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Feb 2nd, 2017 at 22:09:08 - Karmaka (Arcade) |
Karmaka is a multiplayer game where you are competing to be the first to experience transcendence. The players, 2 - 4, fight deviously to climb the karmic ladder.
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Overview
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In the game you start out with cards in hand and a personal deck. Each time you run out of cards in hand, you die and reincarnate and the Future Life deck becomes your new hand. To accumulate points, you place a card into your Deeds. Points only accumulate with the same color of card. If you have enough points at the end of your life, you will reincarnate one rung up the Karmic Ladder. If you do not have enough points, you remain in the same life, but gain a Karma Ring which acts as 1 point.
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The Board
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The board is simple with a picture that shows the 4 levels of reincarnation. The Dung Beetles, The Snakes, The Wolves, and Transcendence.
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Play Area
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The play area is divided with a shared section and an unshared section. The shared section has two piles, the Well and the Ruins. The Well is basically your draw pile. In the Ruins, you will discard cards that you don't want or cards that are forced away.
The unshared section or personal play area includes the Hand, Deck, Future Life, and Deeds. The Hand is, well, your hand. For the Deck, you will draw a card from it every time your turn comes. The Future Life is the deck that you will inherit when you reincarnate. Finally, the Deeds is where you place your cards which act as your points.
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Cards
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There are different types of cards in Karmaka: Mosiac, Red, Green and Blue. Mosaic cards are your wild cards which means that they can be any color you wish them to be. The Red cards are usually offensive. The Green are supportive. The Blue are trap cards.
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Gameplay
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First Half: I played with 3 other friends. We were all relatively new to the game. I began the game with placing cards into my Deeds because I thought that was the smartest strategy. Little did I know that this would come to bite me. With my strategy, I basically never invested into my Future Life, so when it came time for my first reincarnation, I had nothing in my hand. When this happens, you have to rely on pulling one card each turn from your Deck. This was bad. With my growing knowledge during the game, I started investing more into my Future Deck. By this time, the other players were starting to reach the second level of transcendence except for one. This player kept reincarnating with not enough points. This strategy continued until we started realizing how important Karma Rings were.
Second Half: By this time two of us were on the third level while the hoarder was still a Dung Beetle! All of the sudden, the player who was hoarding Karma Rings started reincarnating and moving up in levels. Quickly, he caught up to us and we were pretty shocked. But even worse, he still had a few Karma Rings. At this point, he had more Karma Rings stored up than us. I, along with another player, decided to start focusing all of our Red cards on him. This kept going until we realized that the fourth player, who we were ignoring, was stacking Karma Rings. At this point, he built an impenetrable wall of Deeds. With our every card, we tried to destroy that wall and also build upon, but to no avail.
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Conclusion
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Karmaka is a great game that gets more interesting with more knowledgeable players. Along with good art, the game is well made with good rules and gameplay! The game takes a good bit of time though, so do prepare for that!
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