The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game vs Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game
The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game is a pretty sophisticated collectible card game that's based on the original physical card game, as well as the popular Lord of the Rings franchise. In this game, you'll get to embark on an exhilarating adventure with Bilbo, Gloin and their friends on a journey across the Misty Mountains.Featuring a gameplay that's intricate, unique and challenging, you'll need to battle various creatures of Mistwood, along with any of Sauron's many minions that you encounter along the way. You will get to collect tons of cards and add them to your deck via its deck-building feature. The game is currently a single-player campaign experience, but it's going to get a co-op option soon. More campaigns will be added as well.
The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game seems like a truly challenging card game that fans of the genre can enjoy. The epic storyline, the breathtaking graphics (card art, specifically) and even the superb voice acting are amazing enough to keep you engaged from start to finish! Although the game isn't exactly a digitized version of the physical version, the changes made do make the game more suitable for its new digital platform and players.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is an MMOTCG that's based on the popular Yu-Gi-Oh anime series and card-dueling game franchise, which possibly is among the most sophisticated and yet well-made of all time. And as such, the learning curve for this game can be quite daunting to say the least and as a result, the game isn't a game for everyone nor that it tries to be.That said, the game allows you to not only go up against famous characters from the anime series, like Yami Yugi, Seto Kaiba, and Joey Wheeler, but also duel other players in real time. Unlike the 40-card decks that most CCGs (including the previous Yu-Gi-Oh games) use, decks in this game only have 20 cards... and not to mention, these decks are presets linked to the character that you use. So in other words, there is no deck-building nor a character of your own to customize. This actually provides a certain amount of challenge since players will be forced to mold their own play styles to the decks present in the game.
Some may say that Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links doesn't really live up to the franchise as the game is very obviously "toned down" (in terms of complexity rather than difficulty) to fit it for the average mobile gamer. But if you really think about it, these changes are all necessary just to turn this amazingly intricate game into a mobile game. So, all in all, we'd recommend this game to fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh series and players who are curious to find out what this card game franchise is all about.