Anyone have any experience with this? There was a few boxes on sale at Walmart and I happened to have a gift card so I picked up a few.
First impression is that it is high School weeb Pokemon tier art, but the mechanics seem somewhat interesting and I do like the fact that your actual physical environment affects the game
>Anyone have any experience with this?
I want to but scalpers didn't let me
Why not?
They want to treat their game as an investment with the NFT shit.
Which is laughable but it's what the tards went nuts for.
A big part of any commodity is futures which this game has none.
I see, sorry to hear that anon.
They've been trying to work on growing a player base but finding people to play is still far and few inbetween. Feels like all the resellers who missed the Pokemon boat jumped on this. I've regretted spending the money that I did on this
It's kinda shit and scalpers ruined what fun there was too have with it.
>that depiction of the flatwoods monster
Look what they've done to my boy.
Who the frick did this assy art?
It's a fricking scam. Why is anyone trying to pretend otherwise?
Hell, I'm 90% convinced OP is just a shill.
>Why is anyone trying to pretend otherwise?
I just really wanted a cryptid game but that was apparently too much to ask
Get Horrified: American Monsters
I was going to ask if it was any good but after reading the shillgame rulebook it is difficult to imagine how that could not be much better.
>Board game
Not the same, nor does it have the Pokemon rip off art of Metazoo
I just I could go back in time and kill NFT's or the rona so I could be okay with liking it
I've wanted to make my own deckbuilder with cryptids and a bit of Halloween flavor. Need to workshop it a lot more sadly
It seems like it wants to be a schoolyard pokeclone type game that you made up with your friends but as others have pointed out scalpers complicate it. The art and presentation is cringe yet charming at the same time, just like those custom hand drawn TCGs you see people make on youtube. Those give me comfy vibes for some reason.
>the mechanics seem somewhat interesting and I do like the fact that your actual physical environment affects the game
they are interesting and likeable until you actually play the game at which point they become a cruel joke, of which you are the butt
my understanding of metazoo is that it is a game designed by people who used to buy pokemon cards just to look at them. i cannot prove this empirically, but i believe it to be self-evident.
Wait, is that actually a thing, the physical environment affecting the game? Jesus christ, these people have negative experience playing tabletop after age 10 or the entire game's rules were just slapped together to give the illusion of there being more to the product than just a pump and dump scam. Or both.
I saw a card that said if you saw water IRL near you in any form it does some bullshit.
Some frog thing.
So yes.
The inevitable outcome of that card is some fat greasy neckbeard pissing himself to get an advantage in a card game for children and then arguing that it should totally count until he gets kicked out.
>This Beastie cannot be Contracted if you are wearing pants.
I was going to make a joke about this and was not prepared for the joke to be an actual, literal card already.
This game is such mess I almost want it to get worse - surely comedy value is the only value it can possess now.
It's like somebody took the absolute moronation GW did with early AoS that everybody hated and decided that it was something they should emulate.
It's just for fun bro
I've played it, it's just magic but for /x/ peeps. I really enjoyed the game I did play tho. Glad it recovered from it's pump and dump status
Although the nfts killed it for me
The company has gone really hard on positioning this game as a collectible first, game second. Game part seems fun enough, but I really hate that I have to compete with investors to get the cards/product I want. I am a player, not a collector, so I doubt I'll ever get into it.
the game is designed poorly
So what I get from this thread is that someone somewhere has a deck that is optimal when they are not wearing pants and have either pissed themselves or have a container of water that they can see into but their opponent can't?
Seems like this product was not thought through at all.
>Anyone have any experience with this?
Can't say I have.
It's good fun for a couple of games once in a while.
It's not a game that should ever be played competitively, because of all the 4th wall rules (that's what the "actual environment" mechanic is called).
Playing competitively would require you to wear an actual wizard belt with lots of little bags and pouches filled with pennies, vials of water, a bonzai tree, candles etc etc.
But the game is very playable, if you just surrender to the absurdity of 4th wall mechanics.
What little I've played, it seems like a gigantic design flaw that - to use Magic terms - Creatures are summoned tapped, instead of just having summoning sickness.
It's incredible hard turning a losing game around, because all monsters you summon just gets instantly killed. And since they enter tapped, they don't deal damage back to the attacker.
I hope I'm somehow getting the rules wrong, but I don't think so.
Its a horribly designed game. Slow as frick, unfun, and uses a card based mana system in 2011+11, of which there are TEN DIFFERENT MANA SOURCES. The lol 4th wall abilities are cute on paper but are extremely moronic in reality and result in you having to bring random shit with you everywhere you play. Actually that doesnt even matter as there are cards that completely negate the original point of the environmental effects and you can just write "lightbulb" on a piece of paper instead of actually needing to have a lightbulb, which makes the whole thing pointless. Theres an obnoxious amount of status effects and there are type advantages that arent even written on the fricking cards. The designers went the genius route of having KEYWORD ICONS along with renaming every basic card game term into their own stupid keywords that all sound the same. You sound like an absolute moron explaining this game in its own terminology ("bookmark a page from your spellbook and add it to your chapter, then contract aura pages to the battlefield and fatigue them to contract beastie pages but they start out fatigued")
It tries to be Magic+Pokemon but takes the worst aspects of both and I'm convinced they only have a surface level understanding of both games. The art is literally 13 year old garbage tier weeaboo shit. The "player base" is predominately investing scalpers and a tiny portion of the people buying cards do it for the purposes of actually playing the game. If you search Metazoo on Youtube, price prediction, WILL IT FLOP?, IS METAZOO A SCAM?/METAZOO ISNT A SCAM. HERES WHY videos far outweigh videos of actual gameplay because the game isnt fun. Its a game made by kids that only collected Pokemon cards just to look at them for people that collected Pokemon cards just to look at them and has all the telltale signs of a game that will last 5 years at most.
I hope they go bankrupt and all the cards end up worthless so I can finally finish my decks and play it for once