Board Game Reviews Ep #48: EXCEED: SEVENTH CROSS - HUNTERS VS. DEMONS 

You really are a pro at being a ZD, whatever that is

Who needs XBOX when we've got board games?

One of the cool things they introduced into this season you're reviewing is that each character comes with a Reference Card for their movelist. It tells you your opponent's Special and Ultra Attacks. That fighting game analogy you made at the end was pretty spot on

Make sure you have enough milk counters for the Cheese Tasting Phase...!

Like i barely know how to play black jack! So i have no clue what is going on here.

This game is so good! Definitely worth checking out. The lucky flip thing isn't actually about luck, most of the time you can figure out what your opponent is likely playing

YOOOO WHAT PROZD REVIEWING MY FAVORITE TABLE TOP GAME OF ALL TIME?

Love this game. Fair criticisms, though the cards-as-board is necessary to keep the cost down (you can get mats from L99's site if you want them, sleeves work too), and the random feeling with high speed/guard thing is only for the first couple of games, as you get to know the characters more, the middling speed/guard cards become more relevant. Much like a fighting game, the early plays feel like button mashing, more plays reveal its inner depths. The next set is Street Fighter, so bit more on the nose with the fighting game theme. As far as a highly replayable game that I can play over and over again goes, this one's great. Stands alongside Innovation and Race for the Galaxy for me. I'd recommend Church vs Empire or Guardians vs Myths for a starting set though, this one has more obtuse characters (though Renea's one of my mains).

Listening to end of the review sounds almost exactly like someone trying to learn fighting games for the first time.

I'm really glad you were able to touch on why people love this game, while expressing why it isn't a good fit for you. This is my favorite game in the whole world, and I love studying the matchups :)

This is one of my favorite games!!!!!

The flipping mechanic isn’t really complete luck based and it’s never always who has the biggest number unless you’re playing blindly. The game allows the fighter to mitigate all sorts of possibilities. (Power>speed, speed>defense, defense>power) It seems that you’re playing style that is way in the offensive side, which has it’s risks. The game is about trying to get in you opponent’s head and see what is the best way to react.

I do have to say that you NEED to check out BattleCON (EXCEED's sister game) which does have the board and stuff and feels much less random since it's a perfect information game. It even has a video game version called BattleCON: Online. A certain king sounds a lot like you.

Highly recommend you check out also other Level99 games they've made, especially games like Millennium Blades (imagine Yu-Gi-Oh The Board Game Card Game Meta Game), Argent Consortium (Hogwarts but every teacher is a scheming arsehole after Dumbledores post), Sellswords (Final Fantasy's Triple Threat Triad but actually done well), BattleCON (like Exceed but a bit more strategic, a lot less luck and more figuring out what your opponent is gonna do, very open information game) and Pixel Tactics (strategic/tactical unit placement game with a ton of variety). Also recommend checking out their upcoming games like Empyreal: Spells & Steam and Seventh Cross (the board game your copy of Exceed is based on). If it isn't obvious, kinda a big fan of Level99 games, even if their games doesn't turn out the best I always find them to have something quite interesting going for them. For you SungWon, I'd definetly check out Millennium Blades if able to, they are about to release their next big expansion on Kickstarter as well.

Love that lockstep t-shirt.

Why do I watch this, I need to get a life but watching ProZD playing board games is so appealling

ProZD: "That is a mouthful" Me: 🙂

SungWon does a really good job explaining these!

Exceed without character reference sheets is 6/10, with the sheets it's 9/10. It's a poor memory game or a brilliant pure fighting game.

The instruction booklet is garbo though haha

Funny you mentioned Blazblue.

I'd say 'lucky flip' is a bit of a misnomer. This does happen in the game, with the 'Wild Swing' attack. However, what's happening here is actually a blind bid. You both bid your cards, knowing a bit of what the opponent could do, or has the chance to do. The vast majority of this isn't character specific even - it's centered around the base cards and their interactions. Now even those take time to understand. So when you play just a couple of games of this, it's a crap shoot. With a bit more insight, it turns into a game of reading the intentions of your opponent and trying to thwart them.

If you guys want to get a general idea of what this game is like, BattleCON ONLINE was the predecessor to this game, and his currently F2P on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/792570/BattleCON_Online/

i love fighting games and this is really interesting...maybe i'll give it a go. i also hate roadmap pamphlets and thank you sungwon for giving me a name for it.

For your next board game review, could you take a look at Escape Room in a Box?

Check out BattleCON, Same mechanic, less random luck, much more strategy involved. Best duel card game in my opinion.

i agree with they need a booklet. as for the systme itself. you didn't have the starters so there is a little less on luck but interesting review.

so... when does Anime Crimes Division season 3 come out? This isn't the end! I believe in joe!

This isn't how cheese is made

There is no board. You lied to me. I trusted you

Nice board game bro

I despise the L99 rulebooks. Fortunately, the games themselves are great.

People who want a nice board get an Exceed playmat.

Do the Lackadaisy one!!

But can you pick Tracer.

Would you do a review of AEGIS? Cool robot-anime type game I saw at PAX Unplugged

Have you heard of red dragon inn, I think you might like it.

Really sad they sent you this rather than Battlecon. That was their other (imo superior) 2d fighting card game. It has a traditional rule book, a board to play on, and its original ip. Game seems a bit simpler too. If you have the chance. You may prefer that. Still has flipping mechanic but hand size is 8 cards with 4 on the side that just cycle so its a lot easier to keep track of.

hey bud are you getting the binding of isaac card/board game?

ProZD the channel SuperH4H4 is stealing your videos and other people's videos and you should probably take a look at it because all of the thing he's taking are pretty unedited and he gives no credit to the people he steals from.

Looks NOICE

Hi Good video my friend

This might actually be more complicated than MTG

Nice video but can you please play a game called ultimate werewolf deluxe edition it's really fun but it requires at least 4 players.

Eh, I was hoping for this game to be a bit better, but I'll give it a pass. I wonder though if BattleCON and Yomi are better or not, because I've heard many different opinions about both.

Third DAMN IT i mean fourth DAAAAAAAMN IT

*HUAGH I THINK THAT ENEMY GOT THE POINT!*

Can you rewiue four souls. IT is the binding of Isaac card game

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Lol

Oh yikes...

Monopoly Fortnite is the best board game tbh

*🅱️oard*

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Exceed is kind of Meh for me. Battle-Con is far superior

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Why buy board games when you can just play Tabletop Simulator?

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