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Articolo completo https://www.ilvideogioco.com/2023/02/09/mahokenshi-la-nostra-recensione/

Mahokenshi è un buon titolo capace di richiamare le affascionanti atmosfere del Giappone medievale e di tante sue leggende tipiche. Le meccaniche da strategiche e di deckbuilding funzionano in modo sorprendentemente fluido, con il sistema di combattimento che risulta semplice ma allo stesso tempo sfaccettato. Questo grazie alla serie di variabili di cui il giocatore dovrà tenere conto. L’opera prima di Game Source Studio è quindi promossa, al netto di alcune sbavature. Tra queste figurano un bilanciamento non ottimale degli eroi disponibili e una longevità non eccelsa… Ciò detto rimane un gioco consigliato agli appassionati di strategia e di mitologia giapponese, che auspichiamo possa essere ulteriormente arricchito in futuro.

Una versione semplificata e visivamente accattivante di Mageknight per solo players, sembra un titolo solido con meccaniche collaudate l'unica cosa da vedere è la quantità di contenuti, per il momento pollice su.

In short:
The base game is quite good and fun to play, although the lack of any "controllable" save feature is not to everyone's liking (it's 2023 Devs)?!
Having multiple ways to play as 1 of 4 types of Heroes (3 of which are unlockable) is really nicely implemented, and adds some replayability to this game (apart from the story there is currently no other mode available). So that's like +20-30 hours at best i guess?
Playing this game requires some nifty tactics, crafting, management, and a bit of basic luck (card draws and such).
There's also a timer in order to reach certain goals. Of course, the more you play and upgrade your heroes, the easier harder missions and side quests become (a bit of a grind here).
Personally speaking i don't mind this timer, however don't loose track of it, or else this could easily turn a likely win into a certain loss before you even realise.
It's said that a DLC is coming shortly, and I for one am already looking forward to it very much, because in all fairness, this game is quite good, and more so if this is something you really enjoy playing.
Needless to say, most of you guys can opt to wait for a sale or (like myself) get it cheaper somewhere else as long as there are such keys around. Having chosen the latter, it's clear that i'm getting my money's worth out of Mahokenshi and i simply can't seem to get enough of it either (which in most cases is a good thing, right?)!
All things considered, i will gladly recommend Mohakenshi to the majority of my friends and all those who like such games. Personal score 7.7/10

This game has potential which is not used and is too unfair (difficulty level is absurd and most missions objectives are time based, which I don't like at all + when you achive main objective you cannot finish the map to unlock second objectives and kill all monsters)

Characters progressions and equipment is very bad and almost useless. What a shame, because graphic and animations are cool! I hope DEVS will make a patch to change all these things, improving game exeperience a lot. It would also be a great idea to design several missions where you can use 2 characters at the same time

100% playthrough w/ time stamps: https://youtu.be/BFbfk7JSvfA

Overall this game is pretty awesome it made me a bit wary at first with the overworld map being how you combat everyone, but with how missions are timed and movement is a key feature it's a lot of fun. I do wish there were other game modes to add replay value and the game is a bit easy some of the challenges can be really hard. I honestly used the tengu for every single mission though there was no real reason to explore any of the other great houses as she fit my play style and can do every mission relatively easy. I'm glad I saw this on facebook, but it is a bit short to 100% it only took me 10 hours with some challenge fails/mission replays.

Is this game a masterpiece? Hm, no, but is a rather interesting spin on the card-battler genre mixed with a turn-based strategy game set in Japanese mythology. It is not perfect, though.

You play a Mahokenshi, kind of a divine policeman sent to some far away islands of the Celestial Realm to investigate strange happenings. There are four (unlockable) Mahokenshis to choose from, each with different stats, and each getting stronger the longer you play. You gain experience, so it makes sense to play with one character and not a different one for every mission. Successfuly completing challenges gives you crystals which can be used between the missions to unlock permenent upgrades. Still - you start every mission with a rather small deck of cards, only adding a few cards each time you gain a level. Most cards, gold and other things have to be found during the missions and are lost when the mission ends. You basically rebuild your deck from scratch every mission.

The game is mission based, you can select which mission to play, finishing story missions unlocks new missions. Missions are often time based, you have to decide if there is enough time to complete optional challenges. Sometimes it is hard enough just to finish the main mission at all, especially when you have no good movement cards in the deck. Missions can be replayed as often as you want to complete challenges or just improve your character. The story is told when you move to event tiles, you have to read a few texts to understand what is going on, but of course this is not a visual novel. The turn-based game takes place on a tile-based map, on which you move and fight until your energy is used up. The energy you use to traverse the map is also the energy that you use for battles. You can zoom and watch the map from all directions, quite nice. Some tiles (forest, rocks, plains...) can be crossed easier than others, some improve your defense and some contain events, where you often have to make choices. Battles are fought on the map, too. You draw new cards every turn. Most cards are attack cards or cards that help you move around faster. You start every mission with only a very limited cardset, but new cards can be bought on markets, found lying around on the map or gained otherwise. Shrines allow you to destroy unecessary cards in your deck, dojos to upgrade your cards. Your character has basic stats (attack, defense), which can be improved during the game by items or talismans (found in castles). Killing enemies lets you take their gold, required for buying new cards or card upgrades.

The turn-limit was not my favorite game mechanism, you will lose quite a few missions by being too slow. Upgrading your hero does take some time, but of course this makes the missions which seemed impossible at first playable later. You still need to draw the right cards, though. The four different Mahokenshis have different cards, so you might try a different strategy if you don't succeed at first. The game does not support controllers but works perfectly fine with a mouse. 3440x1440 is not supported, but 2560x1440 allows you to play without problems on an ultrawidescreen monitor... with black borders on the sides. A bit weak for a new game. Even worse is that there is no save feature during a mission. Was this so difficult to implement?

Conclusion:
Finish missions with a tight turn-limit by killing foes in card-based battles, building your deck from scratch during every mission.

While the game looks nice and the gameplay feels fun for a few hours, once you realize which characters and cards are broken and which ones are unplayable on top of cumulative upgrades that carry over runs, the game becomes very trivial and loses the challenge it initially had.

Additional gameplay modes and/or difficulty settings would remedy this on top of some serious balancing that is needed. However the developers have stated they aren't interested in adding more content. Along with the fact that I completely 100% the game in ~15 hours and would guess a casual playthrough would be no more than 4-6 hours I cannot recommend the game for the price in the state that is in.

Plays kind of like Etherlords (and its sequel) in a mythical Japanese feudal setting. Great production values, entertaining card mechanics. Don't play this for the story, it's very simple.

There are some issues, with the mixture of random card selections as well as random card draws, which can screw you over completely from time to time. There are four different characters/decks, and the randomness especially affects two of them, often causing you to restart a map over and over until you get good initial card choices.

The campaign is scripted and certain decks will excel on certain maps. Figuring this out as well as learning exactly when and where what enemies spawn, through trial and error, is mandatory to get through some of the maps.

Not a particularly long campaign, but optional missions, as well as challenges unlocking extra rewards, do provide some longevity. I finished all challenges in less than 20 hours, mostly using the ninja character/deck. I could go back and try to complete every map with the sorceress, but I imagine that would make me lose my mind. She doesn't seem suited to the harsh time limits of almost every map.

A good time was had, but I don't see much reason to replay once completed.

This is a tough one, and I really want to give it a thumbs up. The design is fantastic. All the systems come together in a very enjoyable way, it looks and sounds great, etc. The problem is that as half the other negative reviews mention, there just isn't enough content and what does exist is much too easy.

If we had a good random map generator, a campaign 50%-100% longer than what's here, some sort of endless mode, or it were 1993 and I believed the game would catch on enough to see a million great community made maps...any of these things and it'd be an easy endorsement. I do intend to check back in a few months and see if I'm wrong about how much uptake there will be on the volunteer labor front, but I'm not optimistic. Very interested in seeing some more substantial DLC or future projects from the team.

I guess also stay away if you can't stand time pressure - that's the other half of the negative reviews, and it is true that nearly every mission is built around a timer of some form or another. A third of them you can completely negate via deckbuilding and probably a full half can be solved by walking up to the primary monster with your starter deck and murdering it, but it is there and if that stresses you out you're not in for a good time.