
Picking a handful of strategies to deal with a few different teams is all you need, and it just doesn’t challenge you as a player once you’ve figured that out. To this end, games have a much smaller set of events to prepare for, leaving very little to surprise you.

Your team of 7 heroes is it, with different positions on the board being the bulk of the thinking element of the game. There’s still a sense of strategy, but it’s much more on the in-game end than the deck building “which cards should I pick to be prepared for a number of scenarios” end. Instead, it resembles turn-based games like Pokemon or Yo-Kai Watch, with a team of characters with varying power levels. Super Dragon Ball Heroes, which is ultimately based on an arcade game, doesn’t offer that level of deck building or strategy of planning for every scenario. Typically, at the very least, card-based games have some element of chance or variety of possibilities to keep you on your toes. There’s a ton of cards in the game- I think in the thousands potentially- so there’s plenty here for die-hard fans to collect and strive for.īut the use of cards sets up a false expectation for what the game actually is. The card game is an in-universe creation, where people can create their own teams to fight other players, recreating moments in the franchise’s history, or create their own fights they’ve always wanted to see. The world that Super Dragon Ball Heroes is set in is one much like ours- where Dragon Ball is a popular series of stories that has swept everyone’s imagination by storm. While hearing “card game” may also bring certain terms and tropes to mind as well, there’s not much on offer here beyond using these cards to create action-packed but ultimately shallow match-up scenarios. But Super Dragon Ball Heroes World Mission takes a different approach, using its long history and cast of characters to create a collectible card game. With a variety of transformation moves and fighting techniques. A franchise as rich and long-running as Dragon Ball definitely will bring certain game tropes and genres to mind – more than likely the fighting genre.
