I keep seeing comments that the video is confusing to non-fans of Yu-Gi-Oh (damn...) so here's a little dictionary of Yu-Gi-Oh terms to try and help: The anime series in order are: Yu-Gi-Oh, GX, 5D's, Zexal, Arc-V, and VRAINS. There's also the new show Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens, which is not relevant to the topic at hand. Archetype: a group of cards that share a particular name that support one another and synergize together Turbo: A deck that's specifically designed to play a particular card much faster than the card was intended. Backrow: The zones of the field where spells and traps are played. Protection: effects that prevent your cards from being destroyed Search/Searcher: cards that let you select and retrieve specific cards out of your deck Beater/Beatstick: a monster with high Attack Points that doesn't do much else relevant. Boss: an extremely powerful monster that decks are typically built around Swarming: a deck's ability to play several monsters to the field in rapid succession Brick: when your hand sucks so bad you have no good moves available One Turn Kill/OTK: a combo that deals an immense amount of damage sufficient to defeat an enemy that's still at high life points. Control: A deck or combo that's designed to restrict your opponent's moves. Consistency: a deck's ability to make good moves regardless of the cards drawn
@Casswury I've seen that; it was pretty fun. And I also always laugh at the film's implicit admission that Jaden's deck is useless, because the implication is that Jaden's hand completely bricked and he was only able to play because Yusei went first and they invented a new Neos Fusion specifically for the film.
If you want a challenge try ranked marches. The 3 minute time limit really hurts a lot of the turbo OTK decks. It forces them to break up their combos over several turns, which forces them to adjust their combos so they don't get run over by their opponent. That 32 deck limit... It hurts so badly. It was my biggest issue with the previous game. Story doesn't do the anime justice. They gimped it to sell DLC in the previous game, which was a bit overpriced. It really could have been done better, but Konami as a corporation is lazy. Have to agree the AI isn't the worst though not the best either. I've seen some really bad plays from the VRains Decks, but not nearly as bad as some of the older titles. The AI's for the Xbox 360 games, and the one DS game I had were actually merciless, and brutal 90% of the time. The actual Card game seems like a mess, though not as bad as the Goat format days, or the TeleDAD days of 5D's. Top tier decks I've heard about are Eldlitch which is a Zombie deck that uses traps and locks down your opponent, Adamspater which is Rock based combo heavy deck, Sky Strikers(is in this game, and has been nerfed multiple times in the actual game, but is still good) revolves around controlling only 1 monster in the extra monster zone and having powerful spells which are easily searched.) Salamangreats(also in this game) which were actually released in a structure deck, and actually won a major tournament or two. There's a few other that I can't remember or I don't know much about such as Altergiest but the Meta is built up on turbo decks, and control decks. The following relates both to the actual game and Link Evolution. Hand traps such as Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Nibeiru, etc allow Decks that go 2nd to survive the first turn if the duel by interfering with the opponent, while decks that go first have to play around those cards in order to flood the field. There's a Nekroz Deck that with 1 specific card in hand can combo into 6 monsters in 1 turn lock your opponent out of special summoning, shut down all extra deck monsters, and search 3-4 cards out of the deck, and draw one. The 3-4 cards, and the 1 draw are all a bonus as they aren't needed to set the field up(your just required to do them in order to pull of the combo, though some of the searches are optional.) Hero decks can pull similar shenanigans with 5 big monsters in 1 turn, and that's from nearly any hand. Both decks need 5+ minutes to run these combos though so time limits can break them. Don thousand cards were printed after the mega patch and.... they're able to OTK, or lock down the opponent if they get their field spell which is easily searched through a number of ways.
This is the game that I have played the most on Switch. Over 400 hours, I made so many decks and played so many games. I still haven't got all the cards and I still can make some more decks I would like but many some cards are so rare drops that it is almost impossible to do it. So IF you are a fan of Yugioh OR you just have a curiosity to see how the game is played you HAVE to buy it. Seriously. The story eases you with all the differen mechanics. The game is perfect and the only bad thing is of course that new cards will not be added but it does make sense.
Win conditions back then were basically "get a strong monster to the field and beat opponent to death with it," which I had. And I reiterate: half the cards in those decks are still banned 20 years later.
Stall isn't boring, what are you talking about? It's fuckin hilarious! I ran a wierd-ass Simochi Burn stall deck with Pikeru on the Xbox 360, and one of my fondest memories of the game as a whole is the time I got someone to ragequit when I reached a *_hundred thousand life points._* I was laughing my ass off. I took my IRL Simochi-stall to an actual tournament, and the regular ULTRA-LEGIT META GAMER GOD dude saw me playing and asked if he could try my deck. He was having a blast. It wasn't _amazing,_ but it was funny as hell. I repeat: *_a meta-gamer had FUN._*
Just bringing this up pendulum weren't as broke as you said it was. took them a good few years to become a viable and even broken deck. They still got there but not as fast as you made it seem. Also if you XYZ summon using a pendulum monster it goes to the grave one of the few ways you can get them to the grave without discarding them from hand. Also D/D/D dont really like to pendulum summon much they can do it but its more effective to use all the other summoning methods they have. Great review though
I love D/D/D decks. They are the perfect introduction deck you can have because it can do all special summoning types except for rituals, their extra deck monsters are all powerful and they synergize with each other well. It was the deck that got me back into Yu-gi-oh and I use it more than any other deck.
@@crossdaboss8914 I think they feel a little too nerfed but I haven’t gotten any different Pendulum monsters yet to see abilities I think for now they’re ok with how they are 👌🏽
1:17 I actually have a similar story. I was playing Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution and playing the reverse duel of Blair vs Chazz. For the record, I was playing Artifacts, an archetype based around monsters that could set in the spell and trap zones and gain effects if they're summoned on the opponent's turn. We were caught in a complete stalemate. Chazz had 2, later 3 Ojama Knights in defense position and I had Artifacts Vajra, Beagalltach, and the Seal of Orichalcos on the field so I can't summon anything stronger from the Extra deck. Chazz had Ojama Country which can switch the ATT and DEF of all monsters on the field but he never once activated it. He had the opportunity to turn the duel in his favor and he never took it. We were stalemated until he eventually ran out of draws.
15:04, Joke about how Ghost Girl always loses as a massive waste of how great a deck Altergeist is goes here. Seriously, she's the modern equivalent of Mai Valentine.
Let's not forget Aoi. Whether as Blue Angel or Blue Girl she had some great duels against villains, but she's not the main character so they always have an out. Her losses were mostly bullshit.
@@Japaneseanimeguy Be it characters getting their best card specifically to screw her over (vs. Bohman) or a character getting a card that was specifically designed to cheat her out of a win (her and Akira vs. Ai ). Also her only duel as Blue Girl was against Soulburner, the secondary protagonist.
That “worst game of yu-gi-oh” story is hilarious! I’ve never played yu-gi-oh, but I’ve played Magic the Gathering with my dad and it’s the same basic concept. Great review! I love all of your videos!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! There was also the time I accidentally stole a dude's Gemini Elf by absorbing it with Relinquished and forgetting to give it back, the time my opponent got Exodia literally on opening draw, the time my friend Dan dueled a guy who outed himself as having an illegal deck by playing three Sangans in one turn, the time I thought I couldn't attack until someone came by and pointed out that Stumbling only works for one turn; but the Worst Game Ever Played is my favorite memory and by far my best story.
RUclips recommended this video for me, i didn't realize the views and subs at first so i was shocked to see them so low. so yeah youtube is doing a great job at recommending smaller channels of quality! 👍
I buyed Link Fusion and i cant believe what they all didnt fixed. The Booster-Buying-to-Death is still in there, which is unexcusable. The Reserve-Duels are mostly annoying cause it's extremly often just fighting the Protagonist. Almost all the time. So it gets incredible repetitive. Wow. And so much more wrong. The Game costing moneyi s basically a Scam. Or am i misunderstanding something? This is bad, isnt it? Is the game very bad?
"I want to play against people who don't run Meta" Yeah, sounds like every multiplayer game I've ever played. I feel you, J. Edit: Holy shit I have no clue about anything you're talking about.
So jadow I know this is about yu gi oh but what are your thoughts about using a lightsworn/twilightsworn which involves sending cards from your deck to graveyard/Banish zone (or out of play zone) and gain special benefits such as summoning monsters from the graveyard/ Banish zone?
hey man, i just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate and love your videos. Im amazed by the fact that you are able to upload 30~ mins long videos almost every week. I cant imagine the passion and work that drive you forward. I tend to listen to these type of videos when i go to sleep. they help me relax. i fucking love em. i usually just pick your review playlist and leave thr videos playing even after i fall asleep, which i think is good for the youtube algorithm. anyways, never stop making vids brother! youtube and i need you!
Just putting this out there, but Master Rule 4 absolutely wasn't meant to slow the game down. It was created purely to push Link monsters in lieu of just releasing a ban list to rape all the top decks at the time, like what happened when Konami of America wanted to push Kozmos by murdering Nekroz, Burning Abyss, and Shaddolls in one fell swoop. Under MR4 Links basically did what ALL the previous Extra Deck types did before it, only harder and far more viciously considering Links are so god damn easy to summon. They powercrept themselves practically every pack, and became even more toxic than the summoning mechanics they were "supposed" to limit.
Does anyone know if Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon isn't not available in Legacy of the Duelist for Nintendo Switch? I also can't find Eternal Chaos nor Chaos Valkyria.
Fredbit Productions no joke. I had 3 of every card in the game. When friends came over it was always about who could get out Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon first
I have very funny question for you Darklordjadow1. What would Pegasus in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series would he think of the video game Cuphead? After all he has fondness classic animation and manga.
Question to those who bought this for the PS4: If you already had the first Legacy of the Duelist installed on your PS4 and THEN bought Link Evolution, what were the changes or was there even something you could call a change?
Nice review, would have loved if the story was sort of done like the tag force games with an Rpg style story mode. I would consider discussing how broken the game has become in later years, but given I run Arcana Force (Favourite Archetype, number 2 being Spellbook Prophecy and 3 being Ancient Gears) I do seem to be asking for pain regardless of the ruleset/meta in Yugioh.
My cut off was basically the same as you, 2010, and every time I try to peer back in, it's so overwhelming. Yu-Gi-Oh is very intimidating to get back into because the meta changes every five seconds and new mechanics and cards become too much to keep up with so if I'm going back to the game, it is video games. I recommend the Tag Force games on PSP. That's probably the closest to your Xenoverse idea we're gonna get.
Same here. It was just around the time synchros were becoming really popular. I didn't like synchros because summoning them felt so lazy and unearned somehow (compared to fusion summoning where you still had to use specific monsters AND have polymerization back in the day; WHY do a bug and a dragon combine to make a machine, for example?!) but I could still have fun casual games against people who ran synchros. My biggest problem with YuGiOh since then is the never-ending power creep, basically Konami printing stronger and better cards so people would have to use these stronger and better cards. I liked the slow, methodical YuGiOh. I can still remember trying to revisit the game through YGO Pro or what's-it-called in 2015 or so and playing against Blackwings that performed well over 15 special summons on their first turn. And I just sat there... From what I hear, the game only got faster since then.
This game was clearly made for current fans and ppl like me who have been playing this entire time, imo pendulum and link mechanics made this game interesting instead of the stale fusion and synchro monsters
I will be honest, I usually just use the Deck Recipies with small changes, mostly because I am too stupid to make my own deck. My favorite decks are Vampires, for it's ability to force the opponent to junk cards in their deck, Lunalight for it's awesome Fusion monsters, Fortune Lady's for their effects and Field Spell, and Kozmo for the fact that I can get tough monsters out FAST, and the awesome Star Wars/Wizard of Oz theme.
How do I unlock the packs 100% on the PS4 version without link summoning. I unlocked all campaigns and duelist but it wont let me buy the last doezen packs of each duelist. I beat the unlocked duelest with new deck but they only give few cards and then only game points. Do I have to beat all the unlocked duelists several times? Anybody know how to get unlock 100% of the packs?
If you're talking about the original Legacy of the Duelist, then I have no idea. I know the original version has BUCKETS of paid story DLC, so I would assume that the missing packs are in there. In Link Evolution the packs are only tied to story progression.
The only thing I want from this Game is to have Music and Voicelines from the Anime and Duel Links. Animations for each Monster would be cool too like the GX Game from the DSLite
I got this game when it came out on the Switch. Yeah, Master Rule 4 was a cruel mistress for my X-Sabers, Shaddoll and D/D/D decks. Found ways to make them work, but that rule was a pain. The D/D/D deck was the better of the three because of its amazing level of recursion with both Ghengis fusions and Wee Witch's Apprentice. Still enjoyed it because it challenged me to be a better deck builder. The patch did help it and mbv made it way more playable. I'd recommend it.
As someone who fell out of the game long ago I love this game teaching me the new stuff, I try to play the story deck a few times before going to my old deck, but the one thing I disagree with you is that the one fusion starter deck got me past every campaign duel I’d get stuck on, whatever that fire bird that lets you do direct damage based on how many cards on the field is lethal, and I’ve had fun with battle packs and Gotten some Great cards in it
Just picked this up on steam a few day's ago. Really been enjoying it so far. First time I've played a YU-GI-OH game in almost 20 year's since the gameboy color day's. I play both the pokemon TCG and VGC competitively so it's nice to take a break from that and experience something new.
I don't really know how this ended up in my recommended, but I liked the review! I personally own the game myself and I had a lot of fun trying to beat every mission with story decks. Of course some of the later ones proved to be a hassle, so I just beat them with my Odd-Eyes Deck (which somehow always gets a good hand to finish them off in 2-3 turns, despite being the worst deck I've ever built). Overall I really liked the game and I have like, 150 hours on it already. I like how knowledgeable you were, even if you fumbled a bit on the Pendulums part. They were never good and are dangerously resource intensive. I'm not sure a meta deck from 2004 would lose to a 2015 Pendulum deck. PS: Nice Kamen Rider profile pic! PS: Dark Hole hasn't been played competitively in a decade.
Pendulum decks have had meta relevant decks, it just that most of them are now unplayable due to multiple hits on the ban list. Most of them also came out long after pendulum summoning was introduced to the game. Dark hole was competitive until 2014 when Raigeki was put to one, and it was still a cheaper alternative for a while after. Both Raigeki and Dark Hole fell off around 2017, and Lightning Storm, a newer spell, replaces them both because it's not just limited to monsters.
@@absollum Oh come on, they had like PePe and D/D/D, the former only being viable for 2 weeks and the latter getting gutted by Master Rule 4 less than a month after it got good. Pendulum Magicians have never been meta.
After finishing the story mode and challenge modes I was left with not much to do except collect cards, thankfully I’ve found a great use for it now that I’ve collected everything: Playing Solitaire! No really, whenever there’s an Archetype I’m interested in but don’t know what cards to use in it I make the deck in Legacy and test consistency in random story duels. Sure I could just do test hands by myself in a vacuum but I feel it’s better to test with at least the minimum level of disruption from the other side. The most recent deck I’ve made using this method are Karakuris, feudal Japanese wood robots with a special gimmick involving their monsters changing their battle positions, they’re not great but they’ve been a blast to play, just waiting on the last 3 cards to arrive in the mail and I’ll have the deck built for real. Which leads me to a question: Would you be interested in having a duel or 2 over Legacy? If you’re not busy I mean, if you don’t have the time it’s perfectly understandable :)
I think it'd be great to play someone online in Link Evolution, but I haven't subscribed to Nintendo's online play for the Switch. I suppose I could subscribe to it at least for a little while though.
Darklordjadow1 Awesome, plus you can always use the online stuff for streams. My friend Code is SW-5260-5340-0065, I’ll probably be on later around 6 or 7. (3:31 at time of writing) Edit: Oh, there’s also Yugioh Nexus if you’d rather not buy a subscription. I can always send you a link over Discord :)
So they finally released Master Duel, without much of an announcement, and by some incredible miracle the game is generous for getting cards without dumping money into it. It took me less than 2 hours to recreate the deck I had in Legacy + new support for said deck that had been released since and I did so without spending a single cent.
Oh god I know exactly how you feel. I've quit this game three times. The first time was around the age of the Elemental Heroes. I saw that they were all practically useless unless you had _all_ of them and red flags went off. Then the Destiny Heroes. Then the Inzectors. I saw the writing on the wall and quit. Up to that point, I had gotten no less than 4th in the past 10 tournaments I was in, and won 2 of them. Balanced Warrior deck that somehow only I knew how to use. _FUCK_ Inzectors, by the way. Especially Hornet. I got Hornet in a pack once. *I ate it.* I got dragged back into it a few years later, and tried using my previous deck to see how it would do. I was thrashed so hard that I spent an unreasonable amount of time and money making a new deck from scratch. Which turned out to be a modified Simochi Burn. Did okay for a while, had to quit again because car. Came back two months later. There was this stupid-broken sea monster everyone was using, but you at least had a _chance_ of winning. Then came the Wind-Ups. I was humiliated. This no longer had anything to do with skill. The deck played itself, you just had to buy it. I asked the next guy what his deck was, and when he said "Wind-Ups," I tried to forfeit immediately. But he convinced me to stay. This was a mistake. He made *_thirteen summons_* on his first turn and left me with *_one_* card in my hand before I had a chance to do *_anything._* I haven't played the game since.
Trust me you ain't missing much. You're honestly better off playing video games like this. Or if you want to play card games with real people, there's like four or five better options out there.
This is definitely one of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh games and I hope to see more Yu-Gi-Oh reviews from you 😊 I quit playing Yu-Gi-Oh IRL a few years ago because of Konami’s BS 🙄 I just stick to the games instead
only one questions on my mind concerning this game: 1a] does it have English voice dubbing? if so, 1b] is Seto Kaiba voiced here again by Eric Stuart? I'm not much into the game itself, but was a big fan of the Pegasus & Marik sagas of the anime... and am a big fan of voice-acting in general as you can tell by my question!
@@Darklordjadow1 Which begs the question of why Vrains has no cutscenes when there's no voice acting? I know the dub wasn't complete, but is that even a good excuse with the lack of voice acting?
Let me summerize: pre master rules 5: 1/10 complete waste of money Post master rules 5: 7/10 needs updates to fix the crashing when on line during single player, needs to fix the rare yet terrible lag and stutter and needs to add more cards.
Most of cards are in game, only ones that are missing are any cards that have come out since April, over 10,000 cards, more than any other Yu-Gi-Oh console game and your complaining
@@mathewhosier9739 well if they have to do game fixes to stop the online crashing even during single player and the horrific but semi-rare lag they may as well add the new cards to it.
I'm curious, what card game do people think has a genuinely good AI? I feel like it might be impossible to program AI to have humanlike reactions in a card game. (Only including card games based on actual card games!)
I haven't played Duel Links. By the concept I like that Konami much more closely curates the meta and which cards get added, but I'm just kinda wary of free to play games and their money schemes. I have Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, and that's kind of enough for me.
As a casual fan for nearly twenty years, I LOVE the video games. I cant keep up finacially with the TCG. This lets me play in some capacity while I relive that sweet sweet nostalgia. This game was a must buy when it ported to the switch. The good Old GBA days relived
As an example of how much Vrains got the shaft, Akira Zaizen, brother of the female lead and one of my favorite side characters in the franchise, literally only has one appearance in this game because Playmaker was the only opponent he fought by himself.
Idea for fixing pendulum: keep the old summoning mechanic (broken af) but monsters summoned by pendulum cannot activate their effects and you must return them to the extradeck during your opponents endphase. Also, you can't attack directly with pendulum summoned monsters
@@jakhar5 its just not letting them use effects if summoned from the extradeck and not in the link zone(my bad for not adding that) but if monsters are summoned properly then they can activate. Still a very strong mechanic if you ask me
@@uctuyenle4649 They're bad. You may think summoning a bunch of monsters in one turn is broken, but trust me, long before they were ever introduced, it was already much easier. Pendulum Summoning is too resource-intensive and never saw the light of day in a competitive format, save for like, 2 decks in a span of 4 years
I have had an intersting duel with Tiea once where she was on the receiving end of an attack flipped a rush recklessly to beef up her monster, and I countered by flipping MY own rush recklessly and she still ate that attack
I have bought two of the older games Decade Duels then DD Plus.... Yea.. I chose to wait holding on legacy of the Duelist. It paid off with the Link Evolution verison, on PC since Not paying online for Switch.
I had a friend in college who played Decade Duels... and yikes! He just got a kick out of memeing about "The Moses Card"- all of the AI's spamming Solemn Judgment.
Seeing Zexel and the series after it made me realize how far behind I am in the series. Then again im still a old person and still just use a toon monster/Life point sacrficing=mass summoning deck so idk
Man, don't get me started on pendulums. I was getting into competitive yugioh at the time they were first released, and what you said about them was exactly how I felt way back then. While there were competitive decks that didnt use them, it felt like if you didn't use a pendulum deck, you were in for a much harder fight. Nothing was more annoying when you expended most of your resources only for your opponent to just activate two scales, pendulum summon 5 from the extra deck and just end the duel right there. And the meta at the time made me quit the competitive scene till around early 2019. Still play competitively to this day.
Also, I'm convinced Konami really wants to step away from pendulum cards. After Arc-V they haven't printed nearly as much as they did back then. Even during master rule 4, konami was still printing a fair amount of synchro, xyz, and fusion cards, but not a lot of pendulums.
@@junglezone7323 Konami had to make a Link monster specifically designed to make Pendulum playable due to player backlash, then banned that Link just to give Pendulum a middle finger.
What are you referring to when you mention the good half of 5d's? Also my biggest complaint with this game is that it's an upgraded version of Legacy of The Duelist which I bought and they expect me to pay an additional 40 bucks for it just to get all the content? I think existing customers of the older game should get either the new one for free or a huge discount. Also my favorite two decks to use in this game are Rise of The Skull Servants and My custom Exodia Cheat deck.
The first season of 5D's encapsulates the Fortune Cup and Dark Signer Arcs. After that the series settled into a long... long series of filler episodes before the World Racing Grand Prix arc that had to awkwardly retcon itself among other issues.
@@Darklordjadow1 without going to much in depth what kind of retcons we talking? The only thing I remember about the five D's series is everything up to yu seigh (cant spell) going to jail and then getting released as well as him meeting akiza.
@@KotorFan-zb1bo That was way early in the series that you're remembering; before even the Fortune Cup at the start of the series. The villains of the World Racing Grand Prix were supposed to be a creepy death cult, but then an actual creepy death cult popped up in Japan, so they were very awkwardly changed into being time travelers. Also Carly and Akiza were demoted to background characters because Carly's actress was arrested and Akiza's actress took time off to get married.
@@KotorFan-zb1bo Yeah, the retcons that happen during the second half of 5D's are massive, cause tons of plot holes, and are very obviously the result of last minute rewrites. They also half-heartedly make the Bonds Beyond time movie canon by having ZONE mention that the villain's movie was one of his minions... which never comes up again after that one mention.
Yu-Gi-Oh video games have hit a stalemate of what they can do in my opinion I feel like a Xenoverse to ask Yu-Gi-Oh game is needed in order to reinvigorate the franchise or go the route of the Pokemon games
Quick question: My GF and I have never played Yu-Gi-Oh, and previous games had nothing to teach new players aside from manuals the size of dictionaries. Does this game actually have a tutorial?
The first level of the first campaign has a basic tutorial, and the first level of each other campaign has a tutorial for that series' new summoning mechanic. I think the only thing it doesn't explain is ritual summoning, but the rest are explained very gently and easy to grasp.
the "tutorials" of each story ark dont realy explain anything. you get a bit of text and a pre scripted duel in which youre told what to play in what order. nothing about the basic rules of the game, card types or anything else of value gets even mentioned. if you want to learn the game youre better off reading the wiki articles about the rules and watch people play online.
Nice. My top picks are Blackwings, Cyber Dragons, Raidraptors, and D/D, Batteryman, and I've gotten Rokkets working quite nicely since this video. I started a new save file so I'd have the slots to experiment with more decks
@@Darklordjadow1I also have an exodia deck that completely ignores the limited/ban list so it has three copies of each exodia piece. there's also 3 of several draw cards and chicken game.
@@Darklordjadow1 It's a lot of fun. Here's my recipe: 15 exodia pieces, cardcar d, allure of darkness x2, chicken game x3, graceful charity x3, one day of peace x3, pot of duality, pot of greed x3, pseudo space x3, terraforming x3, and upstart goblin x3. I have pot of duality x2, and cardcar d in my side, but I never need them.
Sending Extra Deck played Pendulums to the GY if they die (along with making the end Spell/Trap zones optional Scales), would've balanced them better: Sure we'd have still had Links but they would not have been a corrective tool. That Xenoverse idea should definitely happen- just use the multi-dimension premise of Arc-V.
I've pretty much reviewed all the ones I've got, apart from the Nintendo DS outings that I have no good way to record. And reviewing Master Duel seems like I'd be more reviewing the other players than the game.
lol I literally just faced a guy who was literally on his first turn and he just kept summoning different monsters and this went on for a good actual at least 5 min I had to quit lol like still didn’t attack just summoning away sigh what has happened to us 🤦🏽♂️🤢
22:15, I come from the future to say that Sunvine (Specter's deck), G-Golem (Earth's deck), and Appliancer (Roboppi's deck) were added into the real game. Still WAY after Link Evolution's most recent update so doesn't matter for this game.
I wish the hell that Link Evolution would get at least ONE more update to at least add in the VRAINS cutscenes! Maybe add some kind of Expert mode where certain characters actually have their up to date decks; Yugi with Modern Dark Magician support and Joey with a proper Red-Eyes Black Dragon deck and so on.
@@Darklordjadow1 And maybe add the new @Ignister support that actually improved the deck tremendously. The Arrival is too much of an important card for the archetype to miss.
Just a tip for casual players who are going to start online first you will rage many times and because players will use cards you don't have yet but all in all I think it's a good game if you play it for the story and card collecting
Having played the game meself, i have a few complaints to add. 1)Getting cards from the booster packs is infuriatingly random, with full completing the 10k total a massive time sink since it requires the duel points from duels to "purchase". I get what they were going for, but after a while it loses novelty. 2)Terribad decks or not, the ai can be extremely brutal, and very stacked in their favor. This only gets worse when they get their digital mitts on more modern cards. 3)Unskippable summoning scenes. And no way to see the ones available on their own. Otherwise? I like this game plenty. Lets me scratch my card itch without spending hundreds of dollars for a "good enough" deck, and helps kill the time.
That summoning animation thing can be a huge pain; especially using a Salamangreat, Red-Eyes, or Dark Magician deck; all designed around heavy recursion.
fun fact: it takes about 60k-100k points to get all cards from a single booster set in the game. on a good day you get maybe 2k-3k points from a duel so you need to play around 40k duels to finish one single set. and with the fact that key cards everybody needs for almost every deck are spread out over almost all sets doesnt help to reduce the frustration of endless grinding.
@@Darklordjadow1 the worst of the animations are stardust dragon and odd-eyes pendulum dragon. Stardust dragon because of its effect, odd-eyes pendulum because you will be summoning him a lot
What's funny about Jaden's Deck is that his Neos Deck went undefeated the entire series x3 minus one Duel in Season 4 where Chazz throws the match at the suggestion of an antagonistic manager.
lol I literally just faced a guy who was literally on his first turn and he just kept summoning different monsters and this went on for a good actual at least 5 min I had to quit lol like still didn’t attack just summoning away sigh what has happened to us
I keep seeing comments that the video is confusing to non-fans of Yu-Gi-Oh (damn...) so here's a little dictionary of Yu-Gi-Oh terms to try and help:
The anime series in order are: Yu-Gi-Oh, GX, 5D's, Zexal, Arc-V, and VRAINS. There's also the new show Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens, which is not relevant to the topic at hand.
Archetype: a group of cards that share a particular name that support one another and synergize together
Turbo: A deck that's specifically designed to play a particular card much faster than the card was intended.
Backrow: The zones of the field where spells and traps are played.
Protection: effects that prevent your cards from being destroyed
Search/Searcher: cards that let you select and retrieve specific cards out of your deck
Beater/Beatstick: a monster with high Attack Points that doesn't do much else relevant.
Boss: an extremely powerful monster that decks are typically built around
Swarming: a deck's ability to play several monsters to the field in rapid succession
Brick: when your hand sucks so bad you have no good moves available
One Turn Kill/OTK: a combo that deals an immense amount of damage sufficient to defeat an enemy that's still at high life points.
Control: A deck or combo that's designed to restrict your opponent's moves.
Consistency: a deck's ability to make good moves regardless of the cards drawn
Have you tried Garfield Kart Furious Racing on the PS4, Switch and PC?
FTK (First Turn Kill); OP decks that focus on downing the opponent on the first turn.
@Casswury I've seen that; it was pretty fun. And I also always laugh at the film's implicit admission that Jaden's deck is useless, because the implication is that Jaden's hand completely bricked and he was only able to play because Yusei went first and they invented a new Neos Fusion specifically for the film.
If you want a challenge try ranked marches. The 3 minute time limit really hurts a lot of the turbo OTK decks. It forces them to break up their combos over several turns, which forces them to adjust their combos so they don't get run over by their opponent.
That 32 deck limit... It hurts so badly. It was my biggest issue with the previous game.
Story doesn't do the anime justice. They gimped it to sell DLC in the previous game, which was a bit overpriced. It really could have been done better, but Konami as a corporation is lazy.
Have to agree the AI isn't the worst though not the best either. I've seen some really bad plays from the VRains Decks, but not nearly as bad as some of the older titles. The AI's for the Xbox 360 games, and the one DS game I had were actually merciless, and brutal 90% of the time.
The actual Card game seems like a mess, though not as bad as the Goat format days, or the TeleDAD days of 5D's. Top tier decks I've heard about are Eldlitch which is a Zombie deck that uses traps and locks down your opponent, Adamspater which is Rock based combo heavy deck, Sky Strikers(is in this game, and has been nerfed multiple times in the actual game, but is still good) revolves around controlling only 1 monster in the extra monster zone and having powerful spells which are easily searched.) Salamangreats(also in this game) which were actually released in a structure deck, and actually won a major tournament or two. There's a few other that I can't remember or I don't know much about such as Altergiest but the Meta is built up on turbo decks, and control decks.
The following relates both to the actual game and Link Evolution.
Hand traps such as Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Nibeiru, etc allow Decks that go 2nd to survive the first turn if the duel by interfering with the opponent, while decks that go first have to play around those cards in order to flood the field. There's a Nekroz Deck that with 1 specific card in hand can combo into 6 monsters in 1 turn lock your opponent out of special summoning, shut down all extra deck monsters, and search 3-4 cards out of the deck, and draw one. The 3-4 cards, and the 1 draw are all a bonus as they aren't needed to set the field up(your just required to do them in order to pull of the combo, though some of the searches are optional.) Hero decks can pull similar shenanigans with 5 big monsters in 1 turn, and that's from nearly any hand. Both decks need 5+ minutes to run these combos though so time limits can break them.
Don thousand cards were printed after the mega patch and.... they're able to OTK, or lock down the opponent if they get their field spell which is easily searched through a number of ways.
Why would non fans even consider this game is my question, this game was clearly made for fans
This is the game that I have played the most on Switch. Over 400 hours, I made so many decks and played so many games. I still haven't got all the cards and I still can make some more decks I would like but many some cards are so rare drops that it is almost impossible to do it.
So IF you are a fan of Yugioh OR you just have a curiosity to see how the game is played you HAVE to buy it. Seriously. The story eases you with all the differen mechanics. The game is perfect and the only bad thing is of course that new cards will not be added but it does make sense.
watching Pikasprey's playthrough of Legacy of the Duelist was pretty fun (him constantly loosing to the Rare Hunter because of Exodia).
Like ur profile pic
Fight fire with fire on that one...
" Everybody played boring Decks, not like me who played a stall deck with no win condition except waiting for the opponent to deck out."
Win conditions back then were basically "get a strong monster to the field and beat opponent to death with it," which I had. And I reiterate: half the cards in those decks are still banned 20 years later.
Trickstar deck
When people ask me about my decks win condition i ask “which one, i have like 3 per deck”
Stall isn't boring, what are you talking about? It's fuckin hilarious! I ran a wierd-ass Simochi Burn stall deck with Pikeru on the Xbox 360, and one of my fondest memories of the game as a whole is the time I got someone to ragequit when I reached a *_hundred thousand life points._* I was laughing my ass off.
I took my IRL Simochi-stall to an actual tournament, and the regular ULTRA-LEGIT META GAMER GOD dude saw me playing and asked if he could try my deck. He was having a blast. It wasn't _amazing,_ but it was funny as hell.
I repeat: *_a meta-gamer had FUN._*
Just bringing this up pendulum weren't as broke as you said it was. took them a good few years to become a viable and even broken deck. They still got there but not as fast as you made it seem. Also if you XYZ summon using a pendulum monster it goes to the grave one of the few ways you can get them to the grave without discarding them from hand.
Also D/D/D dont really like to pendulum summon much they can do it but its more effective to use all the other summoning methods they have.
Great review though
I love D/D/D decks. They are the perfect introduction deck you can have because it can do all special summoning types except for rituals, their extra deck monsters are all powerful and they synergize with each other well. It was the deck that got me back into Yu-gi-oh and I use it more than any other deck.
Pendulum isn’t that Op I think I’ve yet to see anyone use it online but it’s still only my first week lol
@@Ookami20 now days its not cause the link mechanic heavily nerfed them
@@crossdaboss8914 I think they feel a little too nerfed but I haven’t gotten any different Pendulum monsters yet to see abilities I think for now they’re ok with how they are 👌🏽
@@crossdaboss8914 I like the ones that help my Normal Monsters cause I’m an old school player lol so far 👌🏽🔥
1:17 I actually have a similar story. I was playing Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution and playing the reverse duel of Blair vs Chazz. For the record, I was playing Artifacts, an archetype based around monsters that could set in the spell and trap zones and gain effects if they're summoned on the opponent's turn. We were caught in a complete stalemate. Chazz had 2, later 3 Ojama Knights in defense position and I had Artifacts Vajra, Beagalltach, and the Seal of Orichalcos on the field so I can't summon anything stronger from the Extra deck. Chazz had Ojama Country which can switch the ATT and DEF of all monsters on the field but he never once activated it. He had the opportunity to turn the duel in his favor and he never took it. We were stalemated until he eventually ran out of draws.
15:04, Joke about how Ghost Girl always loses as a massive waste of how great a deck Altergeist is goes here. Seriously, she's the modern equivalent of Mai Valentine.
Let's not forget Aoi. Whether as Blue Angel or Blue Girl she had some great duels against villains, but she's not the main character so they always have an out. Her losses were mostly bullshit.
@@Japaneseanimeguy Be it characters getting their best card specifically to screw her over (vs. Bohman) or a character getting a card that was specifically designed to cheat her out of a win (her and Akira vs. Ai ). Also her only duel as Blue Girl was against Soulburner, the secondary protagonist.
That “worst game of yu-gi-oh” story is hilarious! I’ve never played yu-gi-oh, but I’ve played Magic the Gathering with my dad and it’s the same basic concept. Great review! I love all of your videos!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
There was also the time I accidentally stole a dude's Gemini Elf by absorbing it with Relinquished and forgetting to give it back, the time my opponent got Exodia literally on opening draw, the time my friend Dan dueled a guy who outed himself as having an illegal deck by playing three Sangans in one turn, the time I thought I couldn't attack until someone came by and pointed out that Stumbling only works for one turn; but the Worst Game Ever Played is my favorite memory and by far my best story.
RUclips recommended this video for me, i didn't realize the views and subs at first so i was shocked to see them so low. so yeah youtube is doing a great job at recommending smaller channels of quality! 👍
I buyed Link Fusion and i cant believe what they all didnt fixed.
The Booster-Buying-to-Death is still in there, which is unexcusable.
The Reserve-Duels are mostly annoying cause it's extremly often just fighting the Protagonist. Almost all the time.
So it gets incredible repetitive. Wow.
And so much more wrong.
The Game costing moneyi s basically a Scam. Or am i misunderstanding something?
This is bad, isnt it? Is the game very bad?
"I want to play against people who don't run Meta"
Yeah, sounds like every multiplayer game I've ever played. I feel you, J.
Edit: Holy shit I have no clue about anything you're talking about.
Makes me think of Gears of War MP, just wall bouncing and 1 shot kill Gnashers to the face, since the first game.
Same here. Jadow keeps talking in YGO terms and I'm just "What". Interestingly, it doesn't make experience of this video worse.
2:47, Oh Trickstar Light Stage, you have certainly seen better days.
So jadow I know this is about yu gi oh but what are your thoughts about using a lightsworn/twilightsworn which involves sending cards from your deck to graveyard/Banish zone (or out of play zone) and gain special benefits such as summoning monsters from the graveyard/ Banish zone?
hey man, i just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate and love your videos. Im amazed by the fact that you are able to upload 30~ mins long videos almost every week. I cant imagine the passion and work that drive you forward. I tend to listen to these type of videos when i go to sleep. they help me relax. i fucking love em. i usually just pick your review playlist and leave thr videos playing even after i fall asleep, which i think is good for the youtube algorithm. anyways, never stop making vids brother! youtube and i need you!
Damn, love the crazy new upload schedule man!
Just putting this out there, but Master Rule 4 absolutely wasn't meant to slow the game down. It was created purely to push Link monsters in lieu of just releasing a ban list to rape all the top decks at the time, like what happened when Konami of America wanted to push Kozmos by murdering Nekroz, Burning Abyss, and Shaddolls in one fell swoop.
Under MR4 Links basically did what ALL the previous Extra Deck types did before it, only harder and far more viciously considering Links are so god damn easy to summon. They powercrept themselves practically every pack, and became even more toxic than the summoning mechanics they were "supposed" to limit.
Does anyone know if Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon isn't not available in Legacy of the Duelist for Nintendo Switch? I also can't find Eternal Chaos nor Chaos Valkyria.
I don't think it's had a card or banlist update in a while, so a lot of the newer stuff isn't in yet.
7:47, My favorites here are (at)Ignister, Marincess, and Trickstar.
How do i make the game run faster? the duels take forever.
The best yugioh game in my opinion was forbidden memories on the ps1.
And duelist of the roses for ps2.
It was a but unfair, but it was good
Fredbit Productions no joke. I had 3 of every card in the game. When friends came over it was always about who could get out Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon first
mat d in terms of ps2 yugioh games I personally LOVED Yugioh Capsule Monster Colosseum! It’s a shame it’s pretty obscured by dotr...
@@pika51011 the element cycle was too complex for young teen me but I played the hell out of the gamecube Ogre Tactics style game
I have one question, am I able to make a Harpie deck with lots of support? Because I love harpies and will buy
Yes.
More reviews! I’m loving the shift back to older console games.
Game came out in March, how is that old exactly?
I have very funny question for you Darklordjadow1. What would Pegasus in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series would he think of the video game Cuphead? After all he has fondness classic animation and manga.
Pendulum can still spam summon from the hand and with link monsters they can function just as good if not better than they did before
What was the yu gi oh ds game you mentioned in the review that you said had good cards and oppenants??
Reverse of Arcadia (World Championship Tournament 2010).
Question to those who bought this for the PS4:
If you already had the first Legacy of the Duelist installed on your PS4 and THEN bought Link Evolution, what were the changes or was there even something you could call a change?
I swear it was a downgrade in some ways, no skip animation for opening cards or summon animations which I am sure the previous one had a skip feature.
Nice review, would have loved if the story was sort of done like the tag force games with an Rpg style story mode.
I would consider discussing how broken the game has become in later years, but given I run Arcana Force (Favourite Archetype, number 2 being Spellbook Prophecy and 3 being Ancient Gears) I do seem to be asking for pain regardless of the ruleset/meta in Yugioh.
My cut off was basically the same as you, 2010, and every time I try to peer back in, it's so overwhelming. Yu-Gi-Oh is very intimidating to get back into because the meta changes every five seconds and new mechanics and cards become too much to keep up with so if I'm going back to the game, it is video games.
I recommend the Tag Force games on PSP. That's probably the closest to your Xenoverse idea we're gonna get.
Same here. It was just around the time synchros were becoming really popular. I didn't like synchros because summoning them felt so lazy and unearned somehow (compared to fusion summoning where you still had to use specific monsters AND have polymerization back in the day; WHY do a bug and a dragon combine to make a machine, for example?!) but I could still have fun casual games against people who ran synchros. My biggest problem with YuGiOh since then is the never-ending power creep, basically Konami printing stronger and better cards so people would have to use these stronger and better cards. I liked the slow, methodical YuGiOh. I can still remember trying to revisit the game through YGO Pro or what's-it-called in 2015 or so and playing against Blackwings that performed well over 15 special summons on their first turn. And I just sat there... From what I hear, the game only got faster since then.
This game was clearly made for current fans and ppl like me who have been playing this entire time, imo pendulum and link mechanics made this game interesting instead of the stale fusion and synchro monsters
@@mathewhosier9739 ofc it was made for current fans, it has 0 content and its basically a poor mans only way of playing yugioh properly nowadays
Awesome to see another Cyber Dragon player! I’ve been meaning to get this game.
I will be honest, I usually just use the Deck Recipies with small changes, mostly because I am too stupid to make my own deck.
My favorite decks are Vampires, for it's ability to force the opponent to junk cards in their deck, Lunalight for it's awesome Fusion monsters, Fortune Lady's for their effects and Field Spell, and Kozmo for the fact that I can get tough monsters out FAST, and the awesome Star Wars/Wizard of Oz theme.
How do I unlock the packs 100% on the PS4 version without link summoning. I unlocked all campaigns and duelist but it wont let me buy the last doezen packs of each duelist. I beat the unlocked duelest with new deck but they only give few cards and then only game points. Do I have to beat all the unlocked duelists several times? Anybody know how to get unlock 100% of the packs?
If you're talking about the original Legacy of the Duelist, then I have no idea. I know the original version has BUCKETS of paid story DLC, so I would assume that the missing packs are in there. In Link Evolution the packs are only tied to story progression.
The only thing I want from this Game is to have Music and Voicelines from the Anime and Duel Links. Animations for each Monster would be cool too like the GX Game from the DSLite
yes! i love the duel links ost.
Has anyone had a glitch? My twin barrel dragon’s effect won’t trigger, despite meeting the requirements.
I got this game when it came out on the Switch. Yeah, Master Rule 4 was a cruel mistress for my X-Sabers, Shaddoll and D/D/D decks. Found ways to make them work, but that rule was a pain. The D/D/D deck was the better of the three because of its amazing level of recursion with both Ghengis fusions and Wee Witch's Apprentice. Still enjoyed it because it challenged me to be a better deck builder. The patch did help it and mbv made it way more playable. I'd recommend it.
As someone who fell out of the game long ago I love this game teaching me the new stuff, I try to play the story deck a few times before going to my old deck, but the one thing I disagree with you is that the one fusion starter deck got me past every campaign duel I’d get stuck on, whatever that fire bird that lets you do direct damage based on how many cards on the field is lethal, and I’ve had fun with battle packs and Gotten some Great cards in it
Just picked this up on steam a few day's ago. Really been enjoying it so far. First time I've played a YU-GI-OH game in almost 20 year's since the gameboy color day's. I play both the pokemon TCG and VGC competitively so it's nice to take a break from that and experience something new.
I don't really know how this ended up in my recommended, but I liked the review! I personally own the game myself and I had a lot of fun trying to beat every mission with story decks. Of course some of the later ones proved to be a hassle, so I just beat them with my Odd-Eyes Deck (which somehow always gets a good hand to finish them off in 2-3 turns, despite being the worst deck I've ever built).
Overall I really liked the game and I have like, 150 hours on it already. I like how knowledgeable you were, even if you fumbled a bit on the Pendulums part. They were never good and are dangerously resource intensive. I'm not sure a meta deck from 2004 would lose to a 2015 Pendulum deck.
PS: Nice Kamen Rider profile pic!
PS: Dark Hole hasn't been played competitively in a decade.
Pendulum decks have had meta relevant decks, it just that most of them are now unplayable due to multiple hits on the ban list. Most of them also came out long after pendulum summoning was introduced to the game.
Dark hole was competitive until 2014 when Raigeki was put to one, and it was still a cheaper alternative for a while after. Both Raigeki and Dark Hole fell off around 2017, and Lightning Storm, a newer spell, replaces them both because it's not just limited to monsters.
@@absollum Oh come on, they had like PePe and D/D/D, the former only being viable for 2 weeks and the latter getting gutted by Master Rule 4 less than a month after it got good. Pendulum Magicians have never been meta.
Odd eyes magicians and stardust synchron basically the only two decks you need.
After finishing the story mode and challenge modes I was left with not much to do except collect cards, thankfully I’ve found a great use for it now that I’ve collected everything: Playing Solitaire! No really, whenever there’s an Archetype I’m interested in but don’t know what cards to use in it I make the deck in Legacy and test consistency in random story duels. Sure I could just do test hands by myself in a vacuum but I feel it’s better to test with at least the minimum level of disruption from the other side. The most recent deck I’ve made using this method are Karakuris, feudal Japanese wood robots with a special gimmick involving their monsters changing their battle positions, they’re not great but they’ve been a blast to play, just waiting on the last 3 cards to arrive in the mail and I’ll have the deck built for real. Which leads me to a question:
Would you be interested in having a duel or 2 over Legacy? If you’re not busy I mean, if you don’t have the time it’s perfectly understandable :)
I think it'd be great to play someone online in Link Evolution, but I haven't subscribed to Nintendo's online play for the Switch. I suppose I could subscribe to it at least for a little while though.
Darklordjadow1 Awesome, plus you can always use the online stuff for streams. My friend Code is SW-5260-5340-0065, I’ll probably be on later around 6 or 7. (3:31 at time of writing)
Edit: Oh, there’s also Yugioh Nexus if you’d rather not buy a subscription. I can always send you a link over Discord :)
@@Prophet_of_Puns Thanks! I'm busy tonight, but I'll keep it in mind!
Darklordjadow1 No prob man, you do what you gotta do :)
Hey Jadow could you review the Henry Stickmin collection? It’s on steam for 15$ and has six flash games in one all longer than the last one.
Pretty underrated channel good shit man
So they finally released Master Duel, without much of an announcement, and by some incredible miracle the game is generous for getting cards without dumping money into it.
It took me less than 2 hours to recreate the deck I had in Legacy + new support for said deck that had been released since and I did so without spending a single cent.
Oh god I know exactly how you feel. I've quit this game three times. The first time was around the age of the Elemental Heroes. I saw that they were all practically useless unless you had _all_ of them and red flags went off. Then the Destiny Heroes. Then the Inzectors. I saw the writing on the wall and quit. Up to that point, I had gotten no less than 4th in the past 10 tournaments I was in, and won 2 of them. Balanced Warrior deck that somehow only I knew how to use.
_FUCK_ Inzectors, by the way. Especially Hornet. I got Hornet in a pack once. *I ate it.*
I got dragged back into it a few years later, and tried using my previous deck to see how it would do. I was thrashed so hard that I spent an unreasonable amount of time and money making a new deck from scratch. Which turned out to be a modified Simochi Burn. Did okay for a while, had to quit again because car.
Came back two months later. There was this stupid-broken sea monster everyone was using, but you at least had a _chance_ of winning.
Then came the Wind-Ups.
I was humiliated. This no longer had anything to do with skill. The deck played itself, you just had to buy it. I asked the next guy what his deck was, and when he said "Wind-Ups," I tried to forfeit immediately. But he convinced me to stay. This was a mistake.
He made *_thirteen summons_* on his first turn and left me with *_one_* card in my hand before I had a chance to do *_anything._*
I haven't played the game since.
Loved reading this, thanks. Also it is a shame that the game going this way has driven you away.
Trust me you ain't missing much. You're honestly better off playing video games like this. Or if you want to play card games with real people, there's like four or five better options out there.
This is definitely one of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh games and I hope to see more Yu-Gi-Oh reviews from you 😊 I quit playing Yu-Gi-Oh IRL a few years ago because of Konami’s BS 🙄 I just stick to the games instead
only one questions on my mind concerning this game: 1a] does it have English voice dubbing? if so, 1b] is Seto Kaiba voiced here again by Eric Stuart?
I'm not much into the game itself, but was a big fan of the Pegasus & Marik sagas of the anime... and am a big fan of voice-acting in general as you can tell by my question!
There's no voice acting whatsoever in the game; it's all text boxes... which is a bummer.
@@Darklordjadow1 Which begs the question of why Vrains has no cutscenes when there's no voice acting? I know the dub wasn't complete, but is that even a good excuse with the lack of voice acting?
@@Darklordjadow1 The japanese version has voice acting I'm pretty sure though.
6:53, Also some revenge on Bohman for causing Aoi to be fridged.....again.
good review did you play the rush duel switch game
Great review. You def deserve more subs
Let me summerize: pre master rules 5: 1/10 complete waste of money
Post master rules 5: 7/10 needs updates to fix the crashing when on line during single player, needs to fix the rare yet terrible lag and stutter and needs to add more cards.
Most of cards are in game, only ones that are missing are any cards that have come out since April, over 10,000 cards, more than any other Yu-Gi-Oh console game and your complaining
@@mathewhosier9739 well if they have to do game fixes to stop the online crashing even during single player and the horrific but semi-rare lag they may as well add the new cards to it.
Can the game be played in airplane mode, or is it online only?
@@danwithaplan3742 I think it can be played offline but watch out for the lag and crashing.
@@danwithaplan3742 airplane mode can be played in fact it runs better in airplane mode
Best Video Ever. Raidraptors and D/Ds are my favorites personally
I'm curious, what card game do people think has a genuinely good AI? I feel like it might be impossible to program AI to have humanlike reactions in a card game. (Only including card games based on actual card games!)
I just realized what's your thoughts on speed duel/duel links
I haven't played Duel Links. By the concept I like that Konami much more closely curates the meta and which cards get added, but I'm just kinda wary of free to play games and their money schemes. I have Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, and that's kind of enough for me.
@@Darklordjadow1 Me too. Hell, I've been playing Genshin Impact since day 1(which is around October for PS4) and only spent $30 total on it.
the talk nerdy to me shirt i swear you wore that shirt in your first ever YU-GI-OH review
As a casual fan for nearly twenty years, I LOVE the video games. I cant keep up finacially with the TCG. This lets me play in some capacity while I relive that sweet sweet nostalgia.
This game was a must buy when it ported to the switch. The good Old GBA days relived
You should review x2 wolverine's revenge one of the hardest most unfair games I've ever played
As an example of how much Vrains got the shaft, Akira Zaizen, brother of the female lead and one of my favorite side characters in the franchise, literally only has one appearance in this game because Playmaker was the only opponent he fought by himself.
Idea for fixing pendulum: keep the old summoning mechanic (broken af) but monsters summoned by pendulum cannot activate their effects and you must return them to the extradeck during your opponents endphase. Also, you can't attack directly with pendulum summoned monsters
Penduums already are currently the weakest summoning mechanic in the game, this would make them unusable.
@@jakhar5 its just not letting them use effects if summoned from the extradeck and not in the link zone(my bad for not adding that) but if monsters are summoned properly then they can activate. Still a very strong mechanic if you ask me
@@uctuyenle4649 They're bad. You may think summoning a bunch of monsters in one turn is broken, but trust me, long before they were ever introduced, it was already much easier. Pendulum Summoning is too resource-intensive and never saw the light of day in a competitive format, save for like, 2 decks in a span of 4 years
@@matheusaragao7640 still seeing extradeck spams as broken so... i will disagree
luv your vids :)
I have had ai pay itself into a lose and optionally draw its last card on my turn so all i did was end turn.
I have had an intersting duel with Tiea once where she was on the receiving end of an attack flipped a rush recklessly to beef up her monster, and I countered by flipping MY own rush recklessly and she still ate that attack
I have bought two of the older games Decade Duels then DD Plus.... Yea.. I chose to wait holding on legacy of the Duelist. It paid off with the Link Evolution verison, on PC since Not paying online for Switch.
I had a friend in college who played Decade Duels... and yikes! He just got a kick out of memeing about "The Moses Card"- all of the AI's spamming Solemn Judgment.
Seeing Zexel and the series after it made me realize how far behind I am in the series.
Then again im still a old person and still just use a toon monster/Life point sacrficing=mass summoning deck so idk
13:55, The funny thing is that they eventually printed Don Thousand's cards in real life.
Is dome ds games you can save 60 decks, how can this game only let you save 32
If you make multiple profiles you can have more decks... have to play back through the whole game though...
Man, don't get me started on pendulums. I was getting into competitive yugioh at the time they were first released, and what you said about them was exactly how I felt way back then. While there were competitive decks that didnt use them, it felt like if you didn't use a pendulum deck, you were in for a much harder fight. Nothing was more annoying when you expended most of your resources only for your opponent to just activate two scales, pendulum summon 5 from the extra deck and just end the duel right there. And the meta at the time made me quit the competitive scene till around early 2019. Still play competitively to this day.
Also, I'm convinced Konami really wants to step away from pendulum cards. After Arc-V they haven't printed nearly as much as they did back then. Even during master rule 4, konami was still printing a fair amount of synchro, xyz, and fusion cards, but not a lot of pendulums.
@@junglezone7323 Konami had to make a Link monster specifically designed to make Pendulum playable due to player backlash, then banned that Link just to give Pendulum a middle finger.
Why do you guys hate Pendulums so much? They were never good
The game you suggest is everything ive ever wanted In a yugioh game and I didn’t even know it
35 hours in and love it. I'm new to ygo and love it. i've dueled people that have a play time of over 1k hrs!!! my new goal lol.
Question: if you played the switch version... how many times the game crashed?
I don't play online, so maybe twice.
Can you use other characters’ decks?
What are you referring to when you mention the good half of 5d's? Also my biggest complaint with this game is that it's an upgraded version of Legacy of The Duelist which I bought and they expect me to pay an additional 40 bucks for it just to get all the content? I think existing customers of the older game should get either the new one for free or a huge discount. Also my favorite two decks to use in this game are Rise of The Skull Servants and My custom Exodia Cheat deck.
The first season of 5D's encapsulates the Fortune Cup and Dark Signer Arcs. After that the series settled into a long... long series of filler episodes before the World Racing Grand Prix arc that had to awkwardly retcon itself among other issues.
@@Darklordjadow1 without going to much in depth what kind of retcons we talking? The only thing I remember about the five D's series is everything up to yu seigh (cant spell) going to jail and then getting released as well as him meeting akiza.
@@KotorFan-zb1bo That was way early in the series that you're remembering; before even the Fortune Cup at the start of the series.
The villains of the World Racing Grand Prix were supposed to be a creepy death cult, but then an actual creepy death cult popped up in Japan, so they were very awkwardly changed into being time travelers. Also Carly and Akiza were demoted to background characters because Carly's actress was arrested and Akiza's actress took time off to get married.
@@Darklordjadow1 wow! That's actually pretty insane.
@@KotorFan-zb1bo Yeah, the retcons that happen during the second half of 5D's are massive, cause tons of plot holes, and are very obviously the result of last minute rewrites.
They also half-heartedly make the Bonds Beyond time movie canon by having ZONE mention that the villain's movie was one of his minions... which never comes up again after that one mention.
I recommend watching GX subbed. Season 3 (subbed) of GX is the best Yu-Gi-Oh season in all of Yu-Gi-Oh.
Yu-Gi-Oh video games have hit a stalemate of what they can do in my opinion I feel like a Xenoverse to ask Yu-Gi-Oh game is needed in order to reinvigorate the franchise or go the route of the Pokemon games
Thanks for the vid man! I almost bought this game, seeing as it's only 16€ in the PS store, but I'm wasting my money as it is, so you saved me some 😂
The game was released.... on multiple consoles...
I have it for the PC and have had it for... a few months now...
Thank u for reviewing this man
Quick question: My GF and I have never played Yu-Gi-Oh, and previous games had nothing to teach new players aside from manuals the size of dictionaries. Does this game actually have a tutorial?
Each campaign does have a separate tutorial each teaching you about the new summoning mechanic that particular series would introduce.
The first level of the first campaign has a basic tutorial, and the first level of each other campaign has a tutorial for that series' new summoning mechanic.
I think the only thing it doesn't explain is ritual summoning, but the rest are explained very gently and easy to grasp.
Although the more I think about it, I'm not sure the game's tutorials explain the different genres of spell and trap cards
the "tutorials" of each story ark dont realy explain anything.
you get a bit of text and a pre scripted duel in which youre told what to play in what order.
nothing about the basic rules of the game, card types or anything else of value gets even mentioned.
if you want to learn the game youre better off reading the wiki articles about the rules and watch people play online.
What game system was Legacy of the duelist on? Not Link Evolution.
Well now you made me wanna play this again
I have this for my switch. My main decks are BEWD, Blackwing, and Gravekeepers.
Nice. My top picks are Blackwings, Cyber Dragons, Raidraptors, and D/D, Batteryman, and I've gotten Rokkets working quite nicely since this video.
I started a new save file so I'd have the slots to experiment with more decks
@@Darklordjadow1I also have an exodia deck that completely ignores the limited/ban list so it has three copies of each exodia piece. there's also 3 of several draw cards and chicken game.
@@keyblademasterclark I need to try that, it sounds fun as hell!
@@Darklordjadow1 It's a lot of fun. Here's my recipe:
15 exodia pieces, cardcar d, allure of darkness x2, chicken game x3, graceful charity x3, one day of peace x3, pot of duality, pot of greed x3, pseudo space x3, terraforming x3, and upstart goblin x3.
I have pot of duality x2, and cardcar d in my side, but I never need them.
You should review Yu-Gi-Oh Dawn of Destiny for the original xbox. It has a few problems in it that I'm sure you'd love
Sending Extra Deck played Pendulums to the GY if they die (along with making the end Spell/Trap zones optional Scales), would've balanced them better: Sure we'd have still had Links but they would not have been a corrective tool. That Xenoverse idea should definitely happen- just use the multi-dimension premise of Arc-V.
Good video. You should make more Yu-Gi-Oh video game videos.
I've pretty much reviewed all the ones I've got, apart from the Nintendo DS outings that I have no good way to record.
And reviewing Master Duel seems like I'd be more reviewing the other players than the game.
the real question is , are we getting another update on the game .. ?
lol I literally just faced a guy who was literally on his first turn and he just kept summoning different monsters and this went on for a good actual at least 5 min I had to quit lol like still didn’t attack just summoning away sigh what has happened to us 🤦🏽♂️🤢
So many years and Blackwings are still popular to play. 😎
22:15, I come from the future to say that Sunvine (Specter's deck), G-Golem (Earth's deck), and Appliancer (Roboppi's deck) were added into the real game. Still WAY after Link Evolution's most recent update so doesn't matter for this game.
I wish the hell that Link Evolution would get at least ONE more update to at least add in the VRAINS cutscenes!
Maybe add some kind of Expert mode where certain characters actually have their up to date decks; Yugi with Modern Dark Magician support and Joey with a proper Red-Eyes Black Dragon deck and so on.
@@Darklordjadow1 And maybe add the new @Ignister support that actually improved the deck tremendously. The Arrival is too much of an important card for the archetype to miss.
Just a tip for casual players who are going to start online first you will rage many times and because players will use cards you don't have yet but all in all I think it's a good game if you play it for the story and card collecting
my first deck for this game was half graydle half speeedroid (all level 3 monsters and support) made it easy to grind, but the rng is so bad
It's pretty bad when a half-assed, easy as pie card game simulation is the best thing Konami has made in the last 5 years
This game isn't made by Konami it was made by another company.
Great review thanks man
You should play Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories you might be able to play on emulator
Having played the game meself, i have a few complaints to add.
1)Getting cards from the booster packs is infuriatingly random, with full completing the 10k total a massive time sink since it requires the duel points from duels to "purchase". I get what they were going for, but after a while it loses novelty.
2)Terribad decks or not, the ai can be extremely brutal, and very stacked in their favor. This only gets worse when they get their digital mitts on more modern cards.
3)Unskippable summoning scenes. And no way to see the ones available on their own.
Otherwise? I like this game plenty. Lets me scratch my card itch without spending hundreds of dollars for a "good enough" deck, and helps kill the time.
That summoning animation thing can be a huge pain; especially using a Salamangreat, Red-Eyes, or Dark Magician deck; all designed around heavy recursion.
@@Darklordjadow1 So I should count my blessings that no Marincess monsters have summoning animations.
fun fact: it takes about 60k-100k points to get all cards from a single booster set in the game.
on a good day you get maybe 2k-3k points from a duel so you need to play around 40k duels to finish one single set.
and with the fact that key cards everybody needs for almost every deck are spread out over almost all sets doesnt help to reduce the frustration of endless grinding.
Except the first one is how the actual real world game works
@@Darklordjadow1 the worst of the animations are stardust dragon and odd-eyes pendulum dragon.
Stardust dragon because of its effect, odd-eyes pendulum because you will be summoning him a lot
6:53, Or punishing Bohman for using his literal best card specifically to fridge Aoi.....again.
Can you play online against other players?
I have an easy way to stop FTKOs, make it so no player takes battle or effect damage turn 1
The decks that will attempt those FTKs or OTKs will have at least a dozen ways to prevent your attempts to survive.
pendulum is fun they need more support or support unbanned also need more love
i made a deck with warrior from another planet it is pretty good when it works
If you haven't checked out Arc-V I'd recommend it. It's kinda BS at times but it does get pretty good up until the final few duels.
Ditto for Vrains. It doesn't know how to treat its side characters and ended too soon, but it's still worth at least a watch.
I miss the yugioh GX games on the PSP
4:18 Is it just me or are all of the protag decks pointless because they can't rig their draws... *Like in the anime*?
Meanwhile actually good archetypes like Altergeist are poorly used in the anime
What's funny about Jaden's Deck is that his Neos Deck went undefeated the entire series x3 minus one Duel in Season 4 where Chazz throws the match at the suggestion of an antagonistic manager.
Even though heros is one of the worst archtypes ever
lol I literally just faced a guy who was literally on his first turn and he just kept summoning different monsters and this went on for a good actual at least 5 min I had to quit lol like still didn’t attack just summoning away sigh what has happened to us
I have a game you've been waiting for you if you want to play it remember me I'm from your PlayStation 4 messages love your videos
I meant to say review sorry for the misspelled
Great video 😁 is it me or is the gameplay quite slow animation wise
I'm told that actually impacts the online multiplayer: real world meta decks take so damn long to do regular moves that nobody uses them!