideas from many other card games and creates an interesting patchwork of mechanics that while it will give you plenty to do, the seams don’t always hold together well. Overall, though, if you enjoy the characters and storylines of these shows, you’ll enjoy Animation Throwdown, at least for a while. And don’t expect a CCG that requires too much strategy and tactics since the game is too easy for too long and then ramps up fast. ![]() This is the kind of game that will divide players: some will stick it out through the timers and play when they can play, but most will get tired of having to wait constantly just to put a few (quick) matches in before running out of energy. Yet not all is rosy in Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards (Free) while you’ll laugh at the silly card combos and be entertained for quite a bit with the gameplay, eventually you hit so many timers that you’ll quickly regret your investment in the game. It’s not surprising, then, that Kongregate decided to develop a card game based on all five shows, and the result is hilarious, as to be expected. Family Guy, Futurama, Bob’s Burgers, American Dad, and King of the Hill all offer their own specific kind of craziness and humor. Fox’s animation shows have been dominating TV for quite some time now.
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