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Create free accounthello and welcome to poker game with our business YouTube channel I'm trying to build so we're doing like a special thing now I'm flipping 2016 times you something different and we've come up with a feature radical I know oh that we call in Game of the Week so in the context of on a game of the week is this is where we look at kind of the game we think is the most interesting that's been released this week generally this would be the game we think it's pretty good is the best and all those positive things occasionally it might be her for negative reasons but in this case the first one it's all positive so that's good isn't it and the game we're looking at is called battle hand so battle hand is developed from a studio in London in the UK called another place and there I'm startup and cual all the guys involved in that studio were used to work a line head and were involved in fable quite senior guys there so they've got good pedigree and the game's been
published by a congregate that's the Big K in the top right corner of the screen you can see toddler gate and obviously work pretty well known for their web games and pretty humming depending where you kind of label these things bleak and hardcore type games they've been doing mobile for a couple years now and generally the games on my varam pre good quality they're not had any kind of stand out hits but I think battle hand has it has the good chance of being there a good hit for them certainly I think it's one of the best games ever released on mobile so let's um kind of explain bit what's going on as the name suggests there's a battle hand is a card battling game and we see the bottom we have heroes and we have battle cards so let's have a guy he rose to begin with there so this got three heroes unlocked us but I'm not very heavily into the game not the progressed a lot and this
is the three basic heroes and the kind of an RPG current of the type of hero you would expect what type of class in you'd expect so we've got a monte here it was kind of like a wizard ii mage type character who sees you see also on the bottom left of the screen this is kind of a little circle with gems in it that shows the elemental system to those five elements so far as good against earth put weak against water you know the usual think there's Monty and we can see usual thing we can kind of train him and movies level 6 he could be level 8 i'm gonna go money to do that remember he's got a straight basically his trait is his his kids come back like a strong attack kind of builds up over time says it shattered his attack is meteor readers Betty this big kind of damage here's a multi-target damage I can't a level that up in the moment because they're enough money enough dog and also i need to kind of room to do that so you
can see there's a system now we're kind of going into the kind of the muster station my little bit the currencies there's a soft currency gold card currently gems and also these specific moons ago living on character this breeze coming off healer type character so we can see her kind of trait is remedy rush that speeds up can't so it speeds up a terms as a turn-based game and also heals people then that last with 5 tens so can I break that either and then Brom these other the tank melee attack character you know you've got you got the idea now huh what's going on these characters is or together ones here that I can't hope that's not in your party you went from in the tavern okay so go back from there the heroes the other part of the game this cover is interlinked in the back cards so the battle dancer looking a brig moment these are battle cards so we can see again idea of the element system here so there's the green ones which are earth
which is what element is so there we can learn anything up bombs this is a as a common card is the cutting edge legacy from it I'm in the it creates damage of 33 they do damage points has a chance to bleed for three terms so kind of ongoing damage and also has the beat to in the left-hand corner that's how many turns it takes when you play the card for it to play so can i upgrade it so upgrading is you upgrade by using point operation firm you upgrade the bite by using other material cards so if you look at Monte can look at the type of trauma can operate that one so use to those so amusing up those those materials it's going to cost me some good some gold self we go that's upgraded now so again idea and this is how car pants work isn't it it's Brom this is cards so obviously the leveling
up processes you live out the characters and also you kind of gain better cards and also lit up the cars let seems pretty straightforward so here at Taman we were looking at before so his Hawkeye can I recruit him no I can't I need level Fame 511 famous hope I got it before and what I've Goldie and bring season these other characters waterland Gilbert modern so Gilda's water loans Walter drinks I guess so now there are heroes at the moment worm I have two euros per level maybe they'll go up but in the mirror only point to numerous with the rest of the round the kind of menu box okay so Ozzy hbu communications from developer quest I system and see some of these chapter one of fifty-seven percent complete on the quest so big to go on that when I complete one of those i'll get some reward shop and as we kind of expect in fridge play game so there's
a welcomed by these packs do that oh I did okay now so they go bottom cards so that's why those you again I've got the bonus item that's interesting i also got visa these materials I use the level of the cars on to evoke on the cutting edge again as a car to use and also got this bonus item which is a right ticket which we will look at later basically all automatic so I use some of my heart comes to get to do that look at card packs nice compacts rare gems i can buy gems typically only the hard cash and there's materials coming by car and materials as well obviously different rarities more expensive the rare they are okay a bit of retailing years is the special offers i will parents pay 10 pounds and get all this cool stuff and really look for out of where it goes out this is pretty good deal probably this one's been 10 pounds and we get a lot of
good stuff but enough of it right now okay in between us ya see what God okay so let's go and do something shall we so the N bit of a lot the moment is the campaign which you expect the link on the game then call it which is just a kind of like a dungeon continuing dungeon kind of kind of battle zone this one of them 3i thing kind of this 5 in Tokyo unlock everything then again this is a timer 1 so it's kind of like a concurring you deplane there's going to look I'm gonna do it battles he'll get on so I'm not doing to everyone maybe I'll lose boom Madison I just did one of at least one before was there won't be browser so you can see here i can do battle which would be i'll be menu in control into an auto battle which the game the game game AI will just take over i won't have any involvement at all phone hello so we've seen this in a lot
of games now comes from the canadian RPG element them this in this situation you the auto battle can't toggle between them so in star wars cartoon heroes which game similar game playing a lot you can kind of toggle between the two which is quite nice in this one you can't and then there's the raid so i can only raid so i can read something out of three star wedding yeah so we can see in this case is going to this first I'm just going to cost me six keys about three monkeys that's the that's the energy structure I've got three raid tickets now this is like now the classic kind of a cop battling kind of mechanic really of how you do battle as much unlike wonder if you do three please start it you do the battle go play all my namely you can alter battle it let the AI play or just write it so ready I'm better using resource and I'm just getting the loop effectively I'm not going to any screens my battling just just get the loop that's really important for the for the metagame the people playing kind of you know hundreds
of elves because everybody want to play through every time but let em go back and do this one obviously I can't raid this one club when you want one star so let's see he'll get on to do a bit of a server bashing going on okay so here's brawn and breathe let's move that out of the way I speak that up and go a bit faster so he is bronze so these are what he can play these are the enemies I'm going to have three with three sets of enemies and receive the cutting dagger which is tracking down there's not very powerful but it's kind of leveled up or is it going to have more impact on these guys which because they are earth so from so that's a big one father one off ocean you know he goes runnin our own those there too you can see there we're going to do their turns in terms of flashing through so if i don't do anything is not it's not real time to wait for me to do anything i can do this can I can do their strategy it will wait
for the tents turn to kind of light rock through so kill one of the spiders see if I you listen live with that one of the night sounds quite powerful in case klim see there is strategies not vast amount of strategy you really it's a little bit so see of bronze gonna do these big attack in one so let's blow dart just is it we get hacked but happens quickly so let me go between the killer moth that's good the first battle of the first battles ones and out or something rights to kill actually what I'm going to do in this one okay do that please give him a shield so so it's pretty straightforward means not this little part of the end is not vast mass of tactics please the way I'm playing and poly cuz there's any two in the group so again in other games have more can I characters again as a comparison
it installs cutter he resists you give fighting group sometimes you get after six and then we see the outfit the off the brass plated card there that means one of what a bronze card to come play now so did the cattle dagger okay go he's gone a bit overkill there any I'm just give him a shield for a bit give him some health so just restart the level we ought to have to complete it and also usually doing inside on a turn turn to come on I'll do and also do with the same amount of health left which I why been struggling in which is why I'm you know my captors I'm gonna die I've been them trying to heal okay so this would be the boss right now let's eat and go round get rid of in sewing see
you don't think lecrae's breeze Remini russia's building up but probably not going to get chance to play that and bronze bombs he's holy sword yeah money x plane actually let's see by helpful okay yes I really saw can be played so the his monster the trades being a fade playing any soul she's gonna take him out there we go they're not quite enough systems popping blade health worries I will take any be played over could play down this you finish it off by the remedy rush that with your liberal actually that's quite useful and also speed us out do I get okay so I'm on the battle how long did I do is let's have a look so not that well so I once taught it complete within 25 days so you
get the idea but the gameplay the one thing I would say about this game say compared to keep going on about a calculator is just cuz that's the I think the game that has kind of popularized this without a bigger big-ip this is not kind of competing on that level this is a copy of that made IP but this is much harder this is the innocence of kind of our guests come from indie developer and a bit more focused on the game played in terms of its been level time doing gameplay stuff and then the moment of a lot its undoing metagame stuff which sometimes doubts heroes is pretty much very quickly all about the metagame this is a bit more traditional from that point of view so things a bit harder definitely be some tweaking over the difficulty level this early in the game but is currently as well contact you have a reputation for being a bit more hardcore so anyway that's our game of the week it is a battle hand if if hope you have been doing it you should download if you are anyway interest in these kind of RPG
kind of kind of games and maybe things interesting to play there aren't they are a fairly new kind of way of delivering pay and RPG in the West at least lot more games coming out like this so let's checking out and they forget course to subscribe to our YouTube channel we do a lot this analysis or free to play mobile games in different formats so and don't forget to subscribe and then you won't miss a thing okay hope to season three
BattleHand, a card-battling RPG developed by the London-based startup Another Place and published by Kongregate, serves as a notable entry in the mobile gaming market. The game features a team-based combat system where players manage heroes and a deck of battle cards, utilizing an elemental affinity system—such as earth, water, and fire—to gain tactical advantages. The development team, comprised of industry veterans with experience on the Fable franchise, emphasizes a traditional RPG structure that balances character progression with card-based mechanics.
The gameplay loop centers on a campaign mode consisting of dungeon-style battle zones. Players manage resources including gold, gems, and upgrade materials to level up heroes and enhance card effectiveness. Combat is turn-based, requiring players to select cards strategically to defeat enemies. The game includes an auto-battle feature for efficiency, alongside a raid mechanic that allows players to bypass manual combat once they have achieved a three-star rating on a level, facilitating faster resource collection for the metagame.
Compared to other titles in the genre, BattleHand is characterized by a higher difficulty curve and a stronger focus on core gameplay mechanics over purely metagame-driven progression. The monetization model follows standard free-to-play conventions, offering card packs, rare gems, and special bundles to accelerate player progress. While the game shares structural similarities with popular mobile RPGs, its design reflects a more traditional, challenge-oriented approach. It is positioned as a significant release for Kongregate, signaling a continued effort to deliver high-quality, mid-core mobile experiences to Western audiences.
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