Tips to collect cards and beat enemies fast in Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road on mobile
Help Xehanort in this new mobile Kingdom Hearts quest
If you've been playing Kingdom Hearts Union X for a while, you'll already be familiar with how Kingdom Hearts works on mobile, but you may have been surprised to log in today and find a brand new game included in your app.
All of you Kingdom Hearts Union X players now have full access to Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road, a new story following young Xehanort. Yes, the canon is about to get that much more complicated and obtuse.
Dark Road is a unique card-based gacha RPG, and you know what that means - a lot of cards to collect, and a lot of enemies to beat down.
In this guide we're going to give you the important information for powering up Xehanort and pals and collecting all of the cards while you battle your way through the game. Never thought I'd say that sentence, but 2020 is a weird one.
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Coloured cards
The battle system at the heart of Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road is a simple one, all about matching up the correct cards to do the most damage, and if your cards are the same colour, you get a multiplier. It's pretty simple to start with.
Things do inevitably get far more complicated, though it's nothing you won't be able to handle. The main thing you want to understand is what cards to use, and that auto-battle will not always make the right decisions.
If you do not have a set of three cards the same colour, pick two of one colour (usually the plainest, lowest-rank cards) and then the single card which is solo. Do this whenever you don't have a triple in your hand, and you'll eventually chain triples.
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Gacha decks
The game's battle system is very simple and straightforward not matter how much you invest in the gacha system, making it all feel a bit pointless. Nevertheless, it is most certainly here and present.
Better cards pulled out of the gacha pile will definitely help you progress faster in battle and beat down stronger enemies, but you don't have to worry about that all yourself.
Once you've pulled some gacha and powered up Xehanort and your cards, you can simply click the Optimise button on your stats screen to equip the best cards immediately available to you.
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BP to battle
As you fight you'll earn BP, and while BP is a lot like experience or EXP in many other gacha RPGs, you'll need to be hands-on with your delivery of it.
Go into your stats screen and tap the amount of BP you have at the top of the screen - if the BP stat is flashing, you've probably get excess BP you didn't know about.
After that, you can level up Xehanort. If you've been struggling early on in the game, this will likely be why, as the game doesn't tutorialise levelling up. Nightmare!
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Album, missions
When you defeat enemies they will all be collected into an ever-expanding album of characters you've battled with, and before you know it, this album will be offering you dozens of bonuses which will allow you to chain and defeat loads of enemies at a time.
All you have to do is go into the Album menu whenever there's an icon on it, and you'll get bonuses for defeating enemies. From that point onwards whenver you defeat an enemy you'll be given a bonus.
The bonuses start out small, with just an extra HP being thrown onto your life bar, but before you know it you'll be able to get massive damage and magic attack bonuses from defeating enemies. This becomes even easier if you leave the game to auto-battle monsters in the world for a little while once you've levelled yourself up…
