Zettaburn, for example, can burn up every elemental field on the board when he’s placed, and Maypul can capture multiple cards in a line. You’re only allowed one Rival card at any time, but they’re all powerful and can easily turn the tide of battle. While most of the other cards in your deck are based on new creatures in the Rivals universe Rival cards are comprised of the main cast of Rivals of Aether. Most interesting of all, however, are Rival cards. Then there are cards with abilities, such as Ally cards, which can create elemental fields around them, or defender cards, which, when placed, increase the number values on all the cards that you have control of on the board. Placing a card that matches the element on the field will increase the numbers on its sides by the number indicated on the elemental field. For starters, cards in Creatures have elements attached to them, and there are elemental field that randomly dot the playing board as well. What makes Creatures of Aether unique are all of the additions to this system that take it from a fun way to pass the time to a full-on competitive card battler. Once all 16 cards have been placed on the board, whoever has captured the most cards wins. If your opponent puts down a card with a higher number on its side then the card it’s placed next to, it’s flipped, and the card becomes yours. Each card you put down has a number that represents each card side. To sum up the game as a whole, Creatures of Aether is a card game that takes place on a 4 x 4 grid. There are wrinkles here that make Creatures stand apart from its inspiration, and give it more depth and longevity than the design limitations of a PS1 might have allowed. However just like Rivals of Aether, Fornace and the team weren’t content to simply mimic an already solid existing gameplay style on a new platform. Anyone who’s played Triple Triad knows what I’m talking about here - it’s one of the most addictive mini-games to exist (and the little JRPG that they attached to it as an Add-On was pretty good too). Frankly if that were the long and short of it, it would be more than enough. It’s Triple Triad on your phone, and it owns. The elevator pitch: it’s Triple Triad on your phone. And I’ve been having a blast.Ĭreatures of Aether is one of those games that you can’t believe doesn’t already exist the minute you play it. Luckily Dan “Absolutely Not a Furry” Fornace was nice enough to do me a solid by allowing me access to the new mobile game in the Rivals of Aether universe, Creatures of Aether. I’ve mostly been playing Final Fantasy XIV and working on my new career path, so the well of inspiration has been as dry as the release of interesting games as of late. I’ve been struggling to find anything of note to write about for the café.

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