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Neverland Card Battles

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Neverland Card Battles
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8.6 User Score:

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Based on 13 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Yuke's Company of America

Developer: Idea Factory

Genre(s): Card Battle, Role-Playing Game

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: October 27, 2008

Summary

The war between humans and demons is tearing Neverland apart, and the ensuing chaos threatens to free the evil god Hellgaia from his tomb. Now, the future rests solely in the hands of the Dominators, those who can wield the otherworldly power found within the land’s Spectral Cards. As Galahad, a young and brash Dominator, set forth on a quest to banish Hellgaia back to his shrine forever and save Neverland from judgment day. [Yuke's]

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

Cheat Code Central

Neverland incorporates enough gameplay variety to recommend it. Those that may not be interested in the card game genre are urged to get on deck.

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77

RPG Fan

Since the in-game graphics are weak, and the music is bland, the only chance this game has to win fans is its gameplay.

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75

Gaming Age

It definitely worked for me, so if you're into virtual card battles or traditional CCG/TCG models, then give this one a try.

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73

GameZone

Visually the game won’t win any awards simply because of the battle graphics. Yet I found Neverland Card Battles to be an engaging game that sucked me in with its intriguing gameplay.

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68

Worth Playing

It's hard to recommend Neverland Card Battles when it mostly feels like work, but it's difficult to not love it a little after seeing it through to the end, despite its prickly exterior.

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60

Destructoid

This is a solid experience that 90% of people won't appreciate, but 10% of people will love. It lacks the charm and staying power of other titles in the genre, but it will definitely keep Japanese strat-fans satiated for a good deal of time.

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58

GameFocus

The game’s difficulty, weak graphics, annoying voice-work and sound does very little to attract either Trading Card or Strategy fans. If you’re looking for a card-based game for your PSP, I would suggest going back and playing the Metal Gear Acid games. Your other option is to go to your local comic or card shop, buying a starter deck of Magic or World of Warcraft Cards and making some new friends; you’ll have a lot more fun than playing this.

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50

IGN

Often ends up as a clunky, constantly-loading, low-detail, straight up boring experience.

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50

RPGamer

Neverland Card Battles is indeed unique and the first game to accurately combine a CCG with a TRPG; however, although it is not bad, the execution has just enough holes in it to keep the game from being fun.

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48

Extreme Gamer

Overall, Neverland is a little too dated at is in the tough market of strategy games on the PSP which hurt its overall appeal.

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40

GameSpot

Neverland Card Battles gets off to a poor start and goes downhill from there.

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38

My Gamer

Neverland Card Battles has more problems than solutions and entertainment value.

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30

GamePro

If this is where the series is going, Neverland Card Battles is going to be a tough sell in the future. I'd really like to find something nice to say about it, but the game is so boring, cliche (there's that word again) and badly designed I'd be lying through my teeth.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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