Kid Icarus: Uprising's AR Card Battles are Bound by Fate

Then, this is only yet another tech demo?

So why is this whole thing keeping them away from SSB for such an awful long time? D:

AR pokemon cards. THEY WILL HAPPEN

AR Card Battling was the one thing I dreamed for when Augmented Reality came to my mind. Thank you Nintendo!

@MrMagpie Pokedex 3D has already proven that will become a reality.

this sounds cool id like collect them all. shame battles dont change everytime u use them though.

If it's all predetermined, what's the point? I guess it's just a tech demo, like albc5023 says

To be perfectly honest, I already thought they looked a bit rubbish, but the fact that they're pre-determined doesn't help.

Haha, "no matter how many times you PIT certain characters against each other...."

Nintendo only does Tech demos with things like that and it will never change. They always say "we want to show developers what they can do" and noone does anything....always the same...

Completely and utter waste of time then.

What's the point then?

So it's like Rock Paper Scissors with more choices?

I always assumed it was just a little bonus, but it would be cool to make some sort of playable card game out of it.

What's so wrong about this? You still had fun as kids playing rock, paper, scissors didn't you? They'll still be fun to mess around with and it can still be fun to play as long as Pit doesn't automatically beat everything. I'll probably still enjoy this! Besides it's the game I really want. This is just a nice bonus.

still a nice throw in

Perhaps its just me, but I kinda assumed it was predetermined from the start. I mean, the two cards were doing the same thing over and over again... it just seemed kinda obvious. Still, its a neat little bonus, after all, its not like its the ONLY mode Kid Icarus is giving us what with both solo and that epic lookin' multiplayer! XD

I just have no idea what the point of this is.

Fire Emblem with AR Card Battles as a side feature would be awesome

Oh well. Wasn't buying Kid Icarus for an AR card game. Neat little bonus. Useless, but neat.

The fights are staged!? It's just like wrestling!

isn't it the same with YuGiOh? Place kuriboh in front of red eyed black dragon several times and see if kuriboh wins any.

There's no point to me then... I could see if maybe the more you play your KI game, the more the characters in YOUR set of cards would "level up" when facing someone else's cards, or something like that. This will still be fun until everyone has seen every combination of who-beats-who, then it will be lame.

I wonder if you sit more than 2 cards down will they free-for-all or or go 2-vs-2 for even more predetermined outcomes, but far more variations... now THAT would give it longevity.

I've already thought of a sub-game I'm going play with these cards when I first get them though... the game of "random-draw-and-watch"

You could still make a card game out of it, like maybe a Kid Icarus and Rock-Paper-Scissors version of the War card game.

You could also have both players pick a card from their hands, place them face-down, then flip them over to battle. After all the cards are played, whoever won the most battles wins the game.

You could even treat them as a variation of Yu-gi-oh! TCG monsters, add in your favorite Yu-gi-oh! spell and trap cards (as long as they don't specify certain monster types and/or attributes), and actually have a holographic Yu-gi-oh! duel like in the Yu-gi-oh! animes.

Lame... AR was not implemented well for this title AT ALL!

@19 This is what AR should be used for!

Good points: Awesome looking cards that probably are collectable. Awesome animations.

Bad points: Battle outcomes are random. The characters don't visually hit each other.

That's all!

it'll be fun to play that card game "War" with these, and Pit is the Ace card I bet

It's probably the most obvious idea ever (and I'm sure it's been thrown around in the forums), but Pokemon TCG + Augmented reality would be perhaps the coolest use of the tech to hit 3DS.

I don't see the problem if these are a bonus

I just hope it's 3-D.

I don't find anything about this news disappointing. It makes sense really. What exactly were people expecting?

I don't get all these comments saying "What's the point?" Have you guys never played a card game like Uno or Snap? It's gonna play like a card game, I'd imagine. Where by chance you draw a card and pit it up against an opponents, not knowing what card either of you picked. Either that, or it could play like a more strategic rock paper scissors game. Come on now, folks. Use some imagination!

i think the really strong card should just have a higher percentage of winning, not guaranteed to win every time

Still fun! There probably wasn't enough characters for a TCG, and they'll save that idea for a full game. This is just a bite size AR card goodie... hmm, how about Capcom VS SNK card game in 3D? ;D

Predetermined is stupid.

It should be rolled or like Rock Paper Scissors or something.

Thats actually pretty cool!

Wow... Top Trumps... Haven't thought about that game in ages. Still have my old Buffy the Vampire Slayer deck.

Um, isn't Ro-Sham-Bo predetermined anyway? Rock will always beat scissors, scissors will always beat paper etc...

Well, it's still better than what the original AR Cards can do. Plus, i doubt I'll be bothering with them, the game is what will satisfy me.

I thought it would be kind of like the super street fighter 4 figurines, where it was random.

i hope these ar cards arent just people posing. the uprising trailer showed them moving around fighting eachother. gonna buy some packs

i hope these ar cards arent just people posing. the uprising trailer showed them moving around fighting eachother. gonna buy some packs

@ Bulbasaurus Rex (my fav. pokemon BTW)

That was exactly what I was thinking. A person can make a deck and then challenge eachother to battles. It would still be fun. Maybe for Pokemon holding down a face button would determine what attack they do. So many possibilities.

@ Atomic_3DS_Man

The figurine battles are not random. You have to take into account all of the different parameters based off of the 300 point system.

Hmm, as long as it's a bonus and not integral to progressing or unlocking stuff in the game, then fine.

I didn't think the AR cards for this game were that interesting in the first place but I'm even less interested in them now.

Maybe is like yu-gi-oh without magic and tramp cards...without this cards always we will obtain the same results between the card, maybe nintendo should create some special cards that would change all the results....but for me is still great..

I just wish that when they fight it actually looks like they are fighting.

I find these ar cards interesting. As long as you or your opponent don't know which cards trump over the specific cards, it should be fun.

So its basically war but with AR cards instead of playing cards?

SH*T's Weak!

Some of the dumbest comments I've ever read _. If I attack a 3/3 creature in Magic: The Gathering with a 2/2 creature, what happens every time? How is this different than any other CCG?

TACOOOOO

It doesn't make sense because the game comes with 6 cards and then how do you get the rest