Character Card minigame

[TnT4blast]

Is it just me or is this minigame supposed to be RNG only? like i cant do ♥♥♥♥, got 0 points and opponent 160. I never get more than 4 matches cuz they dont show up.

[Livy]

Keep the ones with brown icon in lower right corner on hand unill you have to drop them on the table.
Otherwise capture everything else.

Once you can end a round do it since the ai aims for a high score so it will always continue after the first time it can end the round.
It's better to win with 5 points than the ai getting 50+

[Jargous]

There are a few things you have to keep in mind.

Certain characters from Tales series will trigger bonuses. Since it is nearly impossible to get an full Tales set, you will have to settle with other cheap options such as

Crown princess - basically 3 characters are princesses in the game
Ninja - self explanatory like crown princess
Renegade - characters that are rebels
Heroic Scion - main hero set of at least 3 I think
Sworn ally - think this is a set of 5 or 6

When you play it enough, you'll understand the sets better. Take notes whenever a set is formed. But yea losing 160-0, you should try to take the game a lot slower and look at what makes a set

[Spongebob]

Crown princess - 2 cards only needed look for the sakura flower icon
Ninja - 2 cards only, look for the shiruken icon
Renegade - 3 cards needed more are available. look for the purple lightning thingy.
Heroic Scion - 5 cards needed for this, more are available. Look for the star Icon
Sworn ally - Dual brown icon, 10 are needed for this set to complete, each one extra is worth 1 point.
Prodogy or something: it's the green staff's icon, need 4 to get the bonus.

I love playing the card mini game, losing hours in it really. and on intermediate even if you lose you get 200 coins, most coins I've won with it was 2500 from a 110 point win.

Basically if you want a cheap any easy win, aim for the ninja's or crown princess bundle, after that it's usually easier to get sworn ally then it is anything else. and like Jargous said, take what you can get, no use continueing the round if you don't see any new points coming within 1 round. And especially if both you and the AI only hold 2 cards.

[TnT4blast]

Ah i beging to understand, im winning quite alot now.
Basicly i didnt look at the icon's just matching the cards lol.

[Knightmage Bael]

I've tried to play this game based of sets and following as many details as I could. I've found out this game is so RNG based its mind numbing. For one thing, there ARE tons of sets, that spread against different tales games.

For example, the "hero" set which requires at least 5 of the 9 possible hero cards. However, when I try to go for a set (using this hero set as a template) I'll check the possible cards that will come up by looking at the cards I have from that set, and the ones out on the field. At that point I will look and see if I have any duplicate cards from the same game, get rid of those first, and try to snatch the hero card with a pair.

The problem is the card I'm looking for never comes up, and if it does, its always drawn by my opponent during their draw-turn and snatches it in a pair out of sheer luck, making any attempts by me to farm it completely and utterly worthless.

Morever, this problem happens with every existing set that I go for, and I'm not sure how to alleviate this problem.

The problem with this game, is due to the sheer ridiculousness of the RNG against you, it makes strategizing almost entirely worthless. After a solid hour of learning all the sets and all the cards and coming up with strategies, I still haven't improved my win ratio (which is like a 1-10 loss because the AI gets all the valuable sets.)

The one time I got a valuable set was when I got Hero, and Singular Prodigy at the same turn and got 45 points. I wound up loosing because they got 65 points in the following turn by matching up like 2 sets in one turn, decided to continue, then I failed to get a set, and the following turn they got 2 more sets at the same time. It was completely ridiculous.

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keep in mind...THIS WAS ALL ON NOVICE difficulty.

[Martin]

There's quite a bit of rng yeah, what worked well for me was simply prioritzing the sets that needs the least amount of cards at first, ie crown princess, ninja, sidekick and so on upwards.
You can press select on the controller to check scoring card sets during the game (not sure what the button is for keyboard).

[Ryudo]

Last time I won 2 of 3 rounds, opponent had 0 points, then in the third round he suddenly got like 60 points and beat me in that final round. This cardgame is the most annoying minigame I've had in a while...

[Shiko]

You should also keep in mind the number of matches for your cards. If you have two cards that only match a single card on the board, they might be more important to play then your one card that match 3.

[Ryudo]

There's another thing I don't get about this game.

Sometimes the opponent makes a match, but the 2 cards end up going to my side. Why does that happen? o_O He's the one that made the set..