[Video | Wreck-it-Ducks]

[sumofallreds]

[Welcome everyone to Super Sentai Battle: Dice-O DX! This high-action card-based arcade game pits Super Sentai teams against one another for supremacy! Whether its team vs team, or Robo vs Robo, there's plenty of excitement for all who play. Just insert a card for the team of your choice (up to 5 members), try to spin yourself a good attack, charge up your robo's power, and even try for a special team attack!

The player has managed to score Marvelous as a random machine-given card, and has backed him up with an all-star red team: DekaRed, ShinkenRed, TyrannoRanger, and Red Buster. But the player has gotten a special team to battle against: a powered-up version of GoRanger.]

Ok boys...let's make this showy! These old guys are nothing!

[He'll watch the ship wheel-shaped roulette and the player trying to time it just right to get a higher attack. It'll fail, getting the Red Squad blown back by AkaRenger's whip, the Red Bute. The second round of fighting goes not nearly as poorly, the player managing a to have a card for the Gokai Galleon Buster, allowing Marvelous to lead his team into a turn-around in the health lead. But only just barely.]

One more round. Hope he has good luck with the robo...come on kid.

[Unfortunately, their adversary has Variblune, which, being an airship rather than a mecha, has much higher evasion to add to it's defense. But Marvelous has Gokai-Oh, and anything can happen. It's all up to the player's timing as Marvelous settles into his position.

The wheel spins, numbers flashing on-screen in the blink of an eye. He can see the kid's nervous hand twitching over the button.]

NOW!

[The kid breathes in and slams his hand down, getting a large advantage over Variblune.]

That's what i like to see. Fire!

[Gokai-Oh's chest opens, a large cannon extending. Cannonballs are shown through the also-open ports in the limbs, being fed into the cannon: Its the Gokai Starburst! And soon enough, bright red letters with a large attack number flash, and Variblune nosedives into the ground!]

Good work guys. Drinks are on me!

Comments

[grandest_delusion]

Not bad at all. You guys are pretty good at that.

[sumofallreds]

Heh. Of course we are.

[Marvelous cracks his neck. That whip shot managed to make him land on it weirdly.]

[grandest_delusion]

You always get chosen in Dice-O. Man. Hard being the unofficial team.

[sumofallreds]

Your card is like...super rare. What do you expect?

[grandest_delusion]

Well, this is true. At least Toei got us into the game at least.

[papillio_tempestatis]

[Butterfly chuckles a little.]

It's always nice when things finally go right, isn't it?

[sumofallreds]

It's all the luck of the draw in this game. Sometimes I wish there were more skill involved on the players part. It'd make things more interestin'.

But yeah: very nice.

[sumofallreds]

See? A bright side to everything.

[papillio_tempestatis]

Oh, I don't know. Sometimes I get players who've memorized all the 'best' routes to get places and never spend any time exploring. That's awfully boring, too.

[sumofallreds]

Well, this is a fighting game: there's not too much 'exploring' involved.

Best we get is the varied teams. Thankfully that means plenty of new and interesting fights. The gameplay's just repetitive.

[papillio_tempestatis]

I just mean that something that's only skill isn't necessarily more interesting than something with chance involved.

And yes, I've heard. Kaitou was complaining about the repetition earlier - he's from your game, isn't he?

[grandest_delusion]

Yeah you got a point. And it's kind of neat to see Machine Itassha in the background when we fight.

[sumofallreds]

Too much chance isn't fun either. It's balance I'm looking for, that's all.

Nah. Kaitou's from the machine next door. Same companies were involved though, so it's more like we're brothers more than anything.

[papillio_tempestatis]

Ah, I see. My mistake.

[sumofallreds]

Even if it's foot-sized when it's next to 95% of the other mechs.

[sumofallreds]

Eh. That's no problem. I really do think they should combine the machines. That'd give even better variation.

It'd be like one big party.

[papillio_tempestatis]

Or at least link them up somehow. It would certainly make things interesting.

Probably make the players fight even more, though.

[sumofallreds]

They may play longer, but it might keep us from having to fight as often. Recovery time would be nice sometimes.

My card was given out when the machine was introduced, making me really common to pull.

[papillio_tempestatis]

Mm. I don't seem to have that much trouble just with being played, but I suppose being the only player character I'm more used to it.

[grandest_delusion]

Well sure it's kind of puny compared to most mecha. But hey, it's a car. Give it some benefit.

[sumofallreds]

The evade bonus is pretty good...that's for sure.

[sumofallreds]

I suppose that would probably work at your advantage: you probably have more endurance.

[grandest_delusion]

Yeah that's true. There's a easier time for it to avoid attacks especially when we pop in the right CD.

[papillio_tempestatis]

Hmm, maybe. Though even I need to relax after a long day running around the city.