HoloGrid: Monster Battle AR 12+

This game is amazing. It gives me the ability to do something I have dreamed of since I was little. Who didn’t see Star Wars as a kid and want to play the holoboard game? I am definitely excited to see the game grow. I love the fact that there isn’t an overbearing tutorial about opening chests and leveling cards. We get it, every game is like this now. Thank you for not treating your players like fools. My two complaints are simple. One, I feel that the game registers placements a little too slow and there is no sign that the game is “thinking”. And two, I always dreamed of playing “The Wookiee”.

If you love strategy, this game is really fun in the beginning. Overtime, unfortunately, you will start to notice that your skills don’t matter. You soon realize that achieving victory means you also have to have good cards. Each card requires X amount of cards of the same type to level up to keep that particular card competitive as you grow through the ranks. To get new cards you have to either purchase them with in-game currency or wait for chests to open. Chests take hours to open. Opening them sooner requires in-game currency. In-game currency is accumulated at an exceptionally slow rate. To receive more of this currency you have to pay real money. So the formula, to simply put, is: Victory = good strategy + competitive cards; competitive cards = in-game currency; in-game currency = suicidally long wait times or real money.
I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve plateaued. I’m pretty good with the strategy, but it’s gotten to the point where I have a behemoth that has 10 HP vs an enemy who has one at 19+ and opponent has monsters that do 3x more damage than any of mine. Impossible to advance without better cards.
Aside from certain strategies, the last lesson this game taught me is humility. You can try your best, exhaust all options, fight to the last card, but sometimes you really can’t win; you must accept defeat and walk away.
I’ll check in from time to time but I can confidently say I’m disenchanted.

The concept behind the game is fun and I would like to give it more stars but the execution needs work. The board has a tendency to float away or for the creatures to not show up making it impossible to play.
The games are short but four victories later your waiting 90 plus minutes to play again because all four chest slots are full or you can continually pay money to unlock them to play again only needed to repeat a few minutes later. Chest take a minimum of two hours to unlock. Replacing the chest and wait time model and Changing it so you earned Points for purchasing boosters/chest for victories would be a better system as the game has nothing else for you to do while waiting.
Conducting actions can be difficult because characters can get hidden behind others making it difficult to activate them and I haven’t found a way to rotate the board you also have to go into the menu to reset the board when it glitches or to change board size. They need a rotation button and their board size slide up on the screen or change to the finger pinch pull to make it easier to adjust during gameplay.