#PastebinMonday 12/23/2019

Anime Card Games for Christmas Edition

Hey guys, how’s it goin?

I don’t have to work for a week and a half! Huzzah! Now I have a lot more free time to myself to do things. Not only does it give me time to finish scheduling the rest of the Puzzle Challenge tournament videos, but considering that playing action puzzle games fast for several hours on end gives me hand cramps, I have time to stream other games that pique my interests.

My user name elicits thoughts of a certain anime card game. I have played a bit of said card game in various forms on stream before. I might be in the mood to play a form of it on this extended break. Starting today, however, I have a different anime card game in mind, one I mentioned in a previous Pastebin months ago about how much I love spreadsheets. I’m talking, of course, about Azumanga Daioh Advance.

You know, that slice-of-life show focused on high schoolers that basically birthed the term “waifu?” The one that had the genius 10-year-old girl for a student who supposedly had a cat for a father? The one with the oblivious girl who looked like she didn’t know how to properly handle a knife?

Did you know that someone made a card game based on that show for the Game Boy Advance? Until about a year ago, I had no idea that such a thing existed, either.

The objective is straightforward enough: you score the most points by using a five-card hand to line up three or more stars in a row horizontally or diagonally. Cards can have anywhere between 1 and 6 stars. You win by scoring 100 points before your opponent scores 100 points. Trying to do this consistently with the cards you start with in the story mode is stupid hard, if not impossible. However, you can also build up an entire 25-card deck of nothing but 6-star cards to be completely unbeatable, even in the game’s Hard mode. There is also a mode that has you winning 32 matches in a row by outplaying your opponent with both of you having the same cards in each hand.

There are different ways to play and speedrun the game that I would like to show off. I think I’ll start the festivities today at 4:30pm ET, if I remember to be awake at that time. When I don’t have to worry about work, my sleep schedule goes all over the place.

That’s my life story for the week. Until next time, everyone, thanks for reading!

--Cards