This is a four card combo, and is worth a meagre one style point.
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Each of these attacks does two damage (making one, plus two, plus two for a total of five.) This doesn’t quite kill the enemy, so Dante uses his Coyote A-Shot (which is grey) to deal two more damage and defeat the enemy. His Rebellion Cut Left does the same, but in the opposite direction. His Rebellion Cut Right then deals two damage (plus one to an enemy to the right of Dante, if there is one) and it knocks the target enemy back, and allows Dante to follow up. Dante can now follow up with another blue (or grey, which pairs with anything) card, and then continue with as many cards as he wishes, as long as they match the colour on the previous card (which will almost always be blue, now).ĭante’s Rebellion Swing did one damage to the enemy, so you put a one damage token down. Firstly he moves towards an enemy (he has movement of five) and then he opens up his attack with a Rebellion Swing card, which simply deals one damage but begins a “blue” combo. Dante has four basic attacks that he can open a combo with, and five cards in hand. Let’s look at one of Dante’s turns, since Dante is a character we’re all familiar with. To try and explain why, I’m going to talk you through part of a turn - so bear with me. The approach that Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace is not only perfect in terms of how it links thematically to the DMC style of play, but it’s also just such a unique, refreshing and rewarding system for a board game in its own right - and it’s so, so clever. Well, all of that, plus there are some achievement cards worth say two, three or four style points each that can also help to decide the winner. Not the one who killed the most baddies, not the one who defeated the final boss, the one who did whatever they did, in an aesthetically appealing way. Why do I keep talking about style? Well that’s simple - at the end of each game of Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace, usually following three “floors” and then a boss fight, the winner will be the player who scored the most style points. Say what? Yes, in short, you’re going to be building a deck for your character (like Nero or Dante) over the course of the game, and each turn, you’ll be optimising the cards in your hand and among your basic (always available) cards to create the most stylish combinations. It’s an arena combat game with miniatures, built on an asymmetric deck-building and hand management mechanic. Unlike DOOM: The Board Game or Dark Souls, Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace is definitely not a dungeon-crawler.
Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace is simply fantastic, as long as you have an interest in slaying demons, and doing it with style. And let me tell you this game is for you. Trading sites swelled with used or even unopened copies, and prices for such a gorgeous heap of plastic and card sunk to twenty or thirty quid.ĭevil May Cry: The Bloody Palace is a bit lower key, with just three expansions available at the moment, and a core box that delivers enough content to more than whet your appetite, should the game be for you. Sadly, whilst Dark Souls looked incredibly exciting prior to its launch - with tons of miniatures and expansions leading to huge Kickstarter - interest cooled rapidly once players had spent time with the system. This relative anonymity may be because Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace is published by Steamforged Games, the same folk who did the Dark Souls game. Hewitt either, he is at least partly responsible for the 2016 Blood Bowl reboot, Hellboy, Blitz Bowl and several other Games Workshop games and systems. What is particularly strange about how good Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace is, is that basically no one has heard of it, and whilst you probably haven’t heard of designer James M. DOOM: The Board Game was damn near perfect at capturing the frantic and brutal combat of the 2016 reboot, but even that comes nowhere near the thrill of setting up a six, seven eight or nine card combo in Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace.
Almost four years ago, I reviewed DOOM: The Board Game, and at the time, I didn’t think I’d ever see a better implementation of a video game in its board game counterpart.
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