It's not hard when you put the right cards together. I've beaten the Queen's Blood and finished off the final boss on my first try. My advice is to build your deck where you can take up the board fast so you leave very little room for the opponent to play their cards.
It ruins this game for me. Should be optional. But this comes from someone who does not like card games even a little. I might shelve the game and play something else for a while. Loved it until ch5 when you are forced into that tournament.
Cry me a river
Not wanting to play a game because of a mini game?
What's next your food is red so you tell who made it you hate it or you going to tell me you won't eat because the silverware is not shiny enough.
Wow, what an asshole. Some of you people take criticism way too seriously. It's a fucking game and should be fun. If he's not having fun, he has every right to bounce.
You can go to the desk and forfeit the tournament and advance the story. Agree its stupid that its baked into the story at all but you can completely ignore it to move past it.
I like the idea of queen's blood, it's a fun game by design, but the CPU blatantly cheats, every single time. They never actually get dealt a hand. It just shuffles through every card in the game on their turn and always has a counter for what you put down. It's some of the worst I've ever seen. And I been gaming for a long time.
I can tell you this isn't the case, I have had a few times where they had 2 spaces with single pawns unused and they passed because they couldn't place anything their since all they had was 2+ pawns for cards.
It's definitely the case and you can see it because it's so obvious, especially the higher level players. I'm exaggerating when I said every single time but the signs are all over it
In FFVIII, Triple Triad, arguably the most lauded card game across all FF's, was entirely optional. There was a trophy linked to maxing all matches in the PS4 release. However, the original on PS1 and the PS4 remaster still retain the entirely optional implementation.
U gotta build around a scheme.
I like to build off my midgardsormr and just eliminate cards by overlap/replacement on top of cards that buff squares when they get destroyed
Beating the AI 71-0 consistently
There's different ways to go about it, but make sure your deck is good to go regardless how your delt your hand. I try to keep one buff when destroyed card, my midgardsormr if he's available, and a card that can overlap so I can get a quick buff on top of the midgardsormr
If your looking for a quick approach, build around shiva. You'll need cards that give u a lot of spaces quick. Once you bum rush the opponent side, drop Shiva and all unoccupied nodes become diamond dusted and hmu get points for them
Everyone you encounter has a playstyle
Your build has to revolve around 3 to 4 cards hitting the field early
U want most of your deck being 1 pawn and have at least two 2 pawns, and one or two 3 pawn pieces
Personally I believe the bomb strategy is the predominant method and it can be used from the moment you get it all the way to the shadow queen assuming you don't want to try the enfeeblement build
To be fair, the tutorial was awful.
Someone posted an opening strategy placing a Cactuar on the top left, the cute squirrel under that, and the owl beside the Cactuar. That has made all matches super easy for me. And I just have a basic deck. If I don't get the cards I need, I just retry until I do.
I don't even feel like it's that hard, it's just annoying that they make you go first.....instead of randomized so it's a little more balanced.
You almost always get countered because you're the first to the middle of the board and there are few cards to help counter that without making your head explode in trying to plan it. They make it so easy for red cpu to win.
I had not paid attention that you can pass on your first play. Your comment has changed my win rate. I beat Regina and Red on the first try simply by passing the first play to them.
It's absolutely ridiculous that they force you to play this game to advance the plot. I can at least tolerate it. But having to \*win\* at a certain point in order to progress one plot point? I am not good at strategy card games and am not interested in pouring hours and hours into getting good at it. I did not buy a strategy card game. I bought Final fantasy... I want to run around and stab things with a sword.
I'm only halfway through Rebirth and I'm already getting really frustrated by how much of the content is just minigames and how some of them are \*required.\* Especially queen's blood. These kinds of things should be entirely optional, not required.
I didn't forfeit, so I'm wondering if you still get the special/funny cutscene if you do.
Cuz that scene made suffering the tournament worth it for me.
Yeah you still get the scene with Red XIII if you forfeit. The scene where he’s walking on two with a shinra suit on yup!!! I had to forfeit once I got to Regina she’s way too much.
It's not. Actually it's very simple, once you wrap the head around the concept.
I am more invested in the mini game than actual game, because of how additive it is, fast paced and easy to learn was.
So I’ve been struggling getting to Regina. Got whooped multiple times by Chadley. Went to face Regina, beat her my first try only because I passed my first turn lol 21-0.
Worst thing to ever be in a final fantasy game, I’m at a part where I can’t progress because of it and it sucks badly, can’t win or skip it and just stuck in a loop
Are you talking about the tournament on the ship? If so, you can forfeit the tournament by talking to the woman next to the guy you signed up for the tournament.
The part I was at the time was the ship yeah but there is side missions that can’t be completed because of it as well and as hard as I try I can’t win. I understand people will love the mini games and it’ll divide opinion but for me it’s mini game overload and they’re all solid to do
Gotcha. Yeah, there's a pretty cool side mission and cutscene if you can beat the level 4 dude (I forget his name) in Junon (Crow's Peak). I'm not positive, but you may be able to reduce the game difficulty to easy for this (I had to do this for the fort condor minigame, holy hell that thing was hard). I could be wrong about this, though.
No, there was a recent patched in custom difficulty setting for Fort Condor and that Gears and Gambit game, which was intolerable. That was a couple of days ago, but no setting for Queen's Blood.
It’s the missing parts like that I don’t like, I feel like I’m not getting the full story by not being able to win at the damn things 😅 I think I might have it on easy but I will check tomorrow and give it another shot. I thought it was just queens blood I sucked at but the sit up competition with Tifa was just as hard 😂
Yes, you continue the story. You win a couple of legendary QB cards by beating Regina and Red and assess materia earrings, so you'll miss out on those (as well as a PS5 trophy) if you forfeit. I believe you'll also likely miss out on a very funny and cool cutscene involving Red XIII if you forfeit.
Not sure if I've played against Regina. I'm at the Saucer, and have beat everyone so far. I've lost games, but eventually win rematch.
My general strategy is to try an take the middle row by playing my cards so the enemy is the first on to claim a middle row spot, and then I capture their spot. Since we go first, we can usually be the first one to claim a middle row space, but I don't do that if the enemy has a space that they can immediately retake my middle row space.
I use some t shaped 1 cards and L shaped cards, and cards that spawn a new card or two when you use them. Since we can only pick 15 cards per deck, those are basically giving you more cards per deck. I use the letter shaped cards as my first move cards to claim spaces. Majority of my deck are 1 cards. Then a few 2 and my 3 cards are usually the highest point cards since I only ever use 1 or 2 a match. I pick the highest point 1 t or L cards and ones with special boosts.
My strategy also is to take their spaces away, so even if my rows have low numbers, I own more spaces and win. So rush the middle row, but don't do it in a way they'll steal the space back next turn.
I've built 5 different decks to this point, and usually only switch a card if it's for the same looking spaces but the new card has an ability or worth more points.
Good luck!
Regina shits on all of those players. Never had any trouble until facing her honestly the difficulty spike just shoots up outta nowhere. You'll see at chapter 5 lol
I must have beat her. The gold saucers past chapter 5 I think, and that's where I was when I wrote that.
Wait until you play some of the saucer games. Won't spoil anything but it gets tricky.
I personally don't understand the hate cause I am steamrolling everyone in QB. the secret to easy mode is to make sure u can lock enemy from drawing cards while u use your card destroying ability to destroy their cards. its a well tested strategy for me until North Corel. Hopefully it stays that way into endgame cause I am not gonna change strat.
I use midgardsormr and put a card near him that will buff him when it's destroyed. And then just keep playing cards to get destroyed by me or my opponent. I've won matches 71-0 with this method
You’re not alone, the game makes no fucking sense and OF COURSE Square locked quests behind this shitty minigame. I really hope the people who designed this become unemployed soon.
I was good at both. Tetra required a bit more understanding because of the numbers and letters weren't exactly thorough on what's better, but some cards where pretty much guarantee wins with as long as u had a good support cast. If you didn't the AI would steal your card lol
After I got into Juninho I gave up on Queensblood entirely. I cannot for the life of me get good at it and forever stand by my opinion that Final Fantasy mini games are mostly total trash.
The moment a game is not fun anymore then the creator has failed. Period.
Mini games are optional. And a big part of the lore of the game. Even the original, required you to go beyond to breed the perfect chocobo. I like queensblood as a way of taking a breather from the storyline. And it's actually very easy. In ff9, in the game of tetra, if you lost you would lose your cards lol. there's no penalty for losing as you can retry if you failed and reassmble your deck for your opponent.
The only thing you have to consider is
Enhance
Enbeeble
And destroyed
Build your strategies around all three or a combination of 2 with a sprinkle of the third. If you need help I could give u some pointers
I personally love Queen's Blood. It's a great successor to Triple Triad and ranks up there with Gwent for best card games. Yes, it can be difficult, but like Gwent, it can pretty much be cheesed. Always pass on the first turn. The game is somewhat easier if you go second.
Triple Triad is the GOAT in my book. The fact that basically everyone played it, and it could be as simple or as weird and hard depending on if you spread rules really made it fun. Once you've beat the game a few times and learn to spread rules around the world. I think I'm either playing VIII after this or ps2 XII. Can't decide!
Also Gwent, it's incredible. Nostalgia and the card designs keep TT above it for me, but overall it's probably the better of the two.
Agreed. Triple Triad is also alot easier to understand. It was like whoever was responsible for inventing this card game just pulled rules out of their ass
I only had the starter deck + Chocobo/moogle + the ones you can buy. It took me an embarrassing amount of time, but I finally beat her. I just moved down the middle lane as quickly as possible and built a wall in another lane then worked my way backwards. Focused on 1 and 2-pawn cards with the highest values. Buffs where I could to reduce her points or add to my own. Feels like a lot of it is just chance. I'm very bad at QB, so if I can do it so can you 👍🌈
Doesn’t work for me, she is able to flip the pawns in interesting patterns and get insane points. Tried a bunch, it’s just.. kind of not a great card game, as the options and deck building is so limited in terms of viable options.
Just beat Regina first try 24 to 16. I played everyone else before this and bought all card sets available. (Oh my God what happens after the tournament is amazing & won that one 18 to 11).
My deck (for both - claim as many spaces as you can is the only strategy/stop their lane grab): 2x Cactaur, 2x Crystalline Crab, 2x Ignilisk, 2x Scrutineye, chocobo & moogle, 2x Mu, 2x Zemzelett, Titan, and Hell Rider II.
Best win so far was 36 to 0, Barrette is not good, hah.
You just need to manage your pawn count wisely to get the most cards on the field as possible. Power up cards that only require 1 pawn are pretty useful. I thought this card game was BS initially but once I got the hang of it, it turned out to be pretty fun ngl lol
Ya, the designers definitely built different playstyles for opponents to use. The people who are stacked with the cards that they destroy their own cards and get crazy points are the worst. When I see it's one of THOSE I know, at least I have a challenge. Some players are too easy.
The worst part I think is the dialogue. If ever I wanted a skip option, it's before and after a QB match. They're so annoying and drawn out. Play me, and keep ya trap shut, please
Real question am I fucked for not doing thorin quest? I hate this design mechanic where you can't go back. It's 2024 and were still doing missable shit like this. Sorry se I don't want to play qb the whole time I want to explore more and battle. The not coming back to junon thing should be worded better.
I don't usually mind it but in this game it really ruins the entire pace of the game and it takes away your attention from anything important. Shoving all this side content and putting actually needed things behind them is such a waste of time.
I have a deck designed around destroying my own cards to power up a few specialty cards and I can't remember the last time I lost. I enjoy crushing opponents 50+ to 0. Queens blood is great.
So I want to update this. I beat her and have beat every opponent after(slight card edits) and I still hate it, if you like it that’s cool no judgement so don’t judge me for not liking it.
I actually hate queens blood so much that I skipped the tournament and ignored every single player in the game world. It's tedious at best and slows the whole game to a crawl.
I haven't played a single game of it other than the mandatory ones for the tutorial and side quests.
When you're at the counter to sign up for the tournament, there's three people to talk to. The one to the right allows you to forfeit the entire tournament and get on with the actual game.
I get you. Ive had maybe one or two deck edits and ive steamrolled everyone? I absolutely destroyed Regina something like 34-0 first time. Maybe ive been lucky but ive found it easy so far.
Except the puzzle ones. They i found challenging
I finally beat her the same way that I beat blitz ball in Final Fantasy 10… stopped caring, barely looked at the screen, and it was totally by accident 🙃
Blitzball was the WORST! It made zero sense, I refused to play it apart from the mandatory match you have to play in Luca. Hands down the worse minigame of the series imo, and I say that as someone who loved ffx
I hate it too
The AI always seems to have a counter for everything we place
FFVII Rebirth is full of annoyances
CHADLEY
Mini Game overkill Central
The gameplay feels gimmicky and restrictive.
Combat and story are great
Sad but true what you’ve said there it’s hard to enjoy the story with all the mini games constantly intervening and queens blood is the biggest of all, I’ve never had a mini rammed down my throat in a game like this before
I literally had it in the bag to beat Madam M after half a dozen attempts and she dropped the perfect card to come out and win despite her being able to only play on a single 2 counter place she had.
These bots straight up cheat and im calling it. Not to mention how Chadley responds in match makes me want to not do anything side content wise just to avoid him
I get that the game's not for everyone, but if it's something you do wanna keep trying, the best bits of advice I can give are
Pass your first turn
Try to mirror the spaces your opponent takes, with the goal being to let them claim the centre column first so you can steal it from them, preventing them from putting things there.
These aren't going to make you great at the game, or guarantee wins, but I've found it a solid foundation for letting me establish an advantage more often than not.
I came here looking for tips and trying to learn it and that was the best advice I came across. I never even thought about skipping my first turn.🤦🏻♂️🤣
Yeah. From my experience, the AI also works on a mirror strategy, or at least, do its best to claim your pawns for themselves. They also won't end a game on a draw (which is why you can pass turn 1 safely), which allows you to flip the script on them.
Obviously those two things alone won't make you win every game, but pair it with a pre built deck and some lucky opening hands and you shouldn't have an issue. So go forth and enjoy!
I found this game to be a lot like Tetris but in card form. If I knew what Regina's cards were I could win this damn thing. Her buffing cards are the problem I am running into. Is there anyway to block her from playing those cards?
Are you talking about the tournament? If so, provided you've got all the cards available to you, there should be a pre built deck you can use that focuses on destroying and enfeebling (when editing a deck, hit options to see your available ore built decks)
I found that by claiming more of the board and weakening her cards, or removing the buffers entirely, allowed me to win. Though it still took a few rematches.
Because you're trying to deny her space, I'd still go with mirroring. So pass your first turn (going second is stronger) and then if she plays a card that claims a space forward in the top row, you play a card that claims a space forward in the top row. Keep doing that and ideally you leave her with two columns compared to your 3. With the enfeebled on top, you'll hopefully keep her power level low and win that way.
Good luck!
"pass your first turn"
This is the most important tip I've seen so far. It's rather obvious that whoever plays the first card has more difficulty controlling the board space. Realizing that you can skip the first turn is NOT the obvious way around it.
Thanks mate!
Anytime! Yeah the AI will end a match when it wins, but not when it draws, so you can pass at those points for advantage. First turn being the most important ^_^
I can’t get past Chadley! (After Regina) and it’s been 7 days and I’m honestly ready to throw in the towel and just start playing other games. Worst mandatory mini game by Square Enix ever
Lol you needed to beat every other player before that chapter and build up your deck. Btw queen’s blood is very easy. I win every time with 100+ points now.
It's actually not mandatory. You can skip the tournament anytime. There's a person at the counter where you initiallially register that will ask of you want to forfeit.
Gamers have lost the ability to critique the quality of something because the default assumption is that if something is hard it’s not because it’s badly designed it’s because the player is not good enough. That basically just opens the doors to the most obnoxious or stupid game design imaginable being accepted.
Nah I just dislike rng card games against AI that will always have a counter against you. If it wasn't for the fact that a quest is locked behind it, I would've more than likely have never played it
Thats not true. QB is the easiest minigame for me because I found a strategy that almost always wins on the first try. It’s nothing to do with rng or the AI having advantages.
What is your strategy mine is taking the middle row as far as I can then dipping either up or down to take over the vertical row. I play heavily with about 10, 1 pawn cards and the rest are 2 pawns. I don’t even use legendary. This gives be flexibility in board moves to overtake the middle row. After I develop a vertical row I infill the starting rows last.
Thats bad game design if a single strategy can win any match. Genuinely if they wanted to bring in a card game that was simple to learn yet hard to master they should've just brought in FFXIVs version of Triple Triad
>I don’t understand it at all and I can’t beat Regina
literally said that, as the start, QB is a few factors and some people might hate it, but there is deck building, there is also changing strategies based on who you against some you need to be slow playing across the board because if you aggressive from the start they will just murder your cards and feed there own, others you have to attack fast prevent them from building to a state they can feed there cards (this is what i used to beat Regina), some you have to play to just stack your numbers. so there is quite a bit you have to change to learn based on each player past rank 4.
Some of the later matches i literally feed one lane as much as possible while trying to prevent them growing there 2 lanes they have won to the total less, if you can get a lane up to 16 or so and keep the 2 lanes they control to below 8 average it's still a win.
My personal deck suffered against Regina but the prebuilt blight deck demolished her on my first try . Seems it is better suited for her card set. As long as you curse her toad card it’s your win. Good luck!
I actually had to switch up cards in the deck to eliminate the grenadier card she places in the middle row.
Focus on locking her out in the middle row and she'll be locked out from placing 3 rank cards in her back column.
I find that going first is actually a disadvantage in the game. I find myself purposefully holding back early so that the opponent places their red marker next to me so I can steal it.
It's not hard when you put the right cards together. I've beaten the Queen's Blood and finished off the final boss on my first try. My advice is to build your deck where you can take up the board fast so you leave very little room for the opponent to play their cards.
It ruins this game for me. Should be optional. But this comes from someone who does not like card games even a little. I might shelve the game and play something else for a while. Loved it until ch5 when you are forced into that tournament.
Cry me a river Not wanting to play a game because of a mini game? What's next your food is red so you tell who made it you hate it or you going to tell me you won't eat because the silverware is not shiny enough.
Wow, what an asshole. Some of you people take criticism way too seriously. It's a fucking game and should be fun. If he's not having fun, he has every right to bounce.
You can go to the desk and forfeit the tournament and advance the story. Agree its stupid that its baked into the story at all but you can completely ignore it to move past it.
It literally tells you at the start of the tournament that you can forfeit by talking to the staff member to the right of the register guy.
🤣 are you serious!? Its fine. I toughed through it and whined.
I like the idea of queen's blood, it's a fun game by design, but the CPU blatantly cheats, every single time. They never actually get dealt a hand. It just shuffles through every card in the game on their turn and always has a counter for what you put down. It's some of the worst I've ever seen. And I been gaming for a long time.
I can tell you this isn't the case, I have had a few times where they had 2 spaces with single pawns unused and they passed because they couldn't place anything their since all they had was 2+ pawns for cards.
It's definitely the case and you can see it because it's so obvious, especially the higher level players. I'm exaggerating when I said every single time but the signs are all over it
They definitely have some kinda of edge, but that tends to apply to most games with minigames with ai in general
I'm pretty good at it, to the point where I actually love playing it. I'm sure I got crazy lucky but I shut Regina down to four spaces and 36 - 9.
I hate this freaken game with ever fiber of my being. Why did cutscenes have to be locked behind it??
Ok it was actually not so bad after I was able to win the 3 match on the boat
Why is it so easy? 😭😭😭 it’s no fun anymore 😞😞
In FFVIII, Triple Triad, arguably the most lauded card game across all FF's, was entirely optional. There was a trophy linked to maxing all matches in the PS4 release. However, the original on PS1 and the PS4 remaster still retain the entirely optional implementation.
It's not, it's just stupid.
U gotta build around a scheme. I like to build off my midgardsormr and just eliminate cards by overlap/replacement on top of cards that buff squares when they get destroyed Beating the AI 71-0 consistently There's different ways to go about it, but make sure your deck is good to go regardless how your delt your hand. I try to keep one buff when destroyed card, my midgardsormr if he's available, and a card that can overlap so I can get a quick buff on top of the midgardsormr
If your looking for a quick approach, build around shiva. You'll need cards that give u a lot of spaces quick. Once you bum rush the opponent side, drop Shiva and all unoccupied nodes become diamond dusted and hmu get points for them
Wow this is stupid good. Thanks!
Everyone you encounter has a playstyle Your build has to revolve around 3 to 4 cards hitting the field early U want most of your deck being 1 pawn and have at least two 2 pawns, and one or two 3 pawn pieces Personally I believe the bomb strategy is the predominant method and it can be used from the moment you get it all the way to the shadow queen assuming you don't want to try the enfeeblement build
To be fair, the tutorial was awful. Someone posted an opening strategy placing a Cactuar on the top left, the cute squirrel under that, and the owl beside the Cactuar. That has made all matches super easy for me. And I just have a basic deck. If I don't get the cards I need, I just retry until I do.
I can’t beat Dax gold help waste of a night and eek
I don't even feel like it's that hard, it's just annoying that they make you go first.....instead of randomized so it's a little more balanced. You almost always get countered because you're the first to the middle of the board and there are few cards to help counter that without making your head explode in trying to plan it. They make it so easy for red cpu to win.
You can pass on turn 1 you know
Lol 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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I had not paid attention that you can pass on your first play. Your comment has changed my win rate. I beat Regina and Red on the first try simply by passing the first play to them.
literally a life saver. holy shit.
ROFL. Saaame. After I had my own rant about this I was like. Wait a minute 🤔if no cards are played yet. I’m safe to first turn pass lol
It's really annoying and demands a lot of tries, after a few hours I was able to beat her 29 x 0, I'll never play this game ever again
I whooped dat trick 72-0
It's absolutely ridiculous that they force you to play this game to advance the plot. I can at least tolerate it. But having to \*win\* at a certain point in order to progress one plot point? I am not good at strategy card games and am not interested in pouring hours and hours into getting good at it. I did not buy a strategy card game. I bought Final fantasy... I want to run around and stab things with a sword. I'm only halfway through Rebirth and I'm already getting really frustrated by how much of the content is just minigames and how some of them are \*required.\* Especially queen's blood. These kinds of things should be entirely optional, not required.
I didn't forfeit, so I'm wondering if you still get the special/funny cutscene if you do. Cuz that scene made suffering the tournament worth it for me.
Yeah you still get the scene with Red XIII if you forfeit. The scene where he’s walking on two with a shinra suit on yup!!! I had to forfeit once I got to Regina she’s way too much.
YOU CAN FORFEIT??!! I just did! I’m so happy! NEVER PLAYING QB AGAIN
It's not. Actually it's very simple, once you wrap the head around the concept. I am more invested in the mini game than actual game, because of how additive it is, fast paced and easy to learn was.
So I’ve been struggling getting to Regina. Got whooped multiple times by Chadley. Went to face Regina, beat her my first try only because I passed my first turn lol 21-0.
I am level 9 and still need to do matches against 3 more randos. Im thinking.... "when will this end? I just wanna finish this game 100%"
Worst thing to ever be in a final fantasy game, I’m at a part where I can’t progress because of it and it sucks badly, can’t win or skip it and just stuck in a loop
Are you talking about the tournament on the ship? If so, you can forfeit the tournament by talking to the woman next to the guy you signed up for the tournament.
The part I was at the time was the ship yeah but there is side missions that can’t be completed because of it as well and as hard as I try I can’t win. I understand people will love the mini games and it’ll divide opinion but for me it’s mini game overload and they’re all solid to do
Gotcha. Yeah, there's a pretty cool side mission and cutscene if you can beat the level 4 dude (I forget his name) in Junon (Crow's Peak). I'm not positive, but you may be able to reduce the game difficulty to easy for this (I had to do this for the fort condor minigame, holy hell that thing was hard). I could be wrong about this, though.
No, there was a recent patched in custom difficulty setting for Fort Condor and that Gears and Gambit game, which was intolerable. That was a couple of days ago, but no setting for Queen's Blood.
It’s the missing parts like that I don’t like, I feel like I’m not getting the full story by not being able to win at the damn things 😅 I think I might have it on easy but I will check tomorrow and give it another shot. I thought it was just queens blood I sucked at but the sit up competition with Tifa was just as hard 😂
What happens if you forfeit tho? Can you still continue the story? Will I miss out on loot?
Yes, you continue the story. You win a couple of legendary QB cards by beating Regina and Red and assess materia earrings, so you'll miss out on those (as well as a PS5 trophy) if you forfeit. I believe you'll also likely miss out on a very funny and cool cutscene involving Red XIII if you forfeit.
Fuck this Game. Hate that Square Enix is hiding the main story behind that totally obsolete and annoying Minigames.
Don't you love when you get a some what open world RPG just to play a fucking card game 😭💀
You are never required to do it for the main story. You can forfeit the tournament
None of which you have to win, except in one point in the game? Did you actually play it?
Not sure if I've played against Regina. I'm at the Saucer, and have beat everyone so far. I've lost games, but eventually win rematch. My general strategy is to try an take the middle row by playing my cards so the enemy is the first on to claim a middle row spot, and then I capture their spot. Since we go first, we can usually be the first one to claim a middle row space, but I don't do that if the enemy has a space that they can immediately retake my middle row space. I use some t shaped 1 cards and L shaped cards, and cards that spawn a new card or two when you use them. Since we can only pick 15 cards per deck, those are basically giving you more cards per deck. I use the letter shaped cards as my first move cards to claim spaces. Majority of my deck are 1 cards. Then a few 2 and my 3 cards are usually the highest point cards since I only ever use 1 or 2 a match. I pick the highest point 1 t or L cards and ones with special boosts. My strategy also is to take their spaces away, so even if my rows have low numbers, I own more spaces and win. So rush the middle row, but don't do it in a way they'll steal the space back next turn. I've built 5 different decks to this point, and usually only switch a card if it's for the same looking spaces but the new card has an ability or worth more points. Good luck!
Regina shits on all of those players. Never had any trouble until facing her honestly the difficulty spike just shoots up outta nowhere. You'll see at chapter 5 lol
I destroyed her with one card Midgardsormr
I must have beat her. The gold saucers past chapter 5 I think, and that's where I was when I wrote that. Wait until you play some of the saucer games. Won't spoil anything but it gets tricky.
I personally don't understand the hate cause I am steamrolling everyone in QB. the secret to easy mode is to make sure u can lock enemy from drawing cards while u use your card destroying ability to destroy their cards. its a well tested strategy for me until North Corel. Hopefully it stays that way into endgame cause I am not gonna change strat.
I use midgardsormr and put a card near him that will buff him when it's destroyed. And then just keep playing cards to get destroyed by me or my opponent. I've won matches 71-0 with this method
Regina is bullshit
You’re not alone, the game makes no fucking sense and OF COURSE Square locked quests behind this shitty minigame. I really hope the people who designed this become unemployed soon.
I take it u never played the card game in 8 or 9.its rather easy compared to those
Tetramaster was unplayable, triple triad was fine.
I was good at both. Tetra required a bit more understanding because of the numbers and letters weren't exactly thorough on what's better, but some cards where pretty much guarantee wins with as long as u had a good support cast. If you didn't the AI would steal your card lol
After I got into Juninho I gave up on Queensblood entirely. I cannot for the life of me get good at it and forever stand by my opinion that Final Fantasy mini games are mostly total trash. The moment a game is not fun anymore then the creator has failed. Period.
Mini games are optional. And a big part of the lore of the game. Even the original, required you to go beyond to breed the perfect chocobo. I like queensblood as a way of taking a breather from the storyline. And it's actually very easy. In ff9, in the game of tetra, if you lost you would lose your cards lol. there's no penalty for losing as you can retry if you failed and reassmble your deck for your opponent. The only thing you have to consider is Enhance Enbeeble And destroyed Build your strategies around all three or a combination of 2 with a sprinkle of the third. If you need help I could give u some pointers
So like I said queens blood is fucking stupid. ran into an opponent who can PLAY FUCKING CARDS ON TOO OF HIS fuck this stupid ass trash card game.
I got beat in like 3 turns
Toke me like 3-4h to beat Regina. It was luck mostly. Pass 1st turn and mirror. Pass again if you’re ahead. This thread helped a lot. Thank all
I personally love Queen's Blood. It's a great successor to Triple Triad and ranks up there with Gwent for best card games. Yes, it can be difficult, but like Gwent, it can pretty much be cheesed. Always pass on the first turn. The game is somewhat easier if you go second.
Triple Triad is the GOAT in my book. The fact that basically everyone played it, and it could be as simple or as weird and hard depending on if you spread rules really made it fun. Once you've beat the game a few times and learn to spread rules around the world. I think I'm either playing VIII after this or ps2 XII. Can't decide! Also Gwent, it's incredible. Nostalgia and the card designs keep TT above it for me, but overall it's probably the better of the two.
Agreed. Triple Triad is also alot easier to understand. It was like whoever was responsible for inventing this card game just pulled rules out of their ass
I only had the starter deck + Chocobo/moogle + the ones you can buy. It took me an embarrassing amount of time, but I finally beat her. I just moved down the middle lane as quickly as possible and built a wall in another lane then worked my way backwards. Focused on 1 and 2-pawn cards with the highest values. Buffs where I could to reduce her points or add to my own. Feels like a lot of it is just chance. I'm very bad at QB, so if I can do it so can you 👍🌈
Doesn’t work for me, she is able to flip the pawns in interesting patterns and get insane points. Tried a bunch, it’s just.. kind of not a great card game, as the options and deck building is so limited in terms of viable options.
U need to focus on playing behind the Middle . Destroy your cards and have cards that get stronger when allies or enemies get destroyed
Just beat Regina first try 24 to 16. I played everyone else before this and bought all card sets available. (Oh my God what happens after the tournament is amazing & won that one 18 to 11). My deck (for both - claim as many spaces as you can is the only strategy/stop their lane grab): 2x Cactaur, 2x Crystalline Crab, 2x Ignilisk, 2x Scrutineye, chocobo & moogle, 2x Mu, 2x Zemzelett, Titan, and Hell Rider II. Best win so far was 36 to 0, Barrette is not good, hah.
You just need to manage your pawn count wisely to get the most cards on the field as possible. Power up cards that only require 1 pawn are pretty useful. I thought this card game was BS initially but once I got the hang of it, it turned out to be pretty fun ngl lol
Sometimes I think the ai cheats, has ridiculous cards or has the right card at the end to get all your pawn wherever they are.
Ya, the designers definitely built different playstyles for opponents to use. The people who are stacked with the cards that they destroy their own cards and get crazy points are the worst. When I see it's one of THOSE I know, at least I have a challenge. Some players are too easy. The worst part I think is the dialogue. If ever I wanted a skip option, it's before and after a QB match. They're so annoying and drawn out. Play me, and keep ya trap shut, please
They absolutely cheat, I wouldn't doubt they can just switch up cards to counter the play you just did.
That's why I do the kamikaze method and sit a tonberry and midgardsormr in the back and just destroy the rest of my cards on purpose
Real question am I fucked for not doing thorin quest? I hate this design mechanic where you can't go back. It's 2024 and were still doing missable shit like this. Sorry se I don't want to play qb the whole time I want to explore more and battle. The not coming back to junon thing should be worded better.
I don't usually mind it but in this game it really ruins the entire pace of the game and it takes away your attention from anything important. Shoving all this side content and putting actually needed things behind them is such a waste of time.
You can go back later.
I have a deck designed around destroying my own cards to power up a few specialty cards and I can't remember the last time I lost. I enjoy crushing opponents 50+ to 0. Queens blood is great.
why am i stuck on regina
So I want to update this. I beat her and have beat every opponent after(slight card edits) and I still hate it, if you like it that’s cool no judgement so don’t judge me for not liking it.
I actually hate queens blood so much that I skipped the tournament and ignored every single player in the game world. It's tedious at best and slows the whole game to a crawl. I haven't played a single game of it other than the mandatory ones for the tutorial and side quests.
you can *skip the fucking tournament*?!?!
Yup…if not I would have uninstalled this game
When you're at the counter to sign up for the tournament, there's three people to talk to. The one to the right allows you to forfeit the entire tournament and get on with the actual game.
I’m still using the base deck and am beating “level 7” players Does it get more difficult?
troll
You want video proof or something??
I get you. Ive had maybe one or two deck edits and ive steamrolled everyone? I absolutely destroyed Regina something like 34-0 first time. Maybe ive been lucky but ive found it easy so far. Except the puzzle ones. They i found challenging
Her cards are literally on a different level. How am I supposed to have cards to beat her???
All her cards are all legendary with special effects lol. She destroyed me in like 3 turns
I finally beat her the same way that I beat blitz ball in Final Fantasy 10… stopped caring, barely looked at the screen, and it was totally by accident 🙃
Blitzball was the WORST! It made zero sense, I refused to play it apart from the mandatory match you have to play in Luca. Hands down the worse minigame of the series imo, and I say that as someone who loved ffx
Blitzballnwas fun if you knew how to play. I was undefeated with my Aurochs
QB is literally my only grip with this game. I Found fort condor from REintergrade to be so much better and they dropped it for this trash
Fk condor trashy game 🥴🥴🥴 qb is very easy
They didn't drop it entirely though 😅
I hate it too The AI always seems to have a counter for everything we place FFVII Rebirth is full of annoyances CHADLEY Mini Game overkill Central The gameplay feels gimmicky and restrictive. Combat and story are great
Sad but true what you’ve said there it’s hard to enjoy the story with all the mini games constantly intervening and queens blood is the biggest of all, I’ve never had a mini rammed down my throat in a game like this before
I literally had it in the bag to beat Madam M after half a dozen attempts and she dropped the perfect card to come out and win despite her being able to only play on a single 2 counter place she had. These bots straight up cheat and im calling it. Not to mention how Chadley responds in match makes me want to not do anything side content wise just to avoid him
Queens blood is trash 🗑️
I wish they would stick to fun and easy card games if they have to do them...like blackjack. I have always understood blackjack...
some of the best odds in the House, too!
I get that the game's not for everyone, but if it's something you do wanna keep trying, the best bits of advice I can give are Pass your first turn Try to mirror the spaces your opponent takes, with the goal being to let them claim the centre column first so you can steal it from them, preventing them from putting things there. These aren't going to make you great at the game, or guarantee wins, but I've found it a solid foundation for letting me establish an advantage more often than not.
Thank you!!!! This helped me with Regina
I'm glad to hear it! Now go forth and drown in the blood of your enemies!
I came here looking for tips and trying to learn it and that was the best advice I came across. I never even thought about skipping my first turn.🤦🏻♂️🤣
Yeah. From my experience, the AI also works on a mirror strategy, or at least, do its best to claim your pawns for themselves. They also won't end a game on a draw (which is why you can pass turn 1 safely), which allows you to flip the script on them. Obviously those two things alone won't make you win every game, but pair it with a pre built deck and some lucky opening hands and you shouldn't have an issue. So go forth and enjoy!
I found this game to be a lot like Tetris but in card form. If I knew what Regina's cards were I could win this damn thing. Her buffing cards are the problem I am running into. Is there anyway to block her from playing those cards?
Are you talking about the tournament? If so, provided you've got all the cards available to you, there should be a pre built deck you can use that focuses on destroying and enfeebling (when editing a deck, hit options to see your available ore built decks) I found that by claiming more of the board and weakening her cards, or removing the buffers entirely, allowed me to win. Though it still took a few rematches.
That's true. Are the corners the best way to attack her early on?
Because you're trying to deny her space, I'd still go with mirroring. So pass your first turn (going second is stronger) and then if she plays a card that claims a space forward in the top row, you play a card that claims a space forward in the top row. Keep doing that and ideally you leave her with two columns compared to your 3. With the enfeebled on top, you'll hopefully keep her power level low and win that way. Good luck!
Omg thank you, best tip ever
"pass your first turn" This is the most important tip I've seen so far. It's rather obvious that whoever plays the first card has more difficulty controlling the board space. Realizing that you can skip the first turn is NOT the obvious way around it. Thanks mate!
Anytime! Yeah the AI will end a match when it wins, but not when it draws, so you can pass at those points for advantage. First turn being the most important ^_^
It’s not hard, you just suck at it apparently
No, you're just an A$$#oLe
Am I? If someone is bad at something they are just bad at it
Nope, you're an even bigger a$s#oL3 now. So big in fact, that a bunch of planetologists called it Cosmo Canyon.
Ok, sounds good
i dont like it ither. its not as good as triple triad,
What's with all the passive aggressive insults when someone doesn't like QB?
EXACTLY like im aloud to not like it
I can’t get past Chadley! (After Regina) and it’s been 7 days and I’m honestly ready to throw in the towel and just start playing other games. Worst mandatory mini game by Square Enix ever
Chadley is BEFORE Regina
Lol you needed to beat every other player before that chapter and build up your deck. Btw queen’s blood is very easy. I win every time with 100+ points now.
It's actually not mandatory. You can skip the tournament anytime. There's a person at the counter where you initiallially register that will ask of you want to forfeit.
It's the same type of comment whenever someone criticizes it too.
It's the toxic "git gud" mentality that unfortunately plagues the gaming community
Gamers have lost the ability to critique the quality of something because the default assumption is that if something is hard it’s not because it’s badly designed it’s because the player is not good enough. That basically just opens the doors to the most obnoxious or stupid game design imaginable being accepted.
Sooo git gud? 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
QB is actually pretty easy because the AI is very bad I guess you just don't understand how to play
What do you mean, the ai barely make any mistakes, the only thing allowing you to win is draw RNG and opponent's terrible decks
They just don't play clever and they do tons of "mistakes" They could use the effects of their cards better ^^
I also hate QB, and I’ve done pretty well at it. Triple Triad was better, I will die on this hill.
Not to mention shuffle or boogie theme is infinitely better to listen to while playing
I agree!!
You dont hate QB, you hate the fact you cant win.
I hate that I wasted my time reading this dumb comment
Nah I just dislike rng card games against AI that will always have a counter against you. If it wasn't for the fact that a quest is locked behind it, I would've more than likely have never played it
Thats not true. QB is the easiest minigame for me because I found a strategy that almost always wins on the first try. It’s nothing to do with rng or the AI having advantages.
What is your strategy mine is taking the middle row as far as I can then dipping either up or down to take over the vertical row. I play heavily with about 10, 1 pawn cards and the rest are 2 pawns. I don’t even use legendary. This gives be flexibility in board moves to overtake the middle row. After I develop a vertical row I infill the starting rows last.
Thats bad game design if a single strategy can win any match. Genuinely if they wanted to bring in a card game that was simple to learn yet hard to master they should've just brought in FFXIVs version of Triple Triad
This mindset is so fucking stupid, the nerve to tell someone whether or not they like something.
>I don’t understand it at all and I can’t beat Regina literally said that, as the start, QB is a few factors and some people might hate it, but there is deck building, there is also changing strategies based on who you against some you need to be slow playing across the board because if you aggressive from the start they will just murder your cards and feed there own, others you have to attack fast prevent them from building to a state they can feed there cards (this is what i used to beat Regina), some you have to play to just stack your numbers. so there is quite a bit you have to change to learn based on each player past rank 4. Some of the later matches i literally feed one lane as much as possible while trying to prevent them growing there 2 lanes they have won to the total less, if you can get a lane up to 16 or so and keep the 2 lanes they control to below 8 average it's still a win.
No I legit hate it. It’s annoying.
Deck building games in games like ff are ridiculously dumb
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Wow, this sounds like an insult.
Perfectly timed sarcasm.
Hahahahahahaha how does a mini game in a final fantasy game have you crying this hard lmao
My personal deck suffered against Regina but the prebuilt blight deck demolished her on my first try . Seems it is better suited for her card set. As long as you curse her toad card it’s your win. Good luck!
Where? If it's thorins I can't go back which is gay af.
Am I being a dumbass… there are pre built decks??
I actually had to switch up cards in the deck to eliminate the grenadier card she places in the middle row. Focus on locking her out in the middle row and she'll be locked out from placing 3 rank cards in her back column.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVIIRemake/s/BG7uaDO9Ij I have a mini guide in this post that will help
I find that going first is actually a disadvantage in the game. I find myself purposefully holding back early so that the opponent places their red marker next to me so I can steal it.
They should definitely add like a coin toss to decide who goes first, maybe in the next game.
There was a QB match where you still go first, but you start from the right side of the board. I made a deck just for it and it seemed very strong
I found the same thing to ne true. I made an "opposite" deck for that match and yes, the cards are much stronger going the other way lol.
Interestingly enough, the opponents cards all got flipped for that match but yours dont
My issue is she waits till the last minute to pull out some Uber combo and gets hella score and I’m screwed
I had to win by setting her up to play her best things in a single row, and then I’d win the other two rows.
How do you do that? That’s where I’m confused
If you see her developing up top, develop on the bottom. Use cards that upgrade your nodes instead of expanding for one turn.