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Kishin Douji Zenki 3 - Tenchi Meidou Basic VS FAQ
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By Dan Hibiki ([email protected])

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Contents
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1. What's this game?
2. Why did I write this?
3. Board Game
3-1. Blue Eyeballs
3-2. Seeds
3-3. Menus
3-4. Status
4. Battles
4-1. Attack Cards
4-2. Powerup Cards
5. Zbattle
6. Closing

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What's this game?
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This is a 4 player board game by Hudson based on the Anime, in which players
compete against each other to see who can collect the items scattered
throughout the different boards first. I've never played through the story mode
or seen the anime so I don't have much info on those.

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Why Did I write this?
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There are a few reasons why I decided to write a basic FAQ for this title.
Mostly because I'm tired of waiting hours on Zbattle for someone to join and
give the game a shot. When that happens I have to waste time explaining how to
play the game that could be used playing it. I hope this game will get a little
more playing time on ZBattle than it does, and as unlikely as that is, it
definitely deserves it.

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Board Game
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Blue Eyeballs
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The Blue Eyeballs on the maps are monsters that will join you after battle.
They are not very loyal and will join whomever defeats them, but are still
great help in accumulating seeds and items.

Seeds
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Seeds are used for various useful things and are obtained by defeating enemies
on the map, or by letting your monsters do it for you.

Menus
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As should be self explanatory by the dice icon, the first option on the main
menu decides how many moves you have. After throwing it you get 3 sub options,
Move Tiles, Temporary Magic and Walk. The Move Tiles option lets you rearrange
the tiles so you can walk across to board. Temporary Magic option gives you 3
sub options all of which require 1 seed. The first sub option lets you change
the way a tile is facing, the 2nd creates a temporary bridge and the third lets
you place a seal on a tile so that it's inaccessible to anyone for 1 turn. One
menu back, the Walk option does just that, it lets you walk. One back again to
the main menu, the 2nd option allows for the creation of "Natural Disasters":
floods and volcano erruptions. Floods can be used anywhere, have a longer range
effect fountains and require only 2 seeds, but take 1 turn to start. Erruptions
require 3 seeds and can be used only near a Volcano, they however instantly
errupt. The third option lets you feed your monsters seeds to level them up and
give them specific AI instructions. To be offensive (sword), to collect items
(bag) and so on. On the Main Menu the 4th option gives you information on the
field. It tells you what each of the characters are carrying, what is on each
field, and the names of each. The last option seems completely irrelevant to
the VS mode.

Status
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On the bottom of the screen is the status bar. The first Box has your character
portrait. To the right of the portrait is the box that indicates which player's
turn it is. Under it is a small box that shows which tile you're on. To the
right of the player box is the name of the character. Right underneath is a box
that shows how many seeds you have. To the right are boxes (up to 4) that show
what items you have. To the right again are boxes that show your allied
monsters. Finally the dice to the right shows how many turns you have left.


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Battles
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The Yellow bars on top are the health bars. Those indicate how much damage you
can take before losing. Right underneath are the KI bars. How much KI you have
affects how powerful your pink card attack is and how many single attack cards
you can use. Under the KI bars and the character portraits are the Card
Roulettes. All cards under the "yellow orb" are attack cards and are
represented each by the color of their element, cards under the "green orb" are
various, but for the sake of simplicity I just call them "Powerup Cards".


Attack Cards
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Each character has his or her own set of cards with strengths and weaknesses.
The cards that appear most are their weakest and the cards that appear least
their strongest. Your main attack is going to be a 3 or 4 set of cards of the
same element. Having only 1 or 2 cards of the same element will result in
single attacks that drain KI. Those are useful for destroying shields before
attacking. For example, if you see your opponent put up a shield and you want
to attack, you'd first want to break the shield with a various single attack
card and then attack with a 3 card matching combo of a different element.


Powerup Cards
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Yellow Card = The Damage reducing shield in this game.
1 or 2 matching cards result in level 1 shields, one canceling the other out,
3 matching cards result in level 2 and 4 matching cards equal a level 3 shield.
Anything that creates a shield will cancel this.

Red Card = KI absorption shield. Works the same way as the Yellow Card, but
with KI (obviously).

Green Card = This card allows you to attack multiple times during the turn and
creates a level 1 shield after use.

Purple Card = It cancels any card that it's over/under.

Pink Card = The instant kill card. If you have full KI using this will
instantly defeat your enemy no matter how much HP they have.

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Zbattle
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To those wondering what Zbattle is, it's a net play program designed to help
users of ZsnesW find opponents. You can get it from www.zbattle.net. When you
install, configure it and connect to the server you will see games being hosted
and can join them by simply double clicking on a game rooms name. If your game
and the hosts game match he or she then could start the game by pressing the
start button, if not you have the option to download. I won't go anymore in
depth than this and suggest you read up on the excellent FAQs on the site
instead.

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Closing and Thanks
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I've tried to make it as clear as possible, but my english isn't the best and
I've mostly listed information I felt was the most important. If anything is
unclear don't hesitate to ask questions.

- Hudson for creating this game.

- Zsnes team, without whom I'd have probably never gotten the chance to play
this and many other great games.

- Ian Perez for writing Zbattle, a program I've wasted way too much time on xD
and Veeb0rg for hosting it.

- =DoS=FoX for helping my lazy ass out by formatting this to fit under GameFAQs
standards.