"The anime hadn't concluded yet" Correction, the anime hadn't even PREMIERED yet, not for another 5 months. Given that it came out when the manga was early into the Battle City arc, we can assume development started somewhere in the middle of the Duelist Kingdom and they plopped Ishizu in at the last minute.
Here's the thing though: Kazuki Takahashi wrote this game himself. At least the general events, I believe. He's credited as the designer of the original characters and for the "Scenario Draft". I believe he used it to prototype his ideas about where to take the story. Also, Ishizu and Isis are spelled the same way in japanese. So I believe she was just prototype Ishizu. Before he noticed the english pronunciation ("Aisis") and named her ancestor "Aishizu" in the final arc. Excellent video and series regardless! Subbed.
I suspect it was a case of misinterpreting or poor translation. Aishizu would be more or less how a Japanese person would pronounce 'Isis' as they often end words on A or U sound (Seto rather than simply Set, like in Egypt mythology). The same goes for Marik, as Japanese use L and R sounds interchangeably yet the name Malik is actually a real arabic name meaning 'king' which... in a series translated to 'King of Games' with a character aiming to dethrone a Pharaoh makes more sense than a made up name.
@@NitroNEXT Yes, Aishizu is the Japanese reading of the English pronunciation of Isis. And Ishizu is the Japanese reading of the actual Egyptian pronunciation of the same word.
@ Yeah, I mentioned Malik was a real arabic name meaning king. The manga kept Malik (I believe) as well as early fan translations but the 4kids dub changed it. I have no clue why Rashid was changed to Odion. It might've been a creative liberty or religious censor similar to Osiris becoming Slifer.
Funnily enough, you CAN see Exodia in the NA version. Some of the end bosses have a chance to generate the pieces in their deck and some speedrunners have been Exodia'd on camera!
Such an excellent series, I've come back again to re-watch them through. It's probably also fair to point out that the anime hadn't even started when this game was released
This is one of the greatest games in my personal opinion. It’s soundtrack is also unmatched. As far as I know about the game however, it was made before the actually card game and show were originally released which is why it doesn’t relate to ether one very well. It’s still a core memory from my Childhood of playing it with my brother and the funny part about it is we could never beat it because our PS2 would not let us save the game so it was literally an all or nothing run each time we played the game. I still try from time to time but can never get past the high mages once you get back to Egypt. I eagerly await when I finally get a PC and can cheat me way to finally beating this amazing game. Greta video.
I remember asking for this game to play on my PS3 in like 2011-12. Before that, I had foggy memories of it from playing it as a young kid in the early 2000s. Getting it again made so many memories go through my head. Even though I couldn’t beat majority of it back then. Lol
the things i loved the most about this game was upgrading my deck with better cards. especially when it's a rare card like meteor b. blue eyes. metalzoa. picking the right signs for the bonus attack. you might end up using some cards simply because you needed the right signs for your opponent. and last but not least the fusion. i did so much fusion summoning i think jaden would be proud
Sadly that was really common... kids discovered you could crack the bottom of the case open a little and the card pack would fall out, but it would leave the top seal intact still looking new and untampered with.
In relation to my previous comment, I actually got all the cards needed to be able to beat the game several times over legit. It was not fun. On the plus side restarting with your end of level deck is fun for a bit and it's also fun to see just how many times in a row you can beat Heishin in your first fught, pretty sure I got to around 12 at least.
Man i can never remember the fusions in the broken ass fusion system except for the necessary thunder dragon and twin headed thunder dragon which we all know are a must in this game
WoW, I never knew as a kid that at some point in the story you were sent to present time! I guess I never got past the first old Egypt part since I did not know good english at the time and the mechanics were bullshit lol
Hey, sorry, this is bugging me: Did you use music from Stardew Valley at some point in this video? I swore I heard it, but maybe I've just been playing too much. Great video! I played this game as a kid, and I loved it. Sorry to bother.
I just noticed in the background of kaibas tournament that he is holding a "Yu-Gi-Oh" tournament. That is so fucking confusing continuity wise. Did Pegasus name the game after yugi? Haha
a really good series and I subbed after Duel Monsters 4, but one critique: I think your review of Forbidden Memories was good, but the Pocket Station review left out the fallout of not getting it in the US: several cards can't be obtained, making the US version functionally incomplete. Once that was discovered several years after the game came out, it really dampened the non speed-run replay-ability of it.
The four biggest problems this game has are: No effects, meaning the game becomes an insultingly brainless mashup of which number is bigger No variety, as there are hundreds of cards but a good 90 % of them become useless after just the first few duels. The utterly pitiful amount of actually useful monsters that can be made using fusion, so everyone will always just have a Twin Hunded Thunder Dragon deck, until they grind opponents into the dirt in free play mode to win some possibly useful ones The Card winning/buying system. Even beating opponents with end of game decks quick and mercilessly will result, in 99.9 % of instances, with you being rewarded with the 25th copy of a useless card your opponent didn't even have. Having to grind single opponents hundreds of times to win 2-3 useful cards tops is bad enough, but then you are left with hundreds or thousands of utterly useless cards, which you have dozens and dozens of copies of, but which are both useless and which you can't use more than 3 copies of anyway. It would be great if you could sell these cards, even at half price, at the card shop, but the card shop just exists for you to save your game and that's it. The game purchasing mechanic from the title screen, meanwhile, is utterly broken because all the best cards and many less than perfect ones will cost just short of ONE MILLION STARCHIPS, when the max you can per duel get is FIVE. They designed this to where you'd have to grind for about TWO YEARS to get to buy ONE of these cards and didn't stop to consider why that is an actively hostile thing to do to the player. But between the abysmal low drops of actual good cards, no way to fuse anything stronger than Twin Headed Thunder Dragon and requiring you to just play this one game exclusively all day for literal years to be able to get one of the endgame cards, it feels the game really, desperately does not want you to succeed. Which would make sense given the end requires you, at minimum, to beat SIX bosses in a row, without saving, several of whom have a monster with a 4500 ATK which you can basically never get and there being nothing you can match up against at all. Leaving you to just repeatedly beat the first two bosses, before getting your behind handed to you by a 4.5 K monster from your opponent. You have to basically hope and pray none of the FOUR people who can have it get it for the first few turns, and that's IF the game decides to not openly cheat, as was proven when they discovered the AI can change the cards it has in it's hand. Not to mention the fact engame opponents all know when your face down monsters are too strong for them to attack, so they never will, which, yeah that's totally not cheating either.
Gosh i hated this game xD i bought it after i got myself the starter decks yugi and kaiba, several boosters and did some local tournaments (but not in my region though) thinking how cool now i can play the game on a regular basis since no one here plays it..... well yeah .
"3rd rate serf with a 4th rate pile of tablets" best written line of the video
It's cool that this game has a continuity with Duelists Of The Roses.
And Falsebound Kingdom too.
"The anime hadn't concluded yet" Correction, the anime hadn't even PREMIERED yet, not for another 5 months. Given that it came out when the manga was early into the Battle City arc, we can assume development started somewhere in the middle of the Duelist Kingdom and they plopped Ishizu in at the last minute.
The story and all the "mystery" about obtaining cards in this game made it one of the best. I love it ❤
Here's the thing though: Kazuki Takahashi wrote this game himself. At least the general events, I believe. He's credited as the designer of the original characters and for the "Scenario Draft". I believe he used it to prototype his ideas about where to take the story.
Also, Ishizu and Isis are spelled the same way in japanese. So I believe she was just prototype Ishizu. Before he noticed the english pronunciation ("Aisis") and named her ancestor "Aishizu" in the final arc.
Excellent video and series regardless! Subbed.
I suspect it was a case of misinterpreting or poor translation. Aishizu would be more or less how a Japanese person would pronounce 'Isis' as they often end words on A or U sound (Seto rather than simply Set, like in Egypt mythology). The same goes for Marik, as Japanese use L and R sounds interchangeably yet the name Malik is actually a real arabic name meaning 'king' which... in a series translated to 'King of Games' with a character aiming to dethrone a Pharaoh makes more sense than a made up name.
@@NitroNEXT Yes, Aishizu is the Japanese reading of the English pronunciation of Isis. And Ishizu is the Japanese reading of the actual Egyptian pronunciation of the same word.
And Kaiba's Egyptian counterpart did use the millennium rod, so that carried through
@@NitroNEXTI also think Marik is a similar mistranslation (should be "Malik" like the common Arabic name) at least Rashid is fine??
@ Yeah, I mentioned Malik was a real arabic name meaning king. The manga kept Malik (I believe) as well as early fan translations but the 4kids dub changed it. I have no clue why Rashid was changed to Odion. It might've been a creative liberty or religious censor similar to Osiris becoming Slifer.
Funnily enough, you CAN see Exodia in the NA version. Some of the end bosses have a chance to generate the pieces in their deck and some speedrunners have been Exodia'd on camera!
Such an excellent series, I've come back again to re-watch them through. It's probably also fair to point out that the anime hadn't even started when this game was released
This started me on a long rabbit hole of your videos
I love this game. It’s a bit of a grind and the final boss gauntlet is a pain but the music and gameplay are 10/10
I am so glad I found this retrospective. You have a real love for the series and a deep knowledge of it, great work!
Wikipedia is God
This is one of the greatest games in my personal opinion. It’s soundtrack is also unmatched. As far as I know about the game however, it was made before the actually card game and show were originally released which is why it doesn’t relate to ether one very well. It’s still a core memory from my Childhood of playing it with my brother and the funny part about it is we could never beat it because our PS2 would not let us save the game so it was literally an all or nothing run each time we played the game. I still try from time to time but can never get past the high mages once you get back to Egypt. I eagerly await when I finally get a PC and can cheat me way to finally beating this amazing game. Greta video.
Brave Fencer Musashi has a better ost
I remember asking for this game to play on my PS3 in like 2011-12. Before that, I had foggy memories of it from playing it as a young kid in the early 2000s. Getting it again made so many memories go through my head. Even though I couldn’t beat majority of it back then. Lol
the things i loved the most about this game was upgrading my deck with better cards. especially when it's a rare card like meteor b. blue eyes. metalzoa. picking the right signs for the bonus attack. you might end up using some cards simply because you needed the right signs for your opponent. and last but not least the fusion. i did so much fusion summoning i think jaden would be proud
Can't wait to watch this video! I'll check it out right after I'm done grinding meadow mage for MBD...
I remember buying this game from Toys R Us in Times Square and the 3 exclusive cards were missing 🥺
Sadly that was really common... kids discovered you could crack the bottom of the case open a little and the card pack would fall out, but it would leave the top seal intact still looking new and untampered with.
Man this brings back memories. Now I really want to get a PS2 so I can play my old Yugioh games.
You can use an emulator on pc
@@vedremo9240 as someone who’s been emulating for 10+ years it’s crazy to see some ppl who still don’t know
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The heck is ppl???
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Give me the rom plz
@@devilgirl7054 people.
In relation to my previous comment, I actually got all the cards needed to be able to beat the game several times over legit. It was not fun.
On the plus side restarting with your end of level deck is fun for a bit and it's also fun to see just how many times in a row you can beat Heishin in your first fught, pretty sure I got to around 12 at least.
Yeah say what you will this is a highly addictive game even now over 20 years later I still pick it up again at least a couple times a year
Its amazing its 25 years now
Man i can never remember the fusions in the broken ass fusion system except for the necessary thunder dragon and twin headed thunder dragon which we all know are a must in this game
12:03 Omg Bakura looks so weird in this game.
I love this game, I never finished it as I was just bad at the game but I spent hours on this game and Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist of the Roses.
These videos deserve way more views than they get. As always, great video
UA-cam recommended doing work today
WoW, I never knew as a kid that at some point in the story you were sent to present time! I guess I never got past the first old Egypt part since I did not know good english at the time and the mechanics were bullshit lol
So nostalgic. I had this game for PS1. It seemed so difficult lol.
Twin headed thunder dragon was the only fusion I figured out hahaha
I mean, it was pretty much your win condition
It's also the first Yu-Gi-Oh! game released in the US.
We could say it takes place during Yugioh season 0.
The bane of my childhood. I never beat this game.
Actually you can change a cards alignment by trying to equipt it with a card that doesn't equip to it
*Ladies and gentleman, stand up for the best game of the franchise.*
THE GOAT
The model viewer credits scene is cool. They must’ve been proud of their work. But some character art is rough.
Which ones
Hey, sorry, this is bugging me: Did you use music from Stardew Valley at some point in this video? I swore I heard it, but maybe I've just been playing too much. Great video! I played this game as a kid, and I loved it. Sorry to bother.
Heishin and the final boss really should've been in the anime.
Wait did you say one of Heishin's guards is named Deku?
This game was hard as fck but epic
I just noticed in the background of kaibas tournament that he is holding a "Yu-Gi-Oh" tournament. That is so fucking confusing continuity wise. Did Pegasus name the game after yugi? Haha
Well, it's just a weird romanization for "Yuugiou"(King of games).
a really good series and I subbed after Duel Monsters 4, but one critique: I think your review of Forbidden Memories was good, but the Pocket Station review left out the fallout of not getting it in the US: several cards can't be obtained, making the US version functionally incomplete. Once that was discovered several years after the game came out, it really dampened the non speed-run replay-ability of it.
The four biggest problems this game has are:
No effects, meaning the game becomes an insultingly brainless mashup of which number is bigger
No variety, as there are hundreds of cards but a good 90 % of them become useless after just the first few duels.
The utterly pitiful amount of actually useful monsters that can be made using fusion, so everyone will always just have a Twin Hunded Thunder Dragon deck, until they grind opponents into the dirt in free play mode to win some possibly useful ones
The Card winning/buying system. Even beating opponents with end of game decks quick and mercilessly will result, in 99.9 % of instances, with you being rewarded with the 25th copy of a useless card your opponent didn't even have. Having to grind single opponents hundreds of times to win 2-3 useful cards tops is bad enough, but then you are left with hundreds or thousands of utterly useless cards, which you have dozens and dozens of copies of, but which are both useless and which you can't use more than 3 copies of anyway.
It would be great if you could sell these cards, even at half price, at the card shop, but the card shop just exists for you to save your game and that's it. The game purchasing mechanic from the title screen, meanwhile, is utterly broken because all the best cards and many less than perfect ones will cost just short of ONE MILLION STARCHIPS, when the max you can per duel get is FIVE. They designed this to where you'd have to grind for about TWO YEARS to get to buy ONE of these cards and didn't stop to consider why that is an actively hostile thing to do to the player.
But between the abysmal low drops of actual good cards, no way to fuse anything stronger than Twin Headed Thunder Dragon and requiring you to just play this one game exclusively all day for literal years to be able to get one of the endgame cards, it feels the game really, desperately does not want you to succeed.
Which would make sense given the end requires you, at minimum, to beat SIX bosses in a row, without saving, several of whom have a monster with a 4500 ATK which you can basically never get and there being nothing you can match up against at all. Leaving you to just repeatedly beat the first two bosses, before getting your behind handed to you by a 4.5 K monster from your opponent. You have to basically hope and pray none of the FOUR people who can have it get it for the first few turns, and that's IF the game decides to not openly cheat, as was proven when they discovered the AI can change the cards it has in it's hand.
Not to mention the fact engame opponents all know when your face down monsters are too strong for them to attack, so they never will, which, yeah that's totally not cheating either.
Gosh i hated this game xD i bought it after i got myself the starter decks yugi and kaiba, several boosters and did some local tournaments (but not in my region though) thinking how cool now i can play the game on a regular basis since no one here plays it..... well yeah .
How DARE you call that game mediocre!