Epic Seven Arise Board Game - One Round Playthrough

hi it's tarrant and stella from nickel university today we'll show you a few rounds of play through for epic 7 arise and give you a description of what we're doing so you get a good flavor for how this game flows coming up [Music] we do a lot of how to play live play through videos and more so if you find values from the video later please hit the like button subscribe to us hit the bell and leave your feedback in the comments for others to find now let's learn to play epic 7rise game by jesse h and chris turner and published by far side games entertainment hi everyone and welcome to our one round play through for epic seven arise so this tabletop version is based on the mobile app where we adventure adventuring um to the worlds and well it's very exciting um anime looking one i used to play lots of final fantasy so it feels a bit like that yes i'm playing as the character raz and i'm playing as crow and we are playing for you excerpts from chapter one a new beginning so let's see what the story card number one is yes we've completed we've completed all of the setup here so we'll go straight into the first story card stellar if you'll do the honors yeah so this is story chapter one which we basically search for aki which is this little creature here apparently two decades later rice wakes up in the worlds and pub surrounded by bar owners and then he's told that he has slept for the past 20 years and apparently was moved to the park due to lack of funding to keep him in the title castle so it's actually greeted by phil drake who's suspiciously still life anointed by russ that he hasn't changed his appearance not this one maybe another one and um filtered escort for us to the thorough castle meeting the young prince ather and one of his esteria together they are searching for aki yes so the back side of this card shows the particulars are set up so we are in this first space here there are encounters between here that you'll see when we get to the battles and our mission in this first part is to find rasa's guardian arche or archisis and so there's these three tokens here one of them shows archi and what we need to do to set up is shuffle these and place two of them face down on the track and so we're basically going to be venturing out fighting monsters trying to find arky in those two there and the game has a branched story system so if if the archi token is not among those we'll get to the end not find him and go to a different story card compared with what we would if we did find him so with that we'll go into gameplay and we've just revealed the story card so there is one other thing we do before we start combating and that is we can resupply and we can spend our sky stones which are these stones here to buy things and so we each start with two of these and it's actually the score for the game this plays like a competitive battle but we're actually trying to get individual glory within the story like cooperative battle but also competitive yes sorry plays like a cooperative battle but it's actually a semi it's actually semi-cooperative and whoever has the most skystones or most points from skystones at the end of the game will be the winner but right now we can spend them on things that will help us become the winner so we do this in friendship order so you're first you can uh you can buy a healing potion a new skill card or an artifact card which is like a powerful skill card we are friends like karen so what i will do i will spend two and i want to straight get into the upgrade upgraded skill card and i'll choose this one i think i like the look of it song of stars pick and return three skill point cards from your action area to your hand so that means you potentially get more turns and also acts like number five and six which we'll see later yes so you shuffle that into your deck and draw a starting hand which is five yes i am going to i'm gonna buy a healing potion because i know i'm gonna lose sky stones if i ever completely die and so just having this in the background in case i die or in case i'm close to dying sorry will be very good for me and i'm not going to buy anything else all right you'll go yes so now we go into the exploration phase and we choose where we're going to explore and from this place there's only one weekend which is the next location so we are exploring here and what we do is we draw the next monster card and we place these monsters out and this is actually quite a this is quite a difficult one we've got three monsters we've got a level three blood ridge naga has eight health so what we've got here we've got this blood rich naga token which counts as a health counter health counter and then we place the mini on top with a little arrow pointing at itself and that's the most difficult one three difficulties of monsters but zero defense yes then we have the sword swordsman has five health so we'll set him up and then we've got the mud flux that's that looks so cute like this is the little frog oh here it's quite powerful though it's even powerful than the swordsman six is actually more powerful than the swordsman won't quite do as much damage to us but yeah when i say this is what reminds of rpg like final fantasy and so on so it's like that cute little monsters that pop up when you're exploring the world yes so we're going to go into combat against these but one other thing we need to know is the encounter for this combat which is on the space between us and if we read this one here the team must have at least four soul tokens remaining at the end of this battle otherwise we lose a white sky stone and get a skull and the skull effect is it changes through the game but it's printed on the chapter card but if we're successful we get an artifact for free okay that's good so we need to collectively keep our souls intact yeah we don't have any souls yet we have to build them up all right you go karen i go first now so the combat sequence is uh us in speed order which is printed on the card uh followed by the monsters so you are speed 5 and arm speed 4 so you go first all right so let's just look at my cards i'll lay them on the table for you i need to play these cards in combinations in order to resolve my skills i need to play a pair of matching numbers to resolve skill one i need to play a run of three consecutive cards like four five six to do skill two and i need to play three of a kind to do skill three and then if i have souls which i don't yet i can spend some soul to do a soul burn to make the power more powerful make the attack more powerful so i've really got a choice here i can do a run of four five six and i think that's what i'm going to do because blue cards will help me draw more cards so you play those red cards don't so what i'll do we'll see i will play four five six i have played two blue cards so i get to draw another two cards into my hand and as you'll see i've got a pair there now so at least i know i'm going to have a combination for another effect now i resolve the command strike effect and without a soul burn this is very simple it's deal one damage and the only enemy that it makes sense for me to attack is the snake creature because it has no armor the others have one armor so my my one armor would be defended so i'll just do one damage to the blood ridge nugget like so okay now you draw another card at the end of yes that one turn so i got these bonuses but that's the end of the action and so i draw another card now you'll see if you're playing blue cards out you'll hopefully be able to cycle through your entire deck and get a lot of effects and i've i've drawn another four five six so i've got the same choice to make here i can either play another run or i can play a pair a pair is the skill number one pair is skill number one and i'm going what i want is a lot of red cards on the table at the end because that's going to give me souls so instead i'm going to play i'm going to play the run again four five six one blue cards so i draw one and then i do command strike again so another one hit off that same down to six down to six okay end of the action i draw one more and i'm left with one two five six so that does not i can't make any combination out of that so that's the end that's it my actions are over so that's actually that's quite a weak turn because i've only been able to play six cards uh whereas you know you want to be trying to play all ten you've got that card that lets you pick three up and play them again so hopefully i can utilize yeah so do you start with you we do start with random when you start with random you've got the opportunity to cash in or to spend a skystone to get a different combination but i chose not to because i didn't as well yes and i can always try to you've got a nice little three there and as we'll see in a minute i can i can borrow it there's ways i can borrow it all right so my turn is over i played three red cards that means i get three souls then i gather them all up a little more neatly than that and shuffle them and then form your next hand so if i do have the saw that i want to spend then that would be it but not at the moment but later all right this is my turn now so i will play this three four five to do skill number two again to do a charge so this is deal two i don't have so to spend so just deal two now i have the option of dealing the damage to naga or one of these two because hey you know at least one damage can go through but i can see naga has got six and if we can wipe him out before he has a chance to attack us back that's all so and plus if i the fifth naga i'll get one stone so whoever that lands the last blow we'll get a stone so let's land the the kill there oh no the hit there so two so it drops down to four now you draw three cards for the blues and one for the end of the action thank you all right so now i want to play this one so this is the artifact card that i purchase at the start of the game so i get to pick and return free skill points cut from my action to my hand which is really good that is really good i know i was like oh that is uh it's a good one to do all right um i'm just sorting out what i've got so you've got three and we collectively we need four yes um that's okay i will take three four five here and that would give me uh another two two cards yeah which is the end of my deck yep and that's another one another two damage for naga so now the naga is down to two uh and now this is what i will have so at least one yeah and then guess what i have another three four five so that is another two so that actually defeats the naga and in here it says i've got a white stone please yes now i still can do a turn so i can't pick up any more but i can still do the next one because i still have cards in my hand so in that case i will do the only thing i can do is double so this double two and four um actually yeah this double two there will deal one unfortunately it needs to be minimum two to land ahead because the um because of the armor yeah but it still counts as a skill correct and so you've still played it so you still get a soul and that is my team yes so you've actually got a very soul light hand here you've only got three so you're going to be accumulating souls quite slowly yeah so in that case maybe i will then get to upgrade and use this to get skill point we'll see yes all right so you shuffle everything back together okay so now it's time for the monsters to fight back so we've still got the swordsman and the mud fox sitting out there and we'll go through each limit sequence so the swordsman has an attack which deals four damage to one target so this is the target deck it contains every number between one and six twice we've taken two out secretly so we don't know what they are and once a card gets drawn the monster will attack whoever is on the space with that number so we've given ourselves pretty good odds here we're on three and six which means any number one two four or five is going to be a miss so a pretty good chance of not getting hit here and that's the reason why we stay on that spot yes of course at a higher play account they're all going to be filled up and so you're much more likely to get hit all right so swordsman deals four damage to number three oh no that's me oh no all our efforts anyhow i so i have six health i have two armor so four hits will deal two two damage that's okay you get the healing you have the healing yeah all right okay now the mud flux will attack deals three damage to one base on this yes oh that's the speed yes from left to right there so that is the slower one so at least the odds are on my side now because one of the threes is out and these don't get shuffled until they're all gone ah ah sorry i'm sorry tara another two another one t i deal three to one three damage i've got two armor so i suffer once now it's a good thing i got this health potion this creature the mud flag is also on the yellow dragon yellow dragon's base so he'll one to all allies so that means they they haven't reduced their health yet so nothing happened so normally these artifact cards can only be used once each but we're just going to shuffle it back into the deck and use it a few times so you can see the way that the cards combo up but yeah normally after using it you will lose it and only get to use it once all right so now we go on to the next next round of attacking all right so i have so now my now my one attacks are just not going to cut it because both of these guys have that's right so what i really need is to use soulburn effects to try to make it stronger and so too but we can't go to the shop right now yes we also need to make sure we hang on to enough souls to complete the objective but i think we've got a bit of time still yeah in a rpg world so it feels like you get into battle and then when it's done you can go to a city to a shop and then you get upgrades and stuff what i will do i'm going to play my skill one so i'll play a pair of sixes for skill one i get to draw one card and i'm going to play i'm going to spin one soul only one i can spend up to two on this particular one to do the soul burn effect and essentially it's one extra damage per sole spent up to a maximum of two so by doing that i do a two damage i do two damage which is reduced by one because of the armor and so i will attack the swords now i'll attack the frog actually because his healing power's a little bit annoying that's correct actually okay all right i was hoping to get a triple which i didn't get so i will play my pair of fives and do the same thing so this time i'm going to spend both of my souls because i really need to start doing some damage here i get to draw one card for the blue and i do three damage which is reduced to two because of armor so the frog is down to three action is over so i draw another oh i got a five if i played my fours i could have had a triple that's that's unfortunate yeah so all that i mean all that's left for me to do is play this pair of fours i get to draw one and the attack doesn't stick because of the armor you still get three souls i get three souls for playing three red cards and i gather them up i will do one two three so again skill number two to deal two damage to the frog we've been hitting the frog and it is slightly annoying you're right and i'm not gonna boost mine for now so i pick up three cards plus one at the end my turn yes and here what i have so i want to do the my powerful attack which i need triple so taryn um what cut do you have in your hand that can help me um so i currently have three sixes and a five and a one i think i need to buy your five to make it work so i'll pay two because i'm in a uh the friendship level lower than you so it cost me two you would cost it would cost you three it cost me three yes so the way this one works it allows you to share cards between players whoever is higher in friendship order which is usually whoever's lower in victory points at the time doesn't have to pay as much yeah so hence i can use this one so it's triple five and that would so you draw two cards for it being two blues so that includes my five yeah this will get go back to taran at the end of this yes as soon as this action is done so that means i will deal three damage and then deal extra damage per um per red cut if i want to that's usually the case but because i bought terence card with my soul so i can only do one sorbent effect which is boring taran's card rather than using that so i just deal three damage to the frog and now the frog has two remaining and one armor so that's it so you're doing very well there you get a dark blue sky stone thank you very much as a bonus i get my card back yep goes back into my hand now i wanna do another three damage with triple four and i will choose well there's only one so it has one armor so it deals two damages and it's down two three and the rest of it is this one so i can choose to get three which i will get three skill point back and play it now to do another three damage which means that another two damage yeah but this time now that you didn't buy my card you can do a soul burn effect um indeed but i don't have oh i can't do sole brain effect that's correct so i will play that deal four damages in total minus one is three and then it is dead yes so that's a special a special one there where the soul burn effect doesn't actually cost souls it costs red cards from hand correct so you get a pale blue sky stone very pro you've swept out all of the sky stones here yeah well you know i got lucky although you're the first player not necessarily you swiped up everything yes and if they were less less difficult enemies then maybe i would have been able to sweep them up and that is the end of this encounter yes so we checked the the encounter and it was the team must have four soul tokens remaining which we do you also gain souls by the way you played how many red cards it was two i believe it was all of them uh you discarded one but you didn't play it that's right so you get two oh they're not i've got two yes two souls so we have enough souls we uh succeed at this objective and that means we each get an artifact so you draw three as before you draw three artifacts who's doing first um it would be in friendship order thank you and then you also get and then i'll get one so that'll be the two you've already seen that's correct plus one new one that's correct all right i am going to choose this one which is justice for all copy the previous ability of the after effect card you used this thing so you're going to get through 16 yeah that's that's a plan try to convert all together okay and i've got ix's basket that looks pretty good so if i play this at the start it's one extra damage on all of my attacks for the rest of this turn so i want to have it in my hands so i get to shuffle all of this up and then we uh we re shuffle the friendship order so because you have more sky stones than me now i go lower in the friendship count or do i have less solvent so it's now cheaper for me to use your cards now we move into the next space so friendship order chooses go to the shop and buy stuff so i could go to i know that three is less safe but the twos are just as dangerous so i will go you go to number one i'll go to number four yep and we don't actually get to buy new things yet we have to wait until we get to the next that's right the next story card so that was the first encounter what we're going to do now is jump straight ahead to the final boss battle for chapter one just so you can see a couple of the different things that that brings into play uh if you don't want the story to be spoiled then please skip ahead now so we are going to normally we are going to go to the next one here we reveal the another encounter card and we reveal that once we defeat the monsters okay so here we are later in the adventure and we're now up against the boss bildred has turned out to be evil thought he seems suspicious yeah that's why it looks it's so the same like 20 years ago and we have discovered ark so we followed the storyline where we actually found out so we've gone through a couple of sets of refreshing we've gained some more skill cards um stella has a healing potion now i'm down to only one health so you can see i got i went over onto space number one and got targeted twice again so i had a really unlucky run of it but yeah that that is part of the breaks of the game and now vildroot is here so most of the combat will unfold in a very similar way but we'll take you through one round of this to show you the sequence of attacks when there's a boss involved first we have to look at what this encounter is and here it is the team must use soul burn at least three times during this battle that should be easy for you it should be easy because we want to use solvent it's the best way to attack these people now once again we go in speed order so i get the first attack these are the cards i have in my hand and now i have an artifact so the first thing i'm going to do play this artifact which i gathered before an extra one damage applies to all of my attacks this turn so it's a good one to get out early all right the rest of my cards are two sixes four and a five uh do you do you have a six i feel like i want to i do i have a six sorry you do not have a six not six at the moment all right that um so that means i'm going to have to either do two sixes or a four or five what i'll do is the two sixes so that is a skill number one yes with two souls as before so that is x slash with two extra damage three damage to a single target now vildrone has two armor that's pretty that's pretty tough so what i might actually do is get started on this mouse uh the little mouse soldier yeah because has no armor and it can do five damage so this he's a minion and the sooner we can get him out of the way the frog can heal two to all allies that's true i don't have enough strength and this is this is our boss there and it has got speed of seven yes all right uh we start first we do we always start first so i draw a card and then for the blue and i draw another card uh and now i have well similar cards before have you got a five i do not have a five sorry you had a couple of ones didn't you i have three ones triple ones all right what i'll do is play four five six and draw one card for that and i will do my soul burn effect so i'll pay two souls and that lets me take two cards of my choice from your hand sorry i did one one extra damage to this guy because of my uh basket power what card do you want i'm going to oh you have three ones yeah so i'm going to take two of the ones and hopefully draw another one from my own deck and then i'll get to do uh the skill three this is the second action that you do yeah second well third including my artifact so i have to keep these separate because once again i do have to give these back so just keep those separate so you use this soul burn and the first one is for that one the second one is for borrowing my card yes okay then ideal one damage plus one is two so the mouse drops down to two so at the very worst i'll be able to finish off the mouse okay i draw one for the end of my action it is five you've got double five i've got double fives now i shall play your two ones so i'll just put them there because they're going to go back to you blue lets me draw one and well actually no these go back at the end of my turn so i do get to score the soul off that all right um and that will allow me to deal two damage with the extra one so the mouse is gone i have a mouse i get a white sky stone as a bonus there very good okay i draw one more card there's that one i wanted before and i'm getting fairly limited so i'll play the the two fives i will spend the two extra souls because i'm about to get some more souls so that will do three damage plus one is four minus one for the um armor is three so the frog is down to three health very good i draw my last remaining card and i've got one two three four so i can i can't soul burn it but i can do one more effect so i'll play one two three and that is two more damage with this bonus just the command strike it is and i'm going to do the one damage to field uh the reason being that hopefully you're going to focus there and not just steal all the sky stones because we're very close in stones at the moment so how many damage do you have three and oops i've got one two three four five six seven oh and at the last one it was three wasn't it uh it was three he has two armor so that does one damage i gained seven souls so we've complete we've completed that and just for for good measure before we get attacked i'm going to also drink a health potion heal myself back up to six so i'm ready for anything that builder can throw at me very good i also have this portion here just in case um and here's my tan yeah i shall shuffle all these back so i'm going to use my triple one fish to do my summon stick fridge skill three unfortunately i don't have any red to boost my actions so i just deal three and i will deal three two you know what it's tree i really want to kill this little monster so that it doesn't heal anything so let's do that so two down drops down to one with the armor sorry i should probably one for the blue and then one more one more so this is what i have so i'm gonna play this to actually pick this up and i'm gonna play this again do another damage so another three damages to what's the frock up to the frog's got one so you'll overkill it yeah maybe i shouldn't do that yeah i'll just kill the um the one damage there because of two armor so it's down to down to six six so i'm going to use draw another thank you two cards right now i'm going to use this one to the other artifact cards that i picked up copy the previous ability of the artifact you used this term pick up again now i play this again so this time i'm gonna boost with five so that's four damages and that would be down by two down by two so down to four health i'll pick up one card another one so now taran what cut do you have in your hand there have three a3 i do not have a three okay that's unfortunate because otherwise i can do triple three it so if this in this one i can only do two three four and that's my skill number two and that's deal two damage so i could post it which i will i'm gonna spend two and to get two shield tokens so hopefully that will be handy if it's starting attack start attack me yep so those will count as extra armor for the next battle round yeah all right and are you going to finish off the frog or do one damage to mildred i'll do i'll finish up the frog before the frog can heal up the allies so you gain one dark blue sky stone now do you have four skill uh now i don't that's unfortunate because then i can do another damage big damage but anyways i'll do three four five and that's another charge deal two damage damage but it has two armors so yeah unfortunately that's not good and i'm out of guard so that's basically it i got three saw tokens yes i paid the previous one i believe i paid the previous one for the armor yes and that's it okay so ally so normally it would be bosses bosses have a higher speed than than monsters so the boss would attack first but his allies are gone so to resolve the boss's attack we have to roll a die because the boss has two possible attacks skill one or skill two and this a a role between one and four is skill one so here we've got skill one and there are three possible ways skill one could occur deal three damage to two targets deal four damage to two targets or deal four damage and a negative status and these get worse depending on how many skulls you've gained and so remember we mentioned that you would get skulls when you failed these particular objectives and this is one of the ways this comes into play is that the more of these you fail through the game the stronger the boss will be but we did not fail any of those so we get the the weakest of those attacks which is deal three damage to two targets so we draw two targets number two is empty and number four is you but you have got four armor and therefore take no damage from that three incoming damage so these will go away at the start of your next turn there are no other enemies so it comes back to us and we continue fighting in the same way we did before and so with that we're going to bring our one round play through to a close we would keep going until either we defeated the boss or until we were ourselves defeated each boss will have their own special abilities this one actually does revive immediately after being killed so you've got to kill him twice but we'll we won't we won't take you through what the story card says once you've defeated him that of course is part of the uh the joy and discovery of the game yay and there are also other characters so this is other two uh mercedes and luna so as um as well as this is the next chapters which is which comes in the box in this prototype so chapter two three and four in one box five six seven and eight absolutely eight in our prototype okay so there we have it hopefully that gives you a good flavor for how this game plays and that's our one round playthrough for epic seven arise we hope you enjoyed this video and we do want to remind you once again that the components and rules in this video are prototype and so what you see here may not be final if you do enjoy this video please help us by hitting that like button and subscribe to us you can also hit the nipple in the corner to do so and hit the bell icon so you'll be one of the professional when we have new and exciting videos you can also follow me on instagram for my board games journey and if you have any questions comments or feedback please leave them in the 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