I understand not liking the combat system in this game. This whole thing feels largely like a much improved Sticker Star but with more cumbersome combat. The one combat improvement they did make over the last game, however, is making combat matter. Collecting the hammers after a battle is ostensibly just xp and having to use the paint system outside of combat makes doing those battles worthwhile.
The whole choosing a card, painting, swiping, and THEN doing an active battle action just really messes with the flow of the game. It makes what could otherwise be an incredible entry into the series just a middling one.
In saying that, I actually do enjoy the combat. But I enjoy it while at the same time seeing it's flaws and seeing how someone would be turned off of it. If there was just a standard attack that you didn't need to play cards for and the cards instead were used for magic attacks and special abilities I think it would go a long way to addressing this game's issues.
I've played all of Destiny except for this new expansion and watching this video you could have told me that all of this stuff has always been in the game and I would believe you
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