Yeah some of the rules seemed well thought out and then some of it is just nonsense. They made an effort to make the game make more sense but too little to late
This is the game that needs a mod scene more than any other one it’s so much potential in this shit and I’ve always wanted to have a good game in it like in the show
10 Months late to when this video dropped, but I've always loved the idea of DDM. My biggest issue with it is, like you said, it suffers from the same issue as early Yugioh: too many monsters are just trash. I've actually gotten kind of obsessed with DDM in the past couple weeks, and have been working on making custom content for the Tabletop Sim version, including a better table, with better pieces to the main DDM mod, and JP style cards. I was mostly planning to just use it for myself and friends, but if there are people out there who wanna check it out, I'm down to share what I've gotten done so far.
i'm sure there are people out there hungry for anything similar to DDM. Maybe one day YGO games will have a decent size modding community to change up the games we have besides FM
Yugioh season 0 part of the manga actually had a two parter where a gang were beating the shit out of people with yo yos and that lil rat kid tricked yugi into getting caught by them and was almost hanged to death. Fun times
I haven't watched the video yet but this game was one of my favorites as a kid bought it at GameStop with a friend used for like 3 dollars. 2 weeks later and everyone In out grade with Gameboys had gotten it cause my friend and me talked about how good it was so much lol.
You are so lucky to have a that happen! I think DDM as a concept and playing with friends is great! But the single player leaves a lot to be desired. I hope you enjoy the video!
Big same! If they had focused on making this game more of a video game series rather than trying to push ugly product, we would be eating like kings by now. That or if they had made the barrier to entry much lower cause the asking price for this was nonsense.
If there is one thing I would like for the Early Days Collection to do it is to give this game online pvp. That alone would bring so much more value to this game.
I've been watching your videos for a while now and I got convinced you are really a man of culture. Not only you're willing to review these antique Yu-Gi-Oh games that I used to explore when I was more into the franchise, but you also used some of the OST from FE.
LOL yeah i felt it would be fitting to use music from some of my favorite tactical RPG's for a video on a game like this. Thanks for the comment and for watching!
I always remembered this game as being amazing. One of the best yugioh games ever made.When I went to play it again as an adult though I found it really boring and couldn't figure out why. Then i remembered I played it almost exclusively with friends and hacked in all the dice so I never had to play single player.
The game gets really easy, fast, the CPU are not very smart and if you know what are you doing, having most level 1 dice you can capture most board for yourself. I never played it with friends but I played it alot in singleplayer
7:46 - Oh right. I think that’s a nod to how Joey used to roll with a street gang that beat people up with yo-yo’s in middle school. Dudes are vicious.
This game has a lot of characters from the manga and I want to one day look back at the start of the manga again and maybe make a video out of it waaaay later on in the channels life span
I bought the starter set and made print outs of the cards. For the figures I just used proxies. I bring my setup to my locals sometimes and if people have the time, it's a really fun time. You can get a battle mat and some dry erase markers to make the board too
Dude this is my favorite video thus far cause its getting jumpscared by so many things at once 😭 I wasnt expecting the fan made version of dice monsters to involve crypto, that weirdo shot himself in the foot for literally no reason 😂
Just popping in to say I appreciate the use of Fire Emblem music during the bit where you explain the strategic depth of the actual game. Good attention to detail.
This game is fun if you can find a second player, otherwise it's quite the slog against the computer (too many opponents with such a small dice pool, not much room for variety in those super long matches). DDM is a solid concept that has the potential to be something truly enjoyable. It deserves to be more than that one thing Duke Devlin is remembered for. Also DMG being so difficult to obtain is a crime against people that like to 100% games.
@@erik-sr9bj Dark Magician Girl. she's basically impossible to get in the game. People have played thousands of matches against Yami Yugi to get a drop chance for her and still haven't gotten her. She's good in the physical game. Level 2 that you can use to farm magic crests.
Really good analysis. I like that you take a lot of the context into account in discussing DDM. Like how even if the price weren't an issue there's a lot of physical set up involved in playing an IRL game.
The genuinely most fun part is how they just sorta took everyone from the early days of the story they could think of and just pushed them in there, even if it makes absolutely no sense. Even better being that the localization decided to go completely off the rails at points because these guys didn't have dub names and the manga was more niche. They renamed Ushio(The guy from the very start of every version that beat up Joey, Yugi and Tristan and that will be called Trudge in localized media from 5DS onwards) to Demitrius of all things, which is just so funny to me for some reason. Even if I like "Jackpot" and "Director Lucius" more than the generic "Escaped Prisoner" and "ZTV Director" respectively, it was still so unnessesary to change any of these, why do it?
Yeah at the time I wasn't entirely sure who most of the characters were in this game but late in the editing I figured that they were early day manga characters. I remembered the Bruce Lee knock off in pre card game ygo and saw him in the ui while editing
I find it both funny and also really neat that Ushio, literally just a background character in Duel Monsters that only existed to explain why Joey and Tristan (Jounochi and Honda) have such a strong bond with Yugi eventually was briefly mentioned in GX as one of the people who disappeared after losing to a Trueman and then became Trudge in 5D's where he has significantly more impact two whole series' after his initial appearance. What a legend.
Great video! I have never heard of this game, but your review really gave a great overview of the game. Though it is kinda funny to hear, that the game physical game was too expensive, compared to how ridiculous prices are for cards nowadays. And even back in the day. I also love the Under Night In-birth intro.
Hey man happy to see another video of yours. I used to play this game and it was real fun when I was a child but it aged like fine milk on a hot summers day. I tried it again and didn't even last 15 minutes of playing. Somehow I find Reshef of Destruction much better and much more nostalgic for what it brings to the table compared to this, even tho it was fun seeing and hearing about it again.
Yeah I think the game in itself is some trash. But DDM outside of it is awesome! If only they went about just doing a series of these games digitally instead of what they did. I think reshef is a lot more nostalgic for most because as nasty as it was, it still has a lot of moments.
I remember back when I had the physical board game, lost em all due to the cardboard “paths” rotting away, the starting pieces going missing/broke. To this day I’m still finding stray die from the bloody thing
There's a lot of problems with DDM but there's also some interesting attemps to play. 1.- Some people here on Mexico have a bussines creating oricas, proxy, custom playmats and merchandise for YGO, they're Gaia Oricards and recreated all of the cards of the board game (plus most of the videogame and some extras) and sell them for... like 100 dollars i guess. It's a easy (and cheaper) way to get all cards for the game. 2.- The figures are really hard to get so I'm making my own ones at a different scale (Galactic Heroes and Super Hero Squad figures), also i heard about someone who was using a 3D printer and sell figures (but they're also expensive, like... 10 dollars each one, my production cost for each figure is like 1 or 2 dollars but it's more an extremly limited artistic process). 3.- There's a facebook group but... most of the people there are just for collecting. Sometimes I upload custom cards (like Dark Scorpions or Traptrix), people share their progress with 3D painting dungeon paths, rule FAQ and updatesetc. Some days ago there was a question about the viability of a tournamente, and there was like...50 votes (most of them from USA, next UK, on third place México with 5 guys, etc.). The videogame sucks but it's really interesting at times, you can just play a LV1 pool and rush your opponent (there's a speedrun using only Beaver Warrior, Penguin Soldier and Ryu Kishin, or use Mammoth Graveyard because it's tunnel hability), I use only LV 2 and 4 die with interesting effects (like Giant Soldier of Stone to remove shelled ground tokens, Feral Imp to negate flying ability, the extremly broken Blast Lizard to insta kill monsters, Twin Swords Knight to move quickly, etc.). The game has a lot of issues (the three rulesets fot the videogame, the american board game and the japanese one, the unbalanced mechanics, Blast Lizard, unxeploit mechanics like Shelled Ground Tokens, etc.) but it's really fun to play with friends and it has a lot of potential (like the reborn project, custom cards that sometimes I make like the Dark Scorpion, the Traptrix and the Hero, etc.). It just needs some more love.
These are the kind of comments I love to read honestly. I wish the game put me in a position to talk about some of the nonsense dice in the game and more gameplay theories but the CPU is so bad at this game. I was only able to explore a bit playing 2 games with a friend. I only found out recently that USA rules didn't allow copies of the same dice in the pool where in japan (this game is also based on the japan rules) there is no limit which is insane. On one hand DDM is like a genuine idea that was an idea before the trend of figure collecting became big. But Konami handled it as if it was just a trend.
This game (and especially board game) was such a missed opportunity. It was released in a time period where it had no chance at all to be financially successful given how popular TCGs were becoming, and it sucks, because the game is really cool conceptually and there's basically no good way to play it nowadays. Great video as always! Looking forward to the next one!
Felt like a few companies back then spread themselves to thin by trying to stick their hand in different markets at once. At the very least table top sim keeps the game from being under the dirt. Thank you so much for pulling up!
Saying it in the comments as well but once again my bad on the late video. The holidays were pure chaos and moving right before hand was stressful. Expect videos to come out a lot more often and consistent. 2 to 3 weeks per video give or take. Also let me correct a small mistake I made. So the Japanese rules of DDM you need 15 Dice. In America you only need 10 to 12 I think? It's still a lot for a start & very stupid for Japans and Americas rules to be so widely different. Also I didn't mention that the music is absolute dick on the ground in this game LMAO. Sub to the channel if you can and if you want more of me and/or support me more than you already have. www.patreon.com/gameboylad if you want to show some extra support. I would greatly appreciate it. I stream at twitch at www.twitch.tv/gameboyladd give it a follow if you want to see me play through some games in real time 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
Man. All of this is making me realize just how bad Konami is at tabletop/card game design. Like I always figured Yu Gi Oh's issues were due to it being designed by someone who liked card games but wasn't a designer and Konami having to work with what the manga set up. But here they've got something comparatively fresh, and... it's awful. Nothing about the established groundwork requires this kind of bad balancing, with so many chaff/jank card- er, dice. The physical game has issues based on having so much actual physical stuff but a video game version should alleviate that (rolling the dice, spreading out the dice, price of dice, etc) and yet it sounds so poorly balanced. That sucks.
I have only played this game with my brother-in-law. He introduced me to Dungeon Dice Monsters when I told them I had played a lot of YuGiOh Eternal Duelist Soul and Dark Duel Stories on GBA as a kid, but never played DDM before. Oh, man. I was hooked on it. We had tons of fun playing DDM. I couldn't imagine managing so many pieces to play this game on a table. That *looks* cumbersome as hell.
I forgot about this Yu-Gi-Oh game until I saw the box art. I thought the name had something to do with Monster Rancher. LOL. Good video. "No Family Pros or Cons" is so funny. It should be a meme. LOL!!!!!!!!! Keep it up Ladd!
i know this is an older vid, but to address the question of price of the physical board game; the starter set was $20 at Toys R Us and the “booster packs” were around $6. Also when i played this video game version, i made a dice pool with basically all level 1’s so i could spam the field before my opponents could get much on-board. :P
@@gameboylad absolutely better to invest in card packs than this, haha. Btw, this was the last YGO vid of yours I watched, finishing them all. Ya did a good job from the explanations and edits, my nostalgia was reeling, lol. Keep up the good work!
this game could have a much easier time on the smart phone age. not only it would probably make millions on a phone version itself it could use an app to facilitate the table top too. with things like keeping crests counts.
I've beat all the single player content in this game, since at most I just had a nephew to play with. Sometimes you get a extra duel with Yami Yugi at the end, it must be like "beat the last tournament 3 times" or something. But I actually never managed to complete the Free Duel roster, since the only way to fight each character is randomly through the tournaments, which is another downside for sure. I never saw that dog, for example, lol DDM is fun, and I'd love if a modern game were available nowadays. Great video man
I remember getting this game for like $2 at a yard sale without the manual and being completely confused about how to play it, which is truly a good sign when you're hoping to sell a game to a 10 year old haha Edit: I now want a modern remake with these rules with a small dice pool, they could easily design it as tight as a deck builder like Dominion with the tactics/mind games left intact
Much like the failed Pokémon Trading figure game, it’s incredibly difficult to market figure collecting games to kids because of their significant price to entry, not to mention all the loose pieces that would make it really hard for kids to take to school or clubs, it makes sense why it just didn’t catch on like the card game. Most modern figure based games are marketed as more expensive premium items, aimed at an older audience, so maybe the nostalgic Yugi boomers with their own income would be more into it nowadays. Honestly DDM and CapuMon would work amazingly as modern video games, just put it up on Mobile, Steam and Switch and I could totally see a community forming around it. I really hope Konami gives those games a second chance.
As of recent with the jar collection coming out, it seems Konami is interested in making collectibles again. I hope the idea of DDM comes back around as a mobile game at the least. Best case scenario would be a full game with a whole campaign similar to that of a fire emblem game
not a modder, but after watching this video, i find it absurd that konami hasn't figured out a way to make this game availible to the masses. with the success of master duel, the methodology paved out by warhammer-type games, the ability of simulators to be made for just about anything, and the fact that the entire template of the game is literally sitting there ready to be reworked into a tighter package (to say nothing of the absolutely MASSIVE pool of cards they can pull inspiration from), i can't fathom why konami hasn't even remotely dipped their toes back into DDS, Seriously, two dedicated fans, a reasonably skilled coder, and one long weekend would be all it takes to make a complete rework of this game that's balanced from the ground up for longevity. hell, i'm fairly sure i could do the mechanic tweaks, monster balancing, pretty much everything bar coding, solo given sufficient time... matter of fact, i'm gonna try it, and post what i come up with below. 99% sure i can make a game that fits the modern card game, covering monster types, spells, traps, and extra spice mechanics so long as i have enough time to type it up. edit: have a template set, but gonna be a bit before i can finish, i have yet to get a proper weekend break, so i've been working on it in increments.
Don't overwork yourself with the project. Just slowly but surely use it as a learning experience over finishing the product. if it does finish that's a plus lol
@@gameboylad I've got the core rules mostly done, 2 more parts to go, i just lost my glasses for a bit (reading/typing anything on my main screens is a bitch without them), so i wasn't getting much done at a time. found them though, so i'll be back to it shortly. I plan on making some monster templates as well, but that's a ways off at best,
@@gameboylad Yeah, I finished the skeleton structure, but as far as monster templates, i really couldn't figure out what monsters i wanted to place into the first set. that said, i'm placing the redo here, and wandering about online to see where i can drop it off to gain traction. Dungeon dice monsters revamp. Design inspiration and design goals This is a document to create an updated model of Dungeon dice monsters. the rules of the original game will be the basis, taking inspirations from the japanese, english, manga, and video game rules to create the core template, with some minor inclusions from games such as forbidden memories, to allow for additional strategy/interaction. the adjustments will be designed to allow for more game stability, aiming for futureproofing against too much powercreep, by outlining design philosophy of the monster, spell, and trap crests. The game sections will be broken down as such: 1. Beginning of Game rounds, and board configuration/setup. 2. Gameplay & Turn Phases 3. Abilities/Traits 4. Monster types and Guardian Stars 5. Item dice 6. Design philosophy *1) Beginning of Game rounds, and board configuration/setup* ⦁ Each game is a best 2 of 3, or best of 1 as players like. ⦁ The board is 13x19, but can be adjusted to suit the game. ⦁ Each player chooses 12-15 dice to create their dice pool at the beginning of a round. Players may not have more than 2 level 5 Dice, 3 Level 4 dice, and no more than 2 of any individual monster in their pool of 12-15 dice. Besides this, die and monster will not be tied together like in the gba version, outside of needing the appropriate level to roll a monster. One may choose however many level 1 and 2 monsters they like. ⦁ Between rounds, if playing more than 1, each player may adjust their dice pool as they like within the bounds of selection rules, but must retain the same number of dice that they began the first round with for the game (if you start with 12, you must stay with 12, if you start with 14, you must stay with 14, and so on). ⦁ Each player then chooses their monster lord, and sets their guardian star. players may then select a monster lord crest to place within their guardian. ⦁ the starting player is then chosen (if multiple rounds are conducted, the losing player selects the game order), and the game begins. *2) Gameplay & Turn Phases* At the beginning of the game, each player chooses 3 dice to begin rolling with. Dice are replenished from the dice pool, until a player has 3 to roll with at the beginning of each of their turns. The phases are: _Dice roll - Movement 1- Combat - Movement 2 - End phase,_ players can go back and forth between movement and combat, so long as you have available movement/attack crests. if you have no attack crests, you cannot enter combat and the same goes for movement. When exiting combat, if you have no movement crests, you must move to the End phase instead of a movement phase. ⦁ Dice roll Phase - Crest rolls, Summoning, and storage Crest rolls: In the dice roll phase, the turn player may roll their 3 dice up to two times, Upon rolling, the player may choose to store their crests into the crest pool (all crests aside from summon crests can be stored) and roll again, to gain additional crests. if the turn player summons with their first roll, they may not replenish dice between rolls, and their second roll may only be conducted with the remaining dice. they still keep any resulting crests. Summoning: If a player rolls two or more summoning crests of the same level, they may summon one monster of that level to the board from the rolled dice pool, if a player roll results in 3 crests of the same level, they may summon a monster 1 rank higher than the rolled crest from their rolled dice, or may summon any monster of that result level from their remaining dice pool, upon summoning, the dice used to summon is removed from the game, a 6 tile layout called a "plane" ("dimension" in the og version, can be adjusted to avoid lawsuits from WotC) is placed upon the board connected to your currently placed tiles, and 1 movement crest is added to the crest pool. Storage: Crests That are stored are maintained in an area visible to both players. this may not matter as much in a virtual setting, but may come up if the game is ever physically implemented, so i thought i'd put it down here. ⦁ Movement 1-2 - Movement rules, crest usage In the movement phase, movement crests are spent to set monsters along the available paths, 1 movement crest=1 tile moved. Up to 6 movement crests can be spent per turn, with each monster being movable a maximum of 3 times per turn (outside of effects). Opposing monsters cannot move past each other without specialized abilities or traits. ⦁ Combat - combat rules, crest usage, Each attack costs 1 attack crest, and each monster can only attack 1 time per turn. monsters attacks are based upon attack range, abilities, traits, and effects in play. In combat, attacking monsters damage values are determined based upon the ATK value subtracted from the HP, if a player has any defense crests available, they can use them to subtract their defense value from the ATK of the attacking monster. if a monsters' HP is reduced to 0, they are destroyed. if a monster has higher defense than the attacking monster, the upon using a defense crest, the remaining defense is subtracted from the attacking monsters HP. In combat with a monster lord, the monster lords' attacks cannot be defended against, and monster lords only take 1 damage from any attacks. monster lords may be immobile, but they can resolve any designated monster lord traps or spells that they are equipped with. ⦁ End phase During the end phase, any effects that resolve during the end phase now resolve, and any effects that last until the end of the current turn disappear. (...end of part 1)
(part 2:) 3) Abilities/Traits Monsters in this game come with abilities and traits that change how combat and movement may play out. there are several traits, and a large number of effects in the game, but starting with traits: ⦁ Traits: there are a set number of traits that exist on monsters: *Flying, Burrow, Diver, Far Strike, Penetrator, and Armor.* Flying, Burrow and Diver allow monsters to freely move across obstacles, while also preventing them from being attacked by creatures that lack the appropriate traits (flying can be attacked by flying and far reach, while burrow and diver can be attacked by the same respective trait, or by penetrator). Far strike and penetrator don't allow more movement options, but they allow monsters to attack creatures that possess flying (Far reach) and burrow/diver (penetrator). penetrator allows monsters to gain an additional 10 atk for each rank (so +10 for rank 1, +30 for rank 3, ect) while far reach allows monsters to attack across an additional space and through monsters. Armor allows creatures to defend without using crests, and adds an additional +10 def for each rank similar to how penetrator does for atk. ⦁ Abilities similar to effects in yugioh, abilities are effects that monsters grant while present. there is a limitless number of effects possible, but just like the card game, if there is a discrepancy between the rules of the game and the effects of the monster, the monster effect will tend to take priority. 4) Monster types and Guardian Stars While the game is tied to yugioh, the monster types for the same monsters may differ from the original types. The attributes in this game are the same base 7: EARTH, FIRE, WIND, WATER, LIGHT, DARK, AND DIVINE. there are effects in game that grant bonuses and demerits accordingly. The types in this game are : *_Creator-God, Divine Beast, Pyro, Aqua, thunder, rock, plant, beast, reptile, beast warrior, winged beast, dinosaur, dragon, fairy, fiend, wyrm, machine, cyberse, zombie, spellcaster, warrior, illusionist, psychic, insect, fish, sea serpent, and reptile._* same as the attributes, effects in game may grant bonuses and demerits accordingly. Guardian stars guardian stars are an optional feature in dungeon dice monsters. the game can be played with or without guardian stars. but in chase you choose to play with them, this is how they work: Monsters come with two inherent "Guardian Star" typings. these alignments are taken directly from cosmic bodies and are arranged as follows (> means "is superior to"): Mercury > Sun > Moon > Venus > Mercury Mars > Jupiter > Saturn > Uranus > Pluto > Neptune > Mars While monsters have inherent guardian stars, the monster lord is allowed to select any guardian star at the beginning of the game, and upon summoning monsters, the summoning player is allowed to choose whether or not they will place their summoned monster under one of its' own guardian stars, or under the chosen star of their monster lord. when a monster battles an opposing monster, compare the guardian stars, if the guardian stars are comparable, then the monster with the winning sign is granted +10 to all stats except hp for that battle. no effect is applied if the signs have no winning comparison. 5) Item dice /Black dice Black dice are dice with 0 monsters on them. they are effectively item dice, that have multiple effects when rolled. you can have up to 5 item dice in the pool, and until you have had at least 1 monster on the playing field aside from the dungeon lord, you cannot roll any item dice. crests attained from item dice go into the crest pool, while dice effects must be used on the spot, or simply vanish with no effect. Item dice effects can sometimes change the terrain, and on rare occasions, even more drastically, influence their affected area. when rolling an item die, the number within the die determines how many of that result must be present to gain the effect displayed by the die. oftentimes, the higher the number, the more powerful the effect. 6) Design philosophy. Monster design guidelines are present to maintain stability, without creating too much power creep. for example, for lower rank dice, the goal would be to not create creatures that invalidate higher rank monsters, and for higher rank dice, the goal would be to create monsters that are worth using, if nor for their stats, then for their outside effects. guardian stars is an aspect included to add an additional layer to the game based upon older games, and is only there for those interested. it's a way of adding bonus power to weaker monsters in scenarios where they need it, or even reinforcing the lead that strong monsters may have should the opponents' board be poorly compatible. even as a mere +10, it can help prevent monsters from being overrun by effects like penetrator and armor, For the item dice, the goal would be to give each die complimentary effects, while making adjustments to each overall die effect, according to how powerful the best and worst effects on the die are. overall, i want the game to be capable of resisting powercreep for even longer than games like magic and yugioh have, with controlled releases for proper testing. i want the focus to be on interesting effects, and proper managing of resources in ways that allow for the games to be more engaging overall.
and that's about it. i have way more that i want to type,like my plans for the templates of monsers, and what monsters i would release first to establish the game (obvious DM monsters aside, i'd pick most flagship monsters to be level 3s', and a number of the more recognizable monsters for the early numbers to pull people in) but holy hell do i lack time these days. massive respect for creating your review scripts, as i ad trouble finding time just for a minor revamp.
Since you say at the end you're looking into non-Yugioh TCG games I want to highlight a game called Hex:Shards of fate. It was a digital only MTG clone that had a fantastic single player mode. Unfortunately it was tied to their servers, so the game is no longer playable, but if there's any way it can be played again it would be a great example of the untapped potential of Digital only card games. In the single player mode you had an RPG talent tree layered over the card game so you could get exclusive cards for your class added to your deck, start with minor boons in play or get bonuses for playing certain types of cards. I still fondly remember the rabit cleric deck that worked by spamming the board with 0/1s that I could then buff to overwhelm the opponent.
I saw it while I was looking into games like that with good PVE content. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's a way to play it at all now. It's a shame. So many games probably lost in the sands of time like this
I loved this arc and always wanted to play it as a kid, but like you said between finding someone who plays and the entry price, it was doomed to fail.
You're planning on doing Shandalar? Hell yeah! I really wish someone would make a more modern version of that game. One that runs better on modern PCs, and has newer cards. And if it had a Commander format mode, that'd be great...
I'm not 100% sure but i think someone made a more modern version of shandalar recently. Idk if a few google searches would have you find it but i remember seeing videos about it on my feed or something of the sort
Always nice to see someone enjoy so many different card games! I don't know if you've heard of it, but the Duel Masters GBA and PS2 games have been a fun and chill experience for me. I think you might like it if you've played Magic before
Ahh yes, rainy day on a day off and a new gameboylad video I hope you one day review duelist of the roses or one of the tag force games But thanks for the yugioh reviews so far!
I had difficulty looking for the more for the starter set. I think I saw that price for the boosters but Americas boosters and starters were a scam compared to japans
@@gameboylad Facebook has a dungeon dice community and just yesterday or the day before somebody built every card principle in English That's going to be huge to introduce anyone into the game
I actually had the DDM physical set with my brother as a kid and we played to 2-3 times with the included stuff, somehow. Was disappointed we didn’t get the fold-out dice and am now even more disappointed that the JP starter set was so much better overall. I’m still happy that this lets someone easily play single player DDM in 2023 though. It’d be hard to fix the AI, but I can’t imagine it’d be too hard to rebalance the GBA game’s symbols at least.
It's actually super fascinating that they gave 4Kids style dub names to all the manga exclusive characters. Like the yoyo guy Nibbles was Nezumi in the manga. (Also that arc was about a bunch of literal gangsters beating kids unconscious with modified yoyos and Joey wins by throwing glass in a guy's eyes.)
I actually played Dungeon Dice Monsters on my old. GBA but when I moved 7 years ago to a new place I lost both my GBA and my copy of the game. I had fun playing it sadly I’m not a creative but I would support someone if I had the money to do so. So all I can do is cheer on the sidelines and hope some creatives will remake it so we can all play it together through the net
Huge burst of nostalgia from watching your review! Did the game crash after the first time you saw credits? There are actually three sets of tournaments, and each new set is unlocked everytime you see the credits by finishing a set. To be fair to the game, it does get harder in the later tournaments with better AI and more varied boards.
yeah I used a code to unlock everything and it was kind of more or less the same to me lol. They had better dice but they really can't handle someone just going straight for their life. I hope some one makes a mod for this one day that makes the AI play the game more reactively
There have been a couple of attempts at simulators. Majin Wamu has been working on something off and on for a few years now, and there was one other project that the creator stopped work on because they felt they couldn't justify the time they spent on another company's IP. I feel like I should also plug Dungeon Dice Dimension, a couple of guys who are constantly uploading their matches of the physical game.
I didn't know there were more people who tried it purely out of passion. But it's hard to have the vehicle of passion move without much gas. I'm extremely surprised and happy that theres a channel full of just DDM matches! This is the kind of stuff I wanted to find but a lot of it is not search engine friendly at all. I got threads from neoseeker instead of a channel like this. I'll shout this channel out in my community tab for sure
Just finished binge watching your content. Keep it up man, love these retro yugioh games I feel like the biggest drawback in this game is def the AI. If it didn't do nothing 90% of the time this would be such an interesting game to come back to and maybe do challenge runs
DDM has so much nuance and could have been a very fun game if only the AI worked. fortunately that's what humans are for...if only you can find another to play with. Thank you so much for watching my videos! I'll try to have another one for you to watch somewhere this month!
My modified rules were real simple. Build your team like normal but don't build any of the the board except for one 7 sided piece and one hero to use as your boss which if it goes down you loose. You use 2 D6 dice. 2 1's or 6's gets you a one squad or hero part of your team. A roll of 3 or 11 get you 7 sided piece . A roll of 4 or 10 gets a 3 sided piece. 5,6,8 or 9 gets a 2 sided piece and 7 gets a 1 hex piece. All pieces rolled can be replaced with an equivalent number of water/lava/snow/ etc terrain instead of the usual terrain styles. After that try to reach your opponent and k.o. his boss. Battles follow Heroscape rules and use their dice. It worked. A player having trouble pulling out their team might build defenses. An aggressive player will got straight for kill.
So there was a guy in my old LGS who collected a bunch of rare Yu-Gi-Oh stuff and he would occasionally bring a collection of Dungeon Dice Monster figures and dice to play games after tournaments. He had some of the Japanese exclusive figures as well. It was an interesting experience! The GBA game itself was fun. But my dumbass didn't understand what was going on until I played the game later in life.
That's actually dope that you had someone to do that at your locals. I remember I understood the game as a early teen only by trial and error over the course of months lmao
Late to commenting but I hate you couldn’t get to the high tier tournaments. They start adding more obstacles on the field making it to where you have to plan your monsters out. And yes, you can still spam level 1 monsters, but that doesn’t work against Kaiba spamming blue-eyes. I loved it but the game is definitely a grind, and you definitely need all the crest so you can alter your pool accordingly to cater towards the opponent. Hate the game fell short for you, but it’s understandable considering how frustrating it gets in the end
I did play through some of the end game tournaments but it basically still was the same thing to me. they had better dice but not a better comprehension to use them well lol. I still enjoy the system of the game though
I remember I used to play this game alot as a kid but no one else had it. I just got as many low level zombies as I could and added in mystic horseman for variety. 3 legged zombie was the goat cause he gave 10 attack to all your zombies and he was level 1 so once you had 3 out you had 40 attack guys that would 1 shot most enemy monsters!
These figs didn't cost 20 dollars, at least not in Europe. I clearly remember they were around 5,99 per card/Monster. I still got a huge collection of them.
Excellent choice of soundtrack. I've never played much FFT but its music is beautiful. Weird that they used to keep trying to make tactical RPGs out of Yugioh.
When I was a kid I traded my copy of Megaman Battle Network 2 for this. It was before I learned English, so I had no idea what to do in MBN2 and was just wandering aimlessly. Back then it seemed like a pretty good trade, but thinking about it now, it kinda sucked.
Well the battle network collection is out now and you speak/read good enough English to play all of them now lol bought it day one and I've been enjoying myself a lot
omg dungeon dice monsters...my older brother had the physical version of this game, i remember playing it with him ALL THE TIME, can't remember if i liked it or not though lmao
I didn't tap into my funny bone as much as I would have loved to with this one because of the chaos of the holidays, but best believe the video is good and the next one coming up will be a banger!
I've actually been replying the game recently. Normally I'd be really upset that something like this with its intricate Parts doesn't have a tutorial to help you, but the AI so bad that if you make mistake it feels forgiving. I actually really like this game, and wish they'd revisit it.
@@gameboylad I feel that. I definitely feel like It suffers from a lack of innovation. I wish they would have tried to stick with it, and did a few FAQ. Some of the monsters also didn't get ported right into the game. Jinzo has an ability that destroys all of your opponent's trap Crest when it etbs.
Didn’t DDM recently have a new version come out or am I thinking of a Capsule Monsters thing? I swear there was some short lived hype pre-COVID about some Yugioh flavored dice game. I saw it at several of my favorite gaming stores and I feel like I remember seeing people playing it once or twice and talking about how popular it had gotten.
Hmm I'm actually super unaware of a revival or something similar to that. I know Takahashi had made several at home games and was selling some dice based games at the time I think but I haven't heard specifics
Honestly i would love to see dungeon dice monsters return. Especially with all the new card types id love to see if konami would do anything with that. Maybe one day ddm will return. A guy can dream.
God, I wish I could have played the actual dice game. I watched the anime episodes that showed the game off, and I thought it looked awesome! I just couldn't afford to buy them. If I can get a 3D printer, I'm going to try printing miniatures based on the monsters, and make cards to go along with them. I have a wet erase mat for D&D, so all I need is a couple of markers to highlight the squares for the paths. Getting custom or blank dice shouldn't be too hard, so there's a way to make that work. Would love to adapt some of my favorite archetypes to the game. Definitely want to make miniatures for Kozmo for my own set, and either Vampire or Grave Keeper for my wife.
The US starter set comes with 6 figures not 4: Knight of Twin Swords, Thunderball, Strike Ninja, Gearfried, Vorse Raider, and Buster Blader (and also a Monster Lord figure). Booster packs were $5 each and only came with 1 figure and the card for it. I wanted this game so bad as a kid, but we couldn't afford it (same with regular yugioh booster packs). The Japanese version of the board game, each figure came with it's own unique dice with unique crests and folds out a certain way. I played DDM rom recently and it stinks. For some reason the CPU's in the ROM online are super brain dead, and drop rates for good dice are terrible. I've been playing the IRL cartridge version lately and the opponents are much more difficult and summon extremely consistently, drops are a lot better too. I play Dungeon Dice Monsters online on Table Top Simulator with my friends a lot and it is super fun. Feels like chess, except all of the pieces are unique. A lot of the IRL dice have different effects than the gba dice. Like IRL Jinzo removes all of your opponents trap crests when summoned (he's still ass tho). Also IRL game you roll dice twice per turn, which greatly speeds up summons and crests.
@@gameboylad nice, yeah maybe it is anti-piracy. Not saying the CPU still isn't terrible if you rush them, but I definitely have lost rounds and the CPUs do get better the more tournaments you unlock. Definitely wish there more dice to choose from overall.
I do personally remember that brief period where DDM was selling for full price. Walmart and TrU prices for "boosters" ranged $15-$20, and I remember looking at DDM, and purposefully choosing to just not ask for it because I could not for the life of me understand how to play it, and how it could convert to the real world, with the "drawing" dice from a "deck" and having to randomly unfold said dice to draw a pathway to attack the other side. It felt like the sort of game that would not translate well to real life; the sort of board game that NEEDS to be a computer game to be properly playable. And, well, hey look, a video game that's a substantially better experience than real life DDM.
Fun Fact: There are materials out there that have a memory structere and fold or unfold in hot or cold water. Dice unfolding themselves could be done in the real world (if you are willing to put your playfield under water, that is).
If you like retro Card-Games btw, I used to love Duel Masters for GBA as a kid, I didn't really understand the rules, but I have so fond memories of a fun world to walk around and awesome looking cards. Maybe that's something you or someone else wants to check out.
I missed out alot on thse we couldn't afford most game systems until i was a teen unless someone donate one . As an adult its fun to see what I had missed out
Thank you for covering this game! I really liked it(or at least tried to), and I'm glad to see it get a little attention. Also, what's the outtro music? It doesn't seem to be in the description.
Watched all your videos and have to say i love your content. Dragonball also had a trading card game on GBA. Don't know if it'll peak your interest or not.
15:38 with a good deck getting crests is easy as hell. Beaver Warrior gives you everything you need, to the point its kind of stupid. Being Lv 1 and having 2 movement and 2 Attack crest. it gives you everything you need and it cost nothing to get. it gives you a good rush strat.
love the video! Thoughts on doing PS2 yugioh games? Also if you need any help/anything for the magic video I’d love to help. Me and some buddies play shandalar every so often since the most broken magic deck of all time is possible on there haha
I plan on covering the capsule one hopefully sometime this year and duelist of the roses is being saved for a special occasion. I'll go about doing shandalar solo and as blind as possible lol. I only played draft in magic for a few years and played the standard format back in 2013? So it'll be a trip to see all the older magic cards
oh wow yeah that actually sounds super interesting; good luck with that. Shandalar is honestly a timeless game. and capsule monsters was my first ps2 game so it has a special place in my heart
You've got a lot of Japanese learning ahead of you if you're looking for DCGs; some of the best never escaped the islands. If you willing to struggle through something like Card Hero or Shaman King blind though, I'll be here to watch for sure. On DDM, I never had much time with it myself but its nuts to see how bad the dice pool is in that game. I know early Yugioh was scant on effects but it's like they flat out forgot to finish some of the monsters here. The physical game itself had more meat but was gimmicky, and that was without the unfolding dice Japan got. Can't wait to see how you tear into Destiny Board Traveler, as I remember that game being functional at best. Play something like Culdcept afterwards, it's a night and day difference.
I plan to cover culdcept one day cause it use to catch my eye as a kid. once my channel is at a good size, I would feel more comfortable to do a video on it for sure. I want to try learning japanese at some point but it was mostly for myself interest than for games, but that would be a huge plus!
I'm so glad to see this, I'm so tired of people acting like this game isn't straight garbo. I got this game second-hand without a manual in a time before it was super easy for an 8-year-old to hop on the internet and look for a walkthrough or guide. This game doesn't tell you SHIT about SHIT.
Without the manual the only way to have a good idea besides trial and error was the anime episode. I remember the episode being pretty faithful towards most of the basic rules. but yeah the gba game is garbo. DDM however is pretty neat to me lol. Thank you for pulling up!
Loved this game despite how broken it is when you can spam the board with level 1 monsters and box your opponent in not allowing them to play the game
Yeah some of the rules seemed well thought out and then some of it is just nonsense. They made an effort to make the game make more sense but too little to late
lol this is true hahahha
Sounds like regular Yu-Gi-Oh honestly.
I feel like what would make it better would be a rule where you MUST select a lv1,2, and 3 respectively
The odds of summoning a level 4 are 1/36. With those odds, a level 4 monster should have stats or effects that are virtually game breaking.
This is the game that needs a mod scene more than any other one it’s so much potential in this shit and I’ve always wanted to have a good game in it like in the show
super shocked to see barely any communities are around that try to gas this game up. It has so much potential
it's a genuinely good idea, and I believe that it could probably thrive on better hardware and a few updates/fixes to the gameplay!
10 Months late to when this video dropped, but I've always loved the idea of DDM. My biggest issue with it is, like you said, it suffers from the same issue as early Yugioh: too many monsters are just trash. I've actually gotten kind of obsessed with DDM in the past couple weeks, and have been working on making custom content for the Tabletop Sim version, including a better table, with better pieces to the main DDM mod, and JP style cards. I was mostly planning to just use it for myself and friends, but if there are people out there who wanna check it out, I'm down to share what I've gotten done so far.
i'm sure there are people out there hungry for anything similar to DDM. Maybe one day YGO games will have a decent size modding community to change up the games we have besides FM
Please. Only Game with Yugi's mother playing, you just have to love that.
probably the last time any piece of media mentioned her lol
Yugioh season 0 part of the manga actually had a two parter where a gang were beating the shit out of people with yo yos and that lil rat kid tricked yugi into getting caught by them and was almost hanged to death. Fun times
OMG LMAOOOOOO
Speaking about season 0 - this is probably the ONLY yugioh game that gave attention for minor season 0 characters lol
@@CB-L the only one in the west.
I swear there were a few referenced in the first gameboy games
Sometimes I wish the Duel Monsters aspect of the manga didn't become the focus just to see what other crazy shit would have happened.
Jesus, that's fucked up!
I haven't watched the video yet but this game was one of my favorites as a kid bought it at GameStop with a friend used for like 3 dollars. 2 weeks later and everyone In out grade with Gameboys had gotten it cause my friend and me talked about how good it was so much lol.
You are so lucky to have a that happen! I think DDM as a concept and playing with friends is great! But the single player leaves a lot to be desired. I hope you enjoy the video!
I can see it being a little repetitive maybe it was because I had never played a game like it that I had so much fun.
The use of the “What the dog doin’” clip @7:39 almost made me choke with laughter 😂
I love that clip to death and will use it any whenever I can
I always thought that dungeon dice monsters as a board game is cool, and honestly, I would love a spin off of Yu-Gi-Oh about dungeon dice monsters.
Big same! If they had focused on making this game more of a video game series rather than trying to push ugly product, we would be eating like kings by now. That or if they had made the barrier to entry much lower cause the asking price for this was nonsense.
The newer stuff was always spinoffs up the wazoo.
So their might be a chance.
If there is one thing I would like for the Early Days Collection to do it is to give this game online pvp. That alone would bring so much more value to this game.
Crossing fingers for it
I've been watching your videos for a while now and I got convinced you are really a man of culture. Not only you're willing to review these antique Yu-Gi-Oh games that I used to explore when I was more into the franchise, but you also used some of the OST from FE.
LOL yeah i felt it would be fitting to use music from some of my favorite tactical RPG's for a video on a game like this. Thanks for the comment and for watching!
@@gameboylad you deserved the sub, my man. 🍷🗿
I always remembered this game as being amazing. One of the best yugioh games ever made.When I went to play it again as an adult though I found it really boring and couldn't figure out why.
Then i remembered I played it almost exclusively with friends and hacked in all the dice so I never had to play single player.
Best way to play this game is multi player for sure and you were one of the lucky few to experience that
The game gets really easy, fast, the CPU are not very smart and if you know what are you doing, having most level 1 dice you can capture most board for yourself.
I never played it with friends but I played it alot in singleplayer
7:46 - Oh right. I think that’s a nod to how Joey used to roll with a street gang that beat people up with yo-yo’s in middle school. Dudes are vicious.
This game has a lot of characters from the manga and I want to one day look back at the start of the manga again and maybe make a video out of it waaaay later on in the channels life span
Bro editing style hilarious he got my follow
I bought the starter set and made print outs of the cards. For the figures I just used proxies. I bring my setup to my locals sometimes and if people have the time, it's a really fun time. You can get a battle mat and some dry erase markers to make the board too
This is something I would love to see in my local card shops honestly
Dude this is my favorite video thus far cause its getting jumpscared by so many things at once 😭
I wasnt expecting the fan made version of dice monsters to involve crypto, that weirdo shot himself in the foot for literally no reason 😂
Let's go, I've been binging all your videos, excited to hear what you gotta say about this...gem
Honestly I mostly talked about DDM as a whole in the video lmao. Hope you enjoy it!
Just popping in to say I appreciate the use of Fire Emblem music during the bit where you explain the strategic depth of the actual game. Good attention to detail.
Me, who had acquired a set of at least one of every DDM figure: "haha yeah, who would spend money on that game?..."
Well at least their valuable collectibles lol
I just watched this and I'm gonna be honest, absolute fire edits, you had me dying laughing. Good shit.
This game is fun if you can find a second player, otherwise it's quite the slog against the computer (too many opponents with such a small dice pool, not much room for variety in those super long matches). DDM is a solid concept that has the potential to be something truly enjoyable. It deserves to be more than that one thing Duke Devlin is remembered for. Also DMG being so difficult to obtain is a crime against people that like to 100% games.
Trying to 100% this game seems more like a punishment lmao
What is DMG?
@@erik-sr9bj Dark Magician Girl. she's basically impossible to get in the game. People have played thousands of matches against Yami Yugi to get a drop chance for her and still haven't gotten her. She's good in the physical game. Level 2 that you can use to farm magic crests.
Really good analysis. I like that you take a lot of the context into account in discussing DDM. Like how even if the price weren't an issue there's a lot of physical set up involved in playing an IRL game.
The genuinely most fun part is how they just sorta took everyone from the early days of the story they could think of and just pushed them in there, even if it makes absolutely no sense. Even better being that the localization decided to go completely off the rails at points because these guys didn't have dub names and the manga was more niche. They renamed Ushio(The guy from the very start of every version that beat up Joey, Yugi and Tristan and that will be called Trudge in localized media from 5DS onwards) to Demitrius of all things, which is just so funny to me for some reason. Even if I like "Jackpot" and "Director Lucius" more than the generic "Escaped Prisoner" and "ZTV Director" respectively, it was still so unnessesary to change any of these, why do it?
Yeah at the time I wasn't entirely sure who most of the characters were in this game but late in the editing I figured that they were early day manga characters. I remembered the Bruce Lee knock off in pre card game ygo and saw him in the ui while editing
I find it both funny and also really neat that Ushio, literally just a background character in Duel Monsters that only existed to explain why Joey and Tristan (Jounochi and Honda) have such a strong bond with Yugi eventually was briefly mentioned in GX as one of the people who disappeared after losing to a Trueman and then became Trudge in 5D's where he has significantly more impact two whole series' after his initial appearance. What a legend.
Great video! I have never heard of this game, but your review really gave a great overview of the game. Though it is kinda funny to hear, that the game physical game was too expensive, compared to how ridiculous prices are for cards nowadays. And even back in the day.
I also love the Under Night In-birth intro.
Hey man happy to see another video of yours. I used to play this game and it was real fun when I was a child but it aged like fine milk on a hot summers day. I tried it again and didn't even last 15 minutes of playing. Somehow I find Reshef of Destruction much better and much more nostalgic for what it brings to the table compared to this, even tho it was fun seeing and hearing about it again.
Yeah I think the game in itself is some trash. But DDM outside of it is awesome! If only they went about just doing a series of these games digitally instead of what they did. I think reshef is a lot more nostalgic for most because as nasty as it was, it still has a lot of moments.
I remember back when I had the physical board game, lost em all due to the cardboard “paths” rotting away, the starting pieces going missing/broke. To this day I’m still finding stray die from the bloody thing
I tend to forgot that table top stuff can just rot in certain conditions
There's a lot of problems with DDM but there's also some interesting attemps to play.
1.- Some people here on Mexico have a bussines creating oricas, proxy, custom playmats and merchandise for YGO, they're Gaia Oricards and recreated all of the cards of the board game (plus most of the videogame and some extras) and sell them for... like 100 dollars i guess. It's a easy (and cheaper) way to get all cards for the game.
2.- The figures are really hard to get so I'm making my own ones at a different scale (Galactic Heroes and Super Hero Squad figures), also i heard about someone who was using a 3D printer and sell figures (but they're also expensive, like... 10 dollars each one, my production cost for each figure is like 1 or 2 dollars but it's more an extremly limited artistic process).
3.- There's a facebook group but... most of the people there are just for collecting. Sometimes I upload custom cards (like Dark Scorpions or Traptrix), people share their progress with 3D painting dungeon paths, rule FAQ and updatesetc. Some days ago there was a question about the viability of a tournamente, and there was like...50 votes (most of them from USA, next UK, on third place México with 5 guys, etc.).
The videogame sucks but it's really interesting at times, you can just play a LV1 pool and rush your opponent (there's a speedrun using only Beaver Warrior, Penguin Soldier and Ryu Kishin, or use Mammoth Graveyard because it's tunnel hability), I use only LV 2 and 4 die with interesting effects (like Giant Soldier of Stone to remove shelled ground tokens, Feral Imp to negate flying ability, the extremly broken Blast Lizard to insta kill monsters, Twin Swords Knight to move quickly, etc.).
The game has a lot of issues (the three rulesets fot the videogame, the american board game and the japanese one, the unbalanced mechanics, Blast Lizard, unxeploit mechanics like Shelled Ground Tokens, etc.) but it's really fun to play with friends and it has a lot of potential (like the reborn project, custom cards that sometimes I make like the Dark Scorpion, the Traptrix and the Hero, etc.). It just needs some more love.
These are the kind of comments I love to read honestly. I wish the game put me in a position to talk about some of the nonsense dice in the game and more gameplay theories but the CPU is so bad at this game. I was only able to explore a bit playing 2 games with a friend. I only found out recently that USA rules didn't allow copies of the same dice in the pool where in japan (this game is also based on the japan rules) there is no limit which is insane. On one hand DDM is like a genuine idea that was an idea before the trend of figure collecting became big. But Konami handled it as if it was just a trend.
Very underrated channel. The quality of this video deserves more man 🤜🏻
Loved playing the DDM videogame. Wish they made more DDM games.
This game (and especially board game) was such a missed opportunity. It was released in a time period where it had no chance at all to be financially successful given how popular TCGs were becoming, and it sucks, because the game is really cool conceptually and there's basically no good way to play it nowadays. Great video as always! Looking forward to the next one!
Felt like a few companies back then spread themselves to thin by trying to stick their hand in different markets at once. At the very least table top sim keeps the game from being under the dirt. Thank you so much for pulling up!
Saying it in the comments as well but once again my bad on the late video. The holidays were pure chaos and moving right before hand was stressful. Expect videos to come out a lot more often and consistent. 2 to 3 weeks per video give or take. Also let me correct a small mistake I made. So the Japanese rules of DDM you need 15 Dice. In America you only need 10 to 12 I think? It's still a lot for a start & very stupid for Japans and Americas rules to be so widely different. Also I didn't mention that the music is absolute dick on the ground in this game LMAO.
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Your music choices for your videos, and the timing of them are top notch. I always loved DDM but was disappointed that it never got anywhere.
this seems like the perfect game to remake and release on like, switch.
Man. All of this is making me realize just how bad Konami is at tabletop/card game design. Like I always figured Yu Gi Oh's issues were due to it being designed by someone who liked card games but wasn't a designer and Konami having to work with what the manga set up. But here they've got something comparatively fresh, and... it's awful. Nothing about the established groundwork requires this kind of bad balancing, with so many chaff/jank card- er, dice. The physical game has issues based on having so much actual physical stuff but a video game version should alleviate that (rolling the dice, spreading out the dice, price of dice, etc) and yet it sounds so poorly balanced. That sucks.
Hey I really appreciate these videos. Always wondered what the dice games looked like since it was only briefly mentioned in the show. Keep it up man!
Thank you for watching them! it means a lot to know people enjoy them
I have only played this game with my brother-in-law. He introduced me to Dungeon Dice Monsters when I told them I had played a lot of YuGiOh Eternal Duelist Soul and Dark Duel Stories on GBA as a kid, but never played DDM before. Oh, man. I was hooked on it. We had tons of fun playing DDM.
I couldn't imagine managing so many pieces to play this game on a table. That *looks* cumbersome as hell.
I can't wait for the early days collection to come out so I can finally play this multiplayer for myself hopefully
ty for the video ;-; i remember this as a kid and on the game boy advance, it is felt like the good old days
This was a huge hit of nostalgia. Seriously wish I still had the figures and my GBA.
Same, I just looked up how much a GBA is nowadays, that shit's more expensive than I thought
Hey I've played some of kartal's hacks! He's extremely skilled. I wonder how his interest in making a Yu-Gi-Oh hack turned out
I forgot about this Yu-Gi-Oh game until I saw the box art. I thought the name had something to do with Monster Rancher. LOL. Good video. "No Family Pros or Cons" is so funny. It should be a meme. LOL!!!!!!!!! Keep it up Ladd!
Sounds like baby dragon is very neutral about it's family lmao. Thanks for popping in momo o/
i know this is an older vid, but to address the question of price of the physical board game; the starter set was $20 at Toys R Us and the “booster packs” were around $6. Also when i played this video game version, i made a dice pool with basically all level 1’s so i could spam the field before my opponents could get much on-board. :P
Yeah I was finding trouble looking for an answer to this. Compared to cards that's still a bigger investment. kid me would get 2 structures out of 20
@@gameboylad absolutely better to invest in card packs than this, haha. Btw, this was the last YGO vid of yours I watched, finishing them all. Ya did a good job from the explanations and edits, my nostalgia was reeling, lol. Keep up the good work!
dont forget to credit the hippo for the stop motion gag you had at the start.
(got a chuckle out of me was not expecting that. XD)
I've been trying out a lot of these old yu gi oh games because of you. Might try this one too. Good luck if you ever do yu gi oh forbidden memories
Funny enough, I know how to Speedrun FM. So with that video I would have to have a new spin on how to talk about it
this game could have a much easier time on the smart phone age. not only it would probably make millions on a phone version itself it could use an app to facilitate the table top too. with things like keeping crests counts.
I've beat all the single player content in this game, since at most I just had a nephew to play with. Sometimes you get a extra duel with Yami Yugi at the end, it must be like "beat the last tournament 3 times" or something. But I actually never managed to complete the Free Duel roster, since the only way to fight each character is randomly through the tournaments, which is another downside for sure. I never saw that dog, for example, lol
DDM is fun, and I'd love if a modern game were available nowadays. Great video man
I remember getting this game for like $2 at a yard sale without the manual and being completely confused about how to play it, which is truly a good sign when you're hoping to sell a game to a 10 year old haha
Edit: I now want a modern remake with these rules with a small dice pool, they could easily design it as tight as a deck builder like Dominion with the tactics/mind games left intact
I haven't watched the video but I'm surprised to see "worst yugioh game" in the title! This was one of my favorite games as a kid!
I think the concept of DDM is cool and playing it irl is neat. But the gba game is no good and doesn't do the game justice
Much like the failed Pokémon Trading figure game, it’s incredibly difficult to market figure collecting games to kids because of their significant price to entry, not to mention all the loose pieces that would make it really hard for kids to take to school or clubs, it makes sense why it just didn’t catch on like the card game. Most modern figure based games are marketed as more expensive premium items, aimed at an older audience, so maybe the nostalgic Yugi boomers with their own income would be more into it nowadays.
Honestly DDM and CapuMon would work amazingly as modern video games, just put it up on Mobile, Steam and Switch and I could totally see a community forming around it. I really hope Konami gives those games a second chance.
As of recent with the jar collection coming out, it seems Konami is interested in making collectibles again. I hope the idea of DDM comes back around as a mobile game at the least. Best case scenario would be a full game with a whole campaign similar to that of a fire emblem game
Pantsahat reference? You just earned a subscriber, bro.
not a modder, but after watching this video, i find it absurd that konami hasn't figured out a way to make this game availible to the masses. with the success of master duel, the methodology paved out by warhammer-type games, the ability of simulators to be made for just about anything, and the fact that the entire template of the game is literally sitting there ready to be reworked into a tighter package (to say nothing of the absolutely MASSIVE pool of cards they can pull inspiration from), i can't fathom why konami hasn't even remotely dipped their toes back into DDS,
Seriously, two dedicated fans, a reasonably skilled coder, and one long weekend would be all it takes to make a complete rework of this game that's balanced from the ground up for longevity. hell, i'm fairly sure i could do the mechanic tweaks, monster balancing, pretty much everything bar coding, solo given sufficient time...
matter of fact, i'm gonna try it, and post what i come up with below. 99% sure i can make a game that fits the modern card game, covering monster types, spells, traps, and extra spice mechanics so long as i have enough time to type it up.
edit: have a template set, but gonna be a bit before i can finish, i have yet to get a proper weekend break, so i've been working on it in increments.
Don't overwork yourself with the project. Just slowly but surely use it as a learning experience over finishing the product. if it does finish that's a plus lol
@@gameboylad I've got the core rules mostly done, 2 more parts to go, i just lost my glasses for a bit (reading/typing anything on my main screens is a bitch without them), so i wasn't getting much done at a time.
found them though, so i'll be back to it shortly. I plan on making some monster templates as well, but that's a ways off at best,
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Yeah, I finished the skeleton structure, but as far as monster templates, i really couldn't figure out what monsters i wanted to place into the first set. that said, i'm placing the redo here, and wandering about online to see where i can drop it off to gain traction.
Dungeon dice monsters revamp.
Design inspiration and design goals
This is a document to create an updated model of Dungeon dice monsters. the rules of the original game will be the basis, taking inspirations from the japanese, english, manga, and video game rules to create the core template, with some minor inclusions from games such as forbidden memories, to allow for additional strategy/interaction. the adjustments will be designed to allow for more game stability, aiming for futureproofing against too much powercreep, by outlining design philosophy of the monster, spell, and trap crests.
The game sections will be broken down as such:
1. Beginning of Game rounds, and board configuration/setup.
2. Gameplay & Turn Phases
3. Abilities/Traits
4. Monster types and Guardian Stars
5. Item dice
6. Design philosophy
*1) Beginning of Game rounds, and board configuration/setup*
⦁ Each game is a best 2 of 3, or best of 1 as players like.
⦁ The board is 13x19, but can be adjusted to suit the game.
⦁ Each player chooses 12-15 dice to create their dice pool at the beginning of a round. Players may not have more than 2 level 5 Dice, 3 Level 4 dice, and no more than 2 of any individual monster in their pool of 12-15 dice. Besides this, die and monster will not be tied together like in the gba version, outside of needing the appropriate level to roll a monster. One may choose however many level 1 and 2 monsters they like.
⦁ Between rounds, if playing more than 1, each player may adjust their dice pool as they like within the bounds of selection rules, but must retain the same number of dice that they began the first round with for the game (if you start with 12, you must stay with 12, if you start with 14, you must stay with 14, and so on).
⦁ Each player then chooses their monster lord, and sets their guardian star. players may then select a monster lord crest to place within their guardian.
⦁ the starting player is then chosen (if multiple rounds are conducted, the losing player selects the game order), and the game begins.
*2) Gameplay & Turn Phases*
At the beginning of the game, each player chooses 3 dice to begin rolling with. Dice are replenished from the dice pool, until a player has 3 to roll with at the beginning of each of their turns. The phases are: _Dice roll - Movement 1- Combat - Movement 2 - End phase,_ players can go back and forth between movement and combat, so long as you have available movement/attack crests. if you have no attack crests, you cannot enter combat and the same goes for movement. When exiting combat, if you have no movement crests, you must move to the End phase instead of a movement phase.
⦁ Dice roll Phase - Crest rolls, Summoning, and storage
Crest rolls: In the dice roll phase, the turn player may roll their 3 dice up to two times, Upon rolling, the player may choose to store their crests into the crest pool (all crests aside from summon crests can be stored) and roll again, to gain additional crests. if the turn player summons with their first roll, they may not replenish dice between rolls, and their second roll may only be conducted with the remaining dice. they still keep any resulting crests.
Summoning: If a player rolls two or more summoning crests of the same level, they may summon one monster of that level to the board from the rolled dice pool, if a player roll results in 3 crests of the same level, they may summon a monster 1 rank higher than the rolled crest from their rolled dice, or may summon any monster of that result level from their remaining dice pool, upon summoning, the dice used to summon is removed from the game, a 6 tile layout called a "plane" ("dimension" in the og version, can be adjusted to avoid lawsuits from WotC) is placed upon the board connected to your currently placed tiles, and 1 movement crest is added to the crest pool.
Storage: Crests That are stored are maintained in an area visible to both players. this may not matter as much in a virtual setting, but may come up if the game is ever physically implemented, so i thought i'd put it down here.
⦁ Movement 1-2 - Movement rules, crest usage
In the movement phase, movement crests are spent to set monsters along the available paths, 1 movement crest=1 tile moved. Up to 6 movement crests can be spent per turn, with each monster being movable a maximum of 3 times per turn (outside of effects). Opposing monsters cannot move past each other without specialized abilities or traits.
⦁ Combat - combat rules, crest usage,
Each attack costs 1 attack crest, and each monster can only attack 1 time per turn. monsters attacks are based upon attack range, abilities, traits, and effects in play.
In combat, attacking monsters damage values are determined based upon the ATK value subtracted from the HP, if a player has any defense crests available, they can use them to subtract their defense value from the ATK of the attacking monster. if a monsters' HP is reduced to 0, they are destroyed. if a monster has higher defense than the attacking monster, the upon using a defense crest, the remaining defense is subtracted from the attacking monsters HP.
In combat with a monster lord, the monster lords' attacks cannot be defended against, and monster lords only take 1 damage from any attacks. monster lords may be immobile, but they can resolve any designated monster lord traps or spells that they are equipped with.
⦁ End phase
During the end phase, any effects that resolve during the end phase now resolve, and any effects that last until the end of the current turn disappear.
(...end of part 1)
(part 2:)
3) Abilities/Traits
Monsters in this game come with abilities and traits that change how combat and movement may play out. there are several traits, and a large number of effects in the game, but starting with traits:
⦁ Traits:
there are a set number of traits that exist on monsters: *Flying, Burrow, Diver, Far Strike, Penetrator, and Armor.*
Flying, Burrow and Diver allow monsters to freely move across obstacles, while also preventing them from being attacked by creatures that lack the appropriate traits (flying can be attacked by flying and far reach, while burrow and diver can be attacked by the same respective trait, or by penetrator).
Far strike and penetrator don't allow more movement options, but they allow monsters to attack creatures that possess flying (Far reach) and burrow/diver (penetrator). penetrator allows monsters to gain an additional 10 atk for each rank (so +10 for rank 1, +30 for rank 3, ect) while far reach allows monsters to attack across an additional space and through monsters.
Armor allows creatures to defend without using crests, and adds an additional +10 def for each rank similar to how penetrator does for atk.
⦁ Abilities
similar to effects in yugioh, abilities are effects that monsters grant while present. there is a limitless number of effects possible, but just like the card game, if there is a discrepancy between the rules of the game and the effects of the monster, the monster effect will tend to take priority.
4) Monster types and Guardian Stars
While the game is tied to yugioh, the monster types for the same monsters may differ from the original types.
The attributes in this game are the same base 7: EARTH, FIRE, WIND, WATER, LIGHT, DARK, AND DIVINE. there are effects in game that grant bonuses and demerits accordingly.
The types in this game are : *_Creator-God, Divine Beast, Pyro, Aqua, thunder, rock, plant, beast, reptile, beast warrior, winged beast, dinosaur, dragon, fairy, fiend, wyrm, machine, cyberse, zombie, spellcaster, warrior, illusionist, psychic, insect, fish, sea serpent, and reptile._* same as the attributes, effects in game may grant bonuses and demerits accordingly.
Guardian stars
guardian stars are an optional feature in dungeon dice monsters. the game can be played with or without guardian stars. but in chase you choose to play with them, this is how they work:
Monsters come with two inherent "Guardian Star" typings. these alignments are taken directly from cosmic bodies and are arranged as follows (> means "is superior to"):
Mercury > Sun > Moon > Venus > Mercury
Mars > Jupiter > Saturn > Uranus > Pluto > Neptune > Mars
While monsters have inherent guardian stars, the monster lord is allowed to select any guardian star at the beginning of the game, and upon summoning monsters, the summoning player is allowed to choose whether or not they will place their summoned monster under one of its' own guardian stars, or under the chosen star of their monster lord.
when a monster battles an opposing monster, compare the guardian stars, if the guardian stars are comparable, then the monster with the winning sign is granted +10 to all stats except hp for that battle. no effect is applied if the signs have no winning comparison.
5) Item dice /Black dice
Black dice are dice with 0 monsters on them. they are effectively item dice, that have multiple effects when rolled. you can have up to 5 item dice in the pool, and until you have had at least 1 monster on the playing field aside from the dungeon lord, you cannot roll any item dice.
crests attained from item dice go into the crest pool, while dice effects must be used on the spot, or simply vanish with no effect. Item dice effects can sometimes change the terrain, and on rare occasions, even more drastically, influence their affected area.
when rolling an item die, the number within the die determines how many of that result must be present to gain the effect displayed by the die. oftentimes, the higher the number, the more powerful the effect.
6) Design philosophy.
Monster design guidelines are present to maintain stability, without creating too much power creep. for example, for lower rank dice, the goal would be to not create creatures that invalidate higher rank monsters, and for higher rank dice, the goal would be to create monsters that are worth using, if nor for their stats, then for their outside effects.
guardian stars is an aspect included to add an additional layer to the game based upon older games, and is only there for those interested. it's a way of adding bonus power to weaker monsters in scenarios where they need it, or even reinforcing the lead that strong monsters may have should the opponents' board be poorly compatible. even as a mere +10, it can help prevent monsters from being overrun by effects like penetrator and armor,
For the item dice, the goal would be to give each die complimentary effects, while making adjustments to each overall die effect, according to how powerful the best and worst effects on the die are.
overall, i want the game to be capable of resisting powercreep for even longer than games like magic and yugioh have, with controlled releases for proper testing. i want the focus to be on interesting effects, and proper managing of resources in ways that allow for the games to be more engaging overall.
and that's about it. i have way more that i want to type,like my plans for the templates of monsers, and what monsters i would release first to establish the game (obvious DM monsters aside, i'd pick most flagship monsters to be level 3s', and a number of the more recognizable monsters for the early numbers to pull people in) but holy hell do i lack time these days.
massive respect for creating your review scripts, as i ad trouble finding time just for a minor revamp.
Since you say at the end you're looking into non-Yugioh TCG games I want to highlight a game called Hex:Shards of fate. It was a digital only MTG clone that had a fantastic single player mode. Unfortunately it was tied to their servers, so the game is no longer playable, but if there's any way it can be played again it would be a great example of the untapped potential of Digital only card games.
In the single player mode you had an RPG talent tree layered over the card game so you could get exclusive cards for your class added to your deck, start with minor boons in play or get bonuses for playing certain types of cards. I still fondly remember the rabit cleric deck that worked by spamming the board with 0/1s that I could then buff to overwhelm the opponent.
I saw it while I was looking into games like that with good PVE content. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's a way to play it at all now. It's a shame. So many games probably lost in the sands of time like this
Day off and GBlad upload?
Today was a good day
I got yall on the new years week! Enjoy the day off and the video my mans!
I loved this game :(
I loved this arc and always wanted to play it as a kid, but like you said between finding someone who plays and the entry price, it was doomed to fail.
You're planning on doing Shandalar? Hell yeah!
I really wish someone would make a more modern version of that game. One that runs better on modern PCs, and has newer cards.
And if it had a Commander format mode, that'd be great...
I'm not 100% sure but i think someone made a more modern version of shandalar recently. Idk if a few google searches would have you find it but i remember seeing videos about it on my feed or something of the sort
"[DDM] is probably the worst Yu-Gi-Oh game of all time."
- Laughs in Destiny Board Traveler -
am actively avoiding that game because it might just be worse than this lmao
Always nice to see someone enjoy so many different card games!
I don't know if you've heard of it, but the Duel Masters GBA and PS2 games have been a fun and chill experience for me. I think you might like it if you've played Magic before
I've been eyeing the duel masters games for years and I finally have a reason to sit down and play them!
@@gameboylad Have fun with them, they're so comfy and the PS2 game is pretty cool for all the monster animations
1:37 Heroscape is back baby! I play competitively and it’s a great time to be a player!
Ahh yes, rainy day on a day off and a new gameboylad video
I hope you one day review duelist of the roses or one of the tag force games
But thanks for the yugioh reviews so far!
I'll get them one day but duelist of the roses I'm saving for a special occassion. Expect tag force videos coming down the line soonish for sure!
I play to this day and starter set came with 6 characters and it was 6.99 for a new figure
I had difficulty looking for the more for the starter set. I think I saw that price for the boosters but Americas boosters and starters were a scam compared to japans
@@gameboylad Facebook has a dungeon dice community and just yesterday or the day before somebody built every card principle in English That's going to be huge to introduce anyone into the game
I actually had the DDM physical set with my brother as a kid and we played to 2-3 times with the included stuff, somehow. Was disappointed we didn’t get the fold-out dice and am now even more disappointed that the JP starter set was so much better overall.
I’m still happy that this lets someone easily play single player DDM in 2023 though. It’d be hard to fix the AI, but I can’t imagine it’d be too hard to rebalance the GBA game’s symbols at least.
It's actually super fascinating that they gave 4Kids style dub names to all the manga exclusive characters. Like the yoyo guy Nibbles was Nezumi in the manga. (Also that arc was about a bunch of literal gangsters beating kids unconscious with modified yoyos and Joey wins by throwing glass in a guy's eyes.)
I would love to see a automated simulator for this game like ygopro someday.
I would hop on that so fast you have no idea lmao
I actually played Dungeon Dice Monsters on my old. GBA but when I moved 7 years ago to a new place I lost both my GBA and my copy of the game. I had fun playing it sadly I’m not a creative but I would support someone if I had the money to do so. So all I can do is cheer on the sidelines and hope some creatives will remake it so we can all play it together through the net
Huge burst of nostalgia from watching your review! Did the game crash after the first time you saw credits? There are actually three sets of tournaments, and each new set is unlocked everytime you see the credits by finishing a set. To be fair to the game, it does get harder in the later tournaments with better AI and more varied boards.
yeah I used a code to unlock everything and it was kind of more or less the same to me lol. They had better dice but they really can't handle someone just going straight for their life. I hope some one makes a mod for this one day that makes the AI play the game more reactively
I always wanted this game as a kid. I remember DDM looked so cool in the anime.
It's pretty cool to play physically. Not so cool that the game pieces are uber expensive
There have been a couple of attempts at simulators. Majin Wamu has been working on something off and on for a few years now, and there was one other project that the creator stopped work on because they felt they couldn't justify the time they spent on another company's IP.
I feel like I should also plug Dungeon Dice Dimension, a couple of guys who are constantly uploading their matches of the physical game.
I didn't know there were more people who tried it purely out of passion. But it's hard to have the vehicle of passion move without much gas. I'm extremely surprised and happy that theres a channel full of just DDM matches! This is the kind of stuff I wanted to find but a lot of it is not search engine friendly at all. I got threads from neoseeker instead of a channel like this. I'll shout this channel out in my community tab for sure
Just finished binge watching your content. Keep it up man, love these retro yugioh games
I feel like the biggest drawback in this game is def the AI. If it didn't do nothing 90% of the time this would be such an interesting game to come back to and maybe do challenge runs
DDM has so much nuance and could have been a very fun game if only the AI worked. fortunately that's what humans are for...if only you can find another to play with. Thank you so much for watching my videos! I'll try to have another one for you to watch somewhere this month!
I remember adapting Heroscape pieces to Dungeon Dice rules. It's a great concept that could be done much better
At this point that might be the best way to do it now since the figures are hard to find
My modified rules were real simple. Build your team like normal but don't build any of the the board except for one 7 sided piece and one hero to use as your boss which if it goes down you loose. You use 2 D6 dice. 2 1's or 6's gets you a one squad or hero part of your team. A roll of 3 or 11 get you 7 sided piece . A roll of 4 or 10 gets a 3 sided piece. 5,6,8 or 9 gets a 2 sided piece and 7 gets a 1 hex piece. All pieces rolled can be replaced with an equivalent number of water/lava/snow/ etc terrain instead of the usual terrain styles. After that try to reach your opponent and k.o. his boss. Battles follow Heroscape rules and use their dice. It worked. A player having trouble pulling out their team might build defenses. An aggressive player will got straight for kill.
So there was a guy in my old LGS who collected a bunch of rare Yu-Gi-Oh stuff and he would occasionally bring a collection of Dungeon Dice Monster figures and dice to play games after tournaments. He had some of the Japanese exclusive figures as well. It was an interesting experience!
The GBA game itself was fun. But my dumbass didn't understand what was going on until I played the game later in life.
That's actually dope that you had someone to do that at your locals. I remember I understood the game as a early teen only by trial and error over the course of months lmao
Late to commenting but I hate you couldn’t get to the high tier tournaments. They start adding more obstacles on the field making it to where you have to plan your monsters out. And yes, you can still spam level 1 monsters, but that doesn’t work against Kaiba spamming blue-eyes. I loved it but the game is definitely a grind, and you definitely need all the crest so you can alter your pool accordingly to cater towards the opponent. Hate the game fell short for you, but it’s understandable considering how frustrating it gets in the end
I did play through some of the end game tournaments but it basically still was the same thing to me. they had better dice but not a better comprehension to use them well lol. I still enjoy the system of the game though
I remember I used to play this game alot as a kid but no one else had it. I just got as many low level zombies as I could and added in mystic horseman for variety. 3 legged zombie was the goat cause he gave 10 attack to all your zombies and he was level 1 so once you had 3 out you had 40 attack guys that would 1 shot most enemy monsters!
I once thought about sinking a long time into remaking this... but decided on a pokemon-esque game.
i hope a scene is made for this one day or some one fixing up the ai in the game
man, i got this game for my bday as a kid but i never beat the 1st cup since the rules were way too difficult for me
These figs didn't cost 20 dollars, at least not in Europe. I clearly remember they were around 5,99 per card/Monster. I still got a huge collection of them.
a few others in the comments said the boosters in the states were 10$ I guess Europe had it easier over there
Excellent choice of soundtrack. I've never played much FFT but its music is beautiful.
Weird that they used to keep trying to make tactical RPGs out of Yugioh.
Yeah there's like 3-4 of them. Maybe more lol
When I was a kid I traded my copy of Megaman Battle Network 2 for this. It was before I learned English, so I had no idea what to do in MBN2 and was just wandering aimlessly. Back then it seemed like a pretty good trade, but thinking about it now, it kinda sucked.
Well the battle network collection is out now and you speak/read good enough English to play all of them now lol bought it day one and I've been enjoying myself a lot
omg dungeon dice monsters...my older brother had the physical version of this game, i remember playing it with him ALL THE TIME, can't remember if i liked it or not though lmao
Haven’t started the vid yet but I know I’m in for a treat with lots of humor😂
I didn't tap into my funny bone as much as I would have loved to with this one because of the chaos of the holidays, but best believe the video is good and the next one coming up will be a banger!
This is a perfect game that still holds up today. I wish we would get a sequel game. All it would need are more monsters and opponents.
I've actually been replying the game recently. Normally I'd be really upset that something like this with its intricate Parts doesn't have a tutorial to help you, but the AI so bad that if you make mistake it feels forgiving. I actually really like this game, and wish they'd revisit it.
I think the rules and the way the game works is great. I just wish the game pushed me to explore more about strategies and dice in the game.
@@gameboylad I feel that. I definitely feel like It suffers from a lack of innovation. I wish they would have tried to stick with it, and did a few FAQ. Some of the monsters also didn't get ported right into the game. Jinzo has an ability that destroys all of your opponent's trap Crest when it etbs.
I'd love a community for this game, have a lot of fond memories of it.
One day someone will take the game a mold one out of it
@@gameboylad That will be me. I'm already done with the dice spawning mechanics in my version. I will be making a patreon soon.
Didn’t DDM recently have a new version come out or am I thinking of a Capsule Monsters thing? I swear there was some short lived hype pre-COVID about some Yugioh flavored dice game. I saw it at several of my favorite gaming stores and I feel like I remember seeing people playing it once or twice and talking about how popular it had gotten.
Hmm I'm actually super unaware of a revival or something similar to that. I know Takahashi had made several at home games and was selling some dice based games at the time I think but I haven't heard specifics
@@gameboylad Just looked it up. It was a Yugioh branded product called Dice Masters made by Wizkids. I guess it just looked very similar to me, sorry.
Aww yeah! Another video to help with the work day. Much appreciated.
I got your back when it comes to passing time at work
@Gameboylad I'm really looking forward to the Shandalar video. Keep up the amazing work man.
Honestly i would love to see dungeon dice monsters return. Especially with all the new card types id love to see if konami would do anything with that. Maybe one day ddm will return. A guy can dream.
This was one I missed out on. But I have a 200 dollar Japanese Dark Magician Girl promo card from the Japanese version.
That's a nice catch for sure. It's funny that one of the most valuable monsters is not obtainable in the game even though it's data is there
You know since your gonna make it your thing to hop into card games, I think the Duel Masters games may be one to look into eventually.
I've been curious about that PS2 game I use to see a lot as a kid for a LONG TIME
God, I wish I could have played the actual dice game. I watched the anime episodes that showed the game off, and I thought it looked awesome! I just couldn't afford to buy them.
If I can get a 3D printer, I'm going to try printing miniatures based on the monsters, and make cards to go along with them. I have a wet erase mat for D&D, so all I need is a couple of markers to highlight the squares for the paths. Getting custom or blank dice shouldn't be too hard, so there's a way to make that work.
Would love to adapt some of my favorite archetypes to the game. Definitely want to make miniatures for Kozmo for my own set, and either Vampire or Grave Keeper for my wife.
The US starter set comes with 6 figures not 4: Knight of Twin Swords, Thunderball, Strike Ninja, Gearfried, Vorse Raider, and Buster Blader (and also a Monster Lord figure). Booster packs were $5 each and only came with 1 figure and the card for it. I wanted this game so bad as a kid, but we couldn't afford it (same with regular yugioh booster packs). The Japanese version of the board game, each figure came with it's own unique dice with unique crests and folds out a certain way. I played DDM rom recently and it stinks. For some reason the CPU's in the ROM online are super brain dead, and drop rates for good dice are terrible. I've been playing the IRL cartridge version lately and the opponents are much more difficult and summon extremely consistently, drops are a lot better too. I play Dungeon Dice Monsters online on Table Top Simulator with my friends a lot and it is super fun. Feels like chess, except all of the pieces are unique. A lot of the IRL dice have different effects than the gba dice. Like IRL Jinzo removes all of your opponents trap crests when summoned (he's still ass tho). Also IRL game you roll dice twice per turn, which greatly speeds up summons and crests.
I might revisit this game if I get it physically cause I have a feeling it has anti piracy measures
@@gameboylad nice, yeah maybe it is anti-piracy. Not saying the CPU still isn't terrible if you rush them, but I definitely have lost rounds and the CPUs do get better the more tournaments you unlock. Definitely wish there more dice to choose from overall.
Also all I'm sayin is god bless table top sim, it's rescued so many dead games from full on extinction
I do personally remember that brief period where DDM was selling for full price. Walmart and TrU prices for "boosters" ranged $15-$20, and I remember looking at DDM, and purposefully choosing to just not ask for it because I could not for the life of me understand how to play it, and how it could convert to the real world, with the "drawing" dice from a "deck" and having to randomly unfold said dice to draw a pathway to attack the other side. It felt like the sort of game that would not translate well to real life; the sort of board game that NEEDS to be a computer game to be properly playable.
And, well, hey look, a video game that's a substantially better experience than real life DDM.
Probably the best way to play it with friends too since the physical game parts are near impossible to own now
Fun Fact: There are materials out there that have a memory structere and fold or unfold in hot or cold water. Dice unfolding themselves could be done in the real world (if you are willing to put your playfield under water, that is).
If you like retro Card-Games btw, I used to love Duel Masters for GBA as a kid, I didn't really understand the rules, but I have so fond memories of a fun world to walk around and awesome looking cards. Maybe that's something you or someone else wants to check out.
I really want to check out the duel masters games at one point. especially the PS2 game. it used to always catch my eye in game stores
I missed out alot on thse we couldn't afford most game systems until i was a teen unless someone donate one . As an adult its fun to see what I had missed out
Same. I usually got consoles really late in their life cause that's when they were super cheap back then
@gameboylad that is the cool thing about being grown atl
Dice is the plural form of die. This is my ultimate pet peeve. If there is just one, it’s a die, if there are more, they are dice.
Your video edits are great lmao
thank you! It takes a lot of work finding the right clips and stuff but seeing people like them makes it all worth it
Thank you for covering this game! I really liked it(or at least tried to), and I'm glad to see it get a little attention. Also, what's the outtro music? It doesn't seem to be in the description.
It's the dark tournament theme from the yuyu Hakusho PS2 game 👌
Watched all your videos and have to say i love your content. Dragonball also had a trading card game on GBA. Don't know if it'll peak your interest or not.
I've been told. 100% will check it out in the future!
15:38 with a good deck getting crests is easy as hell.
Beaver Warrior gives you everything you need, to the point its kind of stupid.
Being Lv 1 and having 2 movement and 2 Attack crest.
it gives you everything you need and it cost nothing to get.
it gives you a good rush strat.
love the video! Thoughts on doing PS2 yugioh games? Also if you need any help/anything for the magic video I’d love to help. Me and some buddies play shandalar every so often since the most broken magic deck of all time is possible on there haha
I plan on covering the capsule one hopefully sometime this year and duelist of the roses is being saved for a special occasion. I'll go about doing shandalar solo and as blind as possible lol. I only played draft in magic for a few years and played the standard format back in 2013? So it'll be a trip to see all the older magic cards
oh wow yeah that actually sounds super interesting; good luck with that. Shandalar is honestly a timeless game. and capsule monsters was my first ps2 game so it has a special place in my heart
You've got a lot of Japanese learning ahead of you if you're looking for DCGs; some of the best never escaped the islands. If you willing to struggle through something like Card Hero or Shaman King blind though, I'll be here to watch for sure.
On DDM, I never had much time with it myself but its nuts to see how bad the dice pool is in that game. I know early Yugioh was scant on effects but it's like they flat out forgot to finish some of the monsters here. The physical game itself had more meat but was gimmicky, and that was without the unfolding dice Japan got.
Can't wait to see how you tear into Destiny Board Traveler, as I remember that game being functional at best. Play something like Culdcept afterwards, it's a night and day difference.
I plan to cover culdcept one day cause it use to catch my eye as a kid. once my channel is at a good size, I would feel more comfortable to do a video on it for sure. I want to try learning japanese at some point but it was mostly for myself interest than for games, but that would be a huge plus!
I'm so glad to see this, I'm so tired of people acting like this game isn't straight garbo. I got this game second-hand without a manual in a time before it was super easy for an 8-year-old to hop on the internet and look for a walkthrough or guide. This game doesn't tell you SHIT about SHIT.
Without the manual the only way to have a good idea besides trial and error was the anime episode. I remember the episode being pretty faithful towards most of the basic rules. but yeah the gba game is garbo. DDM however is pretty neat to me lol. Thank you for pulling up!