Villain Rush

Villain Rush
     Want to play a single player card game fighting application that forces you to spend more time watching ads than making in game choices?  Then this is the app for you.

     That introduction may seem a bit negative but it is absolutely accurate.  The artwork is good, the maps are a fun and slightly educational element.  The story plot is... a bit weak and confusing but the one true takeaway from playing this app for me was the outrageous amounts of ads you need to watch to do... well... most anything.

     You may think that paying a fee to remove ads would improve the situation, and to a degree it would.  But paying to remove the ads only removes the ads that appear immediately after a defeat (AKA Kaizin Death).  There is no way to get rid of the ads required to be watched in order to perform most actions.  But let us forget the ad problem briefly and focus on the rest of the app.

     You control Kaizins, these are cards who work together to defeat enemies in the parts of the world that particular Kaizin is assigned to.  Kaizins can not be changed as far as location goes, and collecting them is purely luck based through a sort of Gacha style system.

     The unlocked Kaizins can be viewed from the Lair part of the app.  Users can view where each kaizin is assigned, their rarity and the full card art.  Kaizins can be upgraded (The upgrades are so minor it seems a waste to even spend stones on them) and evolved but this takes a great deal of Kaizin Stones and these stones are rare drops.  The easiest way to obtain them is to Rebirth, which resets everything causing you to start all over with some rollover boosts.

     Ideally one wants to rebirth when they get stuck and can't proceed any further without a rebirth.  You want to defeat as many countries as many times as possible.  To do this we have to look at the World map.
   
     The World map is divided into continents, each which a set group of countries the Kaizins can fight in.  They fight lots of enemies from bootleg Superman to bootleg Power Ranger.  Every time they defeat one they go to the next stage.  But every 10 stages has a boss.  They will not automatically fight the bosses (Though the in between stages they will auto fight).  You must engage the boss fights manually.  There is a Boss Auto button but this costs gems and only lasts for a small amount of time.  The more useful button is the Boss Fight All one in the top left of the World map.  It will allow all the boss battles to start at once.  if you want all the boss battles on all continents to be chosen you will need to watch an ad.

     Any fighting is actually very stunted unless you use boosts.  How do you use boosts?  Well, you can either pay for them or watch 30 second ads for each individual boost.  The boosts last for 15 minutes each.  ATK Booster and the ATK SPD Booster are the most important ones as these will make battling easier and faster.  Otherwise users will need to manually tap the Kaizins in a battle to force them to attack the enemy.  But the speed boost will cause them to attack as soon as possible after each attack's cool down without forcing the user to be watching the entire battle.  This means several boss battles can be fought at once more easily.

     The application has a lot of areas to draw a user's focus such as weapon, armour and accessory upgrades, There is also drawing new Kaizins, upgrading your deputy and lair, levelling your Great Leader (Who gives you extra boosts when you level them up, which also takes Kaizin Stones), raids, adventures, and so on.  It's all a bit over complicated.  Plus the constant ads you have to watch to boost, to revive kaizins, or after Kaizins die gets frustrating.

     At the end of the day the app is attractive and the basic concept is fine as well as the main game play.  However, I think they added too much unneeded content and there are way too many ads.  You will honestly spend as much time watching ads as doing anything else in this app.  I just didn't enjoy this and don't recommend it unless you really like watching ads.  I am giving this a two of five because it does work, it is playable... it just isn't really enjoyable.
Rating: 2/5

• Free
• Seller: DAERI SOFT
• Category: Games
• Size: 187.7 MB
• Languages: English, Japanese, Korean
• Copyright: © Volantestudio

Rated 12+ for the following: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity