Recent reviews by Angy Bears

I read over the reviews for this game before giving it a try - So many people were saying the huge negative state of the game had just been people whining about not being able to connect to the servers...

That's not the case here. This game is a huge gacha rolling, loot box peddling, daily energy limiting, shameless pay-to-win cash grab. They make it very obvious as soon as you get past (or skip) the tutorial. They instantly bombard you with 3 different meta-currencies, ads and limited time "Sales" the VERY second you receive any sort of movement control.

All of that aside - the Movement is clunky, the combat is very thin, so much so I doubt anyone, anywhere during production of this game had spent more than a SINGLE day on it's design. (There's nothing new, interesting or unique in the abilities, no skill tree, just base description stats and sprite-on-sprite contact damage with minimal animation).

To top it off - the enemy balancing is exactly what you'd expect from a game that treats you as if it's constantly got a hand on your wallet.


Example: For choosing a "Role" path (crap replacement for classes and or party roles like tanking, DPS etc) you can't complete it normally... The game guides you and says you should do this right away as one of the first "Quests".

But you can't...

At least not without spending extra IRL funds directly out of the gate. :)

You get swarmed by 6 level 5 enemies at level 2 and have to defeat them within 60 seconds without dying. You can't. You start with the lowest possible gear and stats and can't really even damage them.

THAT IS - Unless you're willing to pay $25 USD in order to get more loot from the market :). Which the game gladly reminds you of after you're forced to revive and start the quest over again.



EVEN THAT aside... The servers are very laggy and the game is horribly optimized. There is zero reason in this day and age that you should have 5fps in a town with only 5 other players, or a ping over 500ms just standing still.

Can play Cyberpunk 2077 on High at 60fps without issue, but I suppose "Mad World" is just too beefy for me.



TLDR: Don't bother. The Devs know what they're doing here and they aren't ashamed or afraid to flaunt it openly.

This is just a very.. VERY underwhelming game, with terrible implementation, horrible balancing, disgusting predatory practices and all it wants is you to press "Confirm Purchase" as many times as possible, in as little time as possible.


I had more fun playing The Day Before. - Felt less scummy playing it as well.

Don't let the play time above fool you. Between various accounts and system changes, I've put in well over 1,000 hours into this game.

It may seem challenging at first but that challenge is exactly what hooked me originally. I found the game by watching a youtuber I've been following play it, since then I had become one of the original 5 Wiki-Founders and went out of my way to send as much praise as I could about the game toward others.

For the King is a Rogue-lite game with a hardcore feel of mid-game D&D mixed with a Tabletop and a slight sprinkle of the older Final Fantasy games tossed on top. There's Loot, Monsters, More Loot, Unlockables, MORE Loot, Interesting Story and even MORE LOOT.

Want a challenge you can enjoy with some friends and easily drop 10-15 hours on a SINGLE run? Maybe you wanna play solo and just get that rough dungeon delving feel you got from older games of it's kind. Either way, you're going to enjoy this.

Don't let it's Low-Poly skin fool you, beneath is a roiling beast which hungers for nothing more than to make you suffer (in a good way).

The Developers are actually incredibly kind and attentive as well. I ended up having a Hard Drive failure and lost all progress at one point, after putting in a ticket one of the Developers themselves directly assisted me in recovering my unlocks and lore progression.

Seriously, I cannot recommend this game enough.

What they neglect to mention during all holidays, all seasons, all "Special" events is that you have to pay them money to take part.

I'm sorry... You don't pay to take part, but they let you grind for sometimes 100+ hours and when you go to receive your reward *GASP*, you have to pay a fee for the month to obtain it.

It's not a bad game at all at it's core but between the excessive greed to the point of being insulting and the vastly corrupted faction controlled market... This game just isn't worth any time investment after initial play.

If you don't like the idea of losing literally everything you work for on an extremely regular basis, getting trapped into paying so much in-game currency for basic access to core crafting systems that you go broke before making progress and getting caught behind shamelessly deceptive and hidden pay walls... this isn't the game for you.

Which is sad, because the game had so much potential.

TLDR: Started off Strong, but the game isn't even finished and it's already being ruined by Cash-Traders, Real World Trading and the Player Market is controlled by specific websites. It's become extremely Pay-To-Win.

Played to the end of the games current content. While it's entertaining and Fun for a time, it eventually falls flat.

The game receives significant updates every month or so (New tems, tools, locations etc), so there IS that to look forward to.

However a few things... heavily influenced my final decision to simply stop playing.

For one, while it is "Technically" Multiplayer, it really isn't. At least not in the same fashion as most other games. You DO see other people wandering around, you CAN trade with other people but you wont really be doing much content with other players. Someone can party with you, but you're tethered to each other. Unless you're both at the exact same point in the storyline/progress of the game someone is being held back. The multiplayer battles seem... very... I dunno, clunky as well, certainly not fluid and cooperative.

There are PVP matches, but it's extremely dominated by a Meta and obtaining the Tems to remain competitive in that meta requires you to purchase them from said Meta players. They decide the pricing, they decide whats valuable. Which is super... super bad for a game of this nature.

These players can decide a single Tem is worth $200,000 in game cash, which will take the average player anywhere from 40-50 hours of straight grinding to obtain. Which leads to another problem with the game...

TemTem is influenced and infected by a MASSIVE amount of Real-World trading. People who buy in game money with real world money, or buy rare Tems with real world money. This has lead to the player market being overly saturated with groups of players tied to specific websites that sell these in game items/currency.

The same people who Sell Pansuns, are the same people who have taken over the Player Trade market. So they decide a lot of the pricing. It's not even that big of a secret, a lot of them have openly admitted to it on the Public Discord server... yet the Developers and Managers for the community/game have done basically nothing to fix this issue.

While its a fun game until you hit end-game levels and have nothing more to do but fall into the toxic meta cycling of real-world influenced trading... I overall can no longer recommend this game to friends or community members. At least not until it's cleaned up.

Figured I would try playing the game again, since I hadn't touched it in nearly a year. Played 4 matches. Unranked with what I was "Told" would be people around my skill level? Not sure.

Either way, Every single player I faced played the same faction, the darker ones... forget the names, ones with the creep spawns. Never the less, they all beat every single thing I could possibly do, lol. Couldn't spawn minions, couldn't move, couldn't heal, couldn't deal damage. Literally every single aspect of the game, I couldn't attempt, enjoy or play in any way at all.

I originally left the game because the different factions felt incredibly unbalanced... Kinda sad to see things haven't changed. Either that or the matching system is absolute garbage. Let alone being spammed with negative emotes every 4 seconds in every single match.

Don't waste your time. It's been turned into a cash grab anyway due to Bandai taking everything over, you have absolutely zero chance to gain the funds required to open new packs or try new strategies unless you're able to wade through the over powered opponents, without paying real money.

Absolutely not "New" or "Returning" user friendly, No hope for improvement at all. There are better CCG's out there.

While I understand the game is in early access, it's not entirely friendly to new players. You play for a while before realizing that only 2 out of the provided "Heroes" or "Deck Types" Actually have a chance at winning any sort of match. This is often addressed with balance patches, so i'm sure it'll be resolved in the future. However it does force players to limit their play styles and change what they feel they'd enjoy playing. Playing for 3 hours and only making 12% on a shard is rather annoying, especially when nearly everyone you come across is playing "Death" or "Primal" Decks to take advantage of the balancing issues.