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| DarkZero 663th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):Does anyone play the Yugi-oh GBA carts?"
, posted Mon 15 Mar 16:23
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Yes. Why?
I have never played this game before, but i was just wondering if it was worth my time to play it.
The Yu-Gi-Oh games are sort of strange. For one thing, they usually lack any kind of serious story or anything, and are usually just an excuse to play the card game a couple hundred times over. And the gameplay, for the most part, reminds me of Disgaea. The enemy AI is PITIFULLY stupid, but their cards are strong enough to keep you interested for twenty or so hours of gameplay. And "levelling up", much like Disgaea, isn't as boring as it is in most games, because the battle system is rich enough to make screwing around with the weak, stupid enemies an entertaining experience.
Overall, yeah, it's worth your $25-30 for a GBA game. Don't get "Stairway to the Destined Duel", though. The game is HORRIBLY buggy, and jumping through tons of hoops just to get the bugged-out secret bosses that play poorly and crash the game over and over is not a fun experience. Go for the newest one, World Championship Tournament 2004, which is supposed to have much better AI and is getting fairly good review scores all-around.
On that note, though, you probably shouldn't trust any magazine reviews for Yu-Gi-Oh games. Most reviews don't play them long enough to reveal any bugs that might be in the game, and they usually take their score down a few notches because the games are A) somewhat difficult, B) have no tutorial mode, and C) don't have a lot of bells and whistles strung around the basic card game system.
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| Amakusa 449th Post
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| "Re(4):Does anyone play the Yugi-oh GBA carts?" , posted Mon 15 Mar 19:41
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Overall, yeah, it's worth your $25-30 for a GBA game. Don't get "Stairway to the Destined Duel", though. The game is HORRIBLY buggy, and jumping through tons of hoops just to get the bugged-out secret bosses that play poorly and crash the game over and over is not a fun experience. Go for the newest one, World Championship Tournament 2004, which is supposed to have much better AI and is getting fairly good review scores all-around.
Er, actually, I heard that World Championship 2004 was a piece of crap despite having the option for more than one deck. The AI doesn't know how to use their cards, and it cheats by having multiple copies of restricted cards in its deck.
I myself have Eternal Duelist Soul, people recommend World Wide Edition (which was described to me as Eternal Duelist Soul with more cards in it).
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| DarkZero 666th Post
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| "Re(5):Does anyone play the Yugi-oh GBA carts?" , posted Mon 15 Mar 21:57
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I myself have Eternal Duelist Soul, people recommend World Wide Edition (which was described to me as Eternal Duelist Soul with more cards in it).
World Wide Edition is a mixed bag. In the beginning, it's just not fun at all, because the fact that you fight your opponents semi-randomly means that you could easily get your ass handed to you by Yugi or Kaiba ten times over while you try to find Joey or Mokuba to build up your deck. And the enemy AI is stupid to the point where Bakura will get four Destiny Board cards on the field and then lay a Trap Hole face-down or Yugi will sacrifice a Black Magician and another card to summon... a Black Magician.
Then there's the matter of bugs. Several cards and secrets bosses are bugged. Some of Bandit Keith's cards are bugged, so he'll repeatedly skip his Draw Phase, which basically makes him fight with one hand tied around his back. And the final secret boss uses several dice cards every turn, but dice cards are so horribly bugged that they will often (50+% of the time) cause the game to crash, which turns the screen white and makes your GBA emit an ear-bleedingly awful noise. And on top of that, there are secret boosters whose requirements state that you beat every character ten times, which means that you can't get them unless you fight the final secret boss about twenty or thirty times trying to win before the bug kicks in.
If World Championship 2004 is really crap, then I'd go with Eternal Duelist Soul instead of Worldwide Edition. Eternal Duelist Soul's cards are getting pretty old by now, but it's still way better than WWE. WWE comes with some pretty good cards if you play the card game (Sinister Serpent and Harpy's Feather Duster or nice, even if Valkyrion the Magnet Warrior isn't), but EDS is the better game.
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| DarkZero 671th Post
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| "Re(6):Does anyone play the Yugi-oh GBA carts?" , posted Wed 17 Mar 00:06
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Well, actually, the more I think about it, the AI in Eternal Duelist Soul does some pretty stupid things every once in a while (such as Dark Holing their own stacked field), but without the other games to compare to, I don't know if it's 'usually good behavior' is still superior.
As far as AI goes, EDS is slightly better than WWE. Some characters, such as Mai and Marik, are a lot smarter and have much better decks, but other characters, such as Yugi and Kaiba, are morons. The real difference, though, is in the secret bosses. The secret bosses are, without exception, all retarded. Bandit Keith's cards are bugged, Duke Devlin crashes the game, and Pegasus just plays like an idiot. The only characters who are any real challenge are the story bosses who can only be played against once. They have good decks that the AI can't fuck up easily, but they also play a lot smarter, too.
Actually, now that I think of it, Mai and Marik are probably the only characters who can actually pull off their best strategies in WWE. Kaiba kills himself with Frankensteiner (I think that's its name?), Bakura blocks his own Destiny Board, Yugi never does anything useful, the Exodia guy never finishes Exodia, Bandit Keith hardly ever pulls Barrel Dragon... the game really just isn't very good. It was obviously rushed, because it's clear that no one playtested Duke Devlin or Bandit Keith at all.
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