Dueling and a Dating Sim?: Yugioh Tag Force Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Anime games usually get a bad reputation over the past several years, and sadly it's warranted.
But Yugioh has had some really good ones in the past; the Tag Force games were really something special. Having fun gameplay, nice music, and giving development and stories to characters who didn't get that much love in the anime! Personally I would love if anime games went back to stuff like this!
Come see what I mean by that in this review!
Thanks to Vincent Graphic Art on Twitter for the thumbnail: / vincentgraphart
What I like about Tag Force is that it's actually fun and a nice welcome back for those who still enjoy playing classic Yu-Gi-Oh even to this day.
Exactly! I can appreciate the newer stuff, but I feel like too much of Yugioh nowadays forces you to learn the new mechanics.
@@animeegotists7527Honestly, I find most of the video games are this kind of welcoming.
...Mostly because Konami stopped making most of the video games around the time of the 3DS.
Even the WC and later Tag Force titles start you off easy without having you learn the Syncro Summon or "Speed Duels" until you've gotten your feet wet.
...I miss the single-player TCG Video Games.
You can't beat the classics
Tag force helps me introduce to new mechanic since i dont follow Yu-Gi-Oh past OG anime
Both tag force 3 and GX Season 4 have a special place in my heart, because in my last year in High School i got into those two a lot, and seeing all the characters getting their final developments and graduating, i could relate to it a lot, it's simply incredible and I'll always cherish it.
That's awesome! I love hearing about how people connect with anime and video games. Makes it that much more special!
I miss old Yu-Gi-Oh games actually having a story and feeling like some effort was put into the campaign. Nowadays, we either get a watered down recap of the anime or tutorial missions masquerading as a campaign.
That's what drew me into the old games, I loved the stories of them!
As someone who knows a lot of the LORE of Tag Force. A lot was lost in translation or localization screwed up.
Mathew and Craig are brothers. However this was lost due to last names being removed for all non-main GX characters This effects a special event in Tag Force 2 involving them.
Corey doesn't speak much in the Japanese version. Localized version he was made to speak more robotically for some reason.
Jamie and Syun are top tag team dueling team (in the LORE) and they're always paired up and found together (in Tag Force 1 and an event in Tag Force 2 involving Syrus).
Tag Force 2 introduced 5 main stay girl characters for the series (Their 5Ds incarnate are not the same character) Bright, Wisteria, Kami, Cherry, and Yuma Miyata (Her last name was cut in the English version)
In the Japanese version, all Tag Force characters have special dialog when you do specific actions and give you they're own speech when "Red Hat-kun" graduates. This was removed in the English version.
Red Hat-Chan (girl version of Red Hat) was scrapped early in development in Tag Force 3. Only evidence of it existing is in Bastions ending image a mock up image with him and Red Hat-Chan is shown. Which shows it exist and was planned.
Tag Force gave a better send off to Dark Zane as Zane was screwed over hard in the anime when he came back. Original Zane, show cases Atticus was always goofy and messes around with Zane. Show cases how Zane and Atticus are friends despite being polar opposites.
Blair having 4 separate routes was interesting. (child and disguised is more of a parody route or what if she was a main stay for a while longer in disguised route) Blue uniform Blair made her best girl and actually improves her character. Also she even let's go of her crush. People tend to exaggerate her Slifer Red route. I just find that one funny cause it's obvious in that final S4 Jaden would never talk or act like that.
Tag Force actually did a proper send off to the characters (the ones considered good by the Tag Force community) and did a better job then the anime.
Do you know if there is any fan translations of the japanese version of the game that didn't fucked it up?
Not gonna lie, would have loved to see those graduation quotes. That would’ve made things so much more special.
clickclaxor did a translation for 3 which had the graduation quotes
@@stickers1235 I did a double check. A lot of them are incorrect or blatantly wrong. Very few are actually accurate.
Majority of Obelisk Blue boys were left in Japanese. Only Rie, Wisteria (because of course extreme bias), Kami and Anca (which is inaccurate) were translated from Obelisk blue girls (he still calls Yuma Miyata The Other Yuma which is beyond dumb)
Never trust Clickclaxer01 translations. They are garbage. I had to manually retranslate from scratch cause it amazes me he has never learn from his past works being terrible and still double downs
I even redid Lara (tag force 6) quotes from scratch cause I was legit pissed what Clickclaxer01 did.
@@soukenmarufwt5224 lol damn okay. Really wish Konami would just do a remaster collection. Those games were great, along with the 5ds ds ones
*Fun Fact:* There is an 7th(6th?) game called Tag Force Special, who was only released in Japan(but now have fan translation) with all the cards up to the Pendulum ones! (And with an actual difficulty curve and story, so no more of that Duel Masters difficulty!)
I might have to look it up!
I have the first 5 tag force games, since only ones officially translated, but I've been doing a grind to get every heart and every card at 3x. It's been fun.
It can be work, but it's worth it for me!
I remember playing the tag force games on my psp my first one was 5ds tag force 4 after that I got 5 and I managed to also find the gx 3 too eventually. I remember playing each game for hours and I still have them today and occasionally I open them up for nostalgia.
They’re the main games I have on my PSP!
The Tagforce series are "for me at least" one of the best games in the franchise and that isn't enough to describe it. The first Tagforce cemented the legacy for what was next to come in the series, given the fact that not only you got to interact with pretty much everyone in the game "albeit from Season 1 of GX almost Season 2" but to to tag with your favorite characters of the show was something rather neat.
To this day i still have my old save file of Tagforce 1 from way back in highschool, while it's a shame that neither Tagforce 3,6 or TFS never came to the west "Well technically 3 released only for Europe for some reason" it really surprised me how both 3,6 and TFS implemented some mechanics that were just about to become implemented on future installments like Synchros on 3 although limited until it's debut on Tagforce 4, Excees "or whatever" in 6 and Pendulum in TFS.
Yeah, the future implements like summoning mechanics was super cool to me. Almost like they would be testing the reception at first.
@@animeegotists7527 Yeah that for me was very cool to find out since i played TF3 years later and finding that they implemented the early stages of Synchro Summoning was quite surprising, even if it was a small preview of what was coming next.
Not a bad video. Me personally I never had to use sandwiches that much & when I did, I always timed it right so I got the golden egg each time :3
It will be good to see you do more documentary/essay vids on other video games too. Was fun listening to you, especially the intro with Budokai Tenkaichi & Ninja Storm. Hope you can go more into detail with those later ^^
Really appreciate the support and the kind words! Would love to do more gaming essays!
0:25 - It is a miracle I managed to beat that monstrosity without any of the cheese strats everyone else who beat it found. Well, aside from Phoenix Ra in the post-game.
Maybe one day I'll try again, but idk.
I still have nightmares about it.
@@animeegotists7527 Gameboylad put out a video where he recapped the game’s plot and narrated a playthrough where he used basically every cheese strat in the book to make the game easier. Somehow he struggled harder against the final Reshef fight with the best budget deck he could muster than I did playing with the element chart normally… plus some Traps and, I think, Slifer.
Tag force 3 was the goat. I was young and so bad at it, finally managed to beat Jadens campaign and unlocked yubel and supreme king jaden as partners, but then my cousin wiped my save and I was devastated
My dad let some kid wipe my save data for Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans.
I still haven't forgiven him!
Probably one of the best yugioh games I played rush duels kind of had that open world concept but nothing tops tag duel
I would love a game with rush duels similar to this
i played all tag force games.. probably some of the best games i ever played in my life, definitely the best yugioh games especially because of tag dueling which was always my favorite way to play yugioh, it's just so much fun doing tag duels
same goes for the ds games where you could literally ride a bike just like the 5d's series, good times
The DS 5Ds games were so much fun!
There's a reason I keep coming back to the Tag Force series, especially TF3 and TF6. Just the ability to interact with your favs and participate in-game events made me stick my ass down to this game even when the early decks are hot trash. If Konami knows what's best for the gaming industry, they will eventually release a new installment for this archaic series, with the same RPG elements and of course, no microtransactions
Micro transactions would break my heart
Growing up i actually loved the tag force game! Since a child i was obsessed with yugioh, but never really had the money to back it up, so when i managed to get both a PS2, learn enough english (in brazil at the time there were really few cards in portuguese) and get the tag force game, oh boy i played it SOOOOOOOO much. I loved the visual novel elements of it, the different decks possibility and the overall freedom you had in your gameplay. I really do hope that someday we get a modern day equivalent to it, maybe the VR game is it? who knows
I love that for you!
Same here, I'd love it to come back!
My Favorite Game is Yugioh Sacreds Cards for the GBA
I grew up with them
The PSP is still today my Favorite Hand held Console of all time, and Yugioh GX Tag Force Evolution 3 is my Favorite because i love each Storyarcs from each Characters and they takes not so long as Tag Force 1 oder 2 as an Example.
I played Tag Force 1 and 2 too, but was never able to finish it.
I also grew up with Yugioh Dark Duel Stories, tht was nice too.
Sacred Cards was a good one! I had so much fun with it as a kid!
Glad you were able to enjoy these games as much as I was!
Who did the thumbnail. I like it
Also do a Tag Force 4-6 Review
twitter.com/Vincentgraphart
@@animeegotists7527 thank you
This was so fun to watch! Especially since atm, I'm doing a challenge run of the First Tag Force game (PS2 version) with only the Starter Deck (aka, "Personal Deck") and oh boy, so far, it's been painful lol (still hella fun tho!). And I do plan on making it a somewhat long, but hopefully at least a little bit entertaining video eventually as well. I'm going to have to edit and chop parts of it like tho, and hopefully include as much of its criminally underrated soundtrack as I possibly can! (Favorite YGO VG Soundtrack along with Forbidden Memories and Duelist of the Roses). (Btw, I actually did play through most of Tag Force 1 with a Dizzy deck, and I found them a lot of fun personally. Although I never used Hot Sauce bottle as it's honestly too weak even with its intended Dizzy cards). Haven't got to play Tag Force 3 or an of them onwards yet, but in the case of 3 that's because well (*Insert any meme about money*) and I suck at figuring out emulation. (Also sorry for my terrible grammer/engrish)
Only the Starter Deck? Nice!
Definitely recommend TF3 and glad that someone else appreciates the awesome soundtracks! Good luck with your playthroughs!
I missed out on Tag Force sadly, but I've looked up videos and I really like the different character stories that developed.
I always seemed to enjoy the non card game Yu-Gi-Oh games more. One of my still top games of all times is Yu-Gi-Oh The Falsebound Kingdom.
Falsebound Kingdom is one that I NEED to give a shot. I was unable to get it for the longest time!
Literally my only complain about early tag force is that you basically have incredibly bad deck and you opponent at least has decent staples. I know you are more smart as a player than AI but it really sucks to just grinding easy player to getting more useful cards.
Tag force in 5D era was so good that you actually have a decent deck and decent pack selection from the get go. I don't want to be OP against AI, i just don't want to play vanilla plus equip spell when my opponent has mirror force.
The grinding for better cards could be tedious, but I appreciate the attempt at a difficulty curve.
As someone who literally grew up with all the Tagforce games I highly suggest you play the 5Ds game(4-6)
They Have a much easier way of actually getting their own hearts and events are typically different from each other unless you are following a connected story(5Ds series arcs).
And they have better ways of showing the character as an actual member of the partner's life, most of the girls for example thinks of you as either a romantic partner, a sibling-esque figure and the males eithe rhave you as tehir best friend, an important person or minion in the times you paly with the villains.
They also have alot better 2nd Class duelists as partners like the Villains, Side-characters and othe rnamed characters since they tend to all have original stories that are unrelated to the main cast, and this extends to Alternate versions of the main casts.
Also you get to play more similarly to TF1 where you are free to pick your partner at any time with the ability to partner up to them after you reach a heart or 2 and then they would ahve a random chance of appearing at the start of the day asking if you wnat to partner up for the day
I'll get to them soon; I love the idea of random extra characters getting their own stories!
I have played a lot, A LOT of tag force 4-5. I've built pretty much any deck you could and tried all of the game original cards. Unfortunetly most of them are really bad but there were some really good ones especially frog hael.
This is a different version of the card way before it was released and it goes infinite thanks to swap frog. Frog hael is not once per turn and it could summon all frogs if you special summon it using 2 tributes, combine this with mass driver for a better frog FTK or use fishborg blaster to summon infinite synchros ( you can summon 2 swaps from hael to get a frog for discard.) You can even loop Trishula thanks to Dewloren. Never had so much fun with a card before.
Still can't believe that card has actually passed the play tests during development...
Someone really should’ve double checked it in the game
I miss the tag force games too
So much fun!
I feel pretty special that I was able to beat Reshef of Destruction, at this point. - Mammoth Graveyard was the key, btw
Congrats! I still have nightmares about that game...
@animeegotists7527
Mammoth Graceyard, Vampire Lord, Mirage Knight, Revival Jam, Ra Phoenix, and liberal use of Beckon to Darkness. Like, you can beat the game at level 327 or something if you get those things. There's also Doron, use of your Trap cards, and other shenanigans
I played this game when i was a kid but i only watched the anime and have some knowledge to yugioh. It was confusion to me how to play now as an adult i feel it would be easier to me now. i hope they bring back tag force with the other series like Arc V which got me back into yugioh. i would like if they would make it where we can interact with every series by dimension hoping
I love them to bring this game back!
its like the best of pokemon founds yu gi oh in this game, we need more stroy games like that with yu gi oh player should be able to play story mode like that and if the want the can duel online in tournements....or even cooler cross dimensions like visit the 5Ds era or the Zexal...fight alternative villians ect
This formula definitely should've continued; especially with how divisive the newer series' can be.
Winsteria is the best girl in Tag Force.
She was pretty awesome!
In tag force 3 I think Bastion have the Water and Flame Dragon as a game original card
I remember he has the water dragon, but I don’t remember ever seeing the fire dragon. Then again I could be wrong.
The 5Ds Tag Force games were amazing. And like Blair some of the characters get really close to the player ^^
I was sad Tag Force 6 never came out in English because apparently some of the endings for a couple of the characters heavily implied romance directed from the 5Ds character partner and the player character. I was pleasantly shocked at it ^^
Maybe someday these games will get remastered. And I do think romancing certain characters would definitely be a selling point for these games.😂
I love that the pegi rating for reshef of destruction is 3+. I don't remember what it was for esrb but I'm pretty sure it wasn't EC. 0:27
I want a remake or remastered of this game on PC
I have played all the tag forces and my favourite decks were in order maiden in love, d heroes and Naturia(i think i played the 5ds games a long time ago)
Maiden in Love was definitely fun in the show, so I can see using it!
I wish they'd make more of these with more modern support for the character decks. Aster's deck was too bricky and the AI was obsessed with making him summon Dogma even when he didn't need to and could have won faster without it. Or I'll never forget the time I died because he decided to put Defender in attack mode. Imagine instead if he had stuff like DPE and Denier and Fusion Destiny and his Vision Heroes in Tagforce. And don't even start me on Jaden's decks. I hope we at least get a remaster collection on Switch. BTW, Aster video when? (Please don't do Syrus before him. 😭)
The AI definitely was out to get you at times.
Aster is definitely getting a video!
@animeegotists7527 Thanks, that's good to hear! Just keep in mind while you're making it that the dub changes his dialogue in very unfavorable directions, and it's a reason why he has haters. And I hope you go into just how much the anime shafted him in the later seasons.
Regretfully I wasn’t allowed to get psp cause I already had big PS2 collection so I only played the one GX tag force that focused on first season, I heard the last one was all stars with all stories so hopefully they release it on switch and others cause the story telling is the best I’m currently playing DL and only events and original plot and some packages keep it fun and strong.
Yeah Duel Links actually does give some pretty good stories to the characters. Glad to know they kept that aspect.
As someone from Europe (germany specifically) I never got to choose a gender in TagForce, we were male at default (I don´t even remember this setting in the slightest)
I’ve heard some versions actually did have a female playable character. Even if they were super rare from what I’ve heard.
This just makes me want to get back into Tag Force more XD
What about Tag Force Special?
Maybe someday
there's also the 5d's tag forces, that's a whole different world hahahah
Played very little of them, but they'll get their own video some day!
I pretty much had the hold collection till all my games and systems got stolen from me 15 years ago. I even had two psp to play with another Yu-Gi-Oh friend
Aw man I'm sorry, losing all of that must be awful!
@@animeegotists7527 after being released from jail in California going back to my apartment in 29 palms to grab my possessions to go home to Florida just to find my PS3 collection through that generation was clean out. A 1Tb hard drive backwards compatible PS3 with hundreds of Gbs of games digital and physical stolen
My favorite yugioh game was Falsebound kingdom I miss when they used to do totally different game gernes. My favorite card sim is world 2011 reverse of arcadia and 2012 over the nexus. They really need to make turbo duels a format
Oh my god, Arcadia and Nexus are sooo good! I loved those games and stories!
I never played a tag force game before but it looks like it was ahead of its time.
I still play them, bro. They're so much fun!
Keep up the great work on your end!
How can I play it?
@@pozosestevezjosejavier3999 u can use pppsppp and search for the iso online
It was.
@@pozosestevezjosejavier3999nowadays your either gonna have to dish out a bunch of money for a psp and the games themselves or embrace your inner jack sparrow sadly. None of the games are available on modern hardware as far as I know.
Just realized the protagonist in this is literally the Vagabond in Duel links
Yeah, wish more of his personality was in Duel Links
But why would Konami be ever that cool of a developer if they can just make tons of money by printing cards and selling mediocre, not that well coded games. That's why I loved GX because they actually were actually in the same universe, the same world, with a lot of crossovers to the OGs, with basically the same lore but just expanded and build on, although at times the story gets a bit crazy, but nothing beats a teenager literally killing people in gambles lol
I loved the Yugioh games that let you make your character. I wish Konami would make more of those types of Yugioh games or at the very least port the older Yugioh games to current consoles.
you haven't heard about the gbc gba collection ,but it migh be only in japan
At the very least, a port would be awesome, if not a sequel.
The world championship games on DS were the shit
The self insert era of Yugioh video games were so much fun. I miss those days.
@@APHEXSHAMANi still have those games they were cool
I’m genuinely disappointed they haven’t made a Tag Force Ultimate with the entire Cardpool up to now with every character, filler, manga, movies, you name it.
Still waiting on it!
if they know what they're doing they should make Legacy of the Duelist like that considering it's in big consoles
There used to be a Yugioh Duel Generation where you can battle all the characters in every era but they discontinued it because Duel Links popularity is tanking
Bastion finding fulfillment is an amazing character arc
I agree, I was so happy for him. It’s a shame the anime couldn’t do the same for him.
I never got the chance to play the tag force games but I have heard about them for years and have been fascinated by them
Specially the ones set during the 5Ds era where you can even team up with the antagonists and go "hahaha we killed the heroes, you are my best friend player"
Say what you want about the villains, they can be very grateful😂
Tag force 5 is such an important game for me because of how much it made me appreciate characters even more but it helps that 5ds is my favorite yugioh oh also tag force 6 is also really damn good and worth hunting down the English patch
I’ll definitely have to give TF6 a chance!
It's honestly surprising to see how much they gave red hat/konami-kun (that's apparently what thr japanese fans call him) characters and traits like you mentioned. But not only that, he actually got his own lore with each variation is different.
In GX he's pretty simple, just a kid that goes to duel academy
In 5D's he's an android that takes care one of the villain (the white hair guy, forgot his name) that came from the future but got seperated with him (iirc). He's a somewhat parent figure to him, which led to a lot of fanart depicting them as parent and child (i'm not too familiar with 5D's so i might get some info wrong)
In ZEXAL while not technically a tag force game, he still made his debut in the festival game. I'm not too familiar with Zexal lore so i might got some info wrong, but in this game he's an alien similiar to barian... Actually, there's some hint even that he's actually a barian in TAG FORCE special. Basically there's nore to him than meets the eye, even dark Astral was shitting his pants knowing who he actually is (but he never said it outloud). Another strange case with this one, during one of the duel it's hinted that 5D's might actually be connected to ZEXAL since one of the character recognize Konami in the past and calling him a legendary duelist iirc.
It's interesting that they give him a different take each game. I want to say something about the tag force special... But that games translation was such a dogshit one that most of it probably inaccurate.
But if there is one thing that is seems like always the same with him it's that he's a dueling maniac. He LOVES to duel, he's basically the goku of yugioh. One time he got so heated (excited) in a duel he knock his opponent unconcious in 5D's tag force, which is surprising because this variation seems to be more on the quieter side of personality. In ZEXAL he came into earth via meteor that might be his spaceship. What did he do when he arrive? He beats EVERY of ZEXAL both main AND side charactets and yes including ZEXAL Yuma. And iirc it also implied he did it in a single day too. when he beats everyone which allow him to wish for anything, what did he wish?
He wish for the duel festival to continue so that he can duel more. He's really passionate about dueling ong
And this continue to even duel links too.
That’s what I love about him. He seems like such an interesting character, for being a silent protagonist! He honestly feels like he could slid into his own anime, and it would’ve worked!
He feels so unique and likable…when he’s not teaming up with a villain.
Hold on. Some of that Zexal stuff is downright wrong or just false.
5ds one is correct is he an android that was sent back in time. He took care of Primo/Aporia/etc. When they were a kid in the bad 5ds timeline. Because of the timeline shenangians we can have the whole 1-6 installments of tag force on the same timeline. Since in Red Hat's Apartment in 5ds he has his GX hat.
Also he can see spirits like Luna and Jaden.
Besides being passionate about dueling Red Hat likes to sleep the most. More so than Jaden and this trait stays with him all the way up to Tag Force Special.
Fucking same that in duel links there's no reference to him besides just showing up to duel. No quotes against GX or 5ds characters nothing
So what you are saying is, the player, Blair, and Bastion together make a good poly couple thst support eachother emotionally. And physically against crazy supervillains. Wholesome.
As long as everyone's of age, that's fine with me.
1:33 this was my first yugioh game (that actually had yugioh mechanics) and that tutorial was a godsend to me, please let that slide for yugioh games. I really needed that tutorial.
My bad, sorry about that😂
@@animeegotists7527 No problem lov u bro
Same. Was confused asf when I found out there were phases.
While I prefer yugioh tag force for gx. When it comes to 5ds my fav is Master of the cards on Wii. It has a very interesting story and atmosphere to it. Still got it to this day.
I also love that game! Need to get on replaying it!
I love how the protagonist keeps those traits you mentioned in the video by the time of the 5d's era.
For example, in some of the stories with team 5d's they'll comment how you eat a lot of food, or how you always sleep a lot, especially during trudge and mina's stories, where you're pretty much a freelancer policeman.
And one aspect pretty much everyone tells you, you never lock the door. Which a lot of villains take advantage of during their stories, like roman or some of the dark signers.
And people like jakob and rex tell you they'll find ways to get to your room, even if they have to bust down the door.
Cool thumbnail. You should play the 5Ds one as well, I personally think they further expand on the partner sustem and stories. You should also mention that you can edit your partner's deck too btw.
5Ds definitely gets its own video! And I love our thumbnail too!
@@animeegotists7527 Given how much you seemed to enjoy the first 3 Tag Force games, I definitely think you will enjoy the 5D’s trilogy just as much, if not more.
One notable improvement for the 5D’s games is that its much less tedious to raise the partner hearts, in fact you can do it without dueling at all.
The World Championship series of games for the NDS are also heavily story focused, specifically WC 2009 - WC 2011.
So I would highly recommend looking into them if you haven’t already.
Tag Force 3 was my most played PSP game. I loved it so much. The character stories and end slides were always worth pursuing. Plus the summon and attack animations for the iconic monsters was awesome.
The attack animations were so much fun..as long as I was the one doing the attacking!
Tag Force was the game that showed me MST doesn't negate, doing it 3 times, then realized it was not a bug
I never played Tag Force, instead I played Spirit Callers in DS. Pretty similar with Tag Force, where we became an academy student too.
I was a fan of Red-Eyes, so I built a deck around dragons. I'm really surprised when facing Nightshroud, turns out Red-Eyes has an evolution form.
Not gonna lie, Duel Academy is the game that brought me into loving Yugioh.
Spirit Callers and Duel Academy were so much fun!
Academy for the feels of being in the cast, and Spirit Caller made me love the idea of having a duel spirit!
Excellent video, which does justice to the best Yu-gi-oh game series. What's really nice about these games is how much they try to correct the shortcomings of the animated series. That's why, like you, I like Misawa's story (it's cool that he's becoming this "secret hero") and Blair's (who's becoming something more than a Jaden groupie). Of the bunch, I like Tag Force 2 a little less, probably because the stories are too long. But at least these were games that gave you your money's worth, you had a bunch of hours to do to get everything, unlock all the cards or be able, for example, to team up with Sadie. And I like the way they've done the island, with the cute characters. Konami is about to re-release some of the Gameboy Advance games on Switch in Japan, so it would be cool if the first three Tag Force games were re-released in HD too.
I would love a re-release!
That being said, I’ll take teaming with Sadie over facing her. Those duels still give me nightmares!
I’d love to see a persona x yugioh style game something in the style of persona 4 reloaded or something that would be fun.
Since the anime really popularized yugioh globally, it is very sad how we get crap like master duel now while games like duel links are good for anime fans but way too p2w. It's really sad , most people don't even know about yugioh online, the best MMORPG in the series when it comes to making your own character; you could customize their looks, the duels has cutscenes for everything just like tag force and you could give your characters dialogue lines. The game was ruined by p2w however. Hell, we can't even get field spells to cover the field like old games and it's 2024.
Tag force is the best series in yugioh gaming period, it's not even close. People may enjoy other old jrpg style yugioh games but tag force sid everything right for fans of the anime. Day by day living, you get to play through basically every thing that happens In the anime plus original tag force story content, hell you could basically romance the characters!.. the list goes on. The only game close to tag force is yugioh world championship, but the story mode is more of a afterthought in that game series. I don't even play yugioh anymore because it's dead to those who aren't still riding the anime hype or just really addicted/too far into the tcg/ocg card game. I played Master duel, eventually got bored as hell since it's just ygopro, then I played duel links and had a absolute blast. Duel links doesn't compare to tag force, but it obviously borrowed a lot of elements from the tag force series and like tag force, it does have a good emphasis on immersion by giving you a ton of anime duelist to use. They even have voice lines they say throughout the duel, you can also make them say voice lines yourself. It took almost two years for me to quit because i realized how p2w komoney made duel links, people like to argue everything is grindable but it's obviously not in a way that respects your time. You have to duel like crazy to get a CHANCE to roll lootboxes basically. It ruins the game and gives p2w players a massively unfair advantage.
We will probably never get another tag force game, it genuinely makes me very sad since like someone else said, I've literally come back to tag force year after year because it's just that damn good. We don't get these kind of high quality, immersive jrpg sims anymore. Now we get whatever junk they can slap microtransactions on. I don't know about that dawn of the battle royale game but even I was like oh hell yes when I saw it, until i saw it was a Nintendo exclusive for some reason. I doubt dawn of the battle royale is anywhere near as in depth or good as tag force, but its at least somewhat a spiritual successor, or carrier of the torch for those of us who want something even remotely close to tag forces immersion. It's so sad, really. Hopefully one day we get back to tag force, because even though they did make the dawn of battle royale game, it's not on the level that the tag force series or probably even world champion story mode was. I do love this game btw but I've played many of the better yugioh jrpgs and I can definitely say without hesitation or bias tag force is the best game series we've gotten from yugioh.
One thing you'll notice about what I've said is games now actually borrow elements of tag force to improve their games. Duel links is one, yugioh online(now a dead game) is another and I could probably find more if I cared to look. It just shows how good tag force was in it's formula.
Edit: if anyone googlea yugioh online, make sure you're looking at the one that has character models that look like tag force, not the other yugioh online I never even played lol. The ones with character models like tag force basically got it's entire dna from the tag force series and was truly a great game ahead of it's time ruined by typical komoney greed
Yeah... I really did enjoy this and the race 5ds game, sad that they didn't make more 😢 they could've made one in Vrains
I really need to give the racing game a chance!
I would definitely play a Yu-Gi-Oh game that is also a dating sim !
It would be a Goldmine honestly
You can restore the voice acting(jp) with fan patch on psp
@@yadirect I might have to try that actually!
There is a mod called "Reshef of Dustruction but Playable" that, well, does what it says haha. If you want to play RoD I would recommend it.
I might have to get on that!
You had me at Yu-Gi-Oh GX . Been in a dueling mood and watching Yu-Gi-Oh GX Season 3-4 lately . Forgot how much I missed my duel monster fam
GX is so much fun to rewatch!
2:57 Jay will eat anything, yup very much XD XD
Oh no, I've become Jaden!
@@animeegotists7527 I know he hates one of those snadwich flavors in the anime atleast but i forgot witch one
Animating the field spells like that was so cool. I wish Masterduel did that
Always made the duels feel alive!
i really REALLY wish konami would make another Tag Force, its my fav format, i always loved the tag duels
my fav deck was just a theme deck of skulls, having my "ace" being king of the skull servants
Ooh that card has caused a lot of issues for me over the years; I respect that!
7:13 A little fun facts
It took 12 years for Fossils to come to the TCG, 14 years for Advanced Crystal Beasts, AND 15-16 years for Colorless, the Dark world 🥲
I'm still desperately waiting for Chaos End Ruler from Yugioh Zexal to one day become a real card AND the Stardust form from Yugioh 5d's Ending 5 (no, that isn't shooting quasar or sifr)
I hope the wait is worth it; some archetypes need to be released as soon as they can!
And 16 years later we get the clear cards.
tag force games were fantastic. Its a shame tag force special nor the zexal ones released worldwide. Also sadly tf special was released when arc v was very new so most characters dont have their cards nor have animations.
Would be wonderful if konami released tag force games again
I’d love to get more honestly
the tag force series was a pretty good yugioh game problem is unlike the later over the nexus games there can be a lot of just skipping time or farming dp for either cards or sandwiches which can be pretty boring the later games in the series added different minigames to help with farming dp however i really think that the tag series suffered from not having an overarching story like over the nexus.
I think both games have flaws and strengths over the other. I can understand where you're coming from in that regard
One thing I love about this game is the OSTs, some of them (like the main menu one) sounds so ethereal, so out of this world, it takes me back man, good times
I still go back and listen to the songs every now and then!
ngl I forgot how hideous Crowler looks
*handsome
It was nice seeing the win/lose with everyone and that all NPC had different decks
Because there are some decks your deck will struggle against. And it's nice seeing who can give you a challenge and why
That actually sounds interesting if it was a dating sim.
And primarily it does because the characters have been around for a while to grow on people, not so much if it was brand new.
I think it would definitely sell if it was one.
@@animeegotists7527 that's noting..in yu gi oh 5D'd tag force 6 you marry wisteria and some characters even akiza confese you ,:)
I really miss the Tag Force series. And I am still mad that we didn´t get Tag Force 6 in the west. I am a story player and that´s why I don´t like to play games like Master Duel.
Master Duel may have its fans, but I love stories in Yugioh games!
@@animeegotists7527 Me too. The only thing I played in Master Duel were the Gates because of the Card Lores. That was interesting. Otherwise Tag Force and World Championship and even Duelist of Roses were better games because of their stories.
Stardew Valley and Yu-Gi-Oh in one game? COUNT ME IN. Great review, actually made me want to try the game out myself
I highly recommend it!
Tag Force Evolution and Forbidden Memories are by far the best Yugioh games ever
Tag force 2 was the best personally brings me very good memories
Now I want to play this, better look for an emulator.
Have fun!
Blair was given lighsworn deck, that's kinda crazy for gx standarda
Don’t know if I’ll understand why they did that, but I liked it either way!
Very well put together video fam. You deserve the subscription
Thanks so much for the support, hope we can keep you guys entertained!
I wish they would bring these games back
Same, I'd love it!
Whenever I play Tag Force, the first thing I do is go to the settings and adjust the game according to my preferences. In this case, the tutorial can be skipped by turning it off in the options menu. Normally, the first week consists of tutorial classes, but if you disable the tutorial, the characters will just talk about random things in class. By the way, you can replay the entire first week of classes three times. After each class, the professor will give you water support cards for your structure deck. Playing through the first week three times allows you to get three copies of those cards, giving you a better and more decent deck at the start.
I dont know what I love more about the Tag Force series, feeling like Im part of the cast of my favorite series, the alternate stories you can unlock, the chaotic tag duel AI, the music, the anime exclusive cards...
Damn games just make me feel at home when I play them.
Honestly, so much about these games are so much fun, it’s hard for me to put my finger on what my favorite thing is. Everything just feels like it’s so much fun!
I love the Tag Force games so much. The 5Ds games were pretty good. The one that introduced XYZ was kinda meh. Tag Force Arc V Special was something else entirely. Not sure if there is an official translation but i had downloaded a fan translation...and it is definitely something. Joey and Tristen constantly make Yugioh Abridged references, Odion is obsessed with Gummy Bears for some reason, if you win with Yugi as your partner, he will say things like, " When you believe in the heart of the cards, YOU FUCKING WIN!" or my personal favorite is a guy, cant remember his name off the top of my head, but everytime is Destiny Draws, he will scream "There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who pee in the shower and those who are fucking liars."
Considering how crazy the abridged series can get, I can believe these quotes.
Okay you convinced me im gonna buy a psp and hunt down these games. GX is the best yugioh series so im down for anything that expands it.
Some of my favorite characters got the most development thanks to these games!
I loved tag force 3 so much, I played a lot with it, and sprit caller, even the world champions 2011 over the nexus was pretty good
I love all of those games; especially WC2011
I'm curious if you've ever seen / played GX Duel Academy on the old GBA cause that's imo one of the best renditions of GX at least. Aside from being a bit tedious, it covers most of the story diligently and you are your own character, you can grind up for your decks, you can take exams that determine your dorm after the start in Slifer, you can become "King Of Games" with some work etc.
Oh I loved Duel Academy. It was an underrated one honestly
Tag Force 5 solidified ygo as a game I would enjoy til the end of time, even if I haven't actually played a game of yugioh in years. Got max hearts for everyone and actually got me to buy the DVD Box Set for both 5ds and Zexal a decade+ ago. Pulling cards in the shop was so fun and will forever be grateful that there's a % for how many cards in a set you already own. There's morning, evening and night events. Leo has so much more screen time in that as well since I can actually just choose to meet up with him and I do. I actually learned how to build a deck from that and that game gave me the confidence to go on Dueling Network and play some games online. MD has no soul even with the archetype story mode
I'm so happy you have such great memories with this series! That's so cool!
I've only played tag force 3, it was definitely a fun game. I agree your views on it, and the game really showed me how much Syrus grew as a character in obelisk compared to his time in ra or slifer. Great video
Makes me sad how Tag Force 3 didn’t get released in America; a lot of people didn’t get stuff like this.
Thanks for the support!
Thank you! Another man of culture who enjoys the beauty and potential that is Tag Force! I wish they allowed you to play this on PS4, but sadly you can't find this as a possible game to purchase online sadly...
I’d love for them to finally remaster or rerelease these games, so everyone can enjoy them!
@@animeegotists7527 As for your questions on which route is my favorite and favorite tag partner? I'd say Obelisk Blue Blair personally, I don't get why everyone hates on Blair so much. Sure, she's very one track minded on being with the one she loves but she was willing to learn to duel to hopefully be worthy of said person. It's somewhat respectable to me.
It is beautiful gane which gave more substance to each characters but not all of them but despite that we feel we are one with our partners and became life long friends
I grew to really love these characters more thanks to these games. It really felt like I was friends with all of them at Duel Academy!
Tag Force 4, 5 and 6 weren't as good for me, but still the Tag Force series as a whole (except you Special, you kind of suck) are someof the best this franchise has to offer and I love it.
If Konami wants to make me waste lots of money, give me something like a "Tag Force Memories" and a "World Championship 2024", that plus a better RPG Rush game would honestly be so so good.
So far 4, 5, and 6 definitely feel different. But I’m optimistic
How do you dislike eating meat but like eating fish... THAT'S MEAT!!
You have no idea how badly I want to scream that at him throughout the game!
Yoo!Tag force is goated. This is how I properly learned the rules of yu gi oh.
That's great; glad the tutorial could help with that!
As much as I appreciate Duel Links and Master Duel for their nice visuals and banging soundtracks, I miss the old era of Yugioh video games that inserted you into the anime storylines. These games not only made you feel like you were in the anime, but they also made you the King of Rizz for no reason. You have no idea how many times I replayed GX Spirit Caller back in the day.
Spirit Caller! That’s an underrated one for me. I loved having my own duel spirit!
@@animeegotists7527 Same! Jerry Beans Man will always be my dueling buddy!
Spirit caller was definitely wonderfull, it's one of my favourite too, probabily only under reverse of arcadia (that i've played like 15 or more times)
Lol didnt expect to see tag force after all this years. I played from GX tag force 1 to 5ds Tag force 6. Just in case you are interested but got intimidated by jp language on later title, remember fanslation exist complete with voice over absent in other version except JP. Kudos to the fan localizer
That aside i love MC grow from one of underated and somehow avoided person in early GX tag force into giga chad complete with style and custom duel disk in 5 DS tag force who rizz every female character including the side chara (yep they had story too altho mostly untranslated in fan patch). Blue obelisk blair will be surprised when she return to MC.
The original version is always something I've been interested. I wish some of the changes had been kept honestly.
Hell yeah.... I love YGO Tag force... It's probably my most played games for psp
I played up to tag force special and I was hoping they make another one but they never did... But years later konami released YGO master duel which has similar vibe but I still miss some npc from tag force cuz some of them are cute
I do miss a lot of the NPCs!
Also the Tag Force games made me love the Tag Force player character, which is affectionately referred to as Konami-kun by the game company. 😆
Also he has lore that’s revealed in one of the 5Ds Tag Force games that makes sense for his character throughout the first 6 games. I was shocked but happy that the player character became so well-liked that they bothered to give him really backstory lore.
They could’ve easily just kept him a nobody, but all the lore and respect they gave to his character was so cool to see!
Doesn’t he have a different backstory depending on what route you follow?
So he’s still left up to the player in a way?
I like the idea Tag Force 1 - 3 are his kid to late teen years and Tag Force 4 - 6 young adult.
@@viruschris3160 Well he seems to in some of his routes but in a good amount of routes in the 5Ds games it’s implied that he’s some kind of robot which is how he lives for so long (and explains how he survives up to the ZEXAL and Arc-V era)
@@NarutoTsunadefan1 Interesting.
Though I like to think he could be a different person from each era too.
Doesn’t have to be the same Avatar. Think it’s more fun this way.
Anyway I wish we got another Tag Force games. These were the best YGO games.
@@viruschris3160 I think he made an appearance in Duel Links called the Vagabond. That was his last appearance anywhere
It's really interesting twist to add VN/dating sims, having new way to enjoy the game its always welcomed
With how many characters they have in the series it's kinda shame they don't make it for other title........ Seriously, every new season they have new character become husbando/waifu for some fans :9
It definitely could’ve been a huge selling point for other games
I never played the tag duel games but I loved duel academy and I remember always playing with and changing up cards in the water starter deck it gives you
@@Sonicmon455 Duel Academy was a really fun one too!