Finding and collecting new bases upon which you can build new, more powerful brawlers is undoubtedly one of the game’s most apparent charms. This is determined by the monster’s skills and stats, and in order to build a formidable squad, you’ll want to use power-up and evolve your monsters, or use the newly-introduced Monster Fusion feature. Monsters fall into different roles as well, such as attackers, tankers, supporters, and defense.
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1-2 stars are basically just fodder for evolution, but if you like a monster well enough, any 3-star or higher can be evolved and awakened to a full 6-star monster. Rarity also comes into play here as monsters are available from 1 to 6 stars – the more stars they have, the more powerful they are. Some elemental variants may seem more popular or superior than the others but it all really depends on your party formation and what you need to pull off as a team.
A Fire-type specializes in multi-target stunting attacks, while the Water-one concentrates on being a healing tank, and awakening (or special evolving) either creates a higher form of the said monster that specializes in different roles. Each variant has its own special skills and stats and each awakens into a highly specialized unique unit.Ī Fire-type Fairy, for example, does not just have a different elemental alignment than a Water-Type Fairy, even if they do share similar base stats. Sky Arena has a small selection of monsters, each available in five different flavors – one for each elemental type. Instead of the usual scheme of having hundreds of different unique units that evolve into pallet swaps of themselves. One unique thing about Summoners War is that the monster compendium isn’t really that expansive. It also comes with a fast forward option that speeds up battle sequences up to three times. There’s also the lazy boy option of auto-battling for those non-tactical level grinding battles. In a turn-based game where skills have recovery time and must be rationed and timed strategically, all these features mesh perfectly to give players tactical challenges. Certain attacks can cause status effects – some of which are unique, or at least, rare in the RPG genre, like making units unable to be healed, or dealing damage proportionate to one’s health (think gravity magic from the FF series).
The first three follow the rock-paper-scissors rule, while the latter trump each other up. So far, there are five elemental types available in game: Fire, Water, Wind, Light and Dark. The ever popular elemental advantage system is also present. Each unit has at least two available commands to use during their turn – one is the basic attack (which sometimes have additional effects, depending on the monster) and their special skills (which have recovery time, adding the element of strategic planning) There are also optional dungeons available for the purposes of grinding, levelling and increasing your summon collection.īattle is reminiscent of classic console RPG styles wherein each unit, your team and the enemy’s, follow a turn-based system ruled by their respective speed stats. Single player gaming follows a mediocre and linear storyline to give the notion of progress and development as it takes the player from one map to the next, presenting the game’s wide variety of monsters in continuous combat. It has much in common with another popular battle collection app, Brave Frontier, which puts the player in the role of a summoner who calls forth various creatures from the game’s library to perform tasks. Not to be confused with the card game Summoner Wars, Sky Arena features considerably superior graphics and production value, and tight core mechanics to go along with the staple unit collection mechanics and online arena warfare – all while remaining free-to-play, with in-game purchases. Despite all the usual things similar in all things free-mium and monster collecting, Summoners War: Sky Arena gives something a little extra.
So then it goes that when you throw a stone into the app store it, whatever you hit comes out roughly the same as the next, right? Well, every now and then, you chance upon a game that’s actually really crazy good (at least compared to everything else in its field). The only real difference is how the package looks. In the world of free-mium games, you can only really count on them being so-and-so decent time-wasters with not much individuality (if they did, then whoever made them would be charging for it). Point is, the genre is pretty much saturated, and there really isn’t that much variety to pick from. You see them all the time in all the app stores, ranging from trading card game formats to fandom tie-ins to blatant Pokémon clones. Monster collecting games these days are a dime-a-dozen. A Little Extra with Summoners War: Sky Arena
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