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Fullmetal Alchemist Trading Card Game

Nintendo DS » Battle Games » Destineer Inc

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Date Released: Oct 31, 2007

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Full Metal Trading Card

I Love this game as I do any other of the trading card games you have to master.I mean Full Metal Alchemist is great anyway if you like RPG,I have recently discovered the trading card ds games.
I mean most have tutorials and I have gotten stuck at 6% on almost all of my 125 DS games so I certainly am not a great gamer.Except DK jungle Climber 52% The 4th boss.
I think if you like trading card ds games you shouldn't skip this one.
 

If you haven't already decided to buy this for yourself, move on.

I haven't played the collectible card game for FMA. I'm not even sure that one exists. If it does, perhaps people who are used to that game and have mastered its intricacies will get some enjoyment out of this DS game.

I spent 30 minutes going through the tutorials, played through the first fight in another 30, then ejected it in disgust and tossed it in the pile of games to sell used.

The game is complex and quite difficult to learn, with the manual and software tutorials not helping much at all. Sometimes, a complex play system can be rewarding and fun to learn and master. In this case, it feels like arbitrary self-punishment.

The controls are chaotically organized (L1 lets you view the details of the cards. R1 passes. Don't hit R1 on accident) and the card display only lets you see about a sixth of the 'table' at a time.

Given a choice between having to play this game for two more hours or having to do a hundred pushups in a single day, even the biggest FMA fan would probably opt for the pushups so that they could get back to spending time with the actual FMA story on print, video, or perhaps via any of the other and vastly superior video games.

Don't buy this game, and don't let your friends buy it.

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