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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- ~Ultraman, Ultraman! Here he comes from the sky!~
The Godfather of Tokusatsu now has its own TCG! Is it any good? Or is it ULTRA-Good?!
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0:00: What's an Ultraman?
6:30: The Card Game
9:15: Gameplay
17:48: Conclusion
There's something so human about the beginning and the tutorial. Good job, kohdok.
Those rules are shockingly good at recreating the dramatic turn-arounds of a tokusatsu show. I definitely think the "keep playing until you get a best of 3 rounds" is probably for the best. A single "round" of gameplay will only use between 5-15 cards from each deck and with a 50 card deck you're going to have just enough resources to do 3 rounds. That also introduces a slightly more interesting element of holding back some of your good combo pieces for the next round if you think you're going to lose the current round.
It’s a 5 v 5 wrestling match. How else would they make a card game?
Hi Kohdok! You did a great job with this review! Just one small correction - Lead Player is determined by who won the latest battle. Geed took a momentary L against Neronga's Z on turn 3, meaning that you wouldn't have been able to play the scene. Other than that, though, it was a great explanation!
Glad I'm not the only one who caught that
It has an "Air Land and Sea" (board game) vibe! Interesting to see such a simplistic system turned to a TCG.
Very well-scripted teach.
Probably unintentional but the fact you can go to prior rounds to change the outcome gives me time travel vibes like a tcg version of 4D chess.
The context they give is that the hero is in trouble and has to mount a comeback.
@@Kohdok *color timer beeping intensifies*
@@Kohdoklike a kamen rider getting a new form. Like exaid going from lv 1 to lv 2
That's a pretty cool system for a card game, and with what seems like a lot of design space for future content. Kudos to the design team
@@Le_Codex I can imagine showa Ultramen interacting differently with the Level Up system or just being generally big bodies because they don't really have form changes.
And dedicated kaiju/alien strategies.
HOLD UP
THIS WRITING IS FIRE?
You've got me hooked with this video. Subscribed.
Man, this video did indeed kick my butt's butt!
I'm honestly surprised this isn't a sponsored video, because this kind of content feels exactly like what we need (and you've been preaching) in the modern age of TCGs.
P.S. I too am surprised this isn't Bandai made lol
Something not mentioned, you lose if you cannot place down a character for a new battle. And because all actions are always done by the Lead Player first, the Lead Player will lose if he cannot start a new battle, even if the Next Player also does not have a character to start a new battle.
The only way that can happen is if your hand is empty and you draw a low-level Scene card for the turn, play it, and draw another Scene. A very rare circumstance.
@Kohdok Definitely a rare occurrence barring poor deckbuilding and/or bad draws/redraws. But still something worth mentioning as a Lose Condition.
Thematically it's like when Ultraman's time limit is exceeded and he just disappears. Very rarely happens in the shows but is always a threat.
_Colour Timer beeping intensifies_
4:00 When you get in to Ultraman, you start to see the Matrix code of Japanese pop culture.
Silverfoil jumpscare
@@SeventhRingBlueWhale 👁skibiditastic👁
As someone who enjoys Kamen Rider more but is just so happy to see tokusatsu get more cred internationally, I absolutely adored this video, and especially the introduction. There is so much more that I feel can be said about Tsuburaya, his influence on the genre, and TsuPro's effortless work making the Ultraman series more accessible internationally overall (I mean, they're the only company whose TH-cam channel has near-simulcast episodes of past series permanently available with multi-region subtitles!), so I'm glad that you opened first with this primer to get people interested in the show first and get a vibe for what sets its stories apart.
You've always made damn good TCG intro videos, and this tutorial section perhaps takes the cake overall. Well done.
7 minutes of hyperfixiation as an intro for a youtube video, just like the old times. Great work as always
I love how you used this as an excuse to nerd about Ultraman for a bit. Bless your heart, Kohdok
Cutter Kirby is an Ultraman reference? Based.
Indeed. To Ultraseven.
Great job man, if only every TCG introduction video was as entertaining, captivating & well put together as this
More card game tutorials should end with the opponent exploding.
What if: you play a best of 3 WITHOUT shuffling back card?
This way you can justify the bigger deck and know stuff abut you opponent deck to allow for building up some strategy for game 2 and 3
I really love the Ultraman is to Superman what Kamen Rider is to Batman or other more pessimistic heroes comparison you make. Rider is more my thing, but totally respect the love for Ultraman, I actually just started watching it with Z after the card game drew my interest.
It's been well worth the watch, as was this video!! Definitely gonna check this game out, if anything just to support more toku stuff finally getting releases in the US
Really glad you enjoyed the game! With official tournaments starting soon I’m hoping more people have a chance to check the game out and see how fun it is! SHUWATCH!
As someone into both Kamen Rider and Ultraman, it's nice to see anything toku related mentioned outside of the toku part of the internet, and especially when something toku related gets such a wide release.
Tsuburaya has really been trying to get Ultraman a presence outside of Asia, with releases of new shows on TH-cam, Shin Ultraman, Ultraman Rising, and now this.
The card game does look easy enough to get into for someone relatively new to card games and does a nice job emulating the feel of the show.
Glad to see you are still making content!
Your explanation was super clear and the game does look very unique, so thanks for the showcase
If that was a completely unedited clip of Ultraman Taro I need to watch it immediately. Thanks for putting me on. I had no interest in this game but wow this actually looks really fun. Reminds me of the rock paper scissors esque system of Digimon Hyper Colosseum.
Taste please give this game some airtime. It's so much fun.
Showa era is really cool. Story wise it would make the modern ones blush
@@TasteOfVictory it was
It's OK. I want chickie tendies too. Ultraman was just being a bully.
I also find it kinda funny that with card sleeves being SO prevalent these days, that essentially no new games have borders for their cards. The art reaches out all the way to the edge. Magic had white borders on the front and black borders on the back way back in the way, maybe as a way to mitigate damage to the art from shuffling and reshuffling, but everyone wants their cards minty fresh so damage to them is a thing of the past, so we get these great big flashy full-arts all the time now, it's interesting.
I got the two starter decks at a store in Chicago. I live in a small town and haven’t seen this anywhere else. It’s strange that you can’t just order off of their website. Judging by the prices on eBay, I don’t think their distribution is working very well.
Can't find it anywhere in Canada, not even Amazon has it.
Excuse me it was Shinji Higuchi that directed Shin Ultraman. Anno was going to direct, but he still was the writer
Geed should be pronounced with a soft G as in ‘Gene’ but other than that, excellent stuff!
I remember getting excited about a godzilla tcg thinking "Oh fuck there's so many good monsters they could use aaand fuck it's bushiroad... great...."
Kudos for the *Gridman* mention 👍
Excellent tutorial! watched this both before and after your tutorial video and I very much appreciate the DRAMA here now
Seems like a decent casual game, at least at the current releases. Now if I could find the starters anywhere that isn't an ebay mark-up
Dude the tutorial script writing has me so hyped for this game I’ve never heard of based on a franchise I’ve never really gotten into. More TCG’s need to seek you out for their official stuff.
Now I just need you to talk about Kamen Rider.
People be ungrateful to Ultraman for birthing pretty much all big anime today fr
It's not a game I'll ever play, but I really appreciate it exploring different avenues from most card games. I'm tired of mana systems. It does seem like it might be falling into what I call the 50-card-catch though.
A lot of card games say "50 card decks, max 4 copies per card", even games that will draw or cycle very few cards per duel. This demo duel ended after what, 9 or 10 cards seen? 80% of the deck in that duel functionally wasn't there except as a source of randomness, and with up to 4 copies of each card, there may be as few as 13 unique cards in it. With a game like Weiss Schwarz where your entire deck will end up in your graveyard once or twice per duel, that might be sensible, but many of these new games are terrified of draw and search effects because they've seen what happens with these in MTG and Yugioh, so it's just more paper needed and more money spent to play a game that would work equally well, or possibly better, as a 40-cards-3-max-copies or even a 30-card-2/3-max-copies game.
ultraman blazar is my current favorite ultraman.
If they do make Gridman Decks for this game that would become my main deck!
This is the best demo of the game i could find and so well made! As a huge Ultraman fan but first tike tcg player, thank you.
Fun fact, in the game psychonauts. Ultraman is referenced with a boss. Not saying which boss because it could spoil things
Tried this game at GenCon and thought it was pretty interesting. Although with the Godzilla game, new Union Arena sets, Gundam game, and Riot's Project K game coming out over the next year, I think Ultraman will be very overshadowed by everything else to get any real attention from widder the TCG community overall. If it's going to stick around, it would need a lot of support from the niche community of Ultraman fans in the west.
Had me cheering when Team Not-Ronga won all 5 fights at once.
I ASK THAT YOU CHANT MY NAME!!! :D
Ultraman is the Rosetta Stone of Japanese culture! :D I'd love to try this game but it's not available anywhere around me :/
My dad Is going to love this
Those kaiju actually inspired some Pokemon actually and even ultraman inspired a Pokemon
Awesome video
I can't wait for kohdok to look into hololive ocg😂
Fun video
Thank you
100% agree - Ultraman Z is GOATed, a perfect introduction for people.
😂 funny ending
Great tutorial!
it kind of seems like the war game at a quick g
lance
Yess
8:32 and CN
Get money CN
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We will not stand for the Neronga slander!
Glad it's not a Duel Masters clone
Yeah. The old "whittle down shields and attack directly to win" style is pretty saturated. And somehow really concentrated in Bandai and Bushiroad games.
And this style really emulates the battles in the TV shows with the comebacks.
@MansMan42069 yup,
Look forward to trying it
You are funny!!
Geed is pronounced with a soft G.
With the rock/paper/scissor feel to it and no combat, it makes it feel like a game for kids.
Ultraman is a kids' franchise.
I mean... it's Ultraman... that's literally the target market.
And so is pokemon, but the game has more stragety than hoping your face-down cards have a higher number than your opponent's. When I said it was for kids, I wasn't referring to the IP. I was referring to how the game plays and stating it's on the same level as go fish or old made.
@@delpeck2067 Clearly that's just the basis, you still need to ncure your victory lasts until you get enough of them to win.
@@delpeck2067 good thing that the game isn't just about hoping your face-down cards have bigger numbers, then
I could describe pretty much any TCG in a way that makes it sound simplistic and basic. Yu-Gi-Oh and MtG are about attacking your opponent until their LP are 0. So obviously, those games are just about who gets the monsters with the higher stats out first, right?
Kodok it's pronounced jeed not gee
The opening was awesome🤣
I hope people interested in Ultraman have fun, but for me it’s just too different from what I’m used to, and I am barely aware of Ultraman’s existence. Everyone else have a good time, though. Fun video nonetheless.
Famous last words
ULTRAMAN! I love you talking about Ultraman. Please, do something with ultraman toys.
can you review vampire: the eternal struggle?
also btw i was waiting for this review! heard that the price point already made it dead in the waters in some countries, but as a toku lover i want to believe
How many times did you redo the match until Neronga actually lost? He's too good for your butt
give me the *more* identical one
another pointless licensed TCG. might as well throw your money into a pit. there are plenty of good games to play that don't require the exploitative TCG model, and if you insist on those, there's already Magic/Pokemon/YGO that (probably) aren't going to disappear overnight
This looks interesting but I am kinda disappointed by the lack of variety of characters and settings.
The fact that there isn't a single Belial(Who I was under the impression is the most popular villain to have ever appeared in the franchise) is an absolute shock!
As for potential upcoming sets, I would rather like to see a Kaiju Girl Z set.
It's just the first set. And Pedanium Zetton and Skull Gomoro are Belial Fusion monsters so he's still there (and he's dead by the time of Z).
@ Being fusions related to him is not the same as ACTUAL CARDS OF HIM and you know it.
And being dead at the time of Z is irrelevant. It’s a card game. Nothing you do with it is canonical.
@@hobobeard yeah, but the first set is centered around the Heisei era (when he didn't exist) and the Reiwa era (after he died). There is thematic consistency here.
@ Wrong.
Geed aired in 2017. The Heisei era ended April
30 2019.
I feel like they're saving Belial for a big set, considering his impact in overall Ultraman lore
maybe smth like a Darkness' Heels set
So, a Marvel Snap clone?
I mean marvel snap wasnt something new either so...
@@akira8393 True.
When I learned about Snap, my first thought was that is like Caravan from New Vegas.
Blazikong T mentioned; Life complete
You need team man for battle, not silly kaiju ... Or maybe you get tcg fan girlfriend
I think you mean Sentai. Power Rangers as a brand has been killed by Hasbro.
But he can still enjoy it
So level are useless except for boost.
I cant see why we should not only use lvl3 since all is Free to Play.
Seems a shitty game.
Because a Level 3 Geed Galaxy Rising has 7000 BP if played alone, and 17000 BP if played as the third card in a stack. And his effect only applies to characters that are in a double stack.
Because Level 3 Ultraman Tiga Multi Type's effect can only be used if he's the third card in a stack.
Because Level 3 Ultraman Gaia V2's effect doesn't trigger if he's played alone.
But hey, try building a deck without any Level 1s or 2s and see how far you'll get against someone who actually knows the rules.
Did we watch the same video?
Because if you use all level 3s, you can't level up so your fighters pretty much top out at 10000 power, which means unless your opponent only plays level 1s the first 3 turns and doesn't evolve anything, you can't win.
Okay, Neronga.
This game is way to ugly for me to ever play but great video.