‘Guardian’s Guild’ Review: The Perfect Ethereum Game to Play While Taking Puns

Games should find you at the right time. Well, this Ethereum game found me on the toilet.

My favorite gaming experiences come when a game is fun and fits perfectly into my life. think Blood borne I found myself baptized during the plague, or the common pearl It takes two When I want to meet my partner.

The Guild of Guardians finds you during those natural breaks in your day – whether you're taking a suspiciously long bathroom break at work, waiting for the bus or cooking dinner. This mobile fantasy game has enough complexity to keep you interested, but packs enough gameplay to make it easy to pick up and download.

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Guild of Guardians is a mobile trading card game on iOS and Android that draws from the rogue-lite and auto-combat genres for an addictive and comfortable gameplay experience.

You'll battle through dungeons, completing each one up to three times for maximum experience points and exploits to keep improving your team. Each dungeon has many rooms filled with enemies to get the ultimate prize. Each room also has different enemies, loot boxes, and rare isolated terrain to heal your gear or level up.

You start out deploying three guardians, gradually increasing as you level up. These range from tanks to nobles and support guards, and it's important to make sure your team has a balanced combination of characters. Once you've chosen your party of guardians, you carefully select your formations, place the tanks in front, and then click fight.

Taking inspiration from auto-fighters like Riot's Teamfight Tactics (TFT), your guardians fight automatically. In the Guild of Guardians, however, each chooses to give their ultimate skills. This strikes a great balance between having enough insight to play into your daily life while you're engaged, and the bare minimum needed. a bit Attention.

As you go through each dungeon, you'll be prompted to choose a run that will give you a small buff going forward. Sometimes you'll have the bad luck of picking up a “Curse of Fate”, which will stun your enemy and make them more powerful. This gives enough variety to each dungeon run, adjusting my strategy based on my team and the runs I pick up.

This whole loop does not take more than a few minutes at a time, much less time to put the phone down, continue in real life and then return. That's why it's perfect for those natural pauses in the day.

When it comes to the core gameplay, my only complaint is the “domain fusions” and how they interact with each other – feel obscured. Even once you look for it, it doesn't seem entirely clear or distinct. Having multiple characters from the same “domain” seems to hamper your team a bit, but the buff is the same for each domain…so it feels a bit repetitive.

In other auto-combats, this is often the most interesting part of the game—so I'd like to see the Guild of Guardians develop some complexities here, such as healing potions, stun abilities, or something special.

Get your party out

After completing a few dungeons, you've gathered enough resources to create a team that works for you.

Guardians Guild has a very extensive character level and gear system, like dungeon clearing if not more focused. Each guardian has their own level, up to 30, which affects their health, attack, defense, and what abilities they have to unlock.

On top of that, you can equip each character with gear like a shield, wizard hat, or axe, to boost certain stats. It all feels very familiar, and if it wasn't, the game would gratefully hold your hand.

Up to this point, I have not been involved with any crypto or NFT entities. I played the game everyday for about a week, without any web3 components I made good progress in the game. Once you're in your immutable Passport wallet, however, new benefits come with using the easy Gmail sign-in option.

Best of all, you can “out” your Guardians, giving them a 30% boost across the board. By doing this, you are turning the guardian over into an NFT. Ethereum Measurement network Immutable zkEVMBy allowing them to sell on Secondary market place.

You can currently purchase the resources needed to climb a guardian for $6.99 for 40 Ascension Seals, but you can also earn them by climbing leaderboards. How many seals are needed depends on how popular the guardian is—but from what I've seen, 31 Ascension Seals will do the trick for most purple-rare guardians.

Before doing so, Guardians of the Galaxy game director Chris Clay encouraged me during a highlight call to raise my Guardians as much as possible. Exiting your guardians should be the final step to empowering your guardian and a way to lock in the value you put into the game.

As someone who has put countless hours (and painful money) into games that have no return, I love the idea of ​​being able to sell my assets when I decide I don't want to play anymore – the Web3 component of this game allows this.

Guardians Guild has amazing addictive gameplay. At the end, they will break into dungeons trying to get all the loot. Failed to do it there? Then use any loot you find to level up your team, craft gear, or unlock new guardians to get to the next level.

Now that I'm sitting on the throne, I'm not doom-scrolling on Twitter. I'm fixing my guardians, fighting skeletons in dungeons, and grinding to get my whole party out to the Guild of Guardians one day.

Edited by Andrew Hayward.