[REVIEW] Athenion - A New Way To Enjoy Trading Card Game

Athenion: Tactical CCG is a card game developed by a Thai game developer called Zero Bit. The Athenion game itself was released globally in November 2019 and already has many active players in it. Athenion is a new TCG mobile game that has a different feel to the gameplay from the usual TCG games. Athenion combines the genre of Trading Card Game with Board Game Strategy into one. Athenion can be downloaded for the Android platform via the Playstore and iOS via the Apple Store directly.

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GAMEPLAY

The feel of the Board Game will be felt when players start a battle in the Athenion game. They are trying to combine aspects of the current trending TCG games such as Hearthstone, Eternal, and Shadowverse into Board Game battles. The Athenion game itself is also quite balanced with the number of cards, which is more than 400 cards that players can use. There are 6 factions that players can use in the game and each faction has its own deck and card strategy that players can work with.

The course of the battle is also quite exciting where players must try to keep the cards (units) to survive in the battle arena. Damage will be given to enemy heroes if the opposing player’s card (unit) can survive in the battle arena after 1 turn of both players. The amount of damage dealt depends on the soul/mana each card (unit) has in the arena. With a total of 30 HP for each hero, the battle doesn’t take too long and makes players not bored.

CHART

As a game that has the Trading Card Game genre, of course, graphics are one aspect that you can rely on. Likewise with this Athenion game, Athenion has pretty good graphics and is on par with other TCG games. In addition, as a newly released game, Athenion has applied setting options to adjust the FPS quality and graphics that players want to use.

This makes players who have fast internet connections and gaming smartphones or players with slow internet connections and potato smartphones able to play the Athenion game without any problems. The bugs and glinch in the game are also invisible and make the Zero Bit developer really prepare the Athenion game in detail.

FEATURE

The features provided in the Athenion game are quite numerous and interesting. First, there are Daily Quests and Missions that players can run to get rewards. Zero Bit is also very consistent in updating existing quests and missions. Then there are event battle modes, frendly match, practice, and normal match (ranked and casual) in the game.

Unfortunately, like most grinding-type games, there are bonus missions and quests for players who upgrade their accounts to premium (battle pass). The rewards given will also be different from the usual and seem special. To upgrade to premium (battle pass) players must first buy it at a price of 680 diamonds. The price of diamonds is pegged at 32 thousand rupiahs for 150 diamonds and 850+100 diamonds at a price of 179 thousand rupiahs.

Furthermore, there are also cosmetic items in the game. Players can purchase and modify card sleeves, hero skins, and battle skins in the game. Makes players more enthusiastic to play the Athenion game and feel a different playing sensation than usual. These cosmetic items can be purchased or completed missions.

OTHER

The interesting thing about Athenion here is the lore of the game and also the characters in the game who follow Shadowvere. Where the existing characters are made similar to the Japanese anime manga version so that it will attract many players into the Athenion game. Each character has their own Lore (story) and describes the deck strategy they use.

Then Zero Bit also seems to be very concerned about balancing in the game, if there are cards that seem too strong (imba) then there will be a patch update to balance it. The problem is whether they will privilege battle pass users in the future. The competitiveness of the game will depend there. The players free to play Of course they don’t want that and it will likely bore them to play the Athenion game.

CONCLUSION

The Athenion game is very suitable to be played by players who like Trading Card Game genre games, especially those with concepts like Shadowverse. Athenion will give a different impression from a typical TCG game because this game combines the concept of a similar board game. If TCG players are bored with TCG games in general or want to play a new TCG concept then Athenion is the answer.

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