So I'm guessing future games let you do this but by holding and pressing the a button for you to start a chain between phases with a trap card. I went back to try it out in this game cause I saw a few comments about this here and it turns it that I was spot on in the video still. I tried activating light force sword on their standby phase similar to trap dust shoot and the game just ignored by button hold and presses. I can activate when it's end phase but the game prompts that without me holding anything. the opponent however was able to activate light force sword on me in the standby phase though so this has to be a player bug? I may be missing something idk. EDIT - I FOUND THE BUTTON. ITS L!!!! you hold the L button lmao. So if your playing this game and want to use a card on their standby phase, hold down the l button. Also while your here I'm gonna be streaming the Yugioh libra mod on my twitch as per the request of someone on Patreon! www.twitch.tv/gameboyladd Been off schedule because of editing but I should be on tonight with some Pokemon Stadium 2 and the next day with capsule colosseum Rest of my links here as well! My www.patreon.com/gameboylad if you want to show some extra support. It helps A LOT My twitter is twitter.com/Gameboylad My Discord server is discord.gg/Ct5dGKKVPQ IF YOU JOIN IT, MESSAGE ME FOR A ROLE OTHERWISE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE THE CHANNELS
Oh shit! I was about to make some snarky remark, checked if the A button holding trick works, saw it didn't and gave up. lmao so it worked sort of as I remembered. but RIP because my DS's shoulder buttons are DEAD
@@PrimordialNightmare it's all good lol. Looking back I wouldn't be surprised if most who played this game didn't know either cause one or both shoulders breaking was pretty common
I remember dueling Kaiba for hours so that i could get him to compliment my dueling skills through the affinity system. His validation meant a lot to my middle schooler brain
This and Tag Force Special occupy a fun spot in my appreciation for Yugioh video games in that each of them is set in the middle of a really good format that makes the card pool really nice to play around with (Goat Format and Nekroz respectively). This is a better game though lol
The jump from NT's overall game design to TFS is a humungous one. But i feel like TFS would be way more enjoyable if it had an actual proper Translation than what exists right now.
This game comes so close to scratching the itch for goat but missing key cards like chaos sorc and monarchs is a downer. The game is still worth playing cause everything from the mid to late game is so fun. I wish there were more games during the mega tin format (nickname I have for 2015 format before that September ban list that made the tin damn near worthless) that's like the peak of YGO for me. Thank you so much for pulling up btw!
Phenomenal video; lots of great memories and nostalgia! No Yu-Gi-Oh! game was perfect (most of them were far from it), but as a kid, I appreciated the monsters "coming to life," as it felt like you were actually in the anime on the streets of Battle City; a huge step forward compared to GBA games.
YES! I also loved the fact that it was the first game to go over the some events in the anime in it's own way with the first part being a mix of duelist kingdom and the second part being battle city. They even fitted the noah arc into it. Some games did before but it wasn't with the TCG rules which was always a bummer. I think the games become a huge step up after this one, especially the 5d's WCS games. They start to be games that give casual players the stepping stones on proper deck building and playing the game
I always loved the 3D model sprites they used for the monsters in the DS games. It felt like the closest thing to being able to duel someone irl with hologram monsters (at least until Augmented Reality and VR stuff came along).
if they actually kept the feature, added a skip summoning animation button/toggle so you don't waste too much time on it but it's still there and with graphic fidelity nowadays it would've become pretty amazing, but konami is doing yugioh so dirty.@@gameboylad
YOOOO THAT 3RD STRIKE INTRO WAS GODLIKE I would consider posting that as a youtube short by itself so more people can see it, it deserves attention. SO good.
@@gameboylad Yo did you upload it? I need the link! Bruh as a competitive 3rd strike player for years... seeing this (and being a huge yugi fan and especially of this game) made me lose my mind. Insane edit!
During the big 1-4 part you can tap the house icon to go home and save between duels. Only big 5 mokuba noah and gozaburo you have to do in a row. The night in this part is endless until this section is over.
The DS era of yugioh games is so nostalgic for me, it’s around the time I first understood how to play the card game and between watching gx and 5ds in the mornings and spending my free time grinding wc 2008,2009 and 2011. The osts are ingrained in my mind. Playing this game I understand it’s definitely a prototype for those since it so far feels kinda slow
The DS games were excellent, I just didn't like how some cards from complete sets were cut out, notably Bazoo the Soul Eater was absent in one of those games.
I absolutely LOVE your Retro Yugioh Game indepth Reviews, i ALWAYS watch/listen to them while playing along with you, or maling irl Goat Format Decks, or sleeving cards, keep making more!! And lets plays!!
To be fair, kaiba of all people is someone that i 100% expect to barge into my home like he owned the place if it suited his needs. (hell, he probably _does_ own that house if DSoD is anything to go by)
This is the best video about Nightmare Troubadour to ever drop on youtube. I’m so so so happy someone else talks about this game and remembers it. Thank you so much for this excellent video
Third Strike's opening is probably my favorite for any fighting game ever, so 54:54 had me screaming, such an amazing work, man! Great video as always, I remember playing the hell out of this game when I was in highschool, but really did NOT remember it took so long for the game to take off and start for real. I guess I was having way too much fun grinding the game to buy packs and play it with my friends during break, so I really just didn't notice the story going nowhere for so long lol So many memories of playing it on my DS at home and trying to not get caught when dueling in class, this game was a blast back then, when I hadn't played too many YGO video games.
Having binged a lot of these lately, I just want to say I absolutely love the passion you have behind videos. Your style of delivery is so comfortable and conversational, you insert references to your interests and comedic bits in a fun way that makes me interested in what you have to say and how you say it as much as the topic, and you do really solid analysis of the game as a game, its place in Yu-Gi-Oh's history, comparisons to the then-current metagame, and its context in relation to the rest of its series. These are easy "oh wow an hour just passed watching this, huh?" kinds of watches and just wanted to kinda reflect on how you're doing a great job with these! So thank you!
Thank you so much! It means a lot to me when I read comments like this cause I put a lot of time into these and sometimes doubt myself. This is the kind of validation I need to push myself forward
This was my absolute favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! game. I poured hours upon hours into this. The 3D models, the fact that you could see the card art, playable God cards... I could go on and on.
Played this game for the first time in decades when I was sick with COVID. It is very grindy but I had a real blast reliving the Yugioh of my childhood with my adult brain and helped me get through being super sick.
got to the point where you called Fairy Meteor Crush a trash card, and while I do agree, I also find it to be kinda trollzy. In the game if you equip an *Opponent's* monster with it, THEY take the damage you would take because FMC is your card. Kinda hilarious to stick it on their big boss and enjoy the ride. :P
for me, FMC did save me some stress early to midgame due to it's option to break through enemy defenses, espeically if I don't have Eye Shadows or Defense Stop with me, or in some cases Block Attack xD
9:50…. The Cynthia jumpscare 🫠, but all in all great video. I love these more in-depth reviews of the older YGO games like this: what works, what doesn’t, mechanics etc.
This game came to me at the right time, played it on my dsi during a long plane flight to and fro lmao. consecutive duels were so tense in this game man
I wish Konami would port old YGO games like this to the Switch or PC and price them fairly, because I'd totally pay 5-10 bucks for a lot of them. Super fun and nostalgic games!
@@Aigis31 I hgave my DS with Spirit Caller and Nightmare Troubadour stil llaying around (in fact I recently picked up the former again) and I still would play money for a port, or even better: a Remaster.
@@gameboylad How I wish I could make something like that in a day. Even making an amateur little video for the laughs can be a pain at times. RUclipsrs truly are ascended entities.
Yup yup although you have to own the card in the game already before using the password to get a copy. it's fine though, I was still able to make harpies with the password system lol
I was soooo excited when I tried this on a later World Championship DS game, but NOPE, it asked for 1000 DP or something for the card I wanted the most. In real life you are better off buying used cards as opposed to packs, but in these games? Speedrunners buy packs.
You know, Joey really would make a good player character for one of these old-school Yu-Gi-Oh! games considering he uses a lot of random stuff in both the source material and the games just like a player scratching for cards to get by.
Crazy how foundational this game was for future ones. Clearly made on the same engine used for the other world championship games. Introduced the relationship system tag force, and even the honored tradition of tag force games forgetting to censor character's boobs.
what the hell happened to humanity in the last 20 or so years i will never understand, i grew up in a time where the first tomb raider was all the rage, i was a teen full of testosterone at the time horny all the time but for some reason, i never noticed anything hot about Lara Croft or for that matter, boobs in ygo cards, i play the game since it came out and would firs notice boobs as such in 2016 when a testing partner brought up censorship, dont get me wrong, i loved the artworks in ygo big time, the oldschool ones even more, and really paid attention to them when i was looking at new cards and artworks were super important to me for liking and playing a specific deck, if it did not have most of the cards with artworks i liked i would not play it, but for some reason, not me not the 3 dudes that started along with me to play the game not any subsequent player for 10 years never mentioned boobies in card artworks....
@@weedhigh2564 I was talking about Mai's bust not any of the cards. 4kids shrunk her and later characters' breasts in their dub because they wanted to market to a younger audience, and in this game they didnt censor it for consistency. This is also a thing in the tagforce games, namely with Aki in the 5Ds ones. Also only reason you dont remember anything like this from yugioh in the card game is probably because it was also censored up until few years ago. They only continue to censor cards that already were for consistency, like most of the Harpie Ladies are all pretty much naked but were censored to look like they have body suits. Theres also Dark Magician Girl's big boobs which are consistently deminished.
@@CatManThreeWell, that's the majority of the censors for sure, but cards DO still get "censored"- usually in such minor ways that it's shocking they did it and anyone even noticed. The Exosisters (or w/e the military girl archetype was called) has their colors changed to be less militaristic and more cartoony. Fairy Tail - Snow had her Colosseum changed to not be too similar to Disney's Snow White iirc. Cards as recent as the Tearlaments still get small outfit adjustments, lengthening skirts, shorts, adding more clothing to the stomach, etc. It's not nearly as crazy and noticeably different as in the 2000s, but it still happens, funny enough.
@@Aigis31 Damn, only case I knew out of these was Exosisters. Exosisters were recolored most likely because anything containing references to imperial japan in media gets censored for Korea, and censorship shared between Korea and the TCG. The recolors were also more or less just, brightening the already color coded outfits to look less black. Idk why theyd censor the other stuff.
I loved the Duel Puzzles. Made for a really nice side attraction. They put a lot of effort into them. And that puzzle with the Battleguards that's a total subversion and you're supposed to do something else entirely? Genius.
I will admit, I was one of those that thought the Vampire could make your attack your own monsters. Also had a friend that used to say Infinite Cards lets you draw as many cards as you wanted lol
Funny story about this game: when I was about 6 or so my dad took me to this game shop to get my very first DS cartridge. I told my dad I wanted a Yu-Gi-Oh game (had literally never played yugioh in my life) and I pointed this one out for him to buy. It was at this moment that the owner decided to display astronomical levels of hating by calling my bluff. "Do you know what a duel is?" He asked me condescendingly. I did not. Long story short we left the game shop with a used Pokemon leafgreen cartridge lmao. That didn't stop me from getting into yugioh when I was older though Now I'm a grown man still playing Master Duel constantly raging against Tear-Ishizu and Spright lmao. In conclusion, fuck that one guy for robbing me the experienc of playing this game. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.
That employee was lame as fuck what the hell??? It's a children's card game and it wasn't even that crazy at the time. Gatekeeping kids is so low what a dirtbag
I've been around for a while in this game. I played from the start up to 2018. I still play Edison and goat and keep up with modern yugioh every now and then. I'm too deep in the property lol
Your video's are genuinely a treat! Looking forward to the pokemon video as I have never played it. Addressing 6:29, I don't blame them. The systems and engines they are using for master duel is different from that era. Translating it into the current system is possible but time consuming. Now code EVERY card in YGO and all the rulings! Not to mention developing an efficient system and engine to fetch rulings and code all the effects, man it sounds like an engineers nightmare! This is why when people mock master duel I can't help but shake my head, it's a miracle they even got it working from an engineer's POV!
With a card pool that big, they probably have to test a lot of interactions and clear out bugs before considering releasing an archetype. Plus people pay for the service so you can't risk releasing something buggy
Fam, a lot of the Yu-Gi-Oh games you review I don't even play, but the memes and references / OST you have of other games make it so enjoyable to watch.
This one was of the first DS games I ever got as a kid, next to Animal Crossing and Metroid Hunters. I didn't really play Yu-Gi-Oh physically, but this game was a lot of fun for me and I have a ton of fond memories of it. Your video on it, and your videos in general, are so satisfying. Thanks for all of your hard work.
God, this was worth the wait. Phenomenal video of one of my favorite games. I do agree the early game is slow and difficult until you get usable cards, and it's not true goat format, but its close enough and gives you access to banned cards you could probably never get to fuck around with. No other format that I know of has the "1 forbidden card per deck" card ruling. It also has the best versions of the god cards that are about as strong as the anime versions. My advice is if you're on emulator, just go ahead and cheat to have infinite kaibapoints to buy up all the cards you need to power through the early game to the good stuff.
i wish the god cards were not so ass IRL lol. I heard cheating in the game is wonky and often messed with save files but i don't mind getting card the slow way. i thik 04 is a game worth cheating in for sure lmao
I love the topics, I love the editing, I love the journey, I love the videos. Thanks for all your effort. This isn't even second monitor content, I'll just watch it straight. Stay excellent.
I dont comment much but i have to say that Yugioh/3rd Strike mashup completely took me off guard and was the best thing ive seen in a while. You should release it as a seperate short video for sure
I missed out on this game until after I beat gx spirit caller and found out it existed both were really fun to play. Can't wait for your pkmn tcg video
55:04 ok this part of the video was really cool. I wasn't expect a Yugioh variation of the SF3 Thrid Strike intro, but it was pretty hype. I (and most defintely many others) appericate the effort you put in these videoes.
Just finished the video and it was an absolute blast from start to finish! Amazing work! I can't wait for you to cover the Pokemon TCG game. Not only did I have a ton of fun with it back then, but I remember the music in it being phenomenal!
I would have adored this game back in the day. I loved Worldwide Edition, and this game sounds even better. The only thing it's missing is bullying Mokuba for cards.
9:55 My boy is SPITTING FACTS. ...It's especially weird since Tatsuya in innocent sin is one of the most expressive silent protags in gaming history. Maya just. Isn't. At all.
Maya in EP shows a lot of expressions but I feel a lot of moments would have been better if she wasn't a silent protag. especially since she was talking a storm in IS
[01:49:49] Calling the 'Nimble Momonga' sugar baby caught me really off guard. ^^ that really made me laugh. Another great movie from you man. It is always fun to watch! Also, it seems like, you can use new Under Night In-birth music soon, since a new title got announced. ;)
I'm actually a little sad I never found this in stores back when I was a kid. I definitely would've loved playing it! The grind at the start sounds rough, but honestly half the charm of playing these old Yu-Gi-Oh games to me was working your way up to a non trash deck at the start. I'd spend plenty of time just grinding out packs in Spirit Caller to see what I'd get from them. I'm also pretty glad Spirit Caller was probably my first actual Yu-Gi-Oh game I got as a kid because I would've been way more confused if I'd gotten the Wild West ass games where anything went like you mentioned earlier on. Spirit Caller was around the time I was actually learning how to play the game for real instead of just screwing around with family and friends for fun with my cards and acting like it was OG Duel Monsters so the puzzle feature they brought back from this game and the extensive tutorials absolutely helped me learn the ins and outs of Yu-Gi-Oh at the time! It actually blows my mind hearing there was just a long stretch of games without Last Will and a bunch of other classic cards I remember using back as a kid when I played. Kinda makes me realize there's probably a reason I ain't ever seen those games hanging out in any game shop in my area. I'm also excited to see the full extent of the Pokemon TCG video game as well, since I never actually owned the game myself. Most of my memories of that game are attached to an old friend I didn't keep in touch with as an adult. I remember when he'd let me play his copy after school when we were kids. So I never really got to finish it myself since he ended up having various problems later on in life and we drifted apart in high school and I think he actually moved away (this was also before I had a cell phone of my own). Still, I don't got any ill will towards the dude, we just kinda stopped being friends after a point when he changed. So a vid about that game'll probably hit me right in the nostalgia factor, considering he was my best friend for damn near 6 to 8 years and we'd shoot the shit for hours about Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh or whatever we felt like talking about. Hopefully the Pokemon TCG is as good as I remember it being from what little I got to play of the GBC game! I also gotta say if you ever get around to Spirit Caller, I'm also super excited for that vid! It shocks me how much of a blueprint this game is to that one. I won't say it's a perfect game, but it definitely improved a lot on this one from what I remember, even with what few gripes I had with it. The pacing of SC just felt like way more was going on in the first half and the grinding felt a bit less braindead, especially when they upgraded the random NPC duelists' decks. I will also say replaying it a couple years ago since I still got my copy, folding Chazz in round 2 of a tournament in like 3 or 4 turns cuz bro bricked his whole hand and I drew into every single combo in my Fairy deck was hilarious lmao. Anyway uh, I've probably rambled long enough lol. I don't comment a whole lot, but I figured if a newer channel like yours is gonna put in the effort to pump out extensive, quality content like this I might as well do my part to help with the RUclips algorithm too. I guess me having long winded ass comments could end up being a thing at this rate, haha.
I don't mind long comments. I like reading them a lot of the time and that probably came from just lurking forums and reading post often for years lol. I'm excited to cover pokemon soon and I'm also looking forward to spirit caller. I got a lot of comments saying this is very similar to that game so now I'm curious. Didn't hear of it till last year and I didn't watch gameplay yet to surprise myself
@@gameboylad Honestly same, though long comments from me probably just come from the autism if I'm being real. I'm usually pretty comment shy, but whenever I do decide to comment on stuff I usually put a lot of effort in, probably cuz I also write as a hobby for fun, haha. And yeah! Spirit Caller was a lot of fun, even when I replayed it as an adult. It was one of my favorites of the Yu-Gi-Oh games growing up. I will say, it's a little funny seeing most of the Shadow Duels in Nightmare Troubador were easier than Spirit Caller minus Yami Bakura and Noah's Big 5. Maybe it was just the types of decks I used, but I DO remember the majority of the Shadow Duels in Spirit Caller actually feeling like a genuine threat most of the time. I guess I'll end up seeing if that was just a me thing when you get to it though!
This is the best Yugioh game entirely because, on emulator, you can use the mouse as your stylus and so you can play the entire game with just one hand. Its a really great feature and really improves those duels against Mai, Tea, Ishizu, and especially best girl Serenity.
Let me start off by saying this video was magnificent. You gave a thorough review, while being extremely entertaining and interesting to listen to. Stellar job/editing! And now to the nostalgia: I remember loving this game to pieces. I did get it on sale for like 16€ back then, so maybe you’re right. It wasn’t selling well. But the three cards inside were pretty sweet imo. And omg I’m so so glad I’m not the only one that thought of it having “Persona-like” mechanics in regard to the daily time management! One of my friends always gave me a lot of shit for saying that. Also, those visuals. The monsters look okay, but I swear I’m in love with the pre-rendered backgrounds. More games need to bring those back nowadays… Lastly: you actually finished the whole game honest!?!? Back then I probably wasn’t as good at Yugioh to begin with, but I was never able to get through the Big 5s in a row and the secret base with Noah. And I had cheated with the action replay to get every card in the game… I was playing stall with stuff like Bowanganian, nightmare wheel and such. But still, I just couldn’t get past it. I eventually cheated to auto-win those duels and played the last part normally. But seeing you going through it, and with my current level of knowledge about Yugioh, I almost want to give it another try. No cheats. Also, spicy tech I got from Master Duel (where I play older/wacky formats with my friends): the spell card “Acid Rain” clears Jinzo and your own Cyber Stein from the field! Because I lost so many games by leaving that liability with 700ATK around for half a turn lol Always looking forward to more of your content!
I love the back ground and character portraits in the game. I didn't have space to mention how nostalgic it is to see pre rendered backgrounds again. And the character art looks straight out of the manga. If you can find a way to make the grind shorter at the start I would recommend playing it again
I loved this game as a kid and still loved it on a recent replay, the affinity system is great, it makes you feel like and important part of the world. I think the cardpool is great without making anything (besides wave motion cannon) feel overpowered. The summoning animations and sprites were really cool, it felt like the show where your monsters are actually in front of you battling, something that hasnt been captured in games since. I think unlocking packs made leveling up feel exciting, wondering what cards i could unlock and upgrade my deck with next. It's cool that certain characters decks level up with you and become more difficult as you go without becoming unfair. Idk what you mean with people giving up at mokuba, i had no problem with it even at the age of 5 or so
it's more like giving up cause it takes a while for the game to get anywhere. Also had 2 people so far confirmed they stopped playing for a bit because of untimely activations of des koala lol
Dude. This game was the very first Yu Gi Oh card game i played that was a card battle sim. I still feel like its the best one. The affinity with the characters. The available cards. And the journey of beating the story mode is the best if you ask me. At least for these battle sim games. I played this game so much.
@gameboylad I would just like to correct you about chaining and when you can do it. The game (and the following games) has Chain set to Auto by default. If you want to reapond to summons with your card effects, you need to hold the A button to enable self chain On while you are holding the button. The same holds true for the DS and PSP games. EDIT: You need to hold L for this game. In other games it's A. Very strange, but it is what it is.
Yeah that's so dumb lol. I get not wanting to bother the player but it's kinda weird to take make people do that instead without a lick of a hint. Especially in a time period where cards like threatening roar and trap dust shoot were good
WAIT NVM I JUST WENT BACK AND NO LOLOLOL. so I tried activating lightforce sword on their stand by phase and the game did NOT let me. I think this is a thing for future games but this game does not let me activate light force sword between phases as I type this.
I apologize, seems like holding A will not activate self chain on, but holding L of all things will. This is the only game where I encountered this. On a side note, holding B in future games will skip over your chain prompts.
@@BoltCollector it's all good lol, I found out from testing a bit earlier and placed the edit in the pinned comment. Thank you for the correction overall!
Nightmare Troubador is probably my favorite YGO game to date. It come at you from just the right point in history to make its impression, without being too much or too little for the average player. Hilariously enough, I actually made a deck around Silent Magician Lv4 after winning it from the tournament, and apparently got to endgame with it, because I do remember seeing the forbidden card addition message. It also felt really cool to have your character feel much more involved in the world, - with people being indifferent or hostile towards you at first coming to respect your skills and appreciate you being around. Last, I do actually like how the game refuses to give you access to the staple removal cards and forces you to actually engage in the game for once. A diabolically bold move to be sure, but one that I think actually pays off in the end, as for the most part you spend a good portion of this game having to come up with an actual win condition, rather than just blasting your opponent's cards off the board long enough for them to run out of ammunition. Lastly, I do like how this game actually put SOME respect on the God cards by at least making them target-proof.
The part of being so involved in the story, but also in the world by the duel radar is what I dearly miss from more modern games! I played through Nightmare Troubadour and Spirit Caller no problems (though maybe being a schoolkid helped with the commitment) but I dropped the 2 games I got for the switch so quickly because I'm just not there.
As someone whose first Yu-Gi-Oh! game was GX Spirit Caller, it's interesting hearing about this game for the first time since this is because just Spirit Caller but Duel Monsters (or vice versa). They share the same assets, graphics (for the most part), day and night cycle, sound effects, etc.
I never heard of spirit caller till about a year ago and decided to not look into the game as a surprise for myself. the more little things I hear about it the more curious I get lol
Is this the only time we get to see the Noah arc adapted in a game, and not the Shadow RPG/Ceremonial battle??? Well at least it's not the Dartz arc... Also, can't wait for the Pokemon TCG vid. I never played it, but I love the presentation and music of the GB game.
@@gameboyladNoah is also in reshef of destruction but only in the hall of eternity postgame. No real story to him other than flavor text before and after you have a duel with him. The big 5 play a role in the story of the game though. Somehow they escaped the virtual world and became dueltainers?!
Just started watching, already a fantastic video! Please make a video on Duelist of the Roses, it was always my absolute favorite and deserves more eyes on it! Gonna finish this then binge your other vids bro, mad respect, keep it up!
I remember seeing ads for this game in the monthly Shonen Jump magazines and always thought "this games fuckin sick i gotta play it" but it was impossible to find
So I'm guessing future games let you do this but by holding and pressing the a button for you to start a chain between phases with a trap card. I went back to try it out in this game cause I saw a few comments about this here and it turns it that I was spot on in the video still. I tried activating light force sword on their standby phase similar to trap dust shoot and the game just ignored by button hold and presses. I can activate when it's end phase but the game prompts that without me holding anything. the opponent however was able to activate light force sword on me in the standby phase though so this has to be a player bug? I may be missing something idk.
EDIT - I FOUND THE BUTTON. ITS L!!!! you hold the L button lmao. So if your playing this game and want to use a card on their standby phase, hold down the l button.
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My copy sitting within my actual DS works just fine. So idk
Edit: wait you figured it out. Ngl I thought it might have just been a bug on your end lol
Stairwey constantly spamming to ask you if you want to use Mystical Space Typhoon is annoying, but there must be a better solution than that.
They really should let you know this somewhere in the game or something.
Oh shit! I was about to make some snarky remark, checked if the A button holding trick works, saw it didn't and gave up. lmao
so it worked sort of as I remembered. but RIP because my DS's shoulder buttons are DEAD
@@PrimordialNightmare it's all good lol. Looking back I wouldn't be surprised if most who played this game didn't know either cause one or both shoulders breaking was pretty common
I remember dueling Kaiba for hours so that i could get him to compliment my dueling skills through the affinity system. His validation meant a lot to my middle schooler brain
I feel this lmao. Kid me wanted marik and yugi to notice me
Based
Relatable motivation
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Regular Marik that we know of or Yami Marik, @@gameboylad?
55:04 That third strike edit is CLEAN
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This and Tag Force Special occupy a fun spot in my appreciation for Yugioh video games in that each of them is set in the middle of a really good format that makes the card pool really nice to play around with (Goat Format and Nekroz respectively). This is a better game though lol
The jump from NT's overall game design to TFS is a humungous one. But i feel like TFS would be way more enjoyable if it had an actual proper Translation than what exists right now.
This game comes so close to scratching the itch for goat but missing key cards like chaos sorc and monarchs is a downer. The game is still worth playing cause everything from the mid to late game is so fun. I wish there were more games during the mega tin format (nickname I have for 2015 format before that September ban list that made the tin damn near worthless) that's like the peak of YGO for me. Thank you so much for pulling up btw!
@@gameboylad I feel like Gx duel academy gba might help fill that goat itch.
@@gameboyladultimate masters world championship 2006 for gba I thought was the best of the era
@@JohnoR I think it's probably the best gba YGO game for sure!
Phenomenal video; lots of great memories and nostalgia!
No Yu-Gi-Oh! game was perfect (most of them were far from it), but as a kid, I appreciated the monsters "coming to life," as it felt like you were actually in the anime on the streets of Battle City; a huge step forward compared to GBA games.
YES! I also loved the fact that it was the first game to go over the some events in the anime in it's own way with the first part being a mix of duelist kingdom and the second part being battle city. They even fitted the noah arc into it. Some games did before but it wasn't with the TCG rules which was always a bummer.
I think the games become a huge step up after this one, especially the 5d's WCS games. They start to be games that give casual players the stepping stones on proper deck building and playing the game
Your entire yugioh video series is basically "who the hell thought this was a good idea, a tale of Konami decisions".
It is konami after all. The last 10 years for konami is entirely a tale of dumb konami decisions 💀
I always loved the 3D model sprites they used for the monsters in the DS games. It felt like the closest thing to being able to duel someone irl with hologram monsters (at least until Augmented Reality and VR stuff came along).
Some in the later games are cool. This game is kinda rough. However being able to see what cards like tribe infecting virus looks like is eye opening
if they actually kept the feature, added a skip summoning animation button/toggle so you don't waste too much time on it but it's still there and with graphic fidelity nowadays it would've become pretty amazing, but konami is doing yugioh so dirty.@@gameboylad
YOOOO THAT 3RD STRIKE INTRO WAS GODLIKE
I would consider posting that as a youtube short by itself so more people can see it, it deserves attention. SO good.
Yeah i was gonna upload it to twitter but might as well upload it here as well as a short
@@gameboylad Yo did you upload it? I need the link! Bruh as a competitive 3rd strike player for years... seeing this (and being a huge yugi fan and especially of this game) made me lose my mind. Insane edit!
During the big 1-4 part you can tap the house icon to go home and save between duels.
Only big 5 mokuba noah and gozaburo you have to do in a row.
The night in this part is endless until this section is over.
AKA: The night Solomon was forced to sell his entire stock
Ooooh I just assumed it was a gauntlet cause the immersion of the situation might break it your just able to up and go home lmao
@@gameboyladiirc you ARE still viable to be hit by random Shadow Games while travelling at this point though, so it’s not completely foolproof
@@lokephoenix1039 If you press the house icon its an instant transfer.
The DS era of yugioh games is so nostalgic for me, it’s around the time I first understood how to play the card game and between watching gx and 5ds in the mornings and spending my free time grinding wc 2008,2009 and 2011. The osts are ingrained in my mind. Playing this game I understand it’s definitely a prototype for those since it so far feels kinda slow
Yeah this game is the blue print for games in the future for sure
The DS games were excellent, I just didn't like how some cards from complete sets were cut out, notably Bazoo the Soul Eater was absent in one of those games.
I absolutely LOVE your Retro Yugioh Game indepth Reviews, i ALWAYS watch/listen to them while playing along with you, or maling irl Goat Format Decks, or sleeving cards, keep making more!! And lets plays!!
Making more for sure, got another coming soon! Big ups to you for playing goat!
To be fair, kaiba of all people is someone that i 100% expect to barge into my home like he owned the place if it suited his needs. (hell, he probably _does_ own that house if DSoD is anything to go by)
it's very on brand for him lmao I don't know if it's on brand for the shit stain mokuba
@@gameboylad it's not, but is is entirely on brand for _noah._
Lmao yeah Kaiba might be your landlord. Or he at least owns the shell company that owns the management company that owns the property you rent.
@@shredded_lettuce Um, excuse me, what the actual fuck are you doing in my house, Kaibas?
This is the best video about Nightmare Troubadour to ever drop on youtube. I’m so so so happy someone else talks about this game and remembers it. Thank you so much for this excellent video
Yeah this game is often forgotten and i'm glad i'm in a spot to shed some light on it
Third Strike's opening is probably my favorite for any fighting game ever, so 54:54 had me screaming, such an amazing work, man! Great video as always, I remember playing the hell out of this game when I was in highschool, but really did NOT remember it took so long for the game to take off and start for real. I guess I was having way too much fun grinding the game to buy packs and play it with my friends during break, so I really just didn't notice the story going nowhere for so long lol
So many memories of playing it on my DS at home and trying to not get caught when dueling in class, this game was a blast back then, when I hadn't played too many YGO video games.
The days of working with what you got lol. Yeah as a kid I didn't notice how much time I put into it so I ain't mind the slow start.
That Third Strike homage was straight fire, great video as always man.
Having binged a lot of these lately, I just want to say I absolutely love the passion you have behind videos. Your style of delivery is so comfortable and conversational, you insert references to your interests and comedic bits in a fun way that makes me interested in what you have to say and how you say it as much as the topic, and you do really solid analysis of the game as a game, its place in Yu-Gi-Oh's history, comparisons to the then-current metagame, and its context in relation to the rest of its series. These are easy "oh wow an hour just passed watching this, huh?" kinds of watches and just wanted to kinda reflect on how you're doing a great job with these! So thank you!
Thank you so much! It means a lot to me when I read comments like this cause I put a lot of time into these and sometimes doubt myself. This is the kind of validation I need to push myself forward
@@gameboylad I really appreciate your videos, it’s like I get to experience these games myself.
Part walkthrough, part gameplay analysis, part Moment In Time meta discussion. I'm really enjoying this video I think I'll check out your other stuff
Thank you so much for enjoying the video. it means a lot to see this in the comments!
This was my absolute favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! game. I poured hours upon hours into this. The 3D models, the fact that you could see the card art, playable God cards... I could go on and on.
As a kid I put a lot of hours trying to make everyone on the social list a friend. Those were the days
Played this game for the first time in decades when I was sick with COVID. It is very grindy but I had a real blast reliving the Yugioh of my childhood with my adult brain and helped me get through being super sick.
The decks you can make are very funny too, I made the gane lasts longer by running stall decks 😂
This is hands down the best Nightmare Troubadour video. The editing is brilliant. The animation at 55mins is absolutely insane.
I'm happy to do the game some justice!
got to the point where you called Fairy Meteor Crush a trash card, and while I do agree, I also find it to be kinda trollzy. In the game if you equip an *Opponent's* monster with it, THEY take the damage you would take because FMC is your card. Kinda hilarious to stick it on their big boss and enjoy the ride. :P
Wait it works that way?!?! lmaoooo
wait, whaaat?!
for me, FMC did save me some stress early to midgame due to it's option to break through enemy defenses, espeically if I don't have Eye Shadows or Defense Stop with me, or in some cases Block Attack xD
9:50…. The Cynthia jumpscare 🫠, but all in all great video. I love these more in-depth reviews of the older YGO games like this: what works, what doesn’t, mechanics etc.
Seeing Cynthia in Undella town is a right of passage
@@gameboylad it sure is! Music and all 😂
This game came to me at the right time, played it on my dsi during a long plane flight to and fro lmao.
consecutive duels were so tense in this game man
The consecutive duels are some of the best challenges in the game
This, Spirit Caller and World Wide edition are unreal when it comes to portable Yu-Gi-Oh. Wish this or Spirit Caller was on Switch.
a collection of games would be peak
I wish Konami would port old YGO games like this to the Switch or PC and price them fairly, because I'd totally pay 5-10 bucks for a lot of them. Super fun and nostalgic games!
@@Aigis31 I hgave my DS with Spirit Caller and Nightmare Troubadour stil llaying around (in fact I recently picked up the former again) and I still would play money for a port, or even better: a Remaster.
You guys are not gonna believe what just got announced
@@michael13849 It's only the early GBA games so far though. Would be the era just after that. 2004-2010 that I'd be interested in.
Having a shitty day, but this made it a whole lot better!!!!
I got you!
Same
The Third Strike parody intro is Godlike!
That took me a day to make so I now have a new found respect for editors making openings lmao
@@gameboylad How I wish I could make something like that in a day. Even making an amateur little video for the laughs can be a pain at times. RUclipsrs truly are ascended entities.
The Third Strike recreation was hot as hell. A+
"switch outfits with me"
Uh, guys, I think Mokuba has a kidnapping fetish.
"Let's trade outfits, I always wanted to look pretty :)"
I want the bit from 54:54 to 55:38 to be a separate video to just listen to.
Also, amazing work as always!
I'm planning to upload it to twitter and youtube as a short soon lol
It's a based on the opening of Street Fighter III 3rd Strike.
@@Darkpyromaniac16
Yes. However, this one has Yugioh, so it is better.
She plays like she never had the eye surgery. 😂😂 instant subscribe!
this game was crazy cause you can put in the numbers from the actual cards and then have them in the game itself
Yup yup although you have to own the card in the game already before using the password to get a copy. it's fine though, I was still able to make harpies with the password system lol
I was soooo excited when I tried this on a later World Championship DS game, but NOPE, it asked for 1000 DP or something for the card I wanted the most. In real life you are better off buying used cards as opposed to packs, but in these games? Speedrunners buy packs.
@@vanesslifeygo I feel that lmao. even with this game it was easier to get most of the cards in my end game deck from packs over the password system
You know, Joey really would make a good player character for one of these old-school Yu-Gi-Oh! games considering he uses a lot of random stuff in both the source material and the games just like a player scratching for cards to get by.
THIS! it makes so much sense
55:04
I'm just time stamping that just so I can go back to it later. That SF3 edit is immaculate
I got it on twitter and i'm planning to upload it here as a short :)
That 3s edit was sick. Hype for the pokemon tcg vid, I've been playing it since ir got added to nso it's pretty fun
I've been eyeing the game for a while. I can't wait to start production
One of my favorite YGO videogame. I remember getting this game because you could get 3 cards with it
Yeah and as a kid I really liked silent magician. She looked so cool to me
Crazy how foundational this game was for future ones. Clearly made on the same engine used for the other world championship games. Introduced the relationship system tag force, and even the honored tradition of tag force games forgetting to censor character's boobs.
Yeah I hear this game is somewhat like spirit caller? I never played spirit caller but i can't wait to get to it and compare the 2 one day
what the hell happened to humanity in the last 20 or so years i will never understand, i grew up in a time where the first tomb raider was all the rage, i was a teen full of testosterone at the time horny all the time but for some reason, i never noticed anything hot about Lara Croft or for that matter, boobs in ygo cards, i play the game since it came out and would firs notice boobs as such in 2016 when a testing partner brought up censorship, dont get me wrong, i loved the artworks in ygo big time, the oldschool ones even more, and really paid attention to them when i was looking at new cards and artworks were super important to me for liking and playing a specific deck, if it did not have most of the cards with artworks i liked i would not play it, but for some reason, not me not the 3 dudes that started along with me to play the game not any subsequent player for 10 years never mentioned boobies in card artworks....
@@weedhigh2564 I was talking about Mai's bust not any of the cards. 4kids shrunk her and later characters' breasts in their dub because they wanted to market to a younger audience, and in this game they didnt censor it for consistency. This is also a thing in the tagforce games, namely with Aki in the 5Ds ones.
Also only reason you dont remember anything like this from yugioh in the card game is probably because it was also censored up until few years ago. They only continue to censor cards that already were for consistency, like most of the Harpie Ladies are all pretty much naked but were censored to look like they have body suits. Theres also Dark Magician Girl's big boobs which are consistently deminished.
@@CatManThreeWell, that's the majority of the censors for sure, but cards DO still get "censored"- usually in such minor ways that it's shocking they did it and anyone even noticed.
The Exosisters (or w/e the military girl archetype was called) has their colors changed to be less militaristic and more cartoony.
Fairy Tail - Snow had her Colosseum changed to not be too similar to Disney's Snow White iirc.
Cards as recent as the Tearlaments still get small outfit adjustments, lengthening skirts, shorts, adding more clothing to the stomach, etc.
It's not nearly as crazy and noticeably different as in the 2000s, but it still happens, funny enough.
@@Aigis31 Damn, only case I knew out of these was Exosisters.
Exosisters were recolored most likely because anything containing references to imperial japan in media gets censored for Korea, and censorship shared between Korea and the TCG. The recolors were also more or less just, brightening the already color coded outfits to look less black.
Idk why theyd censor the other stuff.
I loved the Duel Puzzles. Made for a really nice side attraction. They put a lot of effort into them. And that puzzle with the Battleguards that's a total subversion and you're supposed to do something else entirely? Genius.
I would love to talk about more of them one day honestly. there so fun!
Yo dawg, just want to say that ever since I found your channel I've been having a blast, great content as always and keep that good work going!
Will do!
Love this series man. It's like a chronological walkthrough of my childhood
For someone who always keeps their record in these games a 100% win rate, needing a forced draw to progress was a nightmare to me.
There is a glitch that counts joey's losing to bakura for you so a lot of the time most people couldn't even be 100% 💀
Bro same
You got me to play Reshef and I enjoyed it.
Now i'm playing this and i'm enjoying it too, really wish the plot would actually start though.
you'll get there......Eventually lol
I will admit, I was one of those that thought the Vampire could make your attack your own monsters. Also had a friend that used to say Infinite Cards lets you draw as many cards as you wanted lol
that and the MST negates is a right of passage lol
1:16:28 wow a yugioh game where bakura reaches his status, never thought I'd see the day
Yeah he's super cracked even post game when he gets his deck upgraded
Oh, I remember the Duel Puzzles, and I loved them. I remember some of the out there ones they had in World Championship game I played.
They were so awesome in this game honestly and really helped with the pace of the game at the start
Funny story about this game: when I was about 6 or so my dad took me to this game shop to get my very first DS cartridge. I told my dad I wanted a Yu-Gi-Oh game (had literally never played yugioh in my life) and I pointed this one out for him to buy. It was at this moment that the owner decided to display astronomical levels of hating by calling my bluff. "Do you know what a duel is?" He asked me condescendingly. I did not. Long story short we left the game shop with a used Pokemon leafgreen cartridge lmao. That didn't stop me from getting into yugioh when I was older though
Now I'm a grown man still playing Master Duel constantly raging against Tear-Ishizu and Spright lmao. In conclusion, fuck that one guy for robbing me the experienc of playing this game. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.
That employee was lame as fuck what the hell??? It's a children's card game and it wasn't even that crazy at the time. Gatekeeping kids is so low what a dirtbag
Your knowledge of Yugioh is vast, as is the ammount of laughs your videos bring. Keep it up!
I've been around for a while in this game. I played from the start up to 2018. I still play Edison and goat and keep up with modern yugioh every now and then. I'm too deep in the property lol
My mother loved this game to death, I’m glad that in some ways it still holds up.
ayyy we both got parents that were into YGO!
Your video's are genuinely a treat! Looking forward to the pokemon video as I have never played it. Addressing 6:29, I don't blame them. The systems and engines they are using for master duel is different from that era. Translating it into the current system is possible but time consuming. Now code EVERY card in YGO and all the rulings! Not to mention developing an efficient system and engine to fetch rulings and code all the effects, man it sounds like an engineers nightmare! This is why when people mock master duel I can't help but shake my head, it's a miracle they even got it working from an engineer's POV!
With a card pool that big, they probably have to test a lot of interactions and clear out bugs before considering releasing an archetype. Plus people pay for the service so you can't risk releasing something buggy
@@gameboylad 💯
Fam, a lot of the Yu-Gi-Oh games you review I don't even play, but the memes and references / OST you have of other games make it so enjoyable to watch.
I try to aim for my videos to be enjoyed by almost anyone who plays games. It's more fun that way lol
This one was of the first DS games I ever got as a kid, next to Animal Crossing and Metroid Hunters. I didn't really play Yu-Gi-Oh physically, but this game was a lot of fun for me and I have a ton of fond memories of it. Your video on it, and your videos in general, are so satisfying. Thanks for all of your hard work.
Wow Metroid hunter and animal crossing takes me back omg 😭 thank you so much for watching
Man I love your Videos so much! 2 hours pure entertainment, childhood and the time just flies bye! Awesome Content :)
Glad you like them! I live for this!
i appreciate the vid, I spent weeks grinding this thing as a kid.
edit: unist music, ltg and jwong, 3S, I see you're a man of culture.
I'm huge into fighting games and the culture lol
Good review dude,this one of my favorite yugioh games along with eternal duelist soul,sacred cards for the gba and ds games for the 2000s.
I think it's my preferred DM era game for sure
eternal deulist soul was the shit!
cheered at 1:25:44 like my team won
great video as usual
God, this was worth the wait. Phenomenal video of one of my favorite games.
I do agree the early game is slow and difficult until you get usable cards, and it's not true goat format, but its close enough and gives you access to banned cards you could probably never get to fuck around with. No other format that I know of has the "1 forbidden card per deck" card ruling. It also has the best versions of the god cards that are about as strong as the anime versions.
My advice is if you're on emulator, just go ahead and cheat to have infinite kaibapoints to buy up all the cards you need to power through the early game to the good stuff.
i wish the god cards were not so ass IRL lol. I heard cheating in the game is wonky and often messed with save files but i don't mind getting card the slow way. i thik 04 is a game worth cheating in for sure lmao
I love the topics, I love the editing, I love the journey, I love the videos. Thanks for all your effort. This isn't even second monitor content, I'll just watch it straight.
Stay excellent.
I've seen this game a few times at a store, and never knew how it played. Glad to see someone break it down for me.
I'm convinced this game just sat on shelves
My memory of that time is vague. But I never saw that game on the stores. Had to r4 it lol
I dont comment much but i have to say that Yugioh/3rd Strike mashup completely took me off guard and was the best thing ive seen in a while. You should release it as a seperate short video for sure
Yup gonna put it out as a short soon! I just wanted youtube to push this video for a bit before uploading another video lol
I missed out on this game until after I beat gx spirit caller and found out it existed both were really fun to play.
Can't wait for your pkmn tcg video
I didn't know spirit caller exist till last year so now I wonder how similar these 2 games are
The opening theme song for Spirit Caller is probably my favourite Yu-Gi-Oh opening theme. Really good game. @@gameboylad
The third strike yugioh intro was perfect. I'm suscribing just for that.
Thank you for the sub!
MAN it's wild seeing you got sponsors now. Really looking forward to seeing you cover the pokemon TCG. Perfect timing too with it ending up on NSO
yup I was waiting for the release to finally cover it. didn't expect it now though lmao
Damn dude two vids in one month, we're eating good! I love your stuff so much, take care! :)
seems like i can get a vid out monthly at the least since my vids keep getting longer and longer lol
Keep on spitting out content. Its all fantastic and i love hearing your insights!
Thank you! Will do!
THE THIRD STRIKE INTRO GOES SO HARD !!!!! Make it it’s own video !!!!
Yup for sure! Plan on uploading it as a short to youtube in the next few days
A unintentional bday gift. Love your detailed work m'guy
Happy birthday! Enjoy the rest of the day for me!
YO THAT 3RD STRIKE EDIT WAS STRAIGHT HEAT
Always wondered where World Championship 2008 DM characters' portrait came from
Yeah I saw they reused some of these in future games lol
55:04 ok this part of the video was really cool. I wasn't expect a Yugioh variation of the SF3 Thrid Strike intro, but it was pretty hype. I (and most defintely many others) appericate the effort you put in these videoes.
thank you, it takes a lot of work but it's worth it when people are happy with what I put out
Yeah that 3rd strike edit was next level 🔥 43:36 AND UNIEL CHARACTER SELECT! This is godlike 2 hours is too short
Glad you enjoyed! Means a lot to me to hear people liking the 3rd strike edit
Just finished the video and it was an absolute blast from start to finish! Amazing work! I can't wait for you to cover the Pokemon TCG game. Not only did I have a ton of fun with it back then, but I remember the music in it being phenomenal!
Oooh the rival battle music in that game is perfection! Thank you for watching 😭
Man every video you put out I'm reminded of that box of random games I got from my cousin and how I basically tossed it in the basement.
Dig it out of the basement right now! Unless you was looking forward to playing chaos 💀
Damn that SF3 3rd strike reference brings me back in all the best ways.
I'm so happy people love it!
I would have adored this game back in the day. I loved Worldwide Edition, and this game sounds even better. The only thing it's missing is bullying Mokuba for cards.
you can technically beat his ass enough to force him to trade cards with you lol
@@gameboylad Perfect, I'm sold.
I love the promo at @54:53 so much. Love the channel since you mix funny clips, fgc related osts and mannerisms, and your love for tcgs. Keep it up 💪
Much appreciated! I'll be doing this for as long as I can
9:55 My boy is SPITTING FACTS.
...It's especially weird since Tatsuya in innocent sin is one of the most expressive silent protags in gaming history. Maya just. Isn't. At all.
Maya in EP shows a lot of expressions but I feel a lot of moments would have been better if she wasn't a silent protag. especially since she was talking a storm in IS
I hope you do more of these, editing and memes and commentary are on point man. I rewatch these.
I am, just taking a lot of time upgrading my style on top of the holidays. Next vid should come out hopefully this month so be on the look out :)
[01:49:49] Calling the 'Nimble Momonga' sugar baby caught me really off guard. ^^ that really made me laugh. Another great movie from you man. It is always fun to watch!
Also, it seems like, you can use new Under Night In-birth music soon, since a new title got announced. ;)
HELL YEAH!!! Looking forward to playing it to!
I'm actually a little sad I never found this in stores back when I was a kid. I definitely would've loved playing it! The grind at the start sounds rough, but honestly half the charm of playing these old Yu-Gi-Oh games to me was working your way up to a non trash deck at the start. I'd spend plenty of time just grinding out packs in Spirit Caller to see what I'd get from them.
I'm also pretty glad Spirit Caller was probably my first actual Yu-Gi-Oh game I got as a kid because I would've been way more confused if I'd gotten the Wild West ass games where anything went like you mentioned earlier on. Spirit Caller was around the time I was actually learning how to play the game for real instead of just screwing around with family and friends for fun with my cards and acting like it was OG Duel Monsters so the puzzle feature they brought back from this game and the extensive tutorials absolutely helped me learn the ins and outs of Yu-Gi-Oh at the time!
It actually blows my mind hearing there was just a long stretch of games without Last Will and a bunch of other classic cards I remember using back as a kid when I played. Kinda makes me realize there's probably a reason I ain't ever seen those games hanging out in any game shop in my area.
I'm also excited to see the full extent of the Pokemon TCG video game as well, since I never actually owned the game myself. Most of my memories of that game are attached to an old friend I didn't keep in touch with as an adult. I remember when he'd let me play his copy after school when we were kids. So I never really got to finish it myself since he ended up having various problems later on in life and we drifted apart in high school and I think he actually moved away (this was also before I had a cell phone of my own). Still, I don't got any ill will towards the dude, we just kinda stopped being friends after a point when he changed. So a vid about that game'll probably hit me right in the nostalgia factor, considering he was my best friend for damn near 6 to 8 years and we'd shoot the shit for hours about Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh or whatever we felt like talking about. Hopefully the Pokemon TCG is as good as I remember it being from what little I got to play of the GBC game!
I also gotta say if you ever get around to Spirit Caller, I'm also super excited for that vid! It shocks me how much of a blueprint this game is to that one. I won't say it's a perfect game, but it definitely improved a lot on this one from what I remember, even with what few gripes I had with it. The pacing of SC just felt like way more was going on in the first half and the grinding felt a bit less braindead, especially when they upgraded the random NPC duelists' decks. I will also say replaying it a couple years ago since I still got my copy, folding Chazz in round 2 of a tournament in like 3 or 4 turns cuz bro bricked his whole hand and I drew into every single combo in my Fairy deck was hilarious lmao.
Anyway uh, I've probably rambled long enough lol. I don't comment a whole lot, but I figured if a newer channel like yours is gonna put in the effort to pump out extensive, quality content like this I might as well do my part to help with the RUclips algorithm too. I guess me having long winded ass comments could end up being a thing at this rate, haha.
I don't mind long comments. I like reading them a lot of the time and that probably came from just lurking forums and reading post often for years lol. I'm excited to cover pokemon soon and I'm also looking forward to spirit caller. I got a lot of comments saying this is very similar to that game so now I'm curious. Didn't hear of it till last year and I didn't watch gameplay yet to surprise myself
@@gameboylad Honestly same, though long comments from me probably just come from the autism if I'm being real. I'm usually pretty comment shy, but whenever I do decide to comment on stuff I usually put a lot of effort in, probably cuz I also write as a hobby for fun, haha.
And yeah! Spirit Caller was a lot of fun, even when I replayed it as an adult. It was one of my favorites of the Yu-Gi-Oh games growing up. I will say, it's a little funny seeing most of the Shadow Duels in Nightmare Troubador were easier than Spirit Caller minus Yami Bakura and Noah's Big 5. Maybe it was just the types of decks I used, but I DO remember the majority of the Shadow Duels in Spirit Caller actually feeling like a genuine threat most of the time. I guess I'll end up seeing if that was just a me thing when you get to it though!
Gosh you have god tier editing as always. Also as a FGC fan, really appreciate the Melty OST and Third Strike Ref :)))
melty and SF3 are up there when it comes to having the best soundtracks. helps that both are great games too lol
That “Third Strike” intro was cool.
This is the best Yugioh game entirely because, on emulator, you can use the mouse as your stylus and so you can play the entire game with just one hand. Its a really great feature and really improves those duels against Mai, Tea, Ishizu, and especially best girl Serenity.
When I played it as a kid I mostly did everything with one hand and the DS on the table so that was cool
Yeah. I love when games let you play with one hand.
With this series, you have single handedly gotten me to pick up GX Duel Academy (again) for GBA, despite being eternally bad at that game
I'm about to boot that game up sometime this year and join you soon
Let me start off by saying this video was magnificent. You gave a thorough review, while being extremely entertaining and interesting to listen to. Stellar job/editing!
And now to the nostalgia: I remember loving this game to pieces. I did get it on sale for like 16€ back then, so maybe you’re right. It wasn’t selling well. But the three cards inside were pretty sweet imo. And omg I’m so so glad I’m not the only one that thought of it having “Persona-like” mechanics in regard to the daily time management! One of my friends always gave me a lot of shit for saying that. Also, those visuals. The monsters look okay, but I swear I’m in love with the pre-rendered backgrounds. More games need to bring those back nowadays…
Lastly: you actually finished the whole game honest!?!? Back then I probably wasn’t as good at Yugioh to begin with, but I was never able to get through the Big 5s in a row and the secret base with Noah. And I had cheated with the action replay to get every card in the game… I was playing stall with stuff like Bowanganian, nightmare wheel and such. But still, I just couldn’t get past it. I eventually cheated to auto-win those duels and played the last part normally. But seeing you going through it, and with my current level of knowledge about Yugioh, I almost want to give it another try. No cheats.
Also, spicy tech I got from Master Duel (where I play older/wacky formats with my friends): the spell card “Acid Rain” clears Jinzo and your own Cyber Stein from the field! Because I lost so many games by leaving that liability with 700ATK around for half a turn lol
Always looking forward to more of your content!
I love the back ground and character portraits in the game. I didn't have space to mention how nostalgic it is to see pre rendered backgrounds again. And the character art looks straight out of the manga. If you can find a way to make the grind shorter at the start I would recommend playing it again
The background music is fire as always. Good shit.
You deserve more than you have. Continue like this! Great video like always
Hopefully I'll get my flowers one day. For now I'm out here grinding
That Yu-Gi-Oh x SF3 intro was just *chefs kiss* a work of art 🤌
I loved this game as a kid and still loved it on a recent replay, the affinity system is great, it makes you feel like and important part of the world. I think the cardpool is great without making anything (besides wave motion cannon) feel overpowered. The summoning animations and sprites were really cool, it felt like the show where your monsters are actually in front of you battling, something that hasnt been captured in games since. I think unlocking packs made leveling up feel exciting, wondering what cards i could unlock and upgrade my deck with next. It's cool that certain characters decks level up with you and become more difficult as you go without becoming unfair. Idk what you mean with people giving up at mokuba, i had no problem with it even at the age of 5 or so
it's more like giving up cause it takes a while for the game to get anywhere. Also had 2 people so far confirmed they stopped playing for a bit because of untimely activations of des koala lol
Dude. This game was the very first Yu Gi Oh card game i played that was a card battle sim. I still feel like its the best one. The affinity with the characters. The available cards. And the journey of beating the story mode is the best if you ask me. At least for these battle sim games. I played this game so much.
so many hours spent to get the scial links up as a kid lol
Konami's so allergic to reprinting powerful cards in the current meta, they didn't even add them to the video game. lol
LMAO. Chaos sorcerer? no freebies
@@gameboylad "Best I can do is Witch Doctor of Chaos"_Konami
Great video Ladd, the story really seemed to go in depth for this game.
@gameboylad I would just like to correct you about chaining and when you can do it. The game (and the following games) has Chain set to Auto by default. If you want to reapond to summons with your card effects, you need to hold the A button to enable self chain On while you are holding the button. The same holds true for the DS and PSP games.
EDIT: You need to hold L for this game. In other games it's A. Very strange, but it is what it is.
Yeah that's so dumb lol. I get not wanting to bother the player but it's kinda weird to take make people do that instead without a lick of a hint. Especially in a time period where cards like threatening roar and trap dust shoot were good
WAIT NVM I JUST WENT BACK AND NO LOLOLOL. so I tried activating lightforce sword on their stand by phase and the game did NOT let me. I think this is a thing for future games but this game does not let me activate light force sword between phases as I type this.
I apologize, seems like holding A will not activate self chain on, but holding L of all things will. This is the only game where I encountered this.
On a side note, holding B in future games will skip over your chain prompts.
@@BoltCollector it's all good lol, I found out from testing a bit earlier and placed the edit in the pinned comment. Thank you for the correction overall!
Just started work and have this to get me through it, blessed be the lord
That Meruem edit was insane, it feels exactly like that when a NPC outplays you😂
those moments are painful lul
I said it once but I’ll say it again. I’m so glad I found this channel. The meme images and commentary make me bust up laughing. Good vid man. 👍
Glad your here! thank you for watching
Nightmare Troubador is probably my favorite YGO game to date. It come at you from just the right point in history to make its impression, without being too much or too little for the average player. Hilariously enough, I actually made a deck around Silent Magician Lv4 after winning it from the tournament, and apparently got to endgame with it, because I do remember seeing the forbidden card addition message. It also felt really cool to have your character feel much more involved in the world, - with people being indifferent or hostile towards you at first coming to respect your skills and appreciate you being around. Last, I do actually like how the game refuses to give you access to the staple removal cards and forces you to actually engage in the game for once. A diabolically bold move to be sure, but one that I think actually pays off in the end, as for the most part you spend a good portion of this game having to come up with an actual win condition, rather than just blasting your opponent's cards off the board long enough for them to run out of ammunition.
Lastly, I do like how this game actually put SOME respect on the God cards by at least making them target-proof.
The part of being so involved in the story, but also in the world by the duel radar is what I dearly miss from more modern games! I played through Nightmare Troubadour and Spirit Caller no problems (though maybe being a schoolkid helped with the commitment) but I dropped the 2 games I got for the switch so quickly because I'm just not there.
As someone whose first Yu-Gi-Oh! game was GX Spirit Caller, it's interesting hearing about this game for the first time since this is because just Spirit Caller but Duel Monsters (or vice versa). They share the same assets, graphics (for the most part), day and night cycle, sound effects, etc.
I never heard of spirit caller till about a year ago and decided to not look into the game as a surprise for myself. the more little things I hear about it the more curious I get lol
@@gameboylad I won't spoil anything since it'd be best to go in completely blind, but I will say that it's got some cool things going for it.
Is this the only time we get to see the Noah arc adapted in a game, and not the Shadow RPG/Ceremonial battle??? Well at least it's not the Dartz arc...
Also, can't wait for the Pokemon TCG vid. I never played it, but I love the presentation and music of the GB game.
As far as I know. I think the arc is in legacy of the duelist but it's been a while since I played that game
@@gameboyladNoah is also in reshef of destruction but only in the hall of eternity postgame. No real story to him other than flavor text before and after you have a duel with him. The big 5 play a role in the story of the game though. Somehow they escaped the virtual world and became dueltainers?!
Just started watching, already a fantastic video! Please make a video on Duelist of the Roses, it was always my absolute favorite and deserves more eyes on it! Gonna finish this then binge your other vids bro, mad respect, keep it up!
Will do for sure but it will be way down the line. My plans for that game are huge and need a lot of time to reach that goal
Fair enough! I'll be watching for sure! :)@@gameboylad
I remember seeing ads for this game in the monthly Shonen Jump magazines and always thought "this games fuckin sick i gotta play it" but it was impossible to find
I don't think I have a memory of seeing this game in gamestop. only targets had it and not even a lot of copies
cant wait to see wch 2008 and 2009, those were my childhood back then...
2009 I liked a lot but I never played 08. looking forward to it
@gameboylad good luck against the 4 clones battle lol
@@lucasmr3215 I can smell Dark arm dragon coming from miles away
@@gameboylad lightsworns is love lightsworns is life
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