You might take away from my intro that yu-gi-oh is on the decline or something. It's not at all lmao. Because of Masterduel it's getting a boom in interest again. Masterduel has over 20000 people playing on a daily basis on steam alone! Tournaments are consistently big too. With interest booming that means that speed duels can get a surge in play if Konami doesn't drop the ball. They probably will but a man can hope. I'm mostly speaking on the perspective of being burnt out on it from time to time. Would be nice to have some version of Edison format on Masterduel or something. I also just feel it probably should have been bigger by now if they managed the property beyond just the card game for years on end and treated it better. This video has been in the making for a while and I couldn't just rerecord the intro so might as well make myself clear here. Thank you for watching!
@@Qvmmy I'm interested to play but if people don't have the passion and motivation to play it beyond simulators, then my time to invest into it won't be high
Speed Duels is, in fact, doing pretty all right. Now if we could have a proper, actually official banlist, instead of... whatever that event list is, that would be nice Konami.
@@hawkticus_duel_shack That's kind of always been the problem with yugioh. We are at the mercy of one of the shittiest gaming companies to do something competent. I love speed duels but the start was rough and we have no idea how often they will roll out product for it and how long they'll support it. If we were more like the FGC and not so reliant on the company, I'd have more hope for people being invested in other formats of YGO.
@@gameboylad Well, we just got Midterm Paradox and March is the release of the Shadow Riders box, so things are actually looking good for our continued support. Plus all the side events at the YCSs have been sold out for it, so they are aware that there's a player base. Konami is dumb but they do tend to like money, hopefully that's enough motivation.
This is actually the most effective way of winning that duel, considering how much LP it has, and since your deck probably has a lot of cards that can revive themselves or make new ones, it means that decking out your opponent is actually pretty easy
@@TheNotSoChibiRoboprobably wouldnt even get that far for one reason: LP-to-ATK Point monsters. Winged Dragon of Ra and Meklord Emperor Granel in particular.
@westonmeyer3110 they took that criticism and went so far the other way it was to hard. There is a molded version that's a fair bit easier. Still tricky but not like the original version
There was also a portion in Yu-Gi-Oh Stardust Accelerator where the LP carried on from Duel to Duel, but you recovered 2000 LP in between Duels. Also, it was only one part of the game. Those DS games had a joke in them with beds. "Get a good night's rest here to recover your LP...pfft yeah right"
There's another channel that is going through each of the games and they completely wrote off Reshef, which is surprising because they managed through several of the Japanese only early Duel Monsters games. Early last year I also took the monumental task of beating Reshef, what a game! It has so much... right, but it also does too much wrong to be accessible. It feels like a romhack, in the best possible way. "Oh! You thought Sacred Cards was too easy, huh?! Well, how about this!" You provided incredible commentary on each of the decks, showed your appreciation for the ideas the game had to offer, presented each of the challenges and portrayed a flawed game with a lot of subtle care put into it. One thing I loved about this review is how it came full circle. Early you mentioned about how the Maiden may potentially be useful and then during the very final boss gauntlet you are able to utilize this 0/100 no effect monster to incredible... well... effect. Wonderful work. I think there is still a market for games like this in this style, seeing some really interesting effects on normal monsters is part of the reason why I love these early games, the possibilities were there for this to go somewhere great, but it seems like they stopped here, unfortunately.
The main drive I had when making this channel was to talk about these games in the same way I did with friends in the past. I didn't feel satisfied with the way people spoke on these games on TH-cam so as a great creator once said, make the content you feel you would watch. I love every bit of your comment and it's reading Comments like this that motivates me! Thank you for watching!
Honestlt having played it again recently i feel reshef reputation is somewhat exagerated. Like, having beaten both it and forbidden memories the latter is far, far worse. Reshef become a lot more bearable once you figure out wich are the good cards, and most importantly, how to economize on capacity. You still need significant grind, but nothing ludicrous like the FM gauntlet.
I remember this game. Needless to say, I never beat it as a kid. This was extremely entertaining. How do you not have more subscribers? Your humor and editing is top notch!
Thank you for watching! Most of my memories playing this as a kid was painful but at the same time fun in a strange way. Most of the fun coming from finding ways to game the system lol
Yeah that game is absurdly difficult. I used the GameShark to avoid the grind, my deck was beyond stacked with power cards, and against the final boss I still lost 2-3 times. I’ll take Forbidden Memories any day. At least that one was fun and atmospheric.
This is not the only YuGiOh game that is a sequel with re-used assets that has slowed down games. When the DS World Championship games went from 2009 to 2010, the AI became much more slow as it had to calculate a lot more options from a higher card count in the game whenever it was their turn, especially if they are doing something important in Main Phase 2. They fixed this in 2011-Over the Nexus! It was quicker than 2009, but didn't have the monsters materializing from the cards like in 2009.
What? Over the Nexus was the slowest Game in the whole Series :/ I never played WC 2010 though (only whatched Videos) but over the nexus was defenitely slower than Stardust Accellerator (2009). The AI thinks for litery everything. Very sad.... because the Story Modes in all three 5D´s Games are really cool.
Kaibas body guard should've taken on Reshef himself with those boss monsters, damn. All the years I've dueled him I never knew because I always stomped him the first few turns.
yeah he'll never really have the chance to summon them but it's funny he even has them in the first place. one of the devs was laughing at this for sure
for the Tea side mission, I'm guessing the Initials "S P" is supposed to be for the two characters who bother her. Johnny "Steps" and Nightmare "Penguin."
I was immediately drawn to this video because I had that Double Pack and tried to play Reshef after beating The Sacred Cards and I thought I was missing something because of the massive jump in difficulty. Needless to say it was impossible back then and I'm sure I would still find it impossible now, so it was cool to see the rest of the game for the first time. Thanks for that, the vid was hilarious. That Statue of Easter Island edit caught me so off guard, I showed a friend and we're still laughing about it. Good stuff, man c:
I remember at the time Splatoon came out and people were doing 🗿memes in the game so that influenced me at the time. If I had the double pack as a kid I'd feel like I would think I missed a point where I was supposed to bring over my cards from SC. That would have been a great addition for the double pack honestly
The anecdotal stories and such in the intro was really good! Really helps give insight into why you form your opinions. And in general was intresting! Great job!
It's something that's been on my mind when to comes to YGO. I always felt like if konami was more competent with the property, they could have had more ways to keep people interested in YGO as a whole.
I was looking up videos on the old yugioh GBA games for nostalgias sake. I did not expect to discover a new favorite channel. Keep up the great work dude!!!
I didn't think anyone would remember Reshed and Sacred Cards, god bless you for making me go through the biggest nostalgia trip of my entire life with this video; lol all of the best and frustrating memories of childhood came pouring right back into my head in these 2 hours, you got a sub in me. Your memes and formatting are absolutely hilarious, keep up the fantastic work bro! Would love to see more yugioh stuff!
This game haunted me as a child (and still does) I never could beat it... 😭 demonically hard in comparison, I need to give it another go Also seeing Joey saying UwU had me in STITCHES
I say give it a whirl if you have the time to grind on emul- I mean your Uncles GBA . Or you can use a patch they have online that increases the rewards.
I remember having the double pack and never beating either game because for some reason I thought having final destination was a good card in my deck and would brick immediately and I would loose. Kick ass Vid as always man.❤
After 1 week I finally finished the video. I'd always start it but then get busy with friends, or with family stuff and never could finish this video until today. I only know about this game from Pikasprey playing it and it was so fun watching him play, but it was such a loong series. Thats where you came in and shortened the entire game down to two hours of excellent explaining, excellent humor, excellent editing, and excellent gameplay. This is the first video I've seen of your channel, but it will not be the last! So glad you covered this game. GG with the final boss
Happy to see you here. I know this video is a lot lmao. It's as long as a movie. But that goes to show just how much content is actually in this game. I don't think a 30 minute or even hour synopsis would do this game justice. It's a lot of mixed feelings about this game but I did my best to point out the good in the cesspool of horrendous difficulty
Dude I had the same experience. I played the game as a kid and only like 14 years later did I find it again via emulation and beat it. A couple of fun little tidbits: You can walk past most of those pickle duelists in the dungeon, pretty sure that wasn't intentional DO NOT discard slifer against endgame opponents. I've lost games because I discarded him to save time and they threw out monster reborn...mfers The AI is actually really predictable when it comes to who they choose to attack. Also if you get castle of dark illusions and a high-attack beater then congrats, you've almost certainly won. They'll never remember what the card was and they'll just keep swinging at it and losing monsters/LP Anyways, I hope this video takes off. You did a fantastic job
Lmaoooo i had no idea. Maybe castle is as good as ra against the cpu. no wonder the deck cost was so high. I walked past the last one after para and dox but I thought that was an optional one
I don't know how I haven't run across this channel before, but this review has everything I want. It's long, it's detailed, it's f*cking hilarious. Subbed, and going to binge the shit out of this channel
I remember watching Pikasprey suffering through this. I thought it looked not fun then and after watching this, I can say for certain that I'm never touching this without cheat codes. If the game itself cheats, then so will I.
Watched this whole video on one setting. Probably the best time I had in ages on TH-cam… from commentary, content, humor, music choices, ect! Felt like I went on an adventure and learned alot about YuGiOh games and other things related. I love how detailed you were .Thank you so much for this video! It is amazing!
When I played through this as a kid, I think I ended up quitting around China at the Paradox brothers. I beat Forbidden Memories as a kid without a guide, but Reshef was just too much.
Been super sick this week and binge watching a ton of TH-cam.. This video randomly got recommended to me and it was probably the best thing I've seen all week! Loved everything about it, the sense of style/humor, the way that you really *got* Yu-Gi-Oh, the level of detail and heart you put into this video is awesome too. Time to watch everything else on your channel. Keep the awesome videos coming!!! ^ _ ^
The quality and depth of this video honestly had more passion, effort, substance, and emotions than most films and media that is roughly the same length. It's poetic that you never defeated the game originally for the difficulty dragging you out and about, and you end up defeating Sol Chevalsky through dragging out and about the duel. Except, you used strategy and patience to persevere through all odds.
Sacred cards was such a cakewalk that hey overcorected with Reshef i dont know if i could have beaten it without abusing the deathrattle effects of darkflare knight & phoenix Ra by discarding them from the hand (since you can just do that at any time in this one) Thanks fore this feature length review man, you are awesome!
@@gameboyladThe funny part is that Kashtira cannot control any monsters to combo, so the mushroom already screws them over, and then it also burns for time!
Love your content some of the highest quality stuff on the platform hands down. Just wanted to show some appreciation for what I imagine is an insane amount of hard work pumping these videos out
Beginner tip: - duel Tristan until you have some wind/water monsters - grind Joey for coverage, bait him to EATGABOON his Light Warrior - then grind Duke for Hourglass - THEN YOU GRIND YUGI FOR MONEY! -You could grind for Mask of Darkness since it is 900 ATK then grind Duke for Hourglass and more EATGABOON and Beckon. - Buy as many traps and bear traps and other beginners and low cost spells and your mostly safe.
Seriously, grind Tristan for WIND MONSTERS JUST TO GRIND JOEY! HE DROPS VARIOUS 1000 DEF MONSTERS THAT ARE COSTLESS! EVEN FLAME SWRDSMAN IS COSTLESS TO IS BETTER THAN ANY 1 TRIBUTE YOU HAVE IN YOUR DECK! ALSO, HIS SALAMADER EQUIP CARD IS NOT THAT GREAT BUT HAVING SPEELS THIS ARLIER IS AMAZING! JUST BCZ YOU CANT DO MUCH AGAINST REBECCA AT THIS POINT! HAVING MASK OF DARKNESS IS GREAT FOR PANIK! 900ATK THAT BOOST AT YAMI IS AMAZING! AND IF YOU CAN PASSWORD THE RITUAL SUMMON THAT IS EVEN BETTER! SINCE THE CARD MAY STILL BE AT THE BOARD TO SUMMON THE DIVIN MONSTER! But the best strat is to buy AS MANY TRAP CARDS AS POSSIBLE! PASSWORD BEAR TRAP AND INVISIBLE WIRE IF THE RNG DROP ISNT AT YOUR SIDE! As it was in my case in my current run.... In my forst run I got so lucky... just around 10 duels I got 3 hourglass and 5 duels I got Time Wizard and many 1000 Def monsters from Joey.
@@sirwolfy9372 theres an easier way to do the early game grind really. do low level antes so infinite dismissal and eatgaboon can be dropped, after just a few of either, a slight tweak of your deck with the starting cards makes rebecca easy to beat. then go to the novice machine until you get 3 bear traps from it, then the game up until canada becomes easy grinding only the npcs or tristan potentially very short if rng is on yourside for drops. on a side note, nearly all ritual monsters were removed, so no using mask of darkness for a ritual sadly.
The thumbnail got me so good I had to watch. Clicked for Anthony Mackie, stayed for a comprehensive and entertaining breakdown of a YuGiOh gba game. I have never played YuGiOh in my life.
feels good to know my videos are good enough to attract people who know nothing about ygo. I try to make my vids as understandable as possible for people who never even touched a ygo card lol. Thank you so much for giving it a chance!
Beat the game a couple of days ago, with a lot of grinding and a lot of luck! Wish we still got Yugioh games like this. Konami has no idea how much money they’re are leaving off the table. Yugioh players would kill for another RPG like this.
My family actually got the Sacred Cards Reshef bundle when I was a kid. I loved playing through Sacred Cards, but man Reshef kicked me and my younger brother in the teeth repeatedly. There were tons of times that we basically had to save scum until we just got lucky on the boss characters because it never occured to us to grind. We never made it past Odion and Marik because their cards were just too strong. I doubt we could have ever done those castle boss rushes, even if we put in the time to grind
It's funny how I didn't even think of grinding as a teen either, I just bashed my face against the wall until it worked 😭 to be fair the grind takes an enormous amount of time
You have no idea how much I loved this video Such a huge og yugioh vibe The “true” caveman yugioh cous of the type advantage and fields make it an actual fun game If possible would you do a small review for NDS trabadour not as crazy as sacred and reshelf but I would appreciate that last OG yugioh game reviews
You got it! I plan to do nightmare troubadour down the line. It was one of the first of DS games I got back then. Thank you so much for watching the video!
Over the nexus is amazing and I'm having this urge to play it again, I'm gong to check out the one that came before. Only problem is because of the game was programmed or whatever, many cards in over the nexus don't function the way they shouldn't, fusions are broken since you need to actually have the monsters on the field which breaks the flow, they work fine if you use the special fusion cards but normal poly does not work properly.
I remember I got this game for my tenth birthday. Friend offered it to me as a gift. Played it and realized why he was so willing to hand it off to me.
Just found out about this channel and oh boy I'm gonna stay home for the entire day watching your videos lmao Me and my siblings grew on yugioh video games like forbidden memories, dice dungeon, capsule colosseum and much more!
I just want to say how much I love this channel and these videos. Even with the length I love coming back to rewatch these videos and the editing is on point. Keep up all the amazing work!
2:17:04: What you forgot: Castle of Dark Illusions not only resets monsters so they can use their effects. It also causes Yami. So the field spell strat usually won't work since CoDI will ensure Yami
I thought I mentioned it but I guess me forgot lol. It's funny cause that situation didn't happen often for me BUT I know that probably for a lot of other players, this was happening often. CoDI might be the best card in the game honestly 💀
This vid actually got me to start playing Reshef and goddamn you were not lying about how brutal this game is. One thing that's been very helpful while playing that you didn't really mention was the Duel Machine in KaibaCorp. The Expert duel gives ~1k+ cash per win, and often gives super valuable cards that can be used either as ante fodder or just to sell. It's super difficult, legitimately the only monster in its deck below 1900 attack is Castle of Dark Illusions, which has a massive booty and sets Yami. However, a majority of its deck is Dark, with just Vorse Raider and Gemini Elf as Fiend and Light respectively, so with some good RNG you can beat it and get loads more money than you would grinding Yugi or Mako. The game's been pretty fun so far, even with the shop adamantly refusing to sell stuff like Dark Flare Knight, Doron, Trap Master, or Amazoness Archers. Thanks for getting me to try it out and great video!
I'm not gonna lie, I completely forgot about the AI. I dueled the expert twice. Once in the beginning and I got fucked up so I wrote it off. The second time was near the end and I demolished it. I wish I had that in the grind rotation as well lol
This is the most comprehensive guide vid I've seen for Reshef, and the game deserves it. Only thing I'd add is the dudes at around 1:44:00 are the best place to grind. Quick duels with a decent chance for those valuable ritual monsters, as well as the bonus extra cards for each duel. Otherwise, GG on stopping Reshef from taking over the world, and good luck in the Hall ;)
The hall was pretty fun and there decks, although cheating, felt like they had a weakness. sol and reshef if so dumb because you have to duel 2 cheaters back to back 💀Thank you so much for watching the video and the comment
Your videos are keeping me sane at work currently, and they have made me really want to get back into these old games. I cannot wait for your experience of Duelist of the Roses. That is the only one I haven't played and I love your commentary and simplification of these games! Keep up the good work!
didn't expect to watch a gba yugioh vid today, but two and a half hours later here i am. great video man, kept up the pacing well, great explanations, fantastic music choices, and you kept it funny throughout. watching you overcome that reshef bullshit was even cathartic for me lol. hope you keep gettin bigger, good luck in the youtube/streamin endeavors
Your editting and humor is on point. Thanks for sharing your unique creativity~ 1:39:30. La Tale Music, callin it now! Lmao! I used to play the sh!t outta that game. Great OST for long grinds.
Hey bro thank you for making the Reshef video to end all reshef videos, this is crazy high quality and I hope you're proud and. And I have some new music for the playlist, cheers.
Bro I just gotta say, I think you really have something that other game review type channels don't have. I've probably watched each of your vids a half dozen times at this point, and maybe it's your voice or editing, but I'm hooked lol
EDIT: 1:12:10 - Nevermind, that defeats my whole idea. Also, as for why the Big 5 are in this game, this game seems to be pulling a Sailor Moon: Another Story and doing an anime-manga continuity mash-up for its own canon. Plus the game is a sequel to The Sacred Cards, which skipped over the Virtual Nightmare fillers altogether. So either they only suffered the original Virtual World arc from the anime but somehow got free, or these are their manga selves and they (or rather Kaiba himself) never bothered with the VR gaming nonsense altogether. I’m leaning towards the former since it would justify how they’re able to duel in this game. Jury is out on how or why Noah is in the Hall of Eternity despite this though.
Saw this in my subscription box Decided to wait til Friday afternoon after work so I can kick back with some snacks and get ready to watch this 2 and a half hour video that I know it about to be a banger.
Just wanted to say, Love your videos. I've been pretty burnt out with Yugioh, even after playing the Championship Games. I had heard about Sacred Cards and Reshef before but never really knew how different they were. Honestly, your video made me try out Reshef for a breath of fresh air (Albiet using a patch to make things less grindy).
I bought this as a teen I think it took me 3 years to beat it. Honestly it's cathartic to hear someone else slamming their head into this brick wall. I played sacred cards after and was instantly pissed at how much more you got per duel lmao. Also I really wish we'd get another game based on Duelists of roses or another 3d strategy game based version because that was a really cool concept
I had no idea just how brutal the grinding is in this game holy shit, the fact you went through all that grinding is insane Gotta say though this is the best video I've seen on this game, was really informative and entertaining
I try to represent my thoughts and decisions while playing these games as best as I can. I think these games have too much going on to simply review it and call it a day
Holy shit thats smt1 music. You truly are a king. (Edit) Oh, lots of megaten music. Was there this much megaten music your other videos and I just didnt notice?
I really enjoyed this longform video; I'm a big fan of the older yugioh RPGs -- I really love their alternate lore, and how they play with plot points from both the anime and manga, while also just making up their own bullshit along the way. I know you said you don't have a desire to do longform videos again, but I would absolutely adore some more longer-form content about some of the more story heavy YGO titles. While I won't beg for a longform video on Duelists of the Roses, I would love to hear your thoughts on and experiences with that YGO RPG in particular, given how absolutely buckwild it was
I actually planned to make DOTR one of the only guaranteed long form videos cause I have a lot to say about it. It's one of my favorite games. This one and 2004 just turned out to be longer than I was expecting and it's hard to tell if a video will end up being long until the script is done lol. I play these games lightning fast and beat them within 1 to 3 days but with how much happens in a game like this, I end up working on the editing for 2 weeks plus 💀
Thank you! I tried to do this game as much justice as I could. It's stuck in the mind of a lot of people so I had to do my best with presenting almost everything in it
My LORD what a sweet review. The punchy intro, the narrative, the details, the memes, the edits and omg you voice is so smooth to listen to, I have no words. I've binged all your reviews. And consider this, I'm actually trying my best to keep out of youtube because it's eating my day away, but my goodness you might as well be a YT secret agent on a mission to not let anyone get out of the platform. This game also was so underrated. I dropped it at the great wall of china because it was too tedious to go on endless savestates and reloads. At some point you're so behind if you abuse savestates it's absolutely impossible to win. I'm sure if this had at least some quality of life features to make the grinding more beareable to the regular player, I'd have its own cult following it. The title also doesn't help. If it was called The Sacred Cards 2: RoD it'd also helped. But nonetheless, this was a superb review and an superb video. Thanks
@@gameboylad was a blind playthrough. Never thought to look up a guide or cheat codes. I was in elementary school at the time and only played on and off. I remember grinding so many Tristan matches in order to get my deck capacity and duel level up. Crazy memories and one of the hardest games I ever beat
i only ever knew of yugioh dark duel stories on the gameboy color. seeing theres more to the series makes me so freakin happy and nostalgic. cant wait to break my computer getting frustrated playing this!
This was my all time favorite GBA game growing up, glad to see a channel give it the attention of deserves with a play through that doesn’t rely on hacking and cheating for unlimited deck capacity. Your commentary was both engaging and funny! You earned a subscriber!
I really hope that Johnny Steps having Karate man in his deck was a reference to the song "Dance the Kung Fu," by Carl Douglass - the "Kung Fu Fighting" guy - because that might actually be the most galaxy brain stunt in all of YGO deck building XD
This is the only game I've gave up on, after losing my save, and i wasn't willing to go back through the insane grind that was required to progress in this game.
I loved this and Sacred Cards as a kid. I was disappointed by how easy SC was, but they over-corrected super hard on the sequel. When I first played it, I had to use my Action Replay to give myself a boost to Deck Capacity and Rank just to be able to finish it, and it was still never a cake walk. Appreciate that you were able to highlight a lot of the great stuff about this game as well as the frustrating stuff.
It's funny how a lot of people who played this even had difficulty finishing it even with action replay. It took a while to make this video but I wanted to do this game justice in a way. I'm gonna miss these types of YGO games for sure from now on.
@@gameboylad same! I really miss these kinds of single player Yugioh experiences. The solo modes in legacy of the duelist/master duel just ain't it. Even the single player parts of the World Championship series were more fun than what we get now. I'd love to see another game build on the mechanics of this weird side ruleset we had for so many games
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You might take away from my intro that yu-gi-oh is on the decline or something. It's not at all lmao. Because of Masterduel it's getting a boom in interest again. Masterduel has over 20000 people playing on a daily basis on steam alone! Tournaments are consistently big too. With interest booming that means that speed duels can get a surge in play if Konami doesn't drop the ball. They probably will but a man can hope. I'm mostly speaking on the perspective of being burnt out on it from time to time. Would be nice to have some version of Edison format on Masterduel or something. I also just feel it probably should have been bigger by now if they managed the property beyond just the card game for years on end and treated it better. This video has been in the making for a while and I couldn't just rerecord the intro so might as well make myself clear here. Thank you for watching!
ever wondered to play rush duel, its neat
@@Qvmmy I'm interested to play but if people don't have the passion and motivation to play it beyond simulators, then my time to invest into it won't be high
Speed Duels is, in fact, doing pretty all right. Now if we could have a proper, actually official banlist, instead of... whatever that event list is, that would be nice Konami.
@@hawkticus_duel_shack That's kind of always been the problem with yugioh. We are at the mercy of one of the shittiest gaming companies to do something competent. I love speed duels but the start was rough and we have no idea how often they will roll out product for it and how long they'll support it. If we were more like the FGC and not so reliant on the company, I'd have more hope for people being invested in other formats of YGO.
@@gameboylad Well, we just got Midterm Paradox and March is the release of the Shadow Riders box, so things are actually looking good for our continued support. Plus all the side events at the YCSs have been sold out for it, so they are aware that there's a player base.
Konami is dumb but they do tend to like money, hopefully that's enough motivation.
Fun fact. If you don't tell Odion to duel you, Marik just calls you in... completely bypassing odion duel
The one time the game shows you mercy!
What? And Odion was tougher then Marik
This game doesn't just try to defeat you in a duel. It tries to break your very spirit.
It’s a true Shadow Game.
So surreal that 1000 ATK for a no tribute normal monster is considered high.
You… decked Reshef out? YOU DECKED RESHEF OUT LMAO
This was such a great video; you should be proud. Great job!
I mean, if players had 40,000LP I'm pretty sure that deck outs would be more common
This is actually the most effective way of winning that duel, considering how much LP it has, and since your deck probably has a lot of cards that can revive themselves or make new ones, it means that decking out your opponent is actually pretty easy
@@TheNotSoChibiRoboprobably wouldnt even get that far for one reason: LP-to-ATK Point monsters. Winged Dragon of Ra and Meklord Emperor Granel in particular.
I like how bonz is just chill, this may sound weird but it makes the character more realistic like yeah outside of dueling he probably has a job
This game is the coolest bonz has ever been. Probably one of the better side characters in this game funny enough
So Bonz said Tea would have bad luck with men, then sent Crump after her. Dude was playing everyone.
Ah yes. The Sacred Cards: Kaizo Mode.
that's probably one of the better descriptions of this game
In fairness, Sacred Cards is awesome and only really needed difficulty to make it a great game.
Talking about Kaizo: Are there any Yu-Gi-Oh! ROM hacks so far?
@@SWAATSFan There is a user on youtube by the name Kartal that makes advance wars content mostly. He recently has been making mods for the gba games!
@westonmeyer3110 they took that criticism and went so far the other way it was to hard. There is a molded version that's a fair bit easier. Still tricky but not like the original version
Two and a half hours? Now that's a treat!
It's a thcik YGO and I wasn't expecting that at all!
If I had a coin for each time you say "It's a must" I still wouldn't have enough money to buy a single card from that damn store.
There was also a portion in Yu-Gi-Oh Stardust Accelerator where the LP carried on from Duel to Duel, but you recovered 2000 LP in between Duels. Also, it was only one part of the game.
Those DS games had a joke in them with beds. "Get a good night's rest here to recover your LP...pfft yeah right"
It could be just a video game joke, but I'd like to think it was a jab at reshef
I remember that. I loved it because I played Reshef just a few years before playing stardust and I remembered the LP mechanic.
There's another channel that is going through each of the games and they completely wrote off Reshef, which is surprising because they managed through several of the Japanese only early Duel Monsters games. Early last year I also took the monumental task of beating Reshef, what a game! It has so much... right, but it also does too much wrong to be accessible. It feels like a romhack, in the best possible way. "Oh! You thought Sacred Cards was too easy, huh?! Well, how about this!"
You provided incredible commentary on each of the decks, showed your appreciation for the ideas the game had to offer, presented each of the challenges and portrayed a flawed game with a lot of subtle care put into it. One thing I loved about this review is how it came full circle. Early you mentioned about how the Maiden may potentially be useful and then during the very final boss gauntlet you are able to utilize this 0/100 no effect monster to incredible... well... effect.
Wonderful work. I think there is still a market for games like this in this style, seeing some really interesting effects on normal monsters is part of the reason why I love these early games, the possibilities were there for this to go somewhere great, but it seems like they stopped here, unfortunately.
The main drive I had when making this channel was to talk about these games in the same way I did with friends in the past. I didn't feel satisfied with the way people spoke on these games on TH-cam so as a great creator once said, make the content you feel you would watch. I love every bit of your comment and it's reading Comments like this that motivates me! Thank you for watching!
Honestlt having played it again recently i feel reshef reputation is somewhat exagerated. Like, having beaten both it and forbidden memories the latter is far, far worse.
Reshef become a lot more bearable once you figure out wich are the good cards, and most importantly, how to economize on capacity.
You still need significant grind, but nothing ludicrous like the FM gauntlet.
@@noukan42this 100%. Not even in ballpark of forbidden memories difficulty
I remember this game. Needless to say, I never beat it as a kid.
This was extremely entertaining. How do you not have more subscribers? Your humor and editing is top notch!
One day the algorithm gods will favor me a bit more. But also I might have to press people about subscribing lmao
Marik in every other game watching you deck out the final boss: Thats my boy
LMAO
Great nostalgic video. Im 30 and i have so many good AND bad memories of this game as a child
Appreciate your work on this it was a joy to watch
Thank you for watching! Most of my memories playing this as a kid was painful but at the same time fun in a strange way. Most of the fun coming from finding ways to game the system lol
Yeah that game is absurdly difficult. I used the GameShark to avoid the grind, my deck was beyond stacked with power cards, and against the final boss I still lost 2-3 times.
I’ll take Forbidden Memories any day. At least that one was fun and atmospheric.
Yeah FM has this empty and lonely vibe to it. From the music to the story. It's really attractive
I still find it funny how Forbidden memories literally mechanically cheats.(the final boss has a hand of like 20 cards instead of 5)
@lpfan4491 Worse - he can pull from the top 15 cards in his deck. If he actually had a 20 card hand, deckouts would be way easier.
@@lpfan4491ive seen Heishin 2 Exodia a speedrunner 13 hours into a run...
This is not the only YuGiOh game that is a sequel with re-used assets that has slowed down games. When the DS World Championship games went from 2009 to 2010, the AI became much more slow as it had to calculate a lot more options from a higher card count in the game whenever it was their turn, especially if they are doing something important in Main Phase 2.
They fixed this in 2011-Over the Nexus! It was quicker than 2009, but didn't have the monsters materializing from the cards like in 2009.
What? Over the Nexus was the slowest Game in the whole Series :/
I never played WC 2010 though (only whatched Videos) but over the nexus was defenitely slower than Stardust Accellerator (2009). The AI thinks for litery everything. Very sad.... because the Story Modes in all three 5D´s Games are really cool.
did you play on an emulator?@@wilkobadberg5272
Sorely underrated video. So much effort, character, and entertainment is packed into this. Great work, dude!
Kaibas body guard should've taken on Reshef himself with those boss monsters, damn. All the years I've dueled him I never knew because I always stomped him the first few turns.
yeah he'll never really have the chance to summon them but it's funny he even has them in the first place. one of the devs was laughing at this for sure
Your content and channel is highly under-rated. You deserve some clout.
Working on it! With enough clout I can give duelist of the roses the production it deserves
back with another banger. does this man ever miss?
I miss when it comes to my schedule sometimes lmao
That final boss story was so intense! Great job persevering and amazing video!
for the Tea side mission, I'm guessing the Initials "S P" is supposed to be for the two characters who bother her. Johnny "Steps" and Nightmare "Penguin."
Oooh I didn't even think that lol. They who will not be named
I was immediately drawn to this video because I had that Double Pack and tried to play Reshef after beating The Sacred Cards and I thought I was missing something because of the massive jump in difficulty. Needless to say it was impossible back then and I'm sure I would still find it impossible now, so it was cool to see the rest of the game for the first time. Thanks for that, the vid was hilarious. That Statue of Easter Island edit caught me so off guard, I showed a friend and we're still laughing about it. Good stuff, man c:
I remember at the time Splatoon came out and people were doing 🗿memes in the game so that influenced me at the time. If I had the double pack as a kid I'd feel like I would think I missed a point where I was supposed to bring over my cards from SC. That would have been a great addition for the double pack honestly
You're a real MVP for doing this, there isn't enough content on old games, so you're giving us a treat! Great video keep it up!
The anecdotal stories and such in the intro was really good! Really helps give insight into why you form your opinions. And in general was intresting!
Great job!
It's something that's been on my mind when to comes to YGO. I always felt like if konami was more competent with the property, they could have had more ways to keep people interested in YGO as a whole.
Man Sacred Card was one of my favorite games back in the day, wish I had gotten the double pack with it
I did NOT expect a 2 and a half hour vid! That's awesome!
I was not expecting this game to be this thick lmao
I was looking up videos on the old yugioh GBA games for nostalgias sake. I did not expect to discover a new favorite channel. Keep up the great work dude!!!
I'm glad the algorithm decided to show you my channel! Thank you so much for watching my content 😭
I still have vivid memories of the end game of this game. It was ridiculous but so freaking fun.
End game in this game is a satisfying rush honestly
I didn't think anyone would remember Reshed and Sacred Cards, god bless you for making me go through the biggest nostalgia trip of my entire life with this video; lol all of the best and frustrating memories of childhood came pouring right back into my head in these 2 hours, you got a sub in me. Your memes and formatting are absolutely hilarious, keep up the fantastic work bro! Would love to see more yugioh stuff!
This game haunted me as a child (and still does) I never could beat it... 😭 demonically hard in comparison, I need to give it another go
Also seeing Joey saying UwU had me in STITCHES
I say give it a whirl if you have the time to grind on emul- I mean your Uncles GBA . Or you can use a patch they have online that increases the rewards.
@@gameboylad can u show me the patch?
@@TekkenOnlineFights Look for "reshef is actually tolerable now" as a reddit post.
I can not beat Forbidden Memories and I had that since 2002.
I remember having the double pack and never beating either game because for some reason I thought having final destination was a good card in my deck and would brick immediately and I would loose.
Kick ass Vid as always man.❤
After 1 week I finally finished the video. I'd always start it but then get busy with friends, or with family stuff and never could finish this video until today. I only know about this game from Pikasprey playing it and it was so fun watching him play, but it was such a loong series. Thats where you came in and shortened the entire game down to two hours of excellent explaining, excellent humor, excellent editing, and excellent gameplay. This is the first video I've seen of your channel, but it will not be the last! So glad you covered this game. GG with the final boss
Happy to see you here. I know this video is a lot lmao. It's as long as a movie. But that goes to show just how much content is actually in this game. I don't think a 30 minute or even hour synopsis would do this game justice. It's a lot of mixed feelings about this game but I did my best to point out the good in the cesspool of horrendous difficulty
Dude I had the same experience. I played the game as a kid and only like 14 years later did I find it again via emulation and beat it.
A couple of fun little tidbits:
You can walk past most of those pickle duelists in the dungeon, pretty sure that wasn't intentional
DO NOT discard slifer against endgame opponents. I've lost games because I discarded him to save time and they threw out monster reborn...mfers
The AI is actually really predictable when it comes to who they choose to attack. Also if you get castle of dark illusions and a high-attack beater then congrats, you've almost certainly won. They'll never remember what the card was and they'll just keep swinging at it and losing monsters/LP
Anyways, I hope this video takes off. You did a fantastic job
Lmaoooo i had no idea. Maybe castle is as good as ra against the cpu. no wonder the deck cost was so high. I walked past the last one after para and dox but I thought that was an optional one
I don't know how I haven't run across this channel before, but this review has everything I want. It's long, it's detailed, it's f*cking hilarious. Subbed, and going to binge the shit out of this channel
Word, bro's a natural
It's time for Konami to make a Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist Kingdom/Battle City mmo with full 3D monster animations, different rules and Deckmasters.
I remember watching Pikasprey suffering through this. I thought it looked not fun then and after watching this, I can say for certain that I'm never touching this without cheat codes. If the game itself cheats, then so will I.
Watched this whole video on one setting. Probably the best time I had in ages on TH-cam… from commentary, content, humor, music choices, ect! Felt like I went on an adventure and learned alot about YuGiOh games and other things related. I love how detailed you were .Thank you so much for this video! It is amazing!
When I played through this as a kid, I think I ended up quitting around China at the Paradox brothers. I beat Forbidden Memories as a kid without a guide, but Reshef was just too much.
Been super sick this week and binge watching a ton of TH-cam.. This video randomly got recommended to me and it was probably the best thing I've seen all week! Loved everything about it, the sense of style/humor, the way that you really *got* Yu-Gi-Oh, the level of detail and heart you put into this video is awesome too.
Time to watch everything else on your channel. Keep the awesome videos coming!!! ^ _ ^
I love your edits & humor man lol. Another banger though, loved it ❤ 👊
Thank you for watching and pulling up in the comments! I always try to do my best for y'all
The quality and depth of this video honestly had more passion, effort, substance, and emotions than most films and media that is roughly the same length. It's poetic that you never defeated the game originally for the difficulty dragging you out and about, and you end up defeating Sol Chevalsky through dragging out and about the duel. Except, you used strategy and patience to persevere through all odds.
Thank you so much 😭This video took a lot of effort and time to make and I'm glad people are even watching it in the first place
Sacred cards was such a cakewalk that hey overcorected with Reshef
i dont know if i could have beaten it without abusing the deathrattle effects of darkflare knight & phoenix Ra
by discarding them from the hand (since you can just do that at any time in this one)
Thanks fore this feature length review man, you are awesome!
Bruh I aint gunna lie it was like 3 am and i couldnt sleep, saw this popped up and i enjoyed it enough to keep watching. Love the knowledge
I hope you got some good sleep after lmao
11:08 There was a very brief time in the OCG where Mushroom Man #2 was competitively viable
I ALMOST made that joke because of ishizu tear but thought the joke would go over to many heads 😅
@@gameboyladThe funny part is that Kashtira cannot control any monsters to combo, so the mushroom already screws them over, and then it also burns for time!
@@glitchmakerygo what an odd card lmao
Love your content some of the highest quality stuff on the platform hands down. Just wanted to show some appreciation for what I imagine is an insane amount of hard work pumping these videos out
@@Nearlymint thank you so much for that 😭 every bit helps and motivates me to get the next one out
Beginner tip:
- duel Tristan until you have some wind/water monsters
- grind Joey for coverage, bait him to EATGABOON his Light Warrior
- then grind Duke for Hourglass
- THEN YOU GRIND YUGI FOR MONEY!
-You could grind for Mask of Darkness since it is 900 ATK then grind Duke for Hourglass and more EATGABOON and Beckon.
- Buy as many traps and bear traps and other beginners and low cost spells and your mostly safe.
Seriously, grind Tristan for WIND MONSTERS JUST TO GRIND JOEY!
HE DROPS VARIOUS 1000 DEF MONSTERS THAT ARE COSTLESS! EVEN FLAME SWRDSMAN IS COSTLESS TO IS BETTER THAN ANY 1 TRIBUTE YOU HAVE IN YOUR DECK! ALSO, HIS SALAMADER EQUIP CARD IS NOT THAT GREAT BUT HAVING SPEELS THIS ARLIER IS AMAZING! JUST BCZ YOU CANT DO MUCH AGAINST REBECCA AT THIS POINT!
HAVING MASK OF DARKNESS IS GREAT FOR PANIK! 900ATK THAT BOOST AT YAMI IS AMAZING! AND IF YOU CAN PASSWORD THE RITUAL SUMMON THAT IS EVEN BETTER! SINCE THE CARD MAY STILL BE AT THE BOARD TO SUMMON THE DIVIN MONSTER!
But the best strat is to buy AS MANY TRAP CARDS AS POSSIBLE! PASSWORD BEAR TRAP AND INVISIBLE WIRE IF THE RNG DROP ISNT AT YOUR SIDE! As it was in my case in my current run....
In my forst run I got so lucky... just around 10 duels I got 3 hourglass and 5 duels I got Time Wizard and many 1000 Def monsters from Joey.
@@sirwolfy9372 theres an easier way to do the early game grind really. do low level antes so infinite dismissal and eatgaboon can be dropped, after just a few of either, a slight tweak of your deck with the starting cards makes rebecca easy to beat. then go to the novice machine until you get 3 bear traps from it, then the game up until canada becomes easy grinding only the npcs or tristan potentially very short if rng is on yourside for drops. on a side note, nearly all ritual monsters were removed, so no using mask of darkness for a ritual sadly.
The thumbnail got me so good I had to watch. Clicked for Anthony Mackie, stayed for a comprehensive and entertaining breakdown of a YuGiOh gba game. I have never played YuGiOh in my life.
feels good to know my videos are good enough to attract people who know nothing about ygo. I try to make my vids as understandable as possible for people who never even touched a ygo card lol. Thank you so much for giving it a chance!
Beat the game a couple of days ago, with a lot of grinding and a lot of luck! Wish we still got Yugioh games like this. Konami has no idea how much money they’re are leaving off the table. Yugioh players would kill for another RPG like this.
My family actually got the Sacred Cards Reshef bundle when I was a kid. I loved playing through Sacred Cards, but man Reshef kicked me and my younger brother in the teeth repeatedly. There were tons of times that we basically had to save scum until we just got lucky on the boss characters because it never occured to us to grind. We never made it past Odion and Marik because their cards were just too strong. I doubt we could have ever done those castle boss rushes, even if we put in the time to grind
It's funny how I didn't even think of grinding as a teen either, I just bashed my face against the wall until it worked 😭 to be fair the grind takes an enormous amount of time
You have no idea how much I loved this video
Such a huge og yugioh vibe
The “true” caveman yugioh cous of the type advantage and fields make it an actual fun game
If possible would you do a small review for NDS trabadour not as crazy as sacred and reshelf but I would appreciate that last OG yugioh game reviews
You got it! I plan to do nightmare troubadour down the line. It was one of the first of DS games I got back then. Thank you so much for watching the video!
10/10 content, the time and effort you spent really shines through!
Content creators like you is why I come to youtube. I'm going to watch all your videos, probably multiple times. I'm so glad I found this channel.
Comments like this make me feel on top of the world. I want to release the next vid as soon as I'm back home
I would love another RPG like this, the story based yugioh games are so good. they just need more reasonable grinding balance.
i hear the later WCS games were good at that but i also heard wcs 2004 was a decent game and uhhhh its no good lol
Really just more TCG RPGs in general. Stuff like the pokemon TCG games, these older YGO games, all that stuff was my jam.
@gameboylad the 5ds era were enjoyable personally, and the racing mini game was fun
Over the nexus is amazing and I'm having this urge to play it again, I'm gong to check out the one that came before.
Only problem is because of the game was programmed or whatever, many cards in over the nexus don't function the way they shouldn't, fusions are broken since you need to actually have the monsters on the field which breaks the flow, they work fine if you use the special fusion cards but normal poly does not work properly.
@@werewolfjedi38 yea I'll vouch for reverse of aracadia and over the nexus
I remember I got this game for my tenth birthday. Friend offered it to me as a gift. Played it and realized why he was so willing to hand it off to me.
Lmaoooo 💀
Just found out about this channel and oh boy I'm gonna stay home for the entire day watching your videos lmao
Me and my siblings grew on yugioh video games like forbidden memories, dice dungeon, capsule colosseum and much more!
I just want to say how much I love this channel and these videos. Even with the length I love coming back to rewatch these videos and the editing is on point. Keep up all the amazing work!
Glad you like them! Thank you for watching 🙏
2:17:04: What you forgot: Castle of Dark Illusions not only resets monsters so they can use their effects. It also causes Yami. So the field spell strat usually won't work since CoDI will ensure Yami
I thought I mentioned it but I guess me forgot lol. It's funny cause that situation didn't happen often for me BUT I know that probably for a lot of other players, this was happening often. CoDI might be the best card in the game honestly 💀
@@gameboylad Yup... that card is definitely nuts...
This vid actually got me to start playing Reshef and goddamn you were not lying about how brutal this game is. One thing that's been very helpful while playing that you didn't really mention was the Duel Machine in KaibaCorp. The Expert duel gives ~1k+ cash per win, and often gives super valuable cards that can be used either as ante fodder or just to sell. It's super difficult, legitimately the only monster in its deck below 1900 attack is Castle of Dark Illusions, which has a massive booty and sets Yami. However, a majority of its deck is Dark, with just Vorse Raider and Gemini Elf as Fiend and Light respectively, so with some good RNG you can beat it and get loads more money than you would grinding Yugi or Mako. The game's been pretty fun so far, even with the shop adamantly refusing to sell stuff like Dark Flare Knight, Doron, Trap Master, or Amazoness Archers. Thanks for getting me to try it out and great video!
I'm not gonna lie, I completely forgot about the AI. I dueled the expert twice. Once in the beginning and I got fucked up so I wrote it off. The second time was near the end and I demolished it. I wish I had that in the grind rotation as well lol
This is the most comprehensive guide vid I've seen for Reshef, and the game deserves it. Only thing I'd add is the dudes at around 1:44:00 are the best place to grind. Quick duels with a decent chance for those valuable ritual monsters, as well as the bonus extra cards for each duel.
Otherwise, GG on stopping Reshef from taking over the world, and good luck in the Hall ;)
The hall was pretty fun and there decks, although cheating, felt like they had a weakness. sol and reshef if so dumb because you have to duel 2 cheaters back to back 💀Thank you so much for watching the video and the comment
I haven't played Yugioh in like 15 years but this video was like crack to me - you are so entertaining!
Thank you!!!
Man, your script and editing sent me into the stratosphere. Good shit.
thank you, I worked on the script for this vid for a long time
@@gameboylad you're welcome. It certainly comes off that way in the video!
Loved this video! It's great to see there are still people out there doing in-depth content on these old games.
Dude, your videos are amazing 👏! Love these long-form video essays about the hidden gem games that I never got to play as a kid.
Your videos are keeping me sane at work currently, and they have made me really want to get back into these old games. I cannot wait for your experience of Duelist of the Roses. That is the only one I haven't played and I love your commentary and simplification of these games! Keep up the good work!
I won't be able to do roses for a while but when I do, it'll be my biggest video
didn't expect to watch a gba yugioh vid today, but two and a half hours later here i am. great video man, kept up the pacing well, great explanations, fantastic music choices, and you kept it funny throughout. watching you overcome that reshef bullshit was even cathartic for me lol. hope you keep gettin bigger, good luck in the youtube/streamin endeavors
Great video. Took me a couple sittings to finish it but thoroughly enjoyed watching
Your editting and humor is on point. Thanks for sharing your unique creativity~
1:39:30. La Tale Music, callin it now! Lmao! I used to play the sh!t outta that game. Great OST for long grinds.
I'm still shocked that people remember la tale 😭
Hey bro thank you for making the Reshef video to end all reshef videos, this is crazy high quality and I hope you're proud and. And I have some new music for the playlist, cheers.
Crazy to think my video on reshef is probably the best video this game ever got lol. Thanks for watching!
Bro I just gotta say, I think you really have something that other game review type channels don't have. I've probably watched each of your vids a half dozen times at this point, and maybe it's your voice or editing, but I'm hooked lol
Thanks! That means a lot to me honestly. I'm moving so I won't be able to upload for a bit but I'll be sure to have the next video up asap
What an epic video, watched this slowly from time to time. Very entertaining and thank you for slogging through this game.
EDIT: 1:12:10 - Nevermind, that defeats my whole idea.
Also, as for why the Big 5 are in this game, this game seems to be pulling a Sailor Moon: Another Story and doing an anime-manga continuity mash-up for its own canon. Plus the game is a sequel to The Sacred Cards, which skipped over the Virtual Nightmare fillers altogether. So either they only suffered the original Virtual World arc from the anime but somehow got free, or these are their manga selves and they (or rather Kaiba himself) never bothered with the VR gaming nonsense altogether. I’m leaning towards the former since it would justify how they’re able to duel in this game.
Jury is out on how or why Noah is in the Hall of Eternity despite this though.
Man. I'm not even a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh, but your videos have been soo entertaining that you have earned a sub anyway. Cheers man.
Saw this in my subscription box
Decided to wait til Friday afternoon after work so I can kick back with some snacks and get ready to watch this 2 and a half hour video that I know it about to be a banger.
Had this in the back of your mind primed and ready lol. I hope you enjoyed the video!
The way you describe this game and your brand of humor made this a great watch while on the graveyard shift. Bless
The best part about making these is knowing I probably made someones day better while they work
@@gameboylad bro you not only made it better, you honestly sorta saved the day as last night was pretty hectic. Thanks a million
Just wanted to say, Love your videos.
I've been pretty burnt out with Yugioh, even after playing the Championship Games. I had heard about Sacred Cards and Reshef before but never really knew how different they were. Honestly, your video made me try out Reshef for a breath of fresh air (Albiet using a patch to make things less grindy).
I bought this as a teen I think it took me 3 years to beat it. Honestly it's cathartic to hear someone else slamming their head into this brick wall. I played sacred cards after and was instantly pissed at how much more you got per duel lmao.
Also I really wish we'd get another game based on Duelists of roses or another 3d strategy game based version because that was a really cool concept
Same. I was hoping the capsule monsters would be like that but it couldn't scratch that itch
I had no idea just how brutal the grinding is in this game holy shit, the fact you went through all that grinding is insane
Gotta say though this is the best video I've seen on this game, was really informative and entertaining
I try to represent my thoughts and decisions while playing these games as best as I can. I think these games have too much going on to simply review it and call it a day
Video's fantastic. I said out loud "no fucking way" when you showed how you won. Very lively, and I love how you comment about your stratsm
Both WCS 2010 (Reverse Of Arcadia) and WCS 2011 (Over The Nexus) mocked this game's "having to go to the start to recharge your LP" thing.
Yes dude so here for this, thanks for all the time you put into this dude, I’ll give my thoughts once I finish it haha
Holy shit thats smt1 music. You truly are a king.
(Edit) Oh, lots of megaten music. Was there this much megaten music your other videos and I just didnt notice?
I think i had some SMT V music in my sacred cards vid and a imagine online track in capsule monsters. I really like SMT
I really enjoyed this longform video; I'm a big fan of the older yugioh RPGs -- I really love their alternate lore, and how they play with plot points from both the anime and manga, while also just making up their own bullshit along the way. I know you said you don't have a desire to do longform videos again, but I would absolutely adore some more longer-form content about some of the more story heavy YGO titles.
While I won't beg for a longform video on Duelists of the Roses, I would love to hear your thoughts on and experiences with that YGO RPG in particular, given how absolutely buckwild it was
I actually planned to make DOTR one of the only guaranteed long form videos cause I have a lot to say about it. It's one of my favorite games. This one and 2004 just turned out to be longer than I was expecting and it's hard to tell if a video will end up being long until the script is done lol. I play these games lightning fast and beat them within 1 to 3 days but with how much happens in a game like this, I end up working on the editing for 2 weeks plus 💀
Very informative and well put together - especially the intro
Thank you! I tried to do this game as much justice as I could. It's stuck in the mind of a lot of people so I had to do my best with presenting almost everything in it
My LORD what a sweet review. The punchy intro, the narrative, the details, the memes, the edits and omg you voice is so smooth to listen to, I have no words. I've binged all your reviews. And consider this, I'm actually trying my best to keep out of youtube because it's eating my day away, but my goodness you might as well be a YT secret agent on a mission to not let anyone get out of the platform. This game also was so underrated. I dropped it at the great wall of china because it was too tedious to go on endless savestates and reloads. At some point you're so behind if you abuse savestates it's absolutely impossible to win. I'm sure if this had at least some quality of life features to make the grinding more beareable to the regular player, I'd have its own cult following it. The title also doesn't help. If it was called The Sacred Cards 2: RoD it'd also helped. But nonetheless, this was a superb review and an superb video. Thanks
As a teen I use to do the save state route because I didn't want to grind at all 😭 you get walled off eventually
@@gameboylad You replied me? O.O you absolutely made my day, thank you, have a wonderful day :D
Unironically took me half a decade to beat this game. Played it on and off in my childhood and was amazed at how hard it was.
I feel it would take that long on original hardware especially if it's a blind playthrough
@@gameboylad was a blind playthrough. Never thought to look up a guide or cheat codes. I was in elementary school at the time and only played on and off. I remember grinding so many Tristan matches in order to get my deck capacity and duel level up. Crazy memories and one of the hardest games I ever beat
Hey I just came across your video series while I was myself exploring yu gi oh games. I love your series, keep on keeping on!
i only ever knew of yugioh dark duel stories on the gameboy color. seeing theres more to the series makes me so freakin happy and nostalgic. cant wait to break my computer getting frustrated playing this!
Dude, the music in this duel is banger after banger! Loving it, bro!
Woohoo!!!!!
ALSO! HEARING SMT MUSIC RIGHT AT THE START LETS ME KNOW THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT!
You know I gotta represent SMT for sure!
This was my all time favorite GBA game growing up, glad to see a channel give it the attention of deserves with a play through that doesn’t rely on hacking and cheating for unlimited deck capacity.
Your commentary was both engaging and funny! You earned a subscriber!
Thank you for watching and subbing! I hope you enjoy your stay around here
First video im seeing from your channel, well made, good prodiction and just overall a very chill vibe, you earned that sub my man
Appreciate all the effort you put into this! Edits are funny as hell too.
I really hope that Johnny Steps having Karate man in his deck was a reference to the song "Dance the Kung Fu," by Carl Douglass - the "Kung Fu Fighting" guy - because that might actually be the most galaxy brain stunt in all of YGO deck building XD
I finally beat this game today after owning it since I was like 11. Thanks for inspiring me to pick it up again!
You love to see it
This is the only game I've gave up on, after losing my save, and i wasn't willing to go back through the insane grind that was required to progress in this game.
I felt this and I gave up playing good games when I lost the save. No way a reasonable person would try to start over in this game 😭
it was a delight to listen to man, took me back years when i beat this game too. great content man
I loved this and Sacred Cards as a kid. I was disappointed by how easy SC was, but they over-corrected super hard on the sequel. When I first played it, I had to use my Action Replay to give myself a boost to Deck Capacity and Rank just to be able to finish it, and it was still never a cake walk. Appreciate that you were able to highlight a lot of the great stuff about this game as well as the frustrating stuff.
It's funny how a lot of people who played this even had difficulty finishing it even with action replay. It took a while to make this video but I wanted to do this game justice in a way. I'm gonna miss these types of YGO games for sure from now on.
@@gameboylad same! I really miss these kinds of single player Yugioh experiences. The solo modes in legacy of the duelist/master duel just ain't it.
Even the single player parts of the World Championship series were more fun than what we get now.
I'd love to see another game build on the mechanics of this weird side ruleset we had for so many games
Love your channel man! Can't wait for you to get to Forbidden Memories