Monster monpiece cards full#

Monster monpiece cards full#

It’s downright addictive to build up a balanced deck full of the most powerful girls, but deck-building is never a substitute for long-term planning and skilled plays. For example, if you play a fully upgraded, bikini-clad Fia onto the field, she will automatically deal damage to all enemies on the lane with her “Trap” skill, which can help clear out a whole enemy line if timed right.Īlthough you can get some small advantages by buying items at the shop between battles, achieving victory is about best playing the hands you’re dealt. Luckily, there’s not only the macro-game of building up a powerful line, there’s also a micro-game of deploying girls at the right places to take advantage of their activation skills. Fusions will combine a card from your hand with a unit on the field, creating a much more powerful goblinoid girl or dragonic dame. Combos will boost the stats of all your monster girls on the field, but pulling them off requires you to play three cards of the same colour, forcing you to make the best of whatever those three cards are. Your choices are made ever more complex by the addition of Fusions and combos. And like New Game!, these intense friendships between the girls add a weight to the story, and made me feel invested enough to want to see it out to its conclusion. The “intense friendship” between Fia and May sort of reminded me of the recent anime New Game!, with its more in-depth exploration of female friendships coupled with the hintings of yuri (particularly with a certain “massage” scene). She’s angry, but it’s a type of loving anger, where Fia is frustrated by how May hurts herself as much as others. There’s a great scene early on where Fia confronts May about her passivity. The story actually surprised me with how much emotional depth it has given the pervy concept. She does frequently do the “ohoho” laugh, mind you, but it’s jarring that she’s still making the mocking gesture even in profoundly serious moments! My one criticism is that the central characters could have used more poses, particularly as May’s adviser Karen seems to have her hand stuck perpetually near her face in the classic “aristocratic laugh” pose. The music is also exceptional, and I particularly liked the pounding, distorted J-Pop/Eurobeat tunes which psyche you up for every boss battle. These are nicely animated with eyes blinking and mouths moving with the dialogue. Monster Monpiece’s story is told through Visual Novel sequences. The most powerful deck is a scantily clad one. However, when May’s best friend is possessed by an enigmatic group called “The Lost”, her training run turns into an epic global trek to stop the lost from stealing the world’s Magic Quartz for their own nefarious ends. She’s paired up with a spunky, tomboyish monster girl named Fia and sent out on a training journey to a foriegn academy.

The down-to-earth every(wo)man protagonist of the (mon)piece is May, a young student of the Kunaguva Academy for monster battling. In this world, monsters have a humanoid appearance, with many most monster girls living inside cards, from which they can be conveniently summoned by their trainers. But what is there to cater for us now as lonely, lustful men? Enter Monster Monpiece with the ingenious idea of taking the gotta-catch-em’-all compulsiveness of Pokemon, but instead of pocket monsters, you’re now collecting monstrous women – who become more powerful when they wear less clothes! Despite the tawdry concept, Monster Monpiece throws itself into being a polished card battler. Most guys of my generation loved collecting Pokemon cards as children and doing righteous battle with the vaunted strips of cardboard. They did the Monpiece… They did the Monster Monpiece!