Faeria Review (PlayStation 4)

A strategy game like no other. Build exciting decks and shape the battlefield as you fight epic battles. Raise mountains, build forests, fill lakes, or harness the sands of the deserts. You choose your own path to victory.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 2GB download size.
• Opening tutorial match.
• Card battler gameplay with a twist, you must build land as you play so you can play your cards.
• Faeria-the power you use to pay the cost of playing cards. The amount of Faeria goes up every round.
• Each card will show the attack, shield, and life of the unit shown on the card.
• Has a Hearthstone look to it.
• Combat-click a card to play and a card to attack and it auto completes taking damage, health, and shields into account.
• Slight Magic The Gathering feel as you must play land tiles to play cards.
• Goal-attack and destroy the enemy’s dome/base.
• Cross-platform play-on/off.
• Unspent Faeria is saved for the next round.
• Faeria Wells-found on the map, having a unit by them will grant a bonus Faeria.
• You can move and attack with your placed units.
• Handy shortcut buttons for actions.
• Each round you can play two land tiles then play and move units as you wish.
• Summoning sickness-cards unless otherwise stated can not be played and actioned in the same turn.
• A bar that shows what card got played each round like a play by play reminder.
• Cards will sound off emotes from time to time.
• Emotes can be muted on a card by card basis.
• Cards will have a description of them if they do something different.
• Puzzle encounters-these have pre-determined boards and give you set cards, the goal is the same, however. You do get a restart button.
• Cool locations.
• Land tiles- use different ones to be able to use certain cards on them.
• Relatively easy to learn the game.
• Clear understandable Ui.
• Can build over one of your tiles to change it.
• Taunt-must attack this card before any other.
• Surrender button for if all else fails.
• You can once per round sacrifice land placing for an extra random card from your deck.
• Deck builder-(the first time you get a tutorial) you can use a formula that builds a deck but you can edit or create a brand new deck.
• Four game types in play-adventure, battle, Pandora, and puzzles.
• Earn EXP and level up to get new cards and open new modes of play.
• Daily quests.
• Chests-random rewards from doing chests and leveling up.
• Collection-shows off all collected cards.
• Shop-buy new sets, avatars, card backs, orbs, and Wells using the in-game gold.
• Battle mode-practice against Ai, casual online and ranked online.
• Pandora-you get random cards and must get the best streak.
• Adventure-missions (solo), over the sky (Co-op with a friend or Ai), world bosses (boss rush), and Dragons lair (daily random battles).

Cons:

• When the servers were unavailable I couldn’t even get into the game.
• You are forced to do six introductory fights before anything else.
• Basic tutorial.
• Uses a lot of designs that look familiar to Hearthstone like the card layouts and font.
• Slight learning curve.
• After the tutorial, you are forced to build a deck and then do an adventure.
• Deckbuilding tutorial is just clicking to make a pre-made one and exit.
• You have to unlock the Co-op mode.