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BEWD isnt 99 thousand star chips, it's 999 thousand, one chip short of a million. Also, BEUD is playable in the vanilla game as a fusion monster! But great job, I love the vid. Subbed.
Before the bootleg cards became popular here, this game was the only access to the card game similar to the anime, and the fusion mechanic was certainly really nice and appealing. After the cards appeared, I remember having tried to understand the rules by reading the English manual (before I properly learned English), and became the only one who understood the rules... Everybody else just assumed Forbidden Memories rules(and some of the anime rules such as no tribute summoning), and the duels became boring because all they did was fill their decks with strong monsters not knowing they couldn't be summoned without tributes.
Me and my friends as kids also used the anime rules, lol, but then we actually got a hold of the manuals and learned there about tribute summoning. Keep in mind that I'm portuguese and back then we only had cards in English, so it took some time for me to be able to fully read the manual. Thankfully I started to learn English from an early age and also asked for help in translating the manual. The other day I learned that actually in the OCG, in the beginning, you didn't have tribute summoning. Then they introduced "expert rules" for tournaments which included tribute summoning and a few other differences which eventually became the standard. So the whole fiasco of them not tribute summoning in the first season is actually because in fact in the OCG in the beginning there was no tribute summoning, nor was there a card limit on the main deck. If you have the time look up videos talking about the OCG's beginnings, it's really interesting.
In Germany they released a german version of the cards. However no one actually read the rules, we played the card game from the anime. Didn't help though that everyone stuffed their decks with bootleg cards in foreign languages they got while on vacation with their parents
@@unknown9274 Yep, I am guilty as charged. To be fair the ones I got in the Czech Republic were difficult to tell apart from the originals and my parents rather got us those since they were way cheaper. I was happy I at least got some instead of getting excluded by the other kids.
Because the 3D models and animated battles are awesome and hold up to this day. A lot of people who looked for a Yu-Gi-Oh game were amazed by the 3D display of sheer amount of monsters and it's remembered fondly. The Egyptian atmosphere through all of the game is also very unique. It's a very mysterious feeling, that no other game has really replicated for me even now.
7:48 i remember doing more than 70 duels to get 1 meteor black dragon. Then i traded it on a different memory card, made a copy of that memory card and traded back multiple times.
There's another reason for that success: the soundtrack of this game is simply amazing. I only wish that Duelist of the Roses could receive such care with mods from the community, another amazing game. And i'm from Brazil huehuebr
Word! The music is bomb, I‘m gonna cover it on my main channel for sure! Btw, Duelist of the Roses has a few mods that you can play, but more on that in the next video 🤫
I remember getting this game when I was like 5 years old for Christmas. Maybe it's pure nostalgia but I still love the simplicity of the game. Yeah it essentially became a race to get a meteor black dragon or even a twin headed thunder dragon but there is something exciting about it.that I can't just put my finger on.
1. Nostalgic PS1 graphics 2. Incredible soundtrack 3. Original gameplay with an interesting twist on the regular card game 4. Very difficult to beat 5. RNG grinds
Great video! This game is pure nostalgia. The cryptic and seemingly unbeatable nature of the game is what makes it so alluring to revisit after so many years.
I’m so happy to hear others that Love Capsule Monster Coliseum. Truly an Underrated Game imo. To hear you may tackle this game in the future makes me very happy.
@@Din-Oh That probably would have caused people to ignore the video because that is definitely cliche now. This game came decades before Dark Souls despite being popular for the same reason as Dark Souls so it is not merely a copy.
No its not,i used to played this on ps1 when i was a kid an beat it then. Learn the damn fusions and build a deck cenetered around monsters that are more universal at fusioning. You guys just suck.
I would say one other aspect for its popularity is that it's unique. If you want to play around with this game's mechanics you HAVE to play this specific game (or a mod). Whereas if I want to play with regular yugioh mechanics there's a huge catalogue to choose from so the fanbase for any individual game is smaller.
i always come back to this game. i played it all the time as a kid got stuck and gave up. then i grinded and beat it after a year when i was like 10 the accomplishment i felt.i had no idea what i was doing or who to grind to get the right cards let alone knowing what tec and pow was.
I had SO MUCH fun with this game when I was a child-teen, I spent so many hour son this game, and the first (of many) time I beat it... it felt glorious. It's so true that, this game without internet, had such a magical feeling in it by discovering os many of it's mechanics. Good times
The reason this game is so popular is because it was so terrible in the best possible way. Also, the timing that it came out, while the real card game was out, it was still in its infancy. Part of the charm of the manga and early anime (both season 0 and main anime) were intriguingly vague about how the card game worked. The rules were always a little fuzzy, how things worked seemed to change all the time. I think this is part of what made fans so interested in it being made into a real card game in the first place. It had just the right mix of rules structure and utter nonsense to make people want to know more about it. And FM held a lot of the same charm. It was almost like a fleshed out fan-theory both about how the card game worked and about the plot of the anime itself (since the end of the manga hadn't been written yet, the early games such as this one really just made one up), including the use of character designs with completely different names and personalities. The game literally pretended to answer the types of questions that everyone had about Yugioh in those early days like it was that kid down the street whose dad worked at Konami. Finally, the way it hooks you early on with a fusion mechanic that is intuitive but non-transparent, before just shutting you down with the massive difficulty jump at the end both serve to make the game memorable and but taunting.
4:55 Finally someone non-English who related to me. I grew up in Denmark where games rarely get translated. I still remember having to guess my way through Pokémon Red as a 6-7 year old, because what the hell was a "vine whip" and a "thundershock" and a "bubblebeam"? Granted I was a fast learner and the show being in Danish helped, but still. I remember me and my classmates in school having a hell of a time just figuring out how to get past the sleeping man in Viridian City because no one could understand what you needed to do to get rid of him.
Soo relatable, I was not a Nintendo kid but I feel you on that, guessing your way around games was just how you had to do it. Even better was playing games like Rayman on an old TV that, for some reason, would not display the bottom 5% of the screen, which made some levels a nightmare hahaha
@@Din-OhI was moreso an all-around kid to be honest. Sure I started with my GameBoy pocket at around 6, but then got my PS1 about a year later. My first game was Spyro the Dragon, and I vividly remember how my mom had to sit next to me and translate what all the dragons were saying... you know... safe for all the ones that just repeated the phrase "thank you for releasing me" haha. Oh f*** me really?? And that game is hard as balls to begin with. But hey, playing with a technical handicap like that and still beating the game is what real men are made of haha. Since you are into the modding scene I assume you've heard of Rayman Redemption? The fan hack that adds quality of life improvements to the original game.
Oh I didn‘t best the game haha that would‘ve been way too hard… Yeah I‘ve heard about it, but I haven‘t tried yet. Maybe I save it for a stream in the future or something!
Your channel is going to grow just fine, this was an excellent video! For some reason, I've been witnessing a lot of new Yu-Gi-Oh videos and it seems the interest for it is having a new wave of interest among the mainstream public. I may try to play this game soon, since I never had a PSX myself and used to play the GBA Yu-Gi-Oh games quite a lot... By the way, I really like your guitar collection! 🤘
Thank you! Yeah, it seems like there is some hype happening currently, so I'll take the chance and talk about more of my favorite YGO titles haha Thanks, I have a couple more hanging around, and a completely new Solar Baritone arriving in a month hopefully!
Keep in mind, the Yugioh franchise in Japan (excluding Sevens, Go Rush and Rush Duels) is mainly for a teen male audience. Because the OCG is for teen players and the manga and anime are Shonen which means it’s targeted audience are early to late teen boys (12-18). So the complexity of the OCG and games based around it, is due to that reason. Konami’s idea. Not Takahashi. He only made the game in the manga. Konami created the OCG. They just needed his approval.
mod 13 is perfect. It's what the game was supposed to be. The Forbidden Memories we got is an incomplete game. It is missing dozens of cards and all the best cards that you can get are for some reason assigned to a random low-level duelist (low meadow mage). Mod 13 fixed this by giving nearly every duelist worthwhile drops. And makes all card obtainable.
The romhacks of this game are really cool and the unique game mechanic really lends itself well to making unique items. Fusing Goku and Vegeta together or digivolving Agumon to Wargreymon with digivice spell cards makes you feel like the system is fantastic for a myriad of IPs.
Awesome video! And good luck with the new channel! First video already revealed you have what it takes to make it grow! Since you mentioned in the channel description you'll be talking about Digimon, can't wait for your Digimon World 1 review! Cheers!
This is a great video and I love that you went in depth and showed multiple different other paths to more forbidden memories content. (I’ve seen most besides Brazil and mods in general, and a few days ago started my 15 card drop playthrough) I’d love to see the other two PS2 games looked at! Capsule monsters I’m disappointed never got an update, it had an amazing idea and I love the chess like gameplay, but the Libra mod has been a great addition to the game. Similarly DOTR is one of my favorite games too hopefully see more soon :)
Thank you so much! Videos on these two games are 100% coming soon, gotta see how I approach them as I‘ve spent hundreds of hours in CMC but only finished DOTR once… Btw, a CMC challenge video is already in work, so stay tuned for that :)
@@Din-Oh oooo me and my dad have done various challenges on the game as well! I’m assuming a nuzlocke type perhaps? We’ve done 4 max capsules (3 in early areas) before
15 card drop is a godsend. i remember having to grind for days to run through the final 6 and i beat the game in 2 hrs 32 minutes with the help of 2x speed to run through dialog. you can truly adapt the game to how you wanna play its great
-be me 8 year old kid -play forbidden memories on a slim PS2 -can't save the game because the memory card seems to be broken -lose to Kaiba if not earlier or turn of the Playstation because I already played all day -game over -start again with a new deck over and over and over -receive childhood trauma It took me nearly 20 years and ~30€ to figure out that you can't save PS1 games on a PS2 with a PS2 memory card. I kept my PS2 all this time to beat that childhood trauma one day but apparently you can't even save PS1 games on a slim PS2 if the PS1 memory card isn't an original SONY one. I could emulate it, yes, but that's just not the same.
There are really two obvious reasons why the game is still this popular in the general community. The story is interessting because it is basically a prototype version of the manga's story while the author was still figuring out the finer details(I mean, yeah. Dude is sealed, reawakens in the present, gathers millenium items, confronts his past, beats a reawakened ancient evil and leaves the world in a better place.) And well, the memes. Because at some point a game becomes so nuts and unbalanced that it becomes enjoyable again in an ironic way. It's kinda the same thing in reverse with Reshef of destruction. The gamedesign of that game is also atrociously fake-Kaizo which spawns memes, and the story approaches an interessting what-if in the opposite direction of the larger story already existing and it working backwards from there.(Though then again, that game kinda does it worse and would need a rewrite in a remake because it would have been prime opportunity to make it about the Yugi/Joey/Seto-trio saving the world, yet we are stuck playing ourselves having Yugi and Joey in our RPG party that does basically jack all, with us doing all the hard work)
Jonestly i feel Reshef is far more playable. Once you figure out how it work there are more aviable strategies and viable cards, grind is less painfull, partially because the game just has more content overall, it doesn't have anything approaching the final gauntlet and so on. I replayed both in recent years and RoD is the one where i actually had fun.
My uncle stayed up for HOURS when I was like 6 putting codes into a GameShark for me to have a awesome starter deck and like all of the cards. Made it really special to me I guess.
The fusion mechanic and RNG drop rates for the best cards always make this game fun to play. The difficulty is also great and adds to the challenge. Plus the music is A1 and it has one of the most satisfying credits rolls in all of gaming
I honestly think that, while internet would have ruined the hype from a lot of stuff, Forbidden Memories actually benefited from it. To beat the game you more or less require to interact with community on the internet like you did in the playground as kids, trying to figure out how those fusions work to win, and also enough actual skill to pull those off so the victory flavor is not ruined by knowing the inside out, but rather the knowledge feels rewarded with victory.
Awesome video. Currently obsessing over YGO since I've discovered people play 'goat format', so perfect time to discover this video. II'll be booting up Forbidden Memories this weekend.
It's one of those games that kicked your arse as a kid, because you had to discover the fusions on your own with no internet to help you and star chips were a fucking grind.
Okay, that was interesting. I was randomly watching UA-cam videos when this one popped up. And what do I see? The Reddit post I made two years ago about how I finally beat the game after almost 20 years. It was kinda cool to see how you referenced it a few times in this video. I agree on many the points you mentioned of why this game is still so popular. In fact, I once talked about some of these things in a recap video I put together some time ago. The simplicity of the gameplay while having a rather complex fusion mechanic makes the game easy to learn and understand while still offering something that gives the game a long lasting appeal. Also, by having so much information available to the public, it makes some of the game's weak points a bit more bearable like the long grinding sessions you have to endure. And let's not forget about the music. The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic. The challenging final part probably also had some influence. While it was the reason for me to stop playing the game 20 years ago, it was also one of the reason for me to return to it. I finally wanted to beat the game (and man, it does feel great to beat such a challenging game). Mods and Speedrunning are surely a reason, too. Personally, it didn't influence me that much but because of these things, there is more talk about the game and that surely made some people interested in playing this game for the first time or going back to it to finally beat it. Overall, it is a pretty good video. I had fun watching it. Keep up the good work!
Hahahaha....svaka čast zemljače...i ja sam bio šestogodišnje bosansko djete kada sam ovo igrao XD... neka si nam napravio video o ovoj nostalgiji...Još jedna YUGIOH igra koju sam igrao i igram danas jeste XUGIOH GX tag force evolution za playstation 2...Ima velik izbor klasičnih karata i što je za mene važno nema link,sincro,xyz i pendelum summona koji su po meni uništili igru.
Hvala ti! Ja obozavam GX Tag Force igre za PSP, ali nikad nisam igrao Evolution. Na planu je napraviti videe o tim igrama, samo pitanje kada cu stici haha
Ok im surprised this point was not listed as a factor for the popularity. Atmosphere. The game OOZES early ygo feelings of mystery and egyptian iconography. Ygo nowadays is too kawaii and basically became bakugan power creeped to hell and back thrice, so its so fucking nice to see a return to form aesthetically with what i can only describe as "egyptian mysticism meets shonen jump".
Oooh I like your profile pic, I used to watch Moomins so much as a kid, and now I have severe trauma from that fat purple ice duck lmao More vids are coming soon ✌️
I played a lot this game during my childhood, and was able after a lot of time spend to beat the two guardian sebek and neku but never passed the next opponent (seto 3 ? Heinshin 2 ?). This game is abolutely STELLAR in term of what it does. He create completely new rules to your existing game, the fusing mechanic is sooo enjoyable and fun, and if you trew away that, the gameplay itself would suck. The fact that, every monster in game (650+) have there own 3D animation (even exodia piece !)and can fight togeteher, was mind blowing, even more when you discover that feature ""accidentaly"" after many hours of gameplay, and you could potentialy never seen that. Imagine today having a game that provide so much, even if they don't need too. I cannot understand how the developpers of Forbidden memories was allowed to do all of that in the game.
Thank you for this comment! I agree, the fusion mechanic is soo much fun, a shame that it starts to lose relevance later in the game. I wish you could fuse longer chains into stronger monsters, and your opponents having to do the same, would‘ve been amazing!
So happy that you mentioned capsule monsters. I loved that game. I recently discovered the Libra mod and I've been having a blast with it. Waiting for that video 😊
great video! I still have my PS1 disc of this game, and a memory card with a saved game I grinded A LOT. I'm now playing the mods and really loving them (the good ones lol) I hope this game lives on for many more years 😎🤙
Just like Haunted Castle (aka the Arcade Castlevania), I hope that one day Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories gets a revisited realese along side with the original version.
Just bought this today while shopping for PS1 games to add to my collection. Was sitting on top of other shelved PS1 games at my local game store. Like someone pulled it out to look at it but didn't put it back. Thing looked absolutely mint and the art and foil got my attention. For 25 bucks it seemed like a deal. Never played Yu-Gi-Oh in my 40 years. Lots of Pokemon and Digimon. Ready to try this out.
I actually saw the Game Boy Color Japan-exclusive game at a flea market once. Whether it was real or not, I can't judge. And besides, that stall specialized in old video games, so it might had been too expensive.
It was probably real. People import games all the time. There was a kid I hung out with once (and never saw him again) but he had the GBC game in his GBA carrying case.
Not sure why youtube gave me your first video but glad it did. I subscribed because you look like and have a room like me, with extended range instruments and shit on the walls. Cheers!
Me and my friend both had this game in the early 2000's, we both beat it, good times. Fusions that led to Twin headed thunder dragon + Equip cards + a lot of luck was one way to beat the game. Farming Meadow Mage for Meteor B dragon's was another way to beat the game. (The lamest way) Building a deck centered around dark monsters (Summoned Skull, Skull Knight, Dark Magician, ect) + Equip cards + good usage of guardian stars + luck was another way. Of course you need Raigeki too. But the funnest part about the game is learning the initial mid level fusions like " Flaming Cerberus (or whatever his name was) Mystical Sand, B Jungle King, Thousand Dragon, ect, and learning from there. You think this game is hard? Play Yugi-oh Reshef of destruction then come back and tell me that. lmao
I'm so glad to see more people talk about and enjoy this game. It's such a blast of nostalgia from my childhood. I particularly love the mods that try to fix the most egregious balance problems the original game had, while still retaining its overall difficulty and essence. So pretty much just the higher card drops, all cards available, much lower star chip prices and better and more fitting cards for the opponents.
Nostalgia is a stretch for me. For some reason it was surreal for me to have a Yu-Gi-Oh! game on PS1 and the strange rules of the gameplay which in no way followed the actual rules, made it equally so. I still question if this strange game was just a fever dream.
Jon_oh literally made me buy a ps1 + yugioh fm just to experience this again irl - and my father would ask me how tf I could spend 20€ for "such an old game". I should show him this video
Fairly sure that I did finish this game as a kid. Now I need to play it again to make sure. The most memorable ygo game I played so far, just behind ygopro simulator
I think some of the games popularity and resurgence can be due to the fact that beyond it being simply nostalgic for many of us, it brings us back to the roots of the game. No crazy fusion, xxyxxzz nonsense. no one turn wins/losses, bringing us back to the only power creep was legit the difficulty curve of the game. I know I love me some yu-gi-oh but I can't get into the modern formats with the way they're printing cards and it's structuring. Just too much to keep up with (This coming from someone who owned a card shop before covid, and a frequent mtg any format player as well as pokemon ccg). I love the straightforwardness of this game. minimal effects, just have the better cards and hope to draw them or be knowledgeable about what fusions go with what and it feels rewarding without it being overpowered in any sense. Just my opinions.
With the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, it kind've gives me a'lil hope one day we'd get a type of Yu-Gi-Oh!: Forbidden Memories/Duelist of the Roses Collection.
Great video! I love to replay this game. I beat it a few years ago without realizing the last 6 bosses were insane. I just thought they were really tough! 😂 It's great to see that this game still has a niche following
I was in a hurry, so I grabbed the first thing that would fit visually, and mario maker shows someone actually building the leven, so I thought it would be a decent fit 😅
I didn’t know this game is popular now. I still have it, maybe I should play it again 🤣 I remember having colored paper as a kid and writing down the different card combos to make stronger cards from experimenting in free duels
I got really pissed off at one of my closest friends when I was getting into yugioh and she said "Oh yeah. I've got that. You should come over and we'll play some matches" I got all pumped up, thinking about what kind of deck I might be able to slap together with whatever she had. When the time arrived, she busts out this freaking game, tells me the memory card with her save file got corrupted, and insists on running through the first story bit so we can fight each other using identical copies of the starter deck. What followed was a short match of her giggling at me for not understanding any of the nonsense rules and fusion combos in this game. Turns out she's never played Yugioh outside of Forbidden Memories, never learned the rules, and basically quit keeping up with the show somewhere between GX and 5Ds. My hopes were shattered and my day was ruined. . . but then she played some Earthbound while I watched for a little while and that made me happy again.
Damn, must've been a rollercoaster of emotions haha! Great story! FM is certainly an interesting choice for playing 1v1 with your friends, but I guess it is doable somehow...
i think when people refer to it predating the card game they mean predating the ruleset as in it was already getting made and published before the rule set came out
Ooh that‘s a great question! One is called „olhodomilenio“ . com, this is the one with the most mods listed I believe. The other one I showed in the video is ygofmvn . blogspot . com There are also many facebook groups as well as „Teaonline“, a website with a tool that list card drop lists/ration for a lot of mods.
I think the elements that make this game appealing, other than the appeal of the franchise itself and being released at the right timing, is both the pacing of the game and the "gacha" element of the game. Yes, the game's flow is often cut by the grind for new cards, but each match flows with a nice speed, and the presentation elements like fusion and attack effects make it feel satifying. And the other element, the "gacha" feel, is I believe what makes this game so appealing. Each match you beat, you're basically playing a gacha ticket to get a card, and seeing that elusive Meteor Black Dragon for beating Meadow Low Mage 198 times will feel really good if this kind of mechanic clicks with you. The BGM being superb is a nice extra, too.
Before watching: Forbidden Memories is unpopular because it's obtuse and can be difficult for bad reasons. After watching: ...but it's still a fun time capsule to when Yugioh was new and popular. 😁 Great video. Thanks for making this.
You see, i like this game, and i won't ever beat it because of how insanely broken and cheating the AI is. . . . Also, i HATE when people use that stupid phrase "is satisfying" when referring to games with this kind of broken ass difficulty. Know that masochism is something that a few of you has, not everyone. There is no satisfaction in playing something broken and win after thousand tries, unless you are a masochist.
Forbidden memories is like the backrooms equivalent of old video games. It just feels surreal beyond description in so many different ways. Go listen to the OST for the library and try not to have an existential crisis.
As someone who’s always loved his animation and equally a gaming tragic I recall watching Yu-Gi-Oh episodes before work and being captivated by the way the show was structured. The fact that you were assured of a PvP card battle every episode was much more engaging than it was predictable or monotonous. As a 35 year old man I could enjoy episodes or Pokémon but could just as easily find my mind wandering as the storyline wandered into ‘appealing mainly to female pre-teens’ territory. Show’s like Power Rangers were essentially pre-fabricated memes in how they went about delivery a predictable quota of theatre for the boys…. There was so little variation from one show to the next and some apparently low effort monsters who sought to bring the requisite level of menace to proceedings by swaying about randomly whilst flailing their arms demonstratively. All until the evil Matriarch beseeches them to jump on the gear and goad ‘Poor Man’s Voltron’ into bursting them like a piñata. I enjoyed the ebbs and flows of the Yu-Gi-Oh battles… although I found the whole *Blue Eyes Dragon* a bit meh 🙄 When Yu-Gi started busted out the Egyptian God cards and then having them team up and pull some Super-Cross over insta-kill… I dug those
e isto brate imo sam bootleg verziju na ps1 kao dete iskreno bilo je fun, ali nisam imo memory karticu pa nikad nisam mogo da predjem, pa sam nedavno nabavio na svojoj matoroj ps2. karticu pa prelazim xD
My memory is a bit fuzzy but i remember getting a yugioh pc cd game in a box of cereal as a kid. I want to say the artwork was similar to Forbidden Memories but I dont remember the name or what cereal it came in.
One of the things I bought with my adult money was a copy of this game even though i do not have a ps1 and there are far better emulators today I simply wanted to hang it in my wall and look at it every now and then. (Gosh I didn't even have a memory card back then)
Not a stupid question btw! If you plan on playing any of the mods, I think Mod 13 is popular if you want a vanilla FM experience but with a better difficulty curve and obtaining all cards. For more spicy mods that are reasonably balanced and play well, I can recommend „yugioh fm remastered perfected“. „Yugioh fm arranged“ is supposed to be also pretty good!
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Edit: Time stamps take a while to update, until then:
00:00 - Intro
02:55 - Past Appeal
08:30 - Modern Appeal
11:16 - Mods
14:06 - Outro
BEWD isnt 99 thousand star chips, it's 999 thousand, one chip short of a million. Also, BEUD is playable in the vanilla game as a fusion monster! But great job, I love the vid. Subbed.
I still think duelist of the roses was the best yugioh game BECAUSE it was different.
It's actually noah not kaiba 😂
Ah yes, Twin Headed Thunder Dragon: The Game
Thanks for the shoutout, i actually just did a race of this game yesterday and managed to finish in 7 hours ^^
You‘re welcome dude, I appreciate what you do for the PlayStation speedrunning community, your Spyro/Tuval videos were insanely entertaining!
Before the bootleg cards became popular here, this game was the only access to the card game similar to the anime, and the fusion mechanic was certainly really nice and appealing. After the cards appeared, I remember having tried to understand the rules by reading the English manual (before I properly learned English), and became the only one who understood the rules... Everybody else just assumed Forbidden Memories rules(and some of the anime rules such as no tribute summoning), and the duels became boring because all they did was fill their decks with strong monsters not knowing they couldn't be summoned without tributes.
Yeah those were the times. Me and my friends had to come up with rules and effects on our own since none of us could read English at the time haha
Me and my friends as kids also used the anime rules, lol, but then we actually got a hold of the manuals and learned there about tribute summoning. Keep in mind that I'm portuguese and back then we only had cards in English, so it took some time for me to be able to fully read the manual. Thankfully I started to learn English from an early age and also asked for help in translating the manual. The other day I learned that actually in the OCG, in the beginning, you didn't have tribute summoning. Then they introduced "expert rules" for tournaments which included tribute summoning and a few other differences which eventually became the standard. So the whole fiasco of them not tribute summoning in the first season is actually because in fact in the OCG in the beginning there was no tribute summoning, nor was there a card limit on the main deck. If you have the time look up videos talking about the OCG's beginnings, it's really interesting.
In Germany they released a german version of the cards. However no one actually read the rules, we played the card game from the anime. Didn't help though that everyone stuffed their decks with bootleg cards in foreign languages they got while on vacation with their parents
@@unknown9274 Yep, I am guilty as charged. To be fair the ones I got in the Czech Republic were difficult to tell apart from the originals and my parents rather got us those since they were way cheaper. I was happy I at least got some instead of getting excluded by the other kids.
Because the 3D models and animated battles are awesome and hold up to this day.
A lot of people who looked for a Yu-Gi-Oh game were amazed by the 3D display of sheer amount of monsters and it's remembered fondly.
The Egyptian atmosphere through all of the game is also very unique. It's a very mysterious feeling, that no other game has really replicated for me even now.
I definitely agree on the atmosphere part!
Honestly, I never really looked at the animations much, do you think it has a big impact on people?
Atmosphere is surpassed by "Dawn of Destiny", its even better somehow
Th 3d animations were always bad, im sure this is sarcasm
Barely anyone knew about the 3D battles back then quit acting like they were the reason. Plus they were slow and boring
7:48 i remember doing more than 70 duels to get 1 meteor black dragon. Then i traded it on a different memory card, made a copy of that memory card and traded back multiple times.
Only 70 battles - you were pretty lucky . Took me over 500
Beautiful memory, isn't it ?
Big brain time
You got lucky
There's another reason for that success: the soundtrack of this game is simply amazing. I only wish that Duelist of the Roses could receive such care with mods from the community, another amazing game. And i'm from Brazil huehuebr
Word! The music is bomb, I‘m gonna cover it on my main channel for sure!
Btw, Duelist of the Roses has a few mods that you can play, but more on that in the next video 🤫
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I loved this game, it broke me on so many levels that I cant help but loving it.
The fact it was set in the mysterious past of yugioh helped it a lot.
I remember getting this game when I was like 5 years old for Christmas. Maybe it's pure nostalgia but I still love the simplicity of the game. Yeah it essentially became a race to get a meteor black dragon or even a twin headed thunder dragon but there is something exciting about it.that I can't just put my finger on.
1. Nostalgic PS1 graphics
2. Incredible soundtrack
3. Original gameplay with an interesting twist on the regular card game
4. Very difficult to beat
5. RNG grinds
Great video! This game is pure nostalgia. The cryptic and seemingly unbeatable nature of the game is what makes it so alluring to revisit after so many years.
Hey, thank you so much!
You‘re spot on, cryptic is a very fitting term for Forbidden Memories!
I’m so happy to hear others that Love Capsule Monster Coliseum. Truly an Underrated Game imo. To hear you may tackle this game in the future makes me very happy.
My man I will tackle it 100% no question about it haha
It’s the original Dark Souls
„The Dark Souls of card games“, that should‘ve been the video title!
@@Din-Oh
That probably would have caused people to ignore the video because that is definitely cliche now.
This game came decades before Dark Souls despite being popular for the same reason as Dark Souls so it is not merely a copy.
Lol lol so true
No?
No its not,i used to played this on ps1 when i was a kid an beat it then.
Learn the damn fusions and build a deck cenetered around monsters that are more universal at fusioning.
You guys just suck.
I would say one other aspect for its popularity is that it's unique. If you want to play around with this game's mechanics you HAVE to play this specific game (or a mod). Whereas if I want to play with regular yugioh mechanics there's a huge catalogue to choose from so the fanbase for any individual game is smaller.
Nothing unique about it
i always come back to this game. i played it all the time as a kid got stuck and gave up. then i grinded and beat it after a year when i was like 10 the accomplishment i felt.i had no idea what i was doing or who to grind to get the right cards let alone knowing what tec and pow was.
I had SO MUCH fun with this game when I was a child-teen, I spent so many hour son this game, and the first (of many) time I beat it... it felt glorious. It's so true that, this game without internet, had such a magical feeling in it by discovering os many of it's mechanics. Good times
The reason this game is so popular is because it was so terrible in the best possible way.
Also, the timing that it came out, while the real card game was out, it was still in its infancy. Part of the charm of the manga and early anime (both season 0 and main anime) were intriguingly vague about how the card game worked. The rules were always a little fuzzy, how things worked seemed to change all the time. I think this is part of what made fans so interested in it being made into a real card game in the first place. It had just the right mix of rules structure and utter nonsense to make people want to know more about it.
And FM held a lot of the same charm. It was almost like a fleshed out fan-theory both about how the card game worked and about the plot of the anime itself (since the end of the manga hadn't been written yet, the early games such as this one really just made one up), including the use of character designs with completely different names and personalities. The game literally pretended to answer the types of questions that everyone had about Yugioh in those early days like it was that kid down the street whose dad worked at Konami.
Finally, the way it hooks you early on with a fusion mechanic that is intuitive but non-transparent, before just shutting you down with the massive difficulty jump at the end both serve to make the game memorable and but taunting.
4:55 Finally someone non-English who related to me. I grew up in Denmark where games rarely get translated. I still remember having to guess my way through Pokémon Red as a 6-7 year old, because what the hell was a "vine whip" and a "thundershock" and a "bubblebeam"? Granted I was a fast learner and the show being in Danish helped, but still. I remember me and my classmates in school having a hell of a time just figuring out how to get past the sleeping man in Viridian City because no one could understand what you needed to do to get rid of him.
Soo relatable, I was not a Nintendo kid but I feel you on that, guessing your way around games was just how you had to do it.
Even better was playing games like Rayman on an old TV that, for some reason, would not display the bottom 5% of the screen, which made some levels a nightmare hahaha
@@Din-OhI was moreso an all-around kid to be honest. Sure I started with my GameBoy pocket at around 6, but then got my PS1 about a year later. My first game was Spyro the Dragon, and I vividly remember how my mom had to sit next to me and translate what all the dragons were saying... you know... safe for all the ones that just repeated the phrase "thank you for releasing me" haha.
Oh f*** me really?? And that game is hard as balls to begin with. But hey, playing with a technical handicap like that and still beating the game is what real men are made of haha.
Since you are into the modding scene I assume you've heard of Rayman Redemption? The fan hack that adds quality of life improvements to the original game.
Oh I didn‘t best the game haha that would‘ve been way too hard…
Yeah I‘ve heard about it, but I haven‘t tried yet. Maybe I save it for a stream in the future or something!
hell everyone seems to forget that there are 3D models and animations for every monster card in the game too
Your channel is going to grow just fine, this was an excellent video!
For some reason, I've been witnessing a lot of new Yu-Gi-Oh videos and it seems the interest for it is having a new wave of interest among the mainstream public.
I may try to play this game soon, since I never had a PSX myself and used to play the GBA Yu-Gi-Oh games quite a lot...
By the way, I really like your guitar collection! 🤘
Thank you! Yeah, it seems like there is some hype happening currently, so I'll take the chance and talk about more of my favorite YGO titles haha
Thanks, I have a couple more hanging around, and a completely new Solar Baritone arriving in a month hopefully!
I respect you for referencing Jon_Oh. Nice Video bro
He certainly inspired me to do content on YGO games, so he deserves credit for sure!
i watched this video while farming a mod of FM :D
the last memories, with effects and crazy broken enemies.
good vid pal
This is the way haha, thank you so much!
Keep in mind, the Yugioh franchise in Japan (excluding Sevens, Go Rush and Rush Duels) is mainly for a teen male audience.
Because the OCG is for teen players and the manga and anime are Shonen which means it’s targeted audience are early to late teen boys (12-18). So the complexity of the OCG and games based around it, is due to that reason. Konami’s idea. Not Takahashi. He only made the game in the manga. Konami created the OCG. They just needed his approval.
That‘s an interesting point, thank you for the input!
mod 13 is perfect. It's what the game was supposed to be. The Forbidden Memories we got is an incomplete game. It is missing dozens of cards and all the best cards that you can get are for some reason assigned to a random low-level duelist (low meadow mage). Mod 13 fixed this by giving nearly every duelist worthwhile drops. And makes all card obtainable.
Mods save this game, I totally agreed.
They should seriously just use that mod and port the game over to modern consoles. It would be even more popular than the original game.
It has a right to be happening it would truly be remastered as it never happened before. I’m serious about that.
They also made Shadi an actual challenge.
The romhacks of this game are really cool and the unique game mechanic really lends itself well to making unique items. Fusing Goku and Vegeta together or digivolving Agumon to Wargreymon with digivice spell cards makes you feel like the system is fantastic for a myriad of IPs.
True! I gotta play the Digimon mod sometime, 2 of my favorite franchises combined sounds too good!
Jesus nerds Love the word “unique” don’t they
@@BagzAndPresident Imagine watching a Yugioh video and calling other people nerds lol 😅
I used to play this game a lot with my brother.
We still remember the first time an opponent fused Stone Ghost (1200 ATK) and destroyed us.
Awesome video! And good luck with the new channel! First video already revealed you have what it takes to make it grow!
Since you mentioned in the channel description you'll be talking about Digimon, can't wait for your Digimon World 1 review! Cheers!
This is a great video and I love that you went in depth and showed multiple different other paths to more forbidden memories content. (I’ve seen most besides Brazil and mods in general, and a few days ago started my 15 card drop playthrough)
I’d love to see the other two PS2 games looked at! Capsule monsters I’m disappointed never got an update, it had an amazing idea and I love the chess like gameplay, but the Libra mod has been a great addition to the game. Similarly DOTR is one of my favorite games too hopefully see more soon :)
Thank you so much! Videos on these two games are 100% coming soon, gotta see how I approach them as I‘ve spent hundreds of hours in CMC but only finished DOTR once…
Btw, a CMC challenge video is already in work, so stay tuned for that :)
@@Din-Oh oooo me and my dad have done various challenges on the game as well! I’m assuming a nuzlocke type perhaps? We’ve done 4 max capsules (3 in early areas) before
15 card drop is a godsend. i remember having to grind for days to run through the final 6 and i beat the game in 2 hrs 32 minutes with the help of 2x speed to run through dialog. you can truly adapt the game to how you wanna play its great
-be me 8 year old kid
-play forbidden memories on a slim PS2
-can't save the game because the memory card seems to be broken
-lose to Kaiba if not earlier or turn of the Playstation because I already played all day
-game over
-start again with a new deck over and over and over
-receive childhood trauma
It took me nearly 20 years and ~30€ to figure out that you can't save PS1 games on a PS2 with a PS2 memory card.
I kept my PS2 all this time to beat that childhood trauma one day but apparently you can't even save PS1 games on a slim PS2 if the PS1 memory card isn't an original SONY one.
I could emulate it, yes, but that's just not the same.
Loved this game! Beat it using Mystical Sand and all the equips for her. I had only one Meteor B. Need to find it again!
I love how you mentioned that the Yugioh TCG and OCG are based on Duel Monsters and that it isn't actually the same game....
There are really two obvious reasons why the game is still this popular in the general community. The story is interessting because it is basically a prototype version of the manga's story while the author was still figuring out the finer details(I mean, yeah. Dude is sealed, reawakens in the present, gathers millenium items, confronts his past, beats a reawakened ancient evil and leaves the world in a better place.) And well, the memes. Because at some point a game becomes so nuts and unbalanced that it becomes enjoyable again in an ironic way.
It's kinda the same thing in reverse with Reshef of destruction. The gamedesign of that game is also atrociously fake-Kaizo which spawns memes, and the story approaches an interessting what-if in the opposite direction of the larger story already existing and it working backwards from there.(Though then again, that game kinda does it worse and would need a rewrite in a remake because it would have been prime opportunity to make it about the Yugi/Joey/Seto-trio saving the world, yet we are stuck playing ourselves having Yugi and Joey in our RPG party that does basically jack all, with us doing all the hard work)
Jonestly i feel Reshef is far more playable. Once you figure out how it work there are more aviable strategies and viable cards, grind is less painfull, partially because the game just has more content overall, it doesn't have anything approaching the final gauntlet and so on. I replayed both in recent years and RoD is the one where i actually had fun.
My uncle stayed up for HOURS when I was like 6 putting codes into a GameShark for me to have a awesome starter deck and like all of the cards. Made it really special to me I guess.
The fusion mechanic and RNG drop rates for the best cards always make this game fun to play. The difficulty is also great and adds to the challenge. Plus the music is A1 and it has one of the most satisfying credits rolls in all of gaming
The music is very well made for sure!!
I honestly think that, while internet would have ruined the hype from a lot of stuff, Forbidden Memories actually benefited from it. To beat the game you more or less require to interact with community on the internet like you did in the playground as kids, trying to figure out how those fusions work to win, and also enough actual skill to pull those off so the victory flavor is not ruined by knowing the inside out, but rather the knowledge feels rewarded with victory.
Very good point!
Awesome video. Currently obsessing over YGO since I've discovered people play 'goat format', so perfect time to discover this video. II'll be booting up Forbidden Memories this weekend.
Thank you so much! Glad you‘re on the hype train too, I‘ll be focusing on YGO for a while before I add other franchises into the mix :)
Samo nastavi s ovakvim videima brate, oprala me nostalgija kao nikad. 🤩
Jedva cekam Digimon videe. 😎
Bice dosta Digimon videa, vidjet ces ;)
It's one of those games that kicked your arse as a kid, because you had to discover the fusions on your own with no internet to help you and star chips were a fucking grind.
The soundtrack though... One of the best from the era.
Brave Fencer Musashi disagrees
Jon_Oh really blew up with that content
He certainly did! I love his casual and nonchalant commentary, he’s really unique in that regard!
Okay, that was interesting. I was randomly watching UA-cam videos when this one popped up. And what do I see? The Reddit post I made two years ago about how I finally beat the game after almost 20 years. It was kinda cool to see how you referenced it a few times in this video.
I agree on many the points you mentioned of why this game is still so popular. In fact, I once talked about some of these things in a recap video I put together some time ago. The simplicity of the gameplay while having a rather complex fusion mechanic makes the game easy to learn and understand while still offering something that gives the game a long lasting appeal. Also, by having so much information available to the public, it makes some of the game's weak points a bit more bearable like the long grinding sessions you have to endure. And let's not forget about the music. The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic.
The challenging final part probably also had some influence. While it was the reason for me to stop playing the game 20 years ago, it was also one of the reason for me to return to it. I finally wanted to beat the game (and man, it does feel great to beat such a challenging game).
Mods and Speedrunning are surely a reason, too. Personally, it didn't influence me that much but because of these things, there is more talk about the game and that surely made some people interested in playing this game for the first time or going back to it to finally beat it.
Overall, it is a pretty good video. I had fun watching it. Keep up the good work!
Hahahaha....svaka čast zemljače...i ja sam bio šestogodišnje bosansko djete kada sam ovo igrao XD... neka si nam napravio video o ovoj nostalgiji...Još jedna YUGIOH igra koju sam igrao i igram danas jeste XUGIOH GX tag force evolution za playstation 2...Ima velik izbor klasičnih karata i što je za mene važno nema link,sincro,xyz i pendelum summona koji su po meni uništili igru.
Hvala ti!
Ja obozavam GX Tag Force igre za PSP, ali nikad nisam igrao Evolution. Na planu je napraviti videe o tim igrama, samo pitanje kada cu stici haha
The ost is superb.
I really love to play the Out of Darkness mod of this game.
Ok im surprised this point was not listed as a factor for the popularity. Atmosphere.
The game OOZES early ygo feelings of mystery and egyptian iconography. Ygo nowadays is too kawaii and basically became bakugan power creeped to hell and back thrice, so its so fucking nice to see a return to form aesthetically with what i can only describe as "egyptian mysticism meets shonen jump".
Hell yeah, a fellow bosnian talking about yugioh! Awesome video bro, please make more of these.
Oooh I like your profile pic, I used to watch Moomins so much as a kid, and now I have severe trauma from that fat purple ice duck lmao
More vids are coming soon ✌️
I played a lot this game during my childhood, and was able after a lot of time spend to beat the two guardian sebek and neku but never passed the next opponent (seto 3 ? Heinshin 2 ?). This game is abolutely STELLAR in term of what it does. He create completely new rules to your existing game, the fusing mechanic is sooo enjoyable and fun, and if you trew away that, the gameplay itself would suck.
The fact that, every monster in game (650+) have there own 3D animation (even exodia piece !)and can fight togeteher, was mind blowing, even more when you discover that feature ""accidentaly"" after many hours of gameplay, and you could potentialy never seen that.
Imagine today having a game that provide so much, even if they don't need too. I cannot understand how the developpers of Forbidden memories was allowed to do all of that in the game.
Thank you for this comment!
I agree, the fusion mechanic is soo much fun, a shame that it starts to lose relevance later in the game. I wish you could fuse longer chains into stronger monsters, and your opponents having to do the same, would‘ve been amazing!
So happy that you mentioned capsule monsters. I loved that game. I recently discovered the Libra mod and I've been having a blast with it. Waiting for that video 😊
Nice to hear, I hope to play it soon myself!
I'm Currently in love with this game. I decided that I will be uploading walkthroughs for every Mode 😍😋. More to come
great video! I still have my PS1 disc of this game, and a memory card with a saved game I grinded A LOT. I'm now playing the mods and really loving them (the good ones lol) I hope this game lives on for many more years 😎🤙
the ost is another certified konami banger
I am proud of myself that I was able to beat this game without any cheats when I was a kid. THTD is your bestfriend. 😂
Just like Haunted Castle (aka the Arcade Castlevania), I hope that one day Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories gets a revisited realese along side with the original version.
Just bought this today while shopping for PS1 games to add to my collection. Was sitting on top of other shelved PS1 games at my local game store. Like someone pulled it out to look at it but didn't put it back. Thing looked absolutely mint and the art and foil got my attention. For 25 bucks it seemed like a deal. Never played Yu-Gi-Oh in my 40 years. Lots of Pokemon and Digimon. Ready to try this out.
Was quite shocked when you mentioned you were from Bosnia woudlve never guessed it if it wasnt stated to begin with, pozdrav iz Hrvatske!
Hahaha nice to hear, pozdrav iz Austrije!
I actually saw the Game Boy Color Japan-exclusive game at a flea market once. Whether it was real or not, I can't judge. And besides, that stall specialized in old video games, so it might had been too expensive.
Oh that‘s a rare find if it was real!
It was probably real.
People import games all the time.
There was a kid I hung out with once (and never saw him again) but he had the GBC game in his GBA carrying case.
Nice to see the intro cinematic for the game run properly. My disc was scratched as hell so it always stuttered!
First video and it's this good? You going places my friend.
Thank you so much! Got a bunch of videos on my main channel, so I had some practice already haha more is coming soon!
Not sure why youtube gave me your first video but glad it did. I subscribed because you look like and have a room like me, with extended range instruments and shit on the walls. Cheers!
Hahaha that‘s awesome to hear, stuff on the walls is a great decoration approach!
Me and my friend both had this game in the early 2000's, we both beat it, good times.
Fusions that led to Twin headed thunder dragon + Equip cards + a lot of luck was one way to beat the game.
Farming Meadow Mage for Meteor B dragon's was another way to beat the game. (The lamest way)
Building a deck centered around dark monsters (Summoned Skull, Skull Knight, Dark Magician, ect) + Equip cards + good usage of guardian stars + luck was another way.
Of course you need Raigeki too.
But the funnest part about the game is learning the initial mid level fusions like " Flaming Cerberus (or whatever his name was) Mystical Sand, B Jungle King, Thousand Dragon, ect, and learning from there. You think this game is hard? Play Yugi-oh Reshef of destruction then come back and tell me that. lmao
i feel you as a german 8 year old i struggled so much through the game but i was so addicted to the game x))
Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff.
Thank you so much! More is definitely coming soon!
I'm so glad to see more people talk about and enjoy this game. It's such a blast of nostalgia from my childhood.
I particularly love the mods that try to fix the most egregious balance problems the original game had, while still retaining its overall difficulty and essence. So pretty much just the higher card drops, all cards available, much lower star chip prices and better and more fitting cards for the opponents.
Yeah the classic mods are surely a great experience, glad to have such a dedicated community!
Nostalgia is a stretch for me. For some reason it was surreal for me to have a Yu-Gi-Oh! game on PS1 and the strange rules of the gameplay which in no way followed the actual rules, made it equally so. I still question if this strange game was just a fever dream.
Maybe it was, who knows…
Jon_oh literally made me buy a ps1 + yugioh fm just to experience this again irl - and my father would ask me how tf I could spend 20€ for "such an old game". I should show him this video
Fairly sure that I did finish this game as a kid. Now I need to play it again to make sure. The most memorable ygo game I played so far, just behind ygopro simulator
I think some of the games popularity and resurgence can be due to the fact that beyond it being simply nostalgic for many of us, it brings us back to the roots of the game. No crazy fusion, xxyxxzz nonsense. no one turn wins/losses, bringing us back to the only power creep was legit the difficulty curve of the game. I know I love me some yu-gi-oh but I can't get into the modern formats with the way they're printing cards and it's structuring. Just too much to keep up with (This coming from someone who owned a card shop before covid, and a frequent mtg any format player as well as pokemon ccg). I love the straightforwardness of this game. minimal effects, just have the better cards and hope to draw them or be knowledgeable about what fusions go with what and it feels rewarding without it being overpowered in any sense. Just my opinions.
With the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, it kind've gives me a'lil hope one day we'd get a type of Yu-Gi-Oh!: Forbidden Memories/Duelist of the Roses Collection.
I needed this thank you 😊
Thank YOU for watching and commenting :)
Great video! I love to replay this game. I beat it a few years ago without realizing the last 6 bosses were insane. I just thought they were really tough! 😂 It's great to see that this game still has a niche following
I remembered as a kid there was a schoolyard myth going around u can walk around the overworld in full 3D
to be honest I always found the Fusion mechanic in Forbidden Memories to be very interesting.
I’ve beaten every yugioh game and I agree it’s such an interesting series :)
Talking about kaizo mario and showing Mario Maker 2. Ah yes. But still good video mate
I was in a hurry, so I grabbed the first thing that would fit visually, and mario maker shows someone actually building the leven, so I thought it would be a decent fit 😅
I didn’t know this game is popular now. I still have it, maybe I should play it again 🤣 I remember having colored paper as a kid and writing down the different card combos to make stronger cards from experimenting in free duels
I FINALLY beat this game last year myself. Just farm Meadow Mage for S Atk and Pegasus for S Tec.
I got really pissed off at one of my closest friends when I was getting into yugioh and she said "Oh yeah. I've got that. You should come over and we'll play some matches" I got all pumped up, thinking about what kind of deck I might be able to slap together with whatever she had. When the time arrived, she busts out this freaking game, tells me the memory card with her save file got corrupted, and insists on running through the first story bit so we can fight each other using identical copies of the starter deck. What followed was a short match of her giggling at me for not understanding any of the nonsense rules and fusion combos in this game. Turns out she's never played Yugioh outside of Forbidden Memories, never learned the rules, and basically quit keeping up with the show somewhere between GX and 5Ds. My hopes were shattered and my day was ruined. . . but then she played some Earthbound while I watched for a little while and that made me happy again.
Damn, must've been a rollercoaster of emotions haha! Great story!
FM is certainly an interesting choice for playing 1v1 with your friends, but I guess it is doable somehow...
Wait, did he said Brasil? VAI BRASIL PORRA!! É NOZES!!
i think when people refer to it predating the card game they mean predating the ruleset as in it was already getting made and published before the rule set came out
I had Zoa and 3 equips and helped me beat blue eyes ult.. I finished it ONCE as a kid and never was able to again
Excellent video, one question though - what website was it you showed listing the various mods?
Ooh that‘s a great question! One is called „olhodomilenio“ . com, this is the one with the most mods listed I believe. The other one I showed in the video is ygofmvn . blogspot . com
There are also many facebook groups as well as „Teaonline“, a website with a tool that list card drop lists/ration for a lot of mods.
Hope that helps, and thank you for watching :)
The Soundtrack is dope
It‘s brilliant!
I think the elements that make this game appealing, other than the appeal of the franchise itself and being released at the right timing, is both the pacing of the game and the "gacha" element of the game.
Yes, the game's flow is often cut by the grind for new cards, but each match flows with a nice speed, and the presentation elements like fusion and attack effects make it feel satifying.
And the other element, the "gacha" feel, is I believe what makes this game so appealing. Each match you beat, you're basically playing a gacha ticket to get a card, and seeing that elusive Meteor Black Dragon for beating Meadow Low Mage 198 times will feel really good if this kind of mechanic clicks with you.
The BGM being superb is a nice extra, too.
Me and my best friend went back to the game and we had so much fun revisiting it! We have all the good cards now. It took like a month😂
It‘s grindy as hell, but glad you‘re having fun!
@@Din-Oh yeah, well i can always show my blue eyes white dragons to friends now😂
Before watching: Forbidden Memories is unpopular because it's obtuse and can be difficult for bad reasons.
After watching: ...but it's still a fun time capsule to when Yugioh was new and popular. 😁
Great video. Thanks for making this.
Where can I find these mods?
You see, i like this game, and i won't ever beat it because of how insanely broken and cheating the AI is.
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Also, i HATE when people use that stupid phrase "is satisfying" when referring to games with this kind of broken ass difficulty. Know that masochism is something that a few of you has, not everyone. There is no satisfaction in playing something broken and win after thousand tries, unless you are a masochist.
Forbidden memories is like the backrooms equivalent of old video games. It just feels surreal beyond description in so many different ways. Go listen to the OST for the library and try not to have an existential crisis.
As someone who’s always loved his animation and equally a gaming tragic I recall watching Yu-Gi-Oh episodes before work and being captivated by the way the show was structured.
The fact that you were assured of a PvP card battle every episode was much more engaging than it was predictable or monotonous. As a 35 year old man I could enjoy episodes or Pokémon but could just as easily find my mind wandering as the storyline wandered into ‘appealing mainly to female pre-teens’ territory.
Show’s like Power Rangers were essentially pre-fabricated memes in how they went about delivery a predictable quota of theatre for the boys…. There was so little variation from one show to the next and some apparently low effort monsters who sought to bring the requisite level of menace to proceedings by swaying about randomly whilst flailing their arms demonstratively.
All until the evil Matriarch beseeches them to jump on the gear and goad ‘Poor Man’s Voltron’ into bursting them like a piñata.
I enjoyed the ebbs and flows of the Yu-Gi-Oh battles… although I found the whole *Blue Eyes Dragon* a bit meh 🙄
When Yu-Gi started busted out the Egyptian God cards and then having them team up and pull some Super-Cross over insta-kill… I dug those
ooooo bosanac. pozdrav iz njemacke!
Pozdrav iz austrije!
I beat this game when I was young. It was eh.
I beat this game now. It still feels eh.
Honestly, not sure why this game is popular in 2024. 🤷🏻♀️
e isto brate imo sam bootleg verziju na ps1 kao dete iskreno bilo je fun, ali nisam imo memory karticu pa nikad nisam mogo da predjem, pa sam nedavno nabavio na svojoj matoroj ps2. karticu pa prelazim xD
Well as much as I love Jono, he is just spamming Raigeki by the end of the game. Such is the life of our Forbidden Memories
You‘re right man, but I just love it when he raigekis all over his opponents!
My memory is a bit fuzzy but i remember getting a yugioh pc cd game in a box of cereal as a kid. I want to say the artwork was similar to Forbidden Memories but I dont remember the name or what cereal it came in.
Power of Chaos?
The grinding was painful but always gives you hope .
Wow realy good Video.
I though in my past, yugioh forbidden memories is the peak of high grafic xD
This Game gives feelings❤
Twin Headed Thunder Dragon is all you need to beat the game.
Ehh, if you have insane luck maybe, but equip cards and a few raigekis go a long way!
@@Din-Oh Agreed.
I want a retrain of that card in real life, as a way to thank the card for wins
I have so much nostalgia for this game, absolutely love the simplicity of the game and really wish modern Yugioh would go back to being more simple.
I think it's one of the few yugioh games that feels as cool as the anime makes yugioh look.
One of the things I bought with my adult money was a copy of this game even though i do not have a ps1 and there are far better emulators today
I simply wanted to hang it in my wall and look at it every now and then.
(Gosh I didn't even have a memory card back then)
Stupid question what was the site you had shown on 13:19 legit can't find it 💀
„Olhodomilenio“ .com :)
Not a stupid question btw! If you plan on playing any of the mods, I think Mod 13 is popular if you want a vanilla FM experience but with a better difficulty curve and obtaining all cards.
For more spicy mods that are reasonably balanced and play well, I can recommend „yugioh fm remastered perfected“. „Yugioh fm arranged“ is supposed to be also pretty good!