I like the implication of Duelists of the Roses. The regular anime was about Yugi being the reincarnation of the Pharaoh in the 90s while Duelists of the Roses implies that Yugi and company have been reincarnating in many historical time periods with that game just focusing arbitrarily on the time he was Henry Tudor.
@@IHasTube Yes, such as Immortal of Thunder being sexist and Shapesnatch being an Elder God as is made clear by his appearances in the Dark Yugitubing world.
I think the big charm of the OG Yu-Gi-Oh! games is the fact they all played differently while we still had the game boy games which followed the real rules. In the manga, it was about the pharaoh playing different games in every chapter (blah blah king of games) and that was basically what it felt like they did with the OG games. Every game that came out, was different featuring the characters and monsters we loved and everything felt unique. If one game was ass, there was at least another that could end up being super fun. I think the key of having different options is what was soo cool so I could play Duelist of the Roses then go to the Gameboy games then go to something random like Forbidden memories.
I think it's so cool that in the world championship games you could fully customize your duel runner for the riding duel parts and you HAD to optimize your build if you wanted to beat the harder races, they somehow put riding duels in a yugioh game and made it FUN
I love WC 2011, I loved doing the fast draw minigame in place of the rock-paper-scissors in Crash Town, or doing the "first to get past the first curve gets to choose" they did in the anime for the Turbo Duels, it was so cool.
I actually finally managed to get the 5 Tag Forces that were translated to English. First one's really slow going (albeit I'm holding it back to buy all the packs) but I can't wait to start transfering decks as I go through them all. And I can still restart Over the Nexus on NG+ any day for the story duels.
7:12 Reshef of Destruction is the Sacred Cards' direct-ish sequel, featuring an original plot, an expanded cardpool, and genuinely really fun story and character moments. It's also a grind festival that surpasses even Forbidden Memories in time investment children's tears spilt. A first playthrough knowing nothing about, Dark Duel Stories-type gameplay could take literal MONTHS. It's one of my favorite games.
@@JzanderNThat is correct! In theory it creates tension through some points in the game where you must win through a gauntlet of duelists. In practice, it just ends up making the grind to get a playable deck in this game even more tedious and mind numbing.
As a Falsebound Kingdom enjoyer... I can't claim the game is good myself. However, it can be very enjoyable. Honestly, the story and mechanics are pretty neat. The game just needed a shit-ton more polish.
Honestly, FK is my junk food. I know it's awful, and I don't want it often, but I can't help but mindlessly enjoy it for hours at a time. I definitely think having grown up with it is to blame. Nostalgia is one hell of a thing.
cant believe falsebound kingdom didnt come up, literally one of my favorite games of all time. Its controls were unintuitive and for some reason the copy if you wanted to play on your pc is bugged and freezes all the time, I have hundreds of hours on my old gamecube copy though. I really think if konami hammered out the bugs and flaws of it, it could have contested pokemon after an iteration or 2
I'm surprised too. Loved it as a kid, and unintuitive as it is, it's fun as an adult too, if you have the patience and remember how to play that is. I both do and don't recommend playing it.
I saw the Twitter thread a little after he posted it and there were plenty of people mentioning it. I'm guessing Joseph just didn't have much to say the first time and skipped over the others?
I’m trying something with that game called “Necrovalley mode”. Basically making it so that you can’t use a monster again after it loses all HP, plus other restrictions I outlined in a small vid. This is my first attempt with this rule set, and it’s actually making the game feel more like the strategy legitimately matters.
Still got it haha its fun to go back to every so often. My only gripe with it was that the teams marshals used were boring after a while and didnt vary much. Solid game though
Can we all agree that Ansatsu was most of the time the MVP on the Maps with how fast he was you easily put him as the Leader with two of your most powerful but slow monsters to destroy everything. With the equips he also was on the stronger side.
5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus was my personal favorite. It was fun, challenging, and had one of my favorite YuGiOh NPC's. Misaki will always be my girl.
I'm playing through it right now and I'm enjoying it a lot but the waiting times are just straight up insane... in some duels the AI can take more than 30 seconds for EVERY SINGLE MOVE, and in some extreme cases even a whole minute or two. In one of my recent duels I summoned my beloved Ancient Gear Golem (best archetype btw) and the AI decided to switch all of their 5 monsters on defense and place a single trap card and it took more than 5 minutes just to do that lmao Still, despite this massive issue it's quickly becoming my second favourite game in the series, right after WC 2008. Kinda wish it still had the cool animated sprites from the past games, but I guess they removed them because they would've taken way too much space on the cartridge.
The world championship 5ds games will always be GOATED, an amazing adaptation of the 5ds storylines that allowed you to fully inmerse into the world of neo domino city with your donut steel OC while dueling your way though with the 5ds era cardpool, they had SOOOO much content and so many hours to play through and the decks the computer players had were pretty challenging and forced me to retry multiple times at certain points, i think it's a crime that these games haven't been re-released as a collection of games, because i would buy that shit DAY 1
Capsule Monsters for the PS2 is the best one. Fully voice acted by the actual VAs, fun chess playstyle but with effects and surprisingly deep rpg mechanics. The GOAT
WC2011 just the coolest, you had riding duels, you had your OC player character that got to play in the story of the anime (and shaft Crow to leave room for you in the process), you had your friends which were new characters Toru and Mizaki. Its also where I got my love for dragons, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon was the best card ever. The Tag Force games were also good, I remember finishing the vast majority of the storylines in 5 and being stumped at the protagonist being actually a robot from the future that Primo brought with him all along, it was crazy.
Honestly I was desperately waiting for someone to bring up capsule monsters colloseum. I played that game so much as a kid, thought the battle animations were the best thing ever and yet I've never seen a single person talk about it since.
Same!! I was waiting for it, and no one brought it up. I played that before Duelist of the Rose and honestly had more fun on Capsules. Maybe I'm just defective 😅
same here. I played it so much and wanted to have all the capsules, but man.. it's hard to play through. for 'modern standards' it's a real SLOW burner, the dialog repeats itself really quickly and getting some (or good) capsule enhancements are way to exhausting (some even need multiple playthroughs). If you can take it.. then it is still a nice experience. :) Animations are fine, the chess-ish nature of the game is still something else and the localisation is to nostalgic to not like it.
Honestly forbidden memories holds a special place for me because it was the first game I played that has a “unbeatable boss”. Like I would restart again and again against hesien(I don’t remember his name) just so I could open twin headed thunder in the hopes of winning, just for him to summon meteor black dragon and I just insta lose. Then later in life I got the emulator, used cheats to fill my deck with the most powerful cards, and destroyed him only to realize you just keep dueling him over and over till you lose.
Heishin was the first boss of the game and you had to lose the duel with him anyways but once he appeared in the Free Duel menu...he was one of the first opponents that gives you good cards if you keep beating him constantly.
I think the music and “sound” of both the PS1 itself and Forbidden Memories is pretty nice, something about the weird synth horns and the 2D graphics in cut scenes was really appealing to me for some reason.
@@thatonedude5277 the ds ones are my favorites to this day, something so cool and satisfying about the visual and sound effects they used (we meet once again if you remember me, nice pfp for the second time)
World Championship 2011 was my first approach to the game. I loved it but I didn't knew how to build a deck properly so I sticked with the structure of the Structure decks till almost the end game where I got sh*t on multiple times so i gave up. Fun childhood memories
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum. Everything was beautiful about that game; 3d pieces, a chess-like mechanic, but the most captivating thing about that game was the music. A truly enjoyable experience. It's a sad thing to think that its obscureness will probably be the mere reason of its oblivion.
DOTR is still such a banger, the fact that you basically play by the rules of duelist kingdom where there's field bonuses and cards have effects adjacent to the anime. Like flame swordsman randomly is an effect monster that has a bonus against dinosaurs because...rex raptor duel. And call of the haunted is a spell. It's absurd but so satisfying to actually say "Yes. That IS how the card works."
I played the hell out of Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Yugi the Destiny when I was younger. My dad had it on his old laptop in the late 2000s and I look for that thing at least once a year so I can play that game again. Shoutout to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus.
Actually shocked to see no one mention Falsebound Kingdom. In the vein of yugioh games that weren't yugioh it was a rts game that when the units clashed on the field became a turn based rpg.
Honestly, I'd just love if it let you queue up movements, and/or menu while paused, and had fast forward, since the gameplay always felt too slow until it felt way too fast.
I'm surprised falsebound kingdom wasn't mentioned. I got the game in a stack of other GameCube games from a garage sale and at the time it was the only Yu-Gi-Oh related thing i could do that wasn't me just playing matches against myself with an evenly split pile deck seeing as nobody in my area played
>Dark Duel Stories card construction Yes, that's where Mirror Swordsman, Cornfield Coatl, and Light Law Medium come from, the top halves were Mirror, Cornfield, and Light Law, and the bottom halves were Swordsman, Coatl, and Medium.
@@Bleighckques 4 out of the 140 of them have been, yeah. Spherous lady was printed in the 2000s with different typing & artwork Light law medium was printed in... 2021? Maybe 2022? They lowered her level and gave her a gimmicky battle phase control effect. It's not a good card, but it's funny & you could make some random ass jank strategy around it. Both mirror swordsman and cornfield coatl are being printed in DUNE as the first wave of Illusion support that doubles as Chimera The Flying Mythical Beast support in Duelist Nexus (geddit? Because they can be used to make chimeric hybrid monsters in the game). They are Illusion monsters irl just like they were in Dark Duel Stories.
I bought Wheelie Breakers as a kid and then almost cried when I realized it was a racing game and wasn't like World Championship 2010/2011. Luckily the guys at gamestop were nice and let me return it.
Omg forbidden memories was so dang trippy when I was a kid. I could never beat the last duel and come to find out the enemy has every card in their deck, in their hand at any given time. Such a crock 😂
The early 2000s gave us such great Yugioh spin off games with DoTR, Capsule Monster Coliseum, and The Falsebound Kingdom. The alternative ways to play Yugioh as a chess like game, a tactical strategy game similar to Fire Emblem, and a classic RPG with turn based combat and items really demonstrated how much further the IP can go beyond the traditional card game.
A modern version of Duelist of the Roses could have so many cool mechanics and features: modern extra deck monsters, using link arrows as some sort of formation-based effects enabler, much better AI, online PvP, boards with custom dimensions and more than 2 players (2 vs 2 on a 14x9 board for example), etc Another one that could use a sequel is Capsule Monster Coliseum, be it as a PC/console game just expanding the formula of the original a lot, OR as a mobile gacha game (Capsule Monsters in the original manga is literaly a board game played with pieces obtained in gachapon machines, it just fits perfectly)
@@LeyvatenLoop didn't capsule monsters have yugi and mokuba pull their monsters at the start of each game? a modern interpretation of that feels less like a gacha game, and more like an evolving draft like super battle pets or hearthstone battlegrounds
@@hi-i-am-atan Kinda, the thing is, those rules they used for Mokuba vs Yugi are not the normal rules of the game, as usually the players would just use anything they want from their collection, but instead they specifically decided to use the gacha machine they took from the store to make it a draft system (that is, if you're talking about the manga, the anime did the same thing with the first episode about it, but the second they just never explained what dictates what pieces they can use, so Yugi plays with a bunch of low level pieces for no explained reason :v)
@@Jonas-kz8zw How would it be? The only similarities are being a gacha game and using the Yugioh IP, aside from that those would be *completely* different games
Your closing remark was pretty on point. There are a bunch of things that draw me to the IP, nostalgia undoubtably being one, but the barriers to actually playing the game, mostly the money, lead me to the easier to access stuff. I remember playing Forbidden Memories at a friend's house when the show had just started up in Canada. We already got a good laugh out of how little sense the show made, the game was just hilarious. I also remember it feeling really easy for awhile once you learn some good fusions, then all of a sudden you just start getting rolled. Oh and every once in awhile the AI just draws Exodia and wins.
MBT's reminiscing on WC04 got kinda mixed up with Eternal Duelist Soul I think? There's no calendar system in 2004, and EDS has Simon as that character you have to advance days by dueling to find.
There is also was no password system in WCT04. It was removed for that game and that game only. Previous ones gave the cards for free, and they brought it back in later games where you spend in-game currency.
Loved the Tag Force series!! Every single one had something fun and the characters were different and you had to find out what they liked to get their friendship hearts filled
Did anyone else love 7 Trials to Glory on the GBA? It not only had an in-game rotating Forbidden/Limited list, but weekly in game tournaments with different formats, even some with special rules. Then you could unlock the Shadow Realm post game and duel the anime villains with no F/L list and the like. The music was incredible too!
I've been playing this on my phone. My current strat is using Robbin' Goblin and White Magical Hat to destroy my opponent's hand and gain all the card advantage. I've been patiently waiting for better packs to come in, but I've been able to get Spear Dragon and Airknight Parshath.
The postgame is fun but 7 Trials isn't really good. You spend 90% of your play time just sleeping to skip for the next day while you wait for a tournament to randomly spawn.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction is the "Dark souls" of the Yugioh games, love or hate the grind the game demands, it had something magical about it (probably pure nostalgia)
Another note about Duel Transer; instead of a password system, it has its own Wii peripheral that let you directly scan cards into the game. Take a wild guess how easy to get your hands on this peripheral is (hint; not very) - and there are MULTIPLE POINTS in the story that having it lets you access faster routes. I have no idea what a speedrun would look like but I can't imagine shelling out a Tearalament level price tag for the optimal run is helping matters
Tag Force 5 was a beast of a game. They even had a show mode, where you could designate certain cards in your deck, and if your turn started while your opponent had lethal on board, that card would miraculously come to your hand. You could also Dark Synchro summon, which was freaking awesome. And it let you play some of the anime only cards that were broken as hell.
The ability to Dark Synchro summon and summon Machine Emperor cards the anime way, flooding your monster zones with the parts, is worth the game price alone.
Man I love the Tag Force series. Sometimes during the year when I have desire to play yugioh, but don't want to play Master Duel (because a lot of reasons) I come back to one of the games and play for a while. I never completed the story of all characters in one of the games, but I still love this series and I demand a new Tag Force game.
Forbidden memories was just fun for me since it rewarded you for finding fusion chains and typing to kill certain things and really only took 1 3000+ atk card drop to really take off your grinding ability. It wasnt really until later that i bought stardust accelerator 2009 for the promo cards, fought a few things and ended up against a full powered chaos lightsworm and pre-banlist zombies. It was so fascinating to see the AI triple plague spreader zombie to get a full board of synchro's inclusing pre-errata goyo guardian.
Whilst i owned stairway to the destined duel and 7 trials to glory, Duelists of the roses and Reshef of destruction are the ones i have most memories for. DOR because i got to play against friends on it by lending the game out for weeks at a time as data was kept on memory cards and Reshef of destruction as that 1 game that kicked my ass constantly until i replayed it as an adult
I remember wheelie breakers fondly and played it so much , mainly because my brothers would never let me play their Mario kart Wii games and this was the closest I ever got to Mario kart
My favorites were 5ds world championship 2009 and 11 But spirit caller took so much out of my time and going from sliver to raa to oblesik in the gx academy felt cool as heck Wanted a sequel to it but of course never got it
I didn't play 2009 until last year, since I was out of the game by that point, and I was a bit of a snobby "card games on motorcycles" kid in that era, but I really wish I had it growing up. Easily my favorite Yugioh game that I've played, and it fully turned me around on that era of yugioh. The fact that you could play tele-DAD, and not have it cost hundreds or thousands of dollars probably helped that too (though by the end game I'd switched up to a sort of control-Glad Beasts build, which was also pretty fun)
@@FlaggedStar I’m confused what you mean by being engaged by it? I played through the full campaign and it was nice playing through a different version of Battle City ark. It was easy in difficulty but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun. Not all games have to be extremely difficult to be fun.
i have the fondest memories playing and grinding the Power of Chaos series of games for PC. spending countless hours taking turns between me, my brother and father, each with our own decks, trying to unlock all the cards and eventually setting up the LAN connection duels to play against each other. i find it weird that these games aren't as popular as i thought they'd be.
The Falsebound Kingdom will always be my favorite. 3v3 turn based rpg style combat with teams of monsters that had sick 3D models was insanely fun and it was all wrapped up in a tactics package
I still remember playing Duel Generation years ago on the phone. It was a blast climbing through the character roster of the series (no story though), but i do remember one frustrating thing that there was no booster packs dividing the pools. You were basically pulling random cards (i think either 6 or 7?) in the pile pool with every single card in the game (also dismantling and generating cards didn't exist here). Even then it was still kinda fun finding niche combos outta cards i never knew existed in the game before.
I put Duelists of the Roses in the thread as my favorite but honestly, the World Championship series is undoubtedly the most interesting because Konami was the first company out there making annual games to be supported at their own World Championship event. Like it's cool that they've brought back the spirit of this practice with Master Duel Worlds but there's something missing when the software isn't being explicitly built to be played at tournaments.
The appeal of these Yugioh games is that they are our childhood, they define us for what we want for an entertaining experience. For me it was Duelist of the Roses, Duel Academy/WC 2006 AND the Tag Force series. These games made me always happy and they still do. Plus the grind on stuff like DOR, the GBA games and TF are worth wild compared to the gem grind of Duel Links or Master Duel and you don't grunt when you go up against an unfair deck. Konami should give us back these experience, remaster them or at least bring them back to the future. I WANT to play DOR, PC, without my PC suffering because it can't handle the PCSX2's tasking requirements. GIVE US THESE GAMES BACK KONAMI!
I'm a little sad nobody went into more detail about Nightmare Troubadour. It was the first Yu-gi-oh game for the Nintendo DS and was the first to have fully integrated 3d models for every single monster. This game let you live your fanfiction dream as an OC, participating in local tournaments by day while defeating the villains from Duelist Kingdom in Shadow Games by night. You eventually become a participant in Battle City, and even get a god card, but the one you get depends on certain events in the story. Ishizu has you and kaiba fight for Obelisk, and if you lose, then you become the one who duels Strings instead of Yugi and get Slifer. It's a super engaging original story, while still being Yugioh.
Forbidden memories had fully modeled monsters if you held triangle before attacking it showed them doing an attack inside an area of whatever field spell is current active.
Super fun game I remember playing it vividly on the gameboy back in 2005 never actually got very far in campaign tho I remember the worm being really annoying.
No one mentioned Falsbound Kingdom!!! That game slapped harder than my dad when I came out. But seriously it still has some of the best 3d models for classic dm monsters ever!
yugioh forbidden memories is probably my favorite one hands down, such a weird game and so grindy, but idk I grew up with it and I go back and play it through every now and then.
WCS 2009 will forever be in my heart as probably the first game that made me properly ragequit. In one of the earlier areas (some gang hideout I think) there's a guy with a mill/deckout strategy with Needle Worm and Morphing Jar #2 who just destroyed me over and over again. Took young me a really long time to finally get past the guy
I was like 13 when duel transer was to be released, the game was announced it got me so hyped, after you beat the game the games bots start to play solely with decks filled with banned cards (one of them plays lightsworns with 3 painful choice and 3 sixth sense) still when i turn it on i have an absolute blast
Yuigho Bam is what got me back into yuigho...... Had a machine deck that was so broken because Mechanicalchaser was the best normal summon in the game.
Yugioh! The Falsebound Kingdom is still one of my favorite yugioh games. The game shows it's age hard now. It's clunky, repetitive, overly complex, and SLOW, but there was so much potential. It was an RTS/Turn-based RPG hybrid where characters from the show would lead teams of 3 monsters to fight and take control of towns until they would take out the boss of each level. It took place in a virtual reality game that the characters got trapped in a la the Noah Arc from DM. The game started incredibly slow, but once you got to the middle of the first story, the games depth started to show. Polymerization was an item that the monsters could use to make creatures like Valkyrion and Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon, Spellcasters could use powerful "spell" items, Monsters had attribute colors that would slowly change the Leaders attribute color and when the leader's color matched the color of the monster they would gain buffs, Monsters would roam specific maps that you could recruit (some of them requiring you to beat them first). Personally, I can't play this game anymore unless I have some sort of fast-forward function. I wish they would revisit this concept and clean it up a bit.
So I have to talk about the 2010 world championships game reverse of Arcadia. I just played through this game for what is probably my 15th time. I have to say the blocky graphics are amazing with some of the cutscenes. You have Sayer/Divine activate Hinotama on you outside of the duel after you beat him but because there’s minus staff basically sitting in your ass it just stops in front of you and just reverse back at sayer as if you played an uno reverse card then not even 3 minutes later you see him fall to his death flailing his limbs on the blocky graphics. It’s so funny. Also I do have to bring up that I have been trying to speedrun this game in a new game plus no ftk category but it’s ass cause you have 3 terrible duels at the end along with a bunch of other shitters throughout the story. Basically and any tag duel is shit cause the decks everyone plays are shit (keep this in mind), on top of this section one is terrible cause your deck is ass. So you get through section 1 finally on good pacing then you get through the next 3 sections as those are fine for the most part. Once in section 5 when you get to the dark signer fights you have to face Devack, Greiger and Kalin and all 3 of these fights are miserable when trying to speedrun. Devack is a tag duel with Luna who’s deck is single handedly one of the worst piles ever (spoiler you have to tag duel with her twice which makes it even worse) but you manage to go first and set up a board which can absolutely Devack even with the ai controlling it. Then comes Grieger, who would be fine if it wasn’t required to beat him after he summons his earthbound immortal (I get why this has to happen but it can take anywhere from 3 turns to 80 turns for him to summon it). And then comes Kalin’s duel which in my opinion has the potential to be the worst because his challenge is beginning the duel with no cards in hand and if he draws Infernity archfiend on his first draw it gives him so much advantage.
I could write a whole article about Legacy Of The Duelist. During 2015 this was the most recent official way to play YGO. It had a good format too, so when u weren’t against idiots playing DM in MR 3 it was fun. The problem was it never got updated and was just stuck in limbo. Eventually it got an update and added all sets up to SHVI but without the movie packs, which was great since u didn’t have loads of blue eyes decks. Once again, never got updated. Then they made link evolution, but it was a switch exclusive, and when it got ported it was a few months before Master Duel. There genuinely used to be a niche group of competitive LOTD players, which made sense since the weird format in that game was so diverse.
DotR was awesome for having for nearly all monsters at the time a 3D model, WITH A VIEWER. Also, Nightmare Troubadour was my entry into actual Yugioh paper rules. It had extensive tutorial, the chain link visuals made me grasp that concept.
Tag Force Evolution. Spent hours on that game. I remember trying to get Zane as a partner a lot (he loves plain sandwiches if I remember right). Took a run or two of act 1.
I will always remember playing Stairway to the Destined Duel, and making the game freak out. If you use Ground Collapse to lock out your opponents zones, then flip Cyber Jar, the game has no idea how to handle it, and you end up with a monster called Skull Knight, with the art for Crab Turtle who has 2380 ATK and 160 DEF.
I'm kinda shocked no one responded with "Yu-Gi-Oh Capsule Monster Coliseum" (at least, in the video). It was a PS2 game, released before the Capsule Monsters spin-off, and was basically Fire Emblem, but the units are various monsters from the TCG. Each match would have a "point limit" and you bring any monsters you wanted from your collection, so long as you were under the point buy limit. It was a lot of fun, had an element counter wheel. Featured a bunch of characters from the anime (all voiced by their original actors to my knowledge), and all the different boards were super cool, and had different effects/hazards to think about. It also featured the ability to pit different save files against in each in a 1v1 player duel. There was also an "Evolve" and "Fuse" mechanic to the game. Certain monsters could Evolve when they reached a certain requirements (usually boosting their power to a certain level from terrain bonuses or skills/abilities). Letting them transform into new, stronger monsters. For example, you could evolve Red Eyes into Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon by putting a level 4 Red Eyes on a square with a 60 dark power bonus. Fusions also worked in a similar way, where it depended on your monster levels, and they had to be next to each to fuse. Like creating Summoned Lord Exodia, you needed all 5 pieces to be level 2. Or Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which required 3 level 2 Blue-Eyes. Once you do either, that replaces the monster(s) used in the fusion in your collection from that point forward, which is kinda a bummer since some of those fusions (like Exodia) really clear out your collection progression, and also cost A LOT of points to bring into a duel. You basically get the fusion monster and nothing else. Really, it's biggest weakness was just the monster line-up was pretty weak. It has some of the big icons like Blue-Eyes, Dark Magician, Exodia, and Red Eyes. But it's also missing some other big ones like Legendary Fisherman, the Toon monsters, Relinquished, and several others. The fusion and evolve systems are also pretty meh. I went my entire childhood not even knowing about it, because it's never explained, and none of the opponents do it. But I know for myself, I'd love to see a remake/sequel to the game. I replayed it last year, and absolutely loved it. A larger monster roster (there were only 77 originally), with more of the iconic nostalgia ones, and a revamp/expanding on the fusions could be really fun. I'd be happy with a remake using the Duel Monsters characters, or a sequel that uses GX, which would really enforce updating the fusion stuff to be more prominent and useful since fusion summoning was more prominent in GX in general. 100% worth checking it out if you've never played it!
You should absolutely try the later Tag Force games, they have anime only cards supplemented as well and once you finish enough character stories (which only take about an hour each) then you can play traditional format with a single forbidden too. The Meklord cards work the exact same way they do in the anime 💀
In my childhood i found GX Card Almanac on a playground with the cartridge cover completely scratched. I really went hard about my discovery, but when i "played" it after several minutes i realised why someone abandoned it.
I was never a huge fan of all the games where the rules were different than standard Yugioh. I get they're fun and nostalgic for a lot of players but back in the day when I was a broke 20 something working at Starbucks, engaged and taking care of a sick parent, and busy too busy to go to the local OTS sites with my paper cards, I just wanted to build fun decks and play them in a standard format. Very few options back in the early 2000s. Dawn of Destiny and the one Gameboy Advance game is all I had as a go-to. 😥
Yoooooo this is wild! I turn 29 today and this is like a bday gift to me. Not only is this the first video in my feed but when I was a kid my mother gave me the option of going to wild adventures for my bday or getting forbidden memories. Gotta say that was the best use of my game shark I ever had.
World Championship 2006 went crazy hard. All you had to do was spend an afternoon kicking Scapegoat's and Skull Servant's asses 8 ways to Sunday and then spend all the DP to buy Chaos Emperor Dragon and Yata Garasu. It had built-in mandatory ban lists, but it had a selection of lists to choose from so you could just roll it back to the very first one and basically build full power Yata Lock and there was nothing most of the opponents could do about it. Throw in some XYZ Dragon Cannon pieces for an alternate win condition and of course some Monarchs, Treeborn Frog and just go ham. It's kind of fun to run through every opponent in the game back-to-back and lay waste to it all like a force of nature lmao. I also think that the Neo Daedalus misprint was legal so the water deck was the strongest starter deck by a mile but I don't recall 100%. I vaguely remember it being that way though. World Championship 2008 is where I spent my teen years though. Man what a crazy good game for what it was. Cards of Safe Return was legal so you could do a deep draw Exodia OTK with the Manticore of Darkness loop and again the computer just could not fight it if you got it rolling. I never built any meta decks in this one though but it did have this neat thing where after you finished playing the story mode you were allowed to use 1 banned card in your decks. Again, Chaos Emperor Dragon goes crazyyyy lmao. It was also the first game with playable Egyptian Gods which was fucking cool as hell. I mean it too - The Winged Dragon of Ra had an even better effect than it has in real life, in fact all the god cards were but Ra was especially good because it was a huge beatstick that was basically immune to everything else. Slifer suffered though lol Also you could team up with friends to duel the computer, and then use that friend's deck and avatar as a partner in the tag duel modes in the menu. It was a ton of fun man. Good times. I want to revisit World Championship 2011 because I played it all the way up to the point where you leave Crash Town, the starting area of the game, but then they let you play structure deck duels using premade decks with cards you don't actually own and I liked those cards way more than my own decks so I just never went beyond that haha
World Championship 2005 was a weird game with a rotating banlist week to week but the endgame where you could play with no banlist and could come up with all sorts of FTKs and shenanigans was fun.
I dont remember which one but I had one of the 5Ds games on one of the Gameboys that I really enjoyed. It had a walk-able map area, normal YuGiOh battles, and even a motorcycle-riding mode/minigame feature for some of the story. It took you through I think the entire First Arc of 5Ds (up to beating Godwin). It was cool.
Tag Force and World Championship NDS is best Yugioh Games :) in particular my favorite is Tag Force 3 also nowadays you can find them with MOD HD I remember that the english versions didn't have voices. Honorable mention for Forbidden memories I played a lot in my childhood, there are some of gameboys also gave me a few hours of fun 😁
forbidden memories is possibly the retro yugioh game with the most active community, there are many mods that range from changing the whole story and cards, or simply changing the amount of cards you earn per duel making farming much easier, my personal favorite.
Does anybody else remember Capsule Monster Coliseum on the PS2?? That game was my jam growing up and it was a fun mix of Yugioh and chess that was phenomenal to play. Good animations for the monsters battling and some nice leveling up to get big fusion monsters and even the concept of evolving monsters under certain circumstances (like petit moth to get into the ultimate insect monster, for instance).
I honestly love how many of these play nothing like actual Yu-Gi-Oh, the PS2/GCN/Xbox era really had a cool amount of experimentation from game devs generally and it makes these so interesting to revisit
How did none of these mentioned the falsebound kingdom? It was an RTS where you went through 3 storylines, Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey, collected new monsters, fusing actually did something. I vaguely remember the ending is fighting the Egyptian gods or something
So to give a very general description of YuGiOh the Sacred Cards, it’s basically just normal YuGiOh but there’s this weird type weakness system that supersedes stats (might also be in Reshef of Destruction). The plot is basically a modified version of the Battle City arc, specifically modified to include a main character OC that does most of the major battles. It’s fun, if a bit weird in some parts.
My yugioh gaming journey went as such: Forbidden Memories -> Duel of the Roses -> Capsule Monster Coliseum -> Tag Force Evolution / Beginning of Destiny All good albeit flawed games, except Forbidden Memories which was just cryptic beyond measure.
GX duel academy on the Gameboy will always hold a dear spot in my heart. Play the shit out of it back in the day. One of the best thing about it is a puzzle like mode where you get a established field and you have to figure out a way to otk your opp using what the game gave you. This mode teach me how to read the cards, learning different mechanic and different type of cards and effect. Its was so much fun. Sometime i wish they add this into Master Duel. Its would be a fun thing to do wen you sick of playing ladder, and it would be a neat way for newbie to learn different mechanic of the game and the important of reading the cards
I found Duelist of the Roses in a random, small timey video game store a few years back. Didn't come with the 3 cards (they never do), but it was in absolute mint condition. I bought it so quickly.
I like the implication of Duelists of the Roses. The regular anime was about Yugi being the reincarnation of the Pharaoh in the 90s while Duelists of the Roses implies that Yugi and company have been reincarnating in many historical time periods with that game just focusing arbitrarily on the time he was Henry Tudor.
Same, it's a cool concept
Also the gameplay is really good. It's Yugioh + Chess. There's a surprising amount of depth in the game.
@@IHasTube Yes, such as Immortal of Thunder being sexist and Shapesnatch being an Elder God as is made clear by his appearances in the Dark Yugitubing world.
I like the implication that Yugi’s son had two of his wives executed.
I think the big charm of the OG Yu-Gi-Oh! games is the fact they all played differently while we still had the game boy games which followed the real rules. In the manga, it was about the pharaoh playing different games in every chapter (blah blah king of games) and that was basically what it felt like they did with the OG games. Every game that came out, was different featuring the characters and monsters we loved and everything felt unique. If one game was ass, there was at least another that could end up being super fun. I think the key of having different options is what was soo cool so I could play Duelist of the Roses then go to the Gameboy games then go to something random like Forbidden memories.
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Rhymestyle, man of culture. I can always respect that!
Tag Force and World Championship series were the best games. I miss both dearly. Especially with the 5D’s WC games where you had Turbo Duels.
I’m so upset we never got a 5d’s WC 2014
I have 90 hour of tag force, the game is just too much fun
I think it's so cool that in the world championship games you could fully customize your duel runner for the riding duel parts and you HAD to optimize your build if you wanted to beat the harder races, they somehow put riding duels in a yugioh game and made it FUN
I love WC 2011, I loved doing the fast draw minigame in place of the rock-paper-scissors in Crash Town, or doing the "first to get past the first curve gets to choose" they did in the anime for the Turbo Duels, it was so cool.
I actually finally managed to get the 5 Tag Forces that were translated to English. First one's really slow going (albeit I'm holding it back to buy all the packs) but I can't wait to start transfering decks as I go through them all. And I can still restart Over the Nexus on NG+ any day for the story duels.
7:12 Reshef of Destruction is the Sacred Cards' direct-ish sequel, featuring an original plot, an expanded cardpool, and genuinely really fun story and character moments. It's also a grind festival that surpasses even Forbidden Memories in time investment children's tears spilt. A first playthrough knowing nothing about, Dark Duel Stories-type gameplay could take literal MONTHS. It's one of my favorite games.
Pickle Pegasus!
Yup was going to say this.
If I recall correctly, don't you not restore life points between duels? Because that sounds like an actual nightmare.
@@JzanderNThat is correct! In theory it creates tension through some points in the game where you must win through a gauntlet of duelists. In practice, it just ends up making the grind to get a playable deck in this game even more tedious and mind numbing.
@@JzanderN Yup, that's true!
The fact that Falsebound Kingdom or Capsule Monster Tournament didn't come up is honestly surprising to me, both of those games are really good
You think Falsebound is good? How? Painfully slow and unbalanced.
I love the GameCube, but no, Falsebound Kingdom isn't lol
As a Falsebound Kingdom enjoyer... I can't claim the game is good myself. However, it can be very enjoyable.
Honestly, the story and mechanics are pretty neat. The game just needed a shit-ton more polish.
@@yserareborn it was slow as molasses. It was really unbalanced. But I always enjoyed my team of Magician of Black Chaos, Dark Magician Girl, and BLS.
Honestly, FK is my junk food. I know it's awful, and I don't want it often, but I can't help but mindlessly enjoy it for hours at a time. I definitely think having grown up with it is to blame. Nostalgia is one hell of a thing.
Thank you for not jump scaring me with a ps2 startup animation, Dire.
That was a Gameboy Advance startup animation.
And i feel bad because they used the GBA SA instead of the gamecube's...
The ps2 startup is the best startup of any console no contest
@@MuteMaiden777I don't remember the ps2 startup that well. Isn't it the THX of consoles?
cant believe falsebound kingdom didnt come up, literally one of my favorite games of all time. Its controls were unintuitive and for some reason the copy if you wanted to play on your pc is bugged and freezes all the time, I have hundreds of hours on my old gamecube copy though. I really think if konami hammered out the bugs and flaws of it, it could have contested pokemon after an iteration or 2
I'm surprised too. Loved it as a kid, and unintuitive as it is, it's fun as an adult too, if you have the patience and remember how to play that is. I both do and don't recommend playing it.
I saw the Twitter thread a little after he posted it and there were plenty of people mentioning it. I'm guessing Joseph just didn't have much to say the first time and skipped over the others?
I’m trying something with that game called “Necrovalley mode”. Basically making it so that you can’t use a monster again after it loses all HP, plus other restrictions I outlined in a small vid. This is my first attempt with this rule set, and it’s actually making the game feel more like the strategy legitimately matters.
Still got it haha its fun to go back to every so often. My only gripe with it was that the teams marshals used were boring after a while and didnt vary much. Solid game though
Can we all agree that Ansatsu was most of the time the MVP on the Maps with how fast he was you easily put him as the Leader with two of your most powerful but slow monsters to destroy everything. With the equips he also was on the stronger side.
5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus was my personal favorite. It was fun, challenging, and had one of my favorite YuGiOh NPC's. Misaki will always be my girl.
Misaki making multiple people run away by just staring is the best
Smiles I want to protect:
I'm playing through it right now and I'm enjoying it a lot but the waiting times are just straight up insane... in some duels the AI can take more than 30 seconds for EVERY SINGLE MOVE, and in some extreme cases even a whole minute or two. In one of my recent duels I summoned my beloved Ancient Gear Golem (best archetype btw) and the AI decided to switch all of their 5 monsters on defense and place a single trap card and it took more than 5 minutes just to do that lmao
Still, despite this massive issue it's quickly becoming my second favourite game in the series, right after WC 2008. Kinda wish it still had the cool animated sprites from the past games, but I guess they removed them because they would've taken way too much space on the cartridge.
The world championship 5ds games will always be GOATED, an amazing adaptation of the 5ds storylines that allowed you to fully inmerse into the world of neo domino city with your donut steel OC while dueling your way though with the 5ds era cardpool, they had SOOOO much content and so many hours to play through and the decks the computer players had were pretty challenging and forced me to retry multiple times at certain points, i think it's a crime that these games haven't been re-released as a collection of games, because i would buy that shit DAY 1
Capsule Monsters for the PS2 is the best one. Fully voice acted by the actual VAs, fun chess playstyle but with effects and surprisingly deep rpg mechanics. The GOAT
THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE THAT ALSO EXPERIENCED CAPSULE MONSTERS 🐐
Got to love it! Actually making a video on it. Who knows if it will be good though hahaha. But I am loving this surge of videos for Yu Gi Oh lately!
WC2011 just the coolest, you had riding duels, you had your OC player character that got to play in the story of the anime (and shaft Crow to leave room for you in the process), you had your friends which were new characters Toru and Mizaki. Its also where I got my love for dragons, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon was the best card ever. The Tag Force games were also good, I remember finishing the vast majority of the storylines in 5 and being stumped at the protagonist being actually a robot from the future that Primo brought with him all along, it was crazy.
Honestly I was desperately waiting for someone to bring up capsule monsters colloseum. I played that game so much as a kid, thought the battle animations were the best thing ever and yet I've never seen a single person talk about it since.
Same!! I was waiting for it, and no one brought it up. I played that before Duelist of the Rose and honestly had more fun on Capsules. Maybe I'm just defective 😅
Literally that game and the PS2 Tag Force were the only games I played for a solid year and a half
@@deadmanking5385 People like what they like. Liking any of these games is fine because none of them are the same game, let alone Yugioh lol.
same here. I played it so much and wanted to have all the capsules, but man.. it's hard to play through. for 'modern standards' it's a real SLOW burner, the dialog repeats itself really quickly and getting some (or good) capsule enhancements are way to exhausting (some even need multiple playthroughs).
If you can take it.. then it is still a nice experience. :) Animations are fine, the chess-ish nature of the game is still something else and the localisation is to nostalgic to not like it.
This is my favorite yugioh game. Forbidden memories being 2nd only because of the nostalgia.
Honestly forbidden memories holds a special place for me because it was the first game I played that has a “unbeatable boss”. Like I would restart again and again against hesien(I don’t remember his name) just so I could open twin headed thunder in the hopes of winning, just for him to summon meteor black dragon and I just insta lose.
Then later in life I got the emulator, used cheats to fill my deck with the most powerful cards, and destroyed him only to realize you just keep dueling him over and over till you lose.
Heishin was the first boss of the game and you had to lose the duel with him anyways but once he appeared in the Free Duel menu...he was one of the first opponents that gives you good cards if you keep beating him constantly.
it does allow you to farm him quickly if you have enough cards to beat him at that point though
I can only assume you just rage quit every time he beat you given that it continues the story when that happens. Honestly relatable.
I think the music and “sound” of both the PS1 itself and Forbidden Memories is pretty nice, something about the weird synth horns and the 2D graphics in cut scenes was really appealing to me for some reason.
@@jaguarneroI've been going back to it's OST over the years and it still holds up.
I was a huge GX Spirit Caller fan back in the day. The mechanic where you got your own spirit partner and could level it up was really cool.
Any yugioh game that allows me to make an original oc donutsteel is automatically goated
@@DynamiteDominique fr this is why I love the ds games so much.
To this day, Adhesive Explosive has a special place in my heart because that was my duel spirit for some dumb reason.
@@thatonedude5277 the ds ones are my favorites to this day, something so cool and satisfying about the visual and sound effects they used (we meet once again if you remember me, nice pfp for the second time)
@@lunaromancia Nice pfp yourself. And ya the visuals and audio from those games are still so good.
World Championship 2011 was my first approach to the game.
I loved it but I didn't knew how to build a deck properly so I sticked with the structure of the Structure decks till almost the end game where I got sh*t on multiple times so i gave up.
Fun childhood memories
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum.
Everything was beautiful about that game; 3d pieces, a chess-like mechanic, but the most captivating thing about that game was the music. A truly enjoyable experience.
It's a sad thing to think that its obscureness will probably be the mere reason of its oblivion.
It holds a special place in my heart
@@ChadOfStats That game helped me in one of the darkest times in my life.
DOTR is still such a banger, the fact that you basically play by the rules of duelist kingdom where there's field bonuses and cards have effects adjacent to the anime. Like flame swordsman randomly is an effect monster that has a bonus against dinosaurs because...rex raptor duel. And call of the haunted is a spell. It's absurd but so satisfying to actually say "Yes. That IS how the card works."
Nightmare Troubador is neat because you get to redo arcs from the anime. Also it's goat format that trades Monarchs for more anime cards which is neat
To be fair, i had a lot of fun with Duelist of the Roses. So yes, do more of that, please.
I played the hell out of Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Yugi the Destiny when I was younger. My dad had it on his old laptop in the late 2000s and I look for that thing at least once a year so I can play that game again. Shoutout to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus.
Actually shocked to see no one mention Falsebound Kingdom. In the vein of yugioh games that weren't yugioh it was a rts game that when the units clashed on the field became a turn based rpg.
Imagining what a Falsebound Kingdom 2 would look like with Cross Duel's animations..
Add multiplayer and map making, it might work well
Honestly, I'd just love if it let you queue up movements, and/or menu while paused, and had fast forward, since the gameplay always felt too slow until it felt way too fast.
I'm surprised falsebound kingdom wasn't mentioned. I got the game in a stack of other GameCube games from a garage sale and at the time it was the only Yu-Gi-Oh related thing i could do that wasn't me just playing matches against myself with an evenly split pile deck seeing as nobody in my area played
Sacred Cards was played for hours by me and Nightmare Troubadour’s fully animated sprites for the monsters floating above their cards. I adored them.
>Dark Duel Stories card construction
Yes, that's where Mirror Swordsman, Cornfield Coatl, and Light Law Medium come from, the top halves were Mirror, Cornfield, and Light Law, and the bottom halves were Swordsman, Coatl, and Medium.
Wait, you're telling me they made some of those abominations into real cards? That's hilarious
@@Bleighckques 4 out of the 140 of them have been, yeah. Spherous lady was printed in the 2000s with different typing & artwork
Light law medium was printed in... 2021? Maybe 2022? They lowered her level and gave her a gimmicky battle phase control effect. It's not a good card, but it's funny & you could make some random ass jank strategy around it.
Both mirror swordsman and cornfield coatl are being printed in DUNE as the first wave of Illusion support that doubles as Chimera The Flying Mythical Beast support in Duelist Nexus (geddit? Because they can be used to make chimeric hybrid monsters in the game). They are Illusion monsters irl just like they were in Dark Duel Stories.
I bought Wheelie Breakers as a kid and then almost cried when I realized it was a racing game and wasn't like World Championship 2010/2011. Luckily the guys at gamestop were nice and let me return it.
Omg forbidden memories was so dang trippy when I was a kid. I could never beat the last duel and come to find out the enemy has every card in their deck, in their hand at any given time. Such a crock 😂
The early 2000s gave us such great Yugioh spin off games with DoTR, Capsule Monster Coliseum, and The Falsebound Kingdom. The alternative ways to play Yugioh as a chess like game, a tactical strategy game similar to Fire Emblem, and a classic RPG with turn based combat and items really demonstrated how much further the IP can go beyond the traditional card game.
Okay hear me out: Duelists of the Roses with Link Monsters would be super interesting
A modern version of Duelist of the Roses could have so many cool mechanics and features: modern extra deck monsters, using link arrows as some sort of formation-based effects enabler, much better AI, online PvP, boards with custom dimensions and more than 2 players (2 vs 2 on a 14x9 board for example), etc
Another one that could use a sequel is Capsule Monster Coliseum, be it as a PC/console game just expanding the formula of the original a lot, OR as a mobile gacha game (Capsule Monsters in the original manga is literaly a board game played with pieces obtained in gachapon machines, it just fits perfectly)
@@LeyvatenLoop didn't capsule monsters have yugi and mokuba pull their monsters at the start of each game?
a modern interpretation of that feels less like a gacha game, and more like an evolving draft like super battle pets or hearthstone battlegrounds
@@hi-i-am-atan Kinda, the thing is, those rules they used for Mokuba vs Yugi are not the normal rules of the game, as usually the players would just use anything they want from their collection, but instead they specifically decided to use the gacha machine they took from the store to make it a draft system (that is, if you're talking about the manga, the anime did the same thing with the first episode about it, but the second they just never explained what dictates what pieces they can use, so Yugi plays with a bunch of low level pieces for no explained reason :v)
@@LeyvatenLoopisn't this what cross duel tried to do?
@@Jonas-kz8zw How would it be? The only similarities are being a gacha game and using the Yugioh IP, aside from that those would be *completely* different games
Your closing remark was pretty on point. There are a bunch of things that draw me to the IP, nostalgia undoubtably being one, but the barriers to actually playing the game, mostly the money, lead me to the easier to access stuff.
I remember playing Forbidden Memories at a friend's house when the show had just started up in Canada. We already got a good laugh out of how little sense the show made, the game was just hilarious. I also remember it feeling really easy for awhile once you learn some good fusions, then all of a sudden you just start getting rolled. Oh and every once in awhile the AI just draws Exodia and wins.
MBT's reminiscing on WC04 got kinda mixed up with Eternal Duelist Soul I think? There's no calendar system in 2004, and EDS has Simon as that character you have to advance days by dueling to find.
Yeah, he was definitely talking about 2004. After EDS, there wasn't a game with a proper calendar until the GX games.
There is also was no password system in WCT04. It was removed for that game and that game only. Previous ones gave the cards for free, and they brought it back in later games where you spend in-game currency.
Loved the Tag Force series!! Every single one had something fun and the characters were different and you had to find out what they liked to get their friendship hearts filled
My forever favorites in this order will be: Duelist of the Roses, Falsebound kingdom, and YGO WC 2005
The Eternal Duelist Soul is literally how I learned to actually play the game as a kid
Did anyone else love 7 Trials to Glory on the GBA? It not only had an in-game rotating Forbidden/Limited list, but weekly in game tournaments with different formats, even some with special rules. Then you could unlock the Shadow Realm post game and duel the anime villains with no F/L list and the like. The music was incredible too!
There's absolutely a reason they used 7 Trials dueling music for this video. It's so good
3x Painful Choice, Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, and pre-errata Dark Magician of Chaos.
Everybody should experience it at least once
I've been playing this on my phone. My current strat is using Robbin' Goblin and White Magical Hat to destroy my opponent's hand and gain all the card advantage. I've been patiently waiting for better packs to come in, but I've been able to get Spear Dragon and Airknight Parshath.
The postgame is fun but 7 Trials isn't really good. You spend 90% of your play time just sleeping to skip for the next day while you wait for a tournament to randomly spawn.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction is the "Dark souls" of the Yugioh games, love or hate the grind the game demands, it had something magical about it (probably pure nostalgia)
Another note about Duel Transer; instead of a password system, it has its own Wii peripheral that let you directly scan cards into the game. Take a wild guess how easy to get your hands on this peripheral is (hint; not very) - and there are MULTIPLE POINTS in the story that having it lets you access faster routes. I have no idea what a speedrun would look like but I can't imagine shelling out a Tearalament level price tag for the optimal run is helping matters
Can you turn the scanner to a computer screen to scan all the cards from the internet?
@@illdoittomorrow2368 I don't think so, you might be able to trick it with a phone though (assuming it fits in the scanner which is quite small)
Tag Force 5 was a beast of a game. They even had a show mode, where you could designate certain cards in your deck, and if your turn started while your opponent had lethal on board, that card would miraculously come to your hand.
You could also Dark Synchro summon, which was freaking awesome. And it let you play some of the anime only cards that were broken as hell.
The ability to Dark Synchro summon and summon Machine Emperor cards the anime way, flooding your monster zones with the parts, is worth the game price alone.
Oh gosh that sound effect in the MBT intro, my childhood
Yugioh Capsule Monsters Coliseum is and always will be one of my favorites. Recently went back to play it again and it's still a great time.
Man I love the Tag Force series. Sometimes during the year when I have desire to play yugioh, but don't want to play Master Duel (because a lot of reasons) I come back to one of the games and play for a while. I never completed the story of all characters in one of the games, but I still love this series and I demand a new Tag Force game.
Forbidden memories was just fun for me since it rewarded you for finding fusion chains and typing to kill certain things and really only took 1 3000+ atk card drop to really take off your grinding ability.
It wasnt really until later that i bought stardust accelerator 2009 for the promo cards, fought a few things and ended up against a full powered chaos lightsworm and pre-banlist zombies. It was so fascinating to see the AI triple plague spreader zombie to get a full board of synchro's inclusing pre-errata goyo guardian.
How is it possible that no one mentioned Nightmare Troubadour?!?!
That game is genuinely pretty good. Cool digital representation of the Goat format.
Whilst i owned stairway to the destined duel and 7 trials to glory, Duelists of the roses and Reshef of destruction are the ones i have most memories for. DOR because i got to play against friends on it by lending the game out for weeks at a time as data was kept on memory cards and Reshef of destruction as that 1 game that kicked my ass constantly until i replayed it as an adult
I remember wheelie breakers fondly and played it so much , mainly because my brothers would never let me play their Mario kart Wii games and this was the closest I ever got to Mario kart
My favorites were 5ds world championship 2009 and 11
But spirit caller took so much out of my time and going from sliver to raa to oblesik in the gx academy felt cool as heck
Wanted a sequel to it but of course never got it
I didn't play 2009 until last year, since I was out of the game by that point, and I was a bit of a snobby "card games on motorcycles" kid in that era, but I really wish I had it growing up. Easily my favorite Yugioh game that I've played, and it fully turned me around on that era of yugioh. The fact that you could play tele-DAD, and not have it cost hundreds or thousands of dollars probably helped that too (though by the end game I'd switched up to a sort of control-Glad Beasts build, which was also pretty fun)
I recently played through The Sacred Cards and it was a blast.
How? It's so easy that you barely engage with it.
@@FlaggedStar I’m confused what you mean by being engaged by it? I played through the full campaign and it was nice playing through a different version of Battle City ark. It was easy in difficulty but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun. Not all games have to be extremely difficult to be fun.
i have the fondest memories playing and grinding the Power of Chaos series of games for PC. spending countless hours taking turns between me, my brother and father, each with our own decks, trying to unlock all the cards and eventually setting up the LAN connection duels to play against each other. i find it weird that these games aren't as popular as i thought they'd be.
The Falsebound Kingdom will always be my favorite. 3v3 turn based rpg style combat with teams of monsters that had sick 3D models was insanely fun and it was all wrapped up in a tactics package
I still remember playing Duel Generation years ago on the phone. It was a blast climbing through the character roster of the series (no story though), but i do remember one frustrating thing that there was no booster packs dividing the pools. You were basically pulling random cards (i think either 6 or 7?) in the pile pool with every single card in the game (also dismantling and generating cards didn't exist here). Even then it was still kinda fun finding niche combos outta cards i never knew existed in the game before.
I put Duelists of the Roses in the thread as my favorite but honestly, the World Championship series is undoubtedly the most interesting because Konami was the first company out there making annual games to be supported at their own World Championship event. Like it's cool that they've brought back the spirit of this practice with Master Duel Worlds but there's something missing when the software isn't being explicitly built to be played at tournaments.
The appeal of these Yugioh games is that they are our childhood, they define us for what we want for an entertaining experience. For me it was Duelist of the Roses, Duel Academy/WC 2006 AND the Tag Force series. These games made me always happy and they still do. Plus the grind on stuff like DOR, the GBA games and TF are worth wild compared to the gem grind of Duel Links or Master Duel and you don't grunt when you go up against an unfair deck. Konami should give us back these experience, remaster them or at least bring them back to the future. I WANT to play DOR, PC, without my PC suffering because it can't handle the PCSX2's tasking requirements. GIVE US THESE GAMES BACK KONAMI!
I'm a little sad nobody went into more detail about Nightmare Troubadour. It was the first Yu-gi-oh game for the Nintendo DS and was the first to have fully integrated 3d models for every single monster. This game let you live your fanfiction dream as an OC, participating in local tournaments by day while defeating the villains from Duelist Kingdom in Shadow Games by night. You eventually become a participant in Battle City, and even get a god card, but the one you get depends on certain events in the story. Ishizu has you and kaiba fight for Obelisk, and if you lose, then you become the one who duels Strings instead of Yugi and get Slifer. It's a super engaging original story, while still being Yugioh.
Forbidden memories had fully modeled monsters if you held triangle before attacking it showed them doing an attack inside an area of whatever field spell is current active.
Falsebound Kingdom was absolutely stellar, and it's a crime it's not here.
Super fun game I remember playing it vividly on the gameboy back in 2005 never actually got very far in campaign tho I remember the worm being really annoying.
No one mentioned Falsbound Kingdom!!! That game slapped harder than my dad when I came out. But seriously it still has some of the best 3d models for classic dm monsters ever!
Holy the MBT screen brought back mad memories
yugioh forbidden memories is probably my favorite one hands down, such a weird game and so grindy, but idk I grew up with it and I go back and play it through every now and then.
WCS 2009 will forever be in my heart as probably the first game that made me properly ragequit. In one of the earlier areas (some gang hideout I think) there's a guy with a mill/deckout strategy with Needle Worm and Morphing Jar #2 who just destroyed me over and over again. Took young me a really long time to finally get past the guy
I was like 13 when duel transer was to be released, the game was announced it got me so hyped, after you beat the game the games bots start to play solely with decks filled with banned cards (one of them plays lightsworns with 3 painful choice and 3 sixth sense) still when i turn it on i have an absolute blast
Yuigho Bam is what got me back into yuigho...... Had a machine deck that was so broken because Mechanicalchaser was the best normal summon in the game.
Eternal Duelist Soul's music is forever in my head
Yugioh! The Falsebound Kingdom is still one of my favorite yugioh games. The game shows it's age hard now. It's clunky, repetitive, overly complex, and SLOW, but there was so much potential.
It was an RTS/Turn-based RPG hybrid where characters from the show would lead teams of 3 monsters to fight and take control of towns until they would take out the boss of each level. It took place in a virtual reality game that the characters got trapped in a la the Noah Arc from DM.
The game started incredibly slow, but once you got to the middle of the first story, the games depth started to show. Polymerization was an item that the monsters could use to make creatures like Valkyrion and Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon, Spellcasters could use powerful "spell" items, Monsters had attribute colors that would slowly change the Leaders attribute color and when the leader's color matched the color of the monster they would gain buffs, Monsters would roam specific maps that you could recruit (some of them requiring you to beat them first). Personally, I can't play this game anymore unless I have some sort of fast-forward function. I wish they would revisit this concept and clean it up a bit.
So I have to talk about the 2010 world championships game reverse of Arcadia. I just played through this game for what is probably my 15th time. I have to say the blocky graphics are amazing with some of the cutscenes. You have Sayer/Divine activate Hinotama on you outside of the duel after you beat him but because there’s minus staff basically sitting in your ass it just stops in front of you and just reverse back at sayer as if you played an uno reverse card then not even 3 minutes later you see him fall to his death flailing his limbs on the blocky graphics. It’s so funny. Also I do have to bring up that I have been trying to speedrun this game in a new game plus no ftk category but it’s ass cause you have 3 terrible duels at the end along with a bunch of other shitters throughout the story. Basically and any tag duel is shit cause the decks everyone plays are shit (keep this in mind), on top of this section one is terrible cause your deck is ass. So you get through section 1 finally on good pacing then you get through the next 3 sections as those are fine for the most part. Once in section 5 when you get to the dark signer fights you have to face Devack, Greiger and Kalin and all 3 of these fights are miserable when trying to speedrun. Devack is a tag duel with Luna who’s deck is single handedly one of the worst piles ever (spoiler you have to tag duel with her twice which makes it even worse) but you manage to go first and set up a board which can absolutely Devack even with the ai controlling it. Then comes Grieger, who would be fine if it wasn’t required to beat him after he summons his earthbound immortal (I get why this has to happen but it can take anywhere from 3 turns to 80 turns for him to summon it). And then comes Kalin’s duel which in my opinion has the potential to be the worst because his challenge is beginning the duel with no cards in hand and if he draws Infernity archfiend on his first draw it gives him so much advantage.
yeah, I like the game but the Kalin duel is atrocious lol, just a huge sack fest
@@drianna75 absolutely it’s nice that the rest of the game is free though outside of maybe lazar and that’s only true if he draws discord
I could write a whole article about Legacy Of The Duelist. During 2015 this was the most recent official way to play YGO. It had a good format too, so when u weren’t against idiots playing DM in MR 3 it was fun.
The problem was it never got updated and was just stuck in limbo. Eventually it got an update and added all sets up to SHVI but without the movie packs, which was great since u didn’t have loads of blue eyes decks. Once again, never got updated.
Then they made link evolution, but it was a switch exclusive, and when it got ported it was a few months before Master Duel.
There genuinely used to be a niche group of competitive LOTD players, which made sense since the weird format in that game was so diverse.
DotR was awesome for having for nearly all monsters at the time a 3D model, WITH A VIEWER.
Also, Nightmare Troubadour was my entry into actual Yugioh paper rules. It had extensive tutorial, the chain link visuals made me grasp that concept.
Tag Force Evolution. Spent hours on that game. I remember trying to get Zane as a partner a lot (he loves plain sandwiches if I remember right). Took a run or two of act 1.
Every Tag Force game is goated tbh
Best part is how they actually give you a good starter deck in most of them
Duelist of the roses is still one of my favorites games of all time
Duelist of the Rose's was literally my entire childhood.
I will always remember playing Stairway to the Destined Duel, and making the game freak out. If you use Ground Collapse to lock out your opponents zones, then flip Cyber Jar, the game has no idea how to handle it, and you end up with a monster called Skull Knight, with the art for Crab Turtle who has 2380 ATK and 160 DEF.
I need this on video.
I'm kinda shocked no one responded with "Yu-Gi-Oh Capsule Monster Coliseum" (at least, in the video). It was a PS2 game, released before the Capsule Monsters spin-off, and was basically Fire Emblem, but the units are various monsters from the TCG. Each match would have a "point limit" and you bring any monsters you wanted from your collection, so long as you were under the point buy limit. It was a lot of fun, had an element counter wheel. Featured a bunch of characters from the anime (all voiced by their original actors to my knowledge), and all the different boards were super cool, and had different effects/hazards to think about. It also featured the ability to pit different save files against in each in a 1v1 player duel.
There was also an "Evolve" and "Fuse" mechanic to the game. Certain monsters could Evolve when they reached a certain requirements (usually boosting their power to a certain level from terrain bonuses or skills/abilities). Letting them transform into new, stronger monsters. For example, you could evolve Red Eyes into Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon by putting a level 4 Red Eyes on a square with a 60 dark power bonus. Fusions also worked in a similar way, where it depended on your monster levels, and they had to be next to each to fuse. Like creating Summoned Lord Exodia, you needed all 5 pieces to be level 2. Or Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which required 3 level 2 Blue-Eyes. Once you do either, that replaces the monster(s) used in the fusion in your collection from that point forward, which is kinda a bummer since some of those fusions (like Exodia) really clear out your collection progression, and also cost A LOT of points to bring into a duel. You basically get the fusion monster and nothing else.
Really, it's biggest weakness was just the monster line-up was pretty weak. It has some of the big icons like Blue-Eyes, Dark Magician, Exodia, and Red Eyes. But it's also missing some other big ones like Legendary Fisherman, the Toon monsters, Relinquished, and several others. The fusion and evolve systems are also pretty meh. I went my entire childhood not even knowing about it, because it's never explained, and none of the opponents do it.
But I know for myself, I'd love to see a remake/sequel to the game. I replayed it last year, and absolutely loved it. A larger monster roster (there were only 77 originally), with more of the iconic nostalgia ones, and a revamp/expanding on the fusions could be really fun. I'd be happy with a remake using the Duel Monsters characters, or a sequel that uses GX, which would really enforce updating the fusion stuff to be more prominent and useful since fusion summoning was more prominent in GX in general.
100% worth checking it out if you've never played it!
You should absolutely try the later Tag Force games, they have anime only cards supplemented as well and once you finish enough character stories (which only take about an hour each) then you can play traditional format with a single forbidden too. The Meklord cards work the exact same way they do in the anime 💀
Decade duels plus was my introduction to playing yugioh back in 2013 lol stoked to see someone else mention it
Tag Force 3 was literally my favourite game as a teen. The music still makes me smile to this day. Loved the mini games too!
In my childhood i found GX Card Almanac on a playground with the cartridge cover completely scratched. I really went hard about my discovery, but when i "played" it after several minutes i realised why someone abandoned it.
I was never a huge fan of all the games where the rules were different than standard Yugioh. I get they're fun and nostalgic for a lot of players but back in the day when I was a broke 20 something working at Starbucks, engaged and taking care of a sick parent, and busy too busy to go to the local OTS sites with my paper cards, I just wanted to build fun decks and play them in a standard format. Very few options back in the early 2000s. Dawn of Destiny and the one Gameboy Advance game is all I had as a go-to. 😥
Duelist 👏 of 👏 the 👏 roses.
Definitely in the top 3 Yugioh games of all times in ny book.
Honorary Mention to Capsule Monster Coliseum on the PS2, my first interaction with YuGiOh
Yoooooo this is wild! I turn 29 today and this is like a bday gift to me. Not only is this the first video in my feed but when I was a kid my mother gave me the option of going to wild adventures for my bday or getting forbidden memories. Gotta say that was the best use of my game shark I ever had.
World Championship 2006 went crazy hard. All you had to do was spend an afternoon kicking Scapegoat's and Skull Servant's asses 8 ways to Sunday and then spend all the DP to buy Chaos Emperor Dragon and Yata Garasu. It had built-in mandatory ban lists, but it had a selection of lists to choose from so you could just roll it back to the very first one and basically build full power Yata Lock and there was nothing most of the opponents could do about it. Throw in some XYZ Dragon Cannon pieces for an alternate win condition and of course some Monarchs, Treeborn Frog and just go ham. It's kind of fun to run through every opponent in the game back-to-back and lay waste to it all like a force of nature lmao. I also think that the Neo Daedalus misprint was legal so the water deck was the strongest starter deck by a mile but I don't recall 100%. I vaguely remember it being that way though.
World Championship 2008 is where I spent my teen years though. Man what a crazy good game for what it was. Cards of Safe Return was legal so you could do a deep draw Exodia OTK with the Manticore of Darkness loop and again the computer just could not fight it if you got it rolling. I never built any meta decks in this one though but it did have this neat thing where after you finished playing the story mode you were allowed to use 1 banned card in your decks. Again, Chaos Emperor Dragon goes crazyyyy lmao. It was also the first game with playable Egyptian Gods which was fucking cool as hell. I mean it too - The Winged Dragon of Ra had an even better effect than it has in real life, in fact all the god cards were but Ra was especially good because it was a huge beatstick that was basically immune to everything else. Slifer suffered though lol Also you could team up with friends to duel the computer, and then use that friend's deck and avatar as a partner in the tag duel modes in the menu. It was a ton of fun man. Good times.
I want to revisit World Championship 2011 because I played it all the way up to the point where you leave Crash Town, the starting area of the game, but then they let you play structure deck duels using premade decks with cards you don't actually own and I liked those cards way more than my own decks so I just never went beyond that haha
I can't believe no one mentioned Spirit caller I love that game
World Championship 2005 was a weird game with a rotating banlist week to week but the endgame where you could play with no banlist and could come up with all sorts of FTKs and shenanigans was fun.
I dont remember which one but I had one of the 5Ds games on one of the Gameboys that I really enjoyed. It had a walk-able map area, normal YuGiOh battles, and even a motorcycle-riding mode/minigame feature for some of the story. It took you through I think the entire First Arc of 5Ds (up to beating Godwin). It was cool.
Yugioh Nightmare Troubadour, World Championships 2008, and GX Tag Force were my favorites!
Tag Force and World Championship NDS is best Yugioh Games :) in particular my favorite is Tag Force 3 also nowadays you can find them with MOD HD I remember that the english versions didn't have voices. Honorable mention for Forbidden memories I played a lot in my childhood, there are some of gameboys also gave me a few hours of fun 😁
Duel transer was my first yugioh game and i think was my introduction to it i didn't understand the game as a kid but i loved it for what it was
forbidden memories is possibly the retro yugioh game with the most active community, there are many mods that range from changing the whole story and cards, or simply changing the amount of cards you earn per duel making farming much easier, my personal favorite.
Does anybody else remember Capsule Monster Coliseum on the PS2?? That game was my jam growing up and it was a fun mix of Yugioh and chess that was phenomenal to play. Good animations for the monsters battling and some nice leveling up to get big fusion monsters and even the concept of evolving monsters under certain circumstances (like petit moth to get into the ultimate insect monster, for instance).
Dark duel stories is one of my all time favorite games in any genre and I’d boot that shit up literally any day
5D's World Championship 2011: Over The Nexus will forever be my favorite
I honestly love how many of these play nothing like actual Yu-Gi-Oh, the PS2/GCN/Xbox era really had a cool amount of experimentation from game devs generally and it makes these so interesting to revisit
How did none of these mentioned the falsebound kingdom? It was an RTS where you went through 3 storylines, Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey, collected new monsters, fusing actually did something. I vaguely remember the ending is fighting the Egyptian gods or something
No mention of capsule monsters coliseum is incredible, that game SLAPS
So to give a very general description of YuGiOh the Sacred Cards, it’s basically just normal YuGiOh but there’s this weird type weakness system that supersedes stats (might also be in Reshef of Destruction). The plot is basically a modified version of the Battle City arc, specifically modified to include a main character OC that does most of the major battles. It’s fun, if a bit weird in some parts.
My yugioh gaming journey went as such:
Forbidden Memories -> Duel of the Roses -> Capsule Monster Coliseum -> Tag Force Evolution / Beginning of Destiny
All good albeit flawed games, except Forbidden Memories which was just cryptic beyond measure.
GX duel academy on the Gameboy will always hold a dear spot in my heart. Play the shit out of it back in the day. One of the best thing about it is a puzzle like mode where you get a established field and you have to figure out a way to otk your opp using what the game gave you. This mode teach me how to read the cards, learning different mechanic and different type of cards and effect. Its was so much fun. Sometime i wish they add this into Master Duel. Its would be a fun thing to do wen you sick of playing ladder, and it would be a neat way for newbie to learn different mechanic of the game and the important of reading the cards
Nightmare Troubadour was awesome. Genuinely enjoyed it!
I found Duelist of the Roses in a random, small timey video game store a few years back. Didn't come with the 3 cards (they never do), but it was in absolute mint condition. I bought it so quickly.
Every time I see Duelist of the Roses it unlocks a hidden memory I didn't know I had...
I can't tell you how many times I've played through World Championship '08 in my life.