Coming straight from Cygames, Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle is a story-based adaptation of
the collectible card game app. You play as a youth who meets up with Hiro Ryugasaki, protagonist of
the Shadowverse anime, and joins Tensei Academy’s Shadowverse club. It seems the club is suffering
from a lack of members, and the student council will only let it continue operations if it manages to
find enough members—and if they can manage to win the Shadowverse National Tournament.
Differing from the Shadowverse app courtesy of its story mode, Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle is nevertheless quite a ways away from being a gripping narrative. The presence of characters
from the Shadowverse anime is a pleasant bonus, but utterly meaningless to anyone without any prior
exposure to the franchise. Points are given for giving players the option of playing as either a boy or a
girl upon…
