Clash Royale

[james8470 160]

Game Name: Clash Royale

 

Platform: Smartphone (Android, iOS)

 

Time Spent: 500-1000 hours

 

Do you recommend?

Yeah!

 

What you rate the game:  9

 

Initial Thoughts: I just randomly decided to get a phone game, picked off Clash Royale because it had amazing reviews on the app store and looked cool.

 

Gameplay and Story: There's no real lore or story to it. However, the gameplay is amazing. It's simple, fun, fast-paced, engaging, and very addictive. When you battle someone (The main formats are 1v1 and 2v2), you deploy "cards" onto your side of the area. These cards include troop cards such as the Archers or Knight, spell cards such as Zap or Fireball, and building cards such as Goblin Hut or Inferno Tower. Each card costs a certain amount of elixer, which slowly builds up throughout battle. As they say, using your elixer efficiently is the key to victory. Here's what a battle deck might look like:

Your goals are to defend your two princess towers and, more importantly king tower. You win by destroying the enemy king tower or one or two of their princess towers before the game timer is up. Here's what the gameplay looks like:

 

The ultimate goal of the game is to rank up though the various arenas by defeating opponents in 1v1 battles and unlocking the new cards that come with each new arena you manage to get to. Things like clans and the shop can support you in this. You can use gold (earned from battle and a few other things) to buy cards from the shop, or request cards from a clan you may choose to join.

Also, recently introduced, clan wars. You battle on behalf of you clan to rank up though a different set of arenas. Every week, you'll receive a chest full of cards with loot based on how well you clan did. It's pretty fun.

 

Backstory: Clash Royale is pretty simple in many aspects, including backstory. There is none! There's no real lore or anything to it.

 

Pros: (At least 2 reasons)

- The game is kept well-updated

- Fast, fun, addictive gameplay

- Easy to learn, easy to play but a lot of strategies involved, too. 

- Kid-friendly

 

Cons: (At least 2 reasons)

- The shop (for real-world money) is often a rip-off, refrain from buying anything. Most of the cards you can get with the stuff you buy will be just as easy to get as you rank up though the arenas.

- Sometimes, you can just randomly get kicked by a abusive kid co-leader or elder (ranked players) in your clan.

Final Thoughts:

 

Clash Royale is an amazing, free, fun game for your phone. It's just a nice quick-play type of game, but it is still fun to play for longer durations, too.

[realBelloWaldi 1245]

Can we expect a Clash of Clans review next?

[james8470 160]

1 hour ago, Bello said:

Can we expect a Clash of Clans review next?

Nope. 

[ProjectXenome 17]

Clash royal makes me sad because everyone is better than me in the game.

 

[james8470 160]

18 hours ago, ProjectXenome said:

Clash royal makes me sad because everyone is better than me in the game.

 

Here's my battle deck, hope it helps you out: https://link.clashroyale.com/deck/en?deck=26000040;28000013;26000025;26000009;27000003;26000039;28000008;26000017&id=8VG2UL0C9

Play the support behind the golem, inferno towers is amazing defense against Mega Knights, PEKKA, Golem, etc. Zap is fast damage (goblins, skeleton army). Play clone on golem and support once it reaches princess tower (golem will explode 3 extra times, support safe behind non-cloned golem). Guards also benefit from cloning due to shields. Mega minion also works great for melee fighters like knight or valkyrie.