It's nice that your guardians made room to get you and your brothers cards with each new set. Shows they cared about your interests. Three packs each doesn't sound like a lot, but I got a secret rare vampire lord from a random single pack of dark crisis my grandma got me for no reason.
3 packs is not a lot at all but as a kid I didn't care as long as I got some cards lol. It's the effort that counts really. Those times where you get a secret or ghost from a random pack are insane. I remember getting 2 ghost rare stardust from random packs
@@gameboylad I got a ghost rare Black Rose Dragon from a Turbo Warrior tin. Thing is, Synchro monsters were still very new and elusive at my school, we called them "White monsters". So when I got a "white" monster with a white frame and relatively white artwork, I didn't realise the card was filthy rare. And I don't have it anymore. One of my end goal in life is to get enough money to buy a new one from the market.
@cyberdarkturtle6971 no, it's not. Your parents are not necessarily your guardians, and your guardians are not necessarily your parents. "Guardians" is a catch-all term
@@martindouge1947if it makes you feel better, I had a Ghost Rare Honest, Rainbow Dragon and Red Dragon Archfiend/Assault Mode and traded them away before they shot up in price.
Rebecca used Marie The Fallen One & Fire Princess in the anime as part of her Stall Burn deck. She sent Marie to the GY using Graceful Charity but Foolish Burial would also work. This was actually a rogue deck choice during GOAT format.
At the 6:00 mark, you showed that Jinzo tin and... Just the best nostalgia wave washed over me. My grandma got me that tin and took me to Elmers so I can open it while we ate. Just the memory how I was gushing at her about how awesome it was to get that tin is such a wonderful one. She's not very lucid now a days, and I miss those times with her. YGO was one of those franchises that I loved because of times like that, because even if my fam didnt understand why I loved it, they still encouraged me to play. Ty for making vids like these, as the GBA titles were some of the real chances for me to play beyond the young adults at my lgs who would pub stop kids like me who couldnt get tournament legal decks. I look forward to more of your content, and hope you keep at it, cause they are fire.
Comments like this is what motivates me to keep doing what I do! I wanted to speak to the shared experience most of us had with these games and how they effected us and led us down our own unique paths and experiences. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
Damn, another banger. This is one of the Yu-Gi-Oh games I had as a kid and I didn't remember much story but it is shocking how LITTLE story there is. At least the Pokemon TCG had gyms and a plot.
It's funny how back then most of the YGO games with made up rules and gameplay have more story than the games that do follow the official rules. I wonder if that was a on purpose kind of thing
@@gameboylad those that lack in plot were originally designed to be played with Link system i suppose.. Just endless duels be it with people irl or with AI
There were also challenge duels. Essentially, you had to turn your deck into fiend-only, insect-only, etc. I think you unlock a specific pack in doing this. Both games (Eternal Duelist Soul) have a ton of packs to unlock, but the cards are usually trash. The main cards to seek are the Gemini Elf, Vorse Raiders, Slate Warriors, and certain Spells and Traps, and in this game they are a lot easier to obtain because they make green and pink Millennium Eye packs that come with the best Spell/Traps, plus you can put the passwords to obtain the 1-of staples. There's a yellow eye pack too, but it's probably unlocked from the above. Eternal Duelist Soul had even less of a story, you had to go through a whole year of duels for the Grand Championship to get 1 of every card in your trunk, but if you already had the card, it's problematic, so using a password to get Vorse Raider early means you won't get the extra later, but again, they give you the gold puzzle pack at the time that has good cards. Gemini Elf you have to beat Mai or Mako 20 times to get from Great Moth pack or something ridiculous. These were the only true TCG games at the time, and they were caveman, so still pretty fun Battle City cardpool, but I think Sacred Cards and especially Reshef of Destruction might be better stories despite not having TCG rules (which were released after too). There weren't too many options, but the charm was the characters and their dialogue.
As a kid this is everything I wanted from a Yugioh game, a simulator that allows me to battle everyone from the anime. Even roaming the city and never know who will I see had that battle city like feeling. I knew how to play the card game before I played this game, as I was going to locals and such but this game really help me to understand what each card did. There was so many cards that I got from a pack and just placed it in my deck to see how does it work, as a kid I really had fun with that game
0:32 I think this is Miho who was originally Tristan's pseudo-love interest in the series before Serenity was introduced as an actual character and not a one-off. IMO they had way better chemistry since she and Tristan shared a lot of personality traits and they got along really well. You can actually see them together in the background of a bunch of episodes of Zero and she was relatively important in the Capsule Monster episodes against Bakura at the end of Season Zero and the last Kaiba Episode. (Edit: I realize I made a mistake and kinda underplayed how important she is in the Bakura arc. As in, she is literally the reason he's even there because she has a massive crush on him and invited him to their school). Unfortunately, when the series transitioned to the card game oriented format we all know now, she got left behind. There's a very small cameo of her in like the second episode of Duelist Kingdom when Tea and Joey are dueling, you can see her talking to other people. Exactly what happened to why she no longer hangs out with Yugi and co, no one knows or is manga exclusive. What's most likely is that Takashi didn't want to have another "cheer leader" character who didn't actually play the games or do anything in the story so he had to cut her. 4:24 I did, but only for Eternal Duelist Soul and only with my sister lol. I did have some friends I would trade pokemon with though. 13:22 I'm definitely gonna start calling these guys that lol
Something wild about this game is there are actually two different sets of five cards for each deck type at the start. Like, if you pick the monster one sometimes you roll 5 Exodia pieces instead of the actually good effect monsters. Both Spell and Trap packages are a lot more evenly-balanced though.
at this point of the game I think magic cards had so much more value than the other 2 card types so it might be in some ones best interest to get the magic one lol
Big same but I didn't find many that cover the games as I would have liked to see them covered. so as a wise creator once said, make the content you would like to see
I remember my older sister making me my first deck, she used her battle city art dark magician so I could have a two tribute monster because none of us had any extra deck cards we could summon without house rules, we went back and forth between official rules and house rules, those were the times the game was the best, sadly that was 09 when I was freaking four
My parents got me this game when I was a kid in 2005 for Christmas. I never touched the game cause at the time the idea of playing card games on a Gameboy was too strange for me. Plus I never wanted the game, honestly it was not the Christmas gift that I expected. Incidentally at a book fair at school I ended up getting the strategy guide for this game, not realizing it was a strategy guide for the same game. I thought it was a collector's catalogue since it had a catalogue of cards at the end of the book. At the time I was obsessed with collecting every YuGiOh card in existence. One day many months later, I ended up getting bored and playing the game. But I lost repeatedly because the starting deck was no good. After many days I ended up putting two and two together, realized that the "card catalogue" I got at school was actually a strategy guide for this same game. The catalogue at the end of the book also had all the card codes, as well as many of the cards that I already owned physically. When I was about 12 I put together an Exodia deck after I got all of the cards from almost exclusively buying Legend of Blue Eyes packs and Metal Raiders. As well as two of the Exodia cards from trading kids at recess. So I had the idea to put together an Exodia deck in this game. But with the added bonus that I used the codes in the strategy guide to put the Destiny Board cards in my deck as well. My losing streak immediately ended. I was destroying all the characters in that game. Yugi, Kaiba, the Rare Card Hunters, even Marek was swatted aside by Exodia. If I didn't win by using Exodia then I won by getting the FINAL from the Destiny Board cards. There were countless times when the AI would use something like Card Destruction to dump the Exodia from my hand, only for me to activate Destiny Board and win that way. Yeah the strategy guide was useful for understanding each character's play style. But I honestly mostly used it for the codes or to navigate the extremely complicated and confusing map in this game. What decks they were using didn't matter to me because I was going to win automatically by using Exodia or Destiny Board. I ended up beating the game over a weekend.
It's funny how most people who had strategy guides for ygo games used them more like a card catalog than a guide. I did the exact same with the FM/DDS strategy guide. I could read it but what it was saying wasn't holding my attention compared to just looking at cards lol
@@gameboylad I guess kids think alike. I used to check mark the guide for the cards I owned physically. Until I found out that a lot of those cards were not in the TCG and it ended my dreams of being the next Seto Kaiba, running around with all of the cards ever made inside my brief case. Especially cards like Magician of Black Chaos, Meteor Black Dragon, and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon... which I wanted so badly. However I did end up getting Blue Eyes Ultimate which was released as a Shonen Jump promo, from a kid in my neighborhood when I traded him a bunch of Archfiend cards which were his favorite. I love this channel it brings back memories. You could also share some of your YuGiOh stories in your videos. I'm sure there are lots of them.
Bro I literally be listening to your podcast while I'm working Love your narration and your gameplay and honest about your review keep it going brother! Also I've had these games as a kid and it's a childhood and nostalgia
I realized I never commented this before, so fun fact! Sometimes when dueling Mokuba, Kaiba will show up to protect him. So you can go from facing the easiest duelist in the game to one of rhe hardest. It's so funny every time it happens lol
I remember getting this game and thinking it was my ticket to worlds. Like some kind of weird version of that movie where the high score in the arcade notified someone.
I remember playing this game religiously as a kid but I had the regular version. Didn't even know the worldwide edition existed until now so I learned something new. Kick ass vid dude.
never liked playing beatsticks during this era. Floaters were huge in this era. You could play, warriors, with an easy accessable exiled force to deal with anything, and a mataza the zapper with an equip for OTKS, also mystic swordman to get rid of walls. You could play dark floaters, mystic tomato, giant germ, into a newdora or a nighf assailant, a necrofear. Also zombies, pyramid turtle can fetch a level 6, and zombias master is zombie master .
fun fact on the passwords, you can get multiple copies of blue eyes as the different prints with alt art used different codes. I remember freaking out when i had 2 Blue eyes obtained through the password. and of course i obtained Ultimate from the card being featured in either a magazine or an issue of shonen jump. either way the password system makes these games more manageable knowing you could essentially throw your entire deck into the game. I remember spending days just inputing passwords to get my deck into the game then altering it to the point i was just going for Cyberstein into ultimate then equipping megamorph and just OTK'ing the opponent.
@@gameboylad yeah I saw your video on that and that's just baffling they would allow tournaments through it despite not allowing the use of passwords to import a deck. It's not like it's cheating since it's a hard once per password
The only memory I have of this game was the fact that Kaiba will *_always_* use Cyber Stein and Megamorph to get a 9K Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on his first turn and just steamroll you if your deck refuses to help you, all because you tried dueling Mokuba while he was nearby.
Glad this vid made it into my recommended, I like your edits and I really love the old yugioh games so it's fun seeing them get in-depth reviews. Subbed and liked, hope your channel keeps growing!
great video my man! these games up until 2006 or so were my childhood. especially this one really opened up in the post game if i remember correctly. what a great trip of nostalgia
16:09 I do wanna mention that Soul of Purity of Light actually sees competitive play in Edison format, the 2010 5DS retro format, as it's evolved. One of the better decks is a Fairy deck focusing around Archlord Kristia and the Herald cards, and as an easy to special summon fairy Soul of Purity and Light is often run at 2 or 3. I was genuinely surprised to come up against it while playing Edison, and that it was actually pretty legit. Also it even was in a couple lists topping lists around the same time in the regular game, similar to the decks that play it in Edison.
Sorry for double comment but it’s funny how in eternal duelist soul Tèa still has an LP gain deck but she also has three freaking Gemini Elf’s, making her Bakura and Joey the only three tier one duelists who might be able to get a consistent lead on life points on the first turn, speaking of Bakura in ESD he’s actually a bit tough for newcomers or revisiting fans who didn’t expect him to have any challenge, his powerful spells and traps like raigeki and triple magic jammer can actually hurt a lot, thankfully I had MST but it’s cool to see how the game balances being hard and fun so that you never get to overwhelmed like new players in forbidden memories might with how the luck strat just doenst work starting on Mai without proper drops, making this game probably in my top three with that game and Duelists of the roses, but ESD/Worldwide is always number one
Yeah I didn't even see that duke was in the game until after I was done editing lmao. I wonder how many people got through this game without even knowing him and several other characters are in the game. Thank you for watching!
I just went through this game recently, then started playing the Japanese version. Both games are great, but the extra cards in the Japanese version make it alot more exciting. From masked beast des gardius to some weird missing cards like soul exchange and Lord of D. On top of this you can get the God cards as trophies, but can't use them in duels. The difficulty is pumped up a bit too. Main characters like Yugi, Kaiba, and Mai have a decent chance to start with a special OTK hand. For example, Kaiba using both raigeki and feather duster, dropping cyberstein, summoning blue eyes ultimate, and slapping megamorph on it. Almost nothing can be done unless you've specifically prepared for this situation. Also, completing the limitation tournaments do not give you all the cards. This leads to the 10 trophies that unlock when you beat the pyramid are much harder to complete. Just a suggestion if you ever want to play this game but with slightly more content. I'd say the one big downside is that the worldwide edition runs much faster, because you don't have to hold B down the whole time to fast forward it
it's strange to me that this was the "update" but it's missing a good chunk of cards. I mostly try to play these games with the lens of a new player playing this game for the first time. I didn't find out about all of the information of this game till a bit after the editing but by then it was too late to mention it and I was a bit behind
Thank you for watching! I miss my childhood so much I started this channel in hopes to reach out to those with the same experience. Reading this means so much to me
This was my favorite Yugioh video game until Ultimate Masters: World Championship Tournament 2006. And that one didn't get replaced for me until Legacy of the Duelist.
Thank you 😭 Most people owned EDS back than. I think it sold over a million easy just in the US alone. This one kind of went under the radar at the time.
Maaaan I started playing the Pokemon TCG on Gameboy Color again when they dropped it on Switch emulator. It got me nostalgic for cards and I randomly remember having a Yugioh GBA game and I think this was it. Great game. They should totally re-release it on Switch too.
Once when I was playing this game and dueled Mokuba and he was using Kaiba's deck. Don't know if that is a bug or sometimes Mokuba can use his brother's deck.
You mighta button mashed past it, but sometimes when you duel Mokuba, Kaiba will butt in and duel you because you're bullying his brother, lol. It's deffo a pants-shitting moment when/if it happens.
Certified Banger! It was my first yugioh game. Remember playing a lot in a GBA emulator. My father teached me about the game and i love it to this day. Now i play duel links but man i miss the vibe of these old Yugioh games, as they are dark and have a whole "Shadow Game" aesthetic to it!
Great video! I went to look for more and was so dissapointed that there's only a couple to catch up on and shocked you didn't have more subscribers. I look forward to seeing more videos.
I just started back up with making videos again recently lol. I got another vid coming out this week and hopefully I can consistently make videos from now on. I went up by like 200 subs in the last month so I'm doing something well thankfully. Thank you so much for watching 😭
Absolutely. Most of game plays the like a lunch room duel from middle school, which is wonderfully nostalgic, but also has some nice challenges the last third that will have you really thinking about your deck structure. Uncomplicated, classic Yu-Gi-Oh.
Yup but I didn't see him in my playthrough and by the time recordingwas done that's when I was shown some stuff I missed. It's ok though I feel like most people's experience in the game would have them miss a few characters. Especially mokuba lol since you have to lose 5 times to see him I think
Ok that booty goblin got me pretty good. I Absolutely love this game and I replay it like every couple years tbh, I definitely want to get into some of the later ones too
This was my second playthrough of this game and honestly I think it's worth a revisit every now and then. I haven't replayed some of the later ones yet, but nightmare troubadour sticks out in my head for being one of the better games. look into that one for sure. Thank you so much for watching 😭
7:12 bruv these edits are too hilarious. Love this I played this game totally to 100% when I was in my childhood prime 12 years old screw school and grind. I had no problem beating the cpu duelists but I am pretty talented in YuGiOh TBH. 10:50 another banger man the booster packs give u so many times only garbage indeed. On emu u can save and reload if it sux but on GBA times u were banged in the rectum. made grind even more annoying
Yeah opening packs in this game can be a bust a lot of the time lol. I started to get more lucky towards the end though. You can always cheese it but I wanted to try and stay as close to the original experience as possible!
0:32 That is Miho. She is an obnoxious annoying character who palled around with Yugi and the gang in season zero. Honda/Tristan had a huge crush on her, and Miho had an annoying speech tick where she would talk in the 3rd person. I'm so glad they never decided to bring her back after season zero.
It's probably been said constantly by now, but I can indeed confirm they take cards if you lose. Because I was not good at this game growing up, and they took a lot of my cards.
I'm shocked that those super specific traps like Gryphon Wing and Anti Raigeki are actually troublesome. Regarding strong opponents like Ishizu appearing right at the start, I'd rather have that over what they did in Spirit Caller. That game had arguably the worst starter deck of any Yugioh game, and the starting opponents are so pathetic that they make the early game super boring. The game gets fun later on after you clear some story duels and unlock more duelists, but it takes longer than it should to get there, even with Non-Fusion Area in a vanilla beatdown deck to cheese Jaden and earn DP faster.
Just got around to actually watching this video! I think it was a fun format. It'd be cool seeing you maybe trying out the very first Yu-Gi-Oh game on Gameboy. I've tried it a couple times and it's pretty interesting.
I've been messing around with the 2003 format because of a video I'm working on and surprisingly enjoyed some aspects of it that I feel is missing from modern YGO. I plan on covering more of the Gameboy games but a bit more down the line to prevent burnout in case their as bad as the one I'm playing now lmao.
One of my favorite games of all times. Its music influenced my own. I have 2 step bros who also played the game hence how we could end up using the link cable function.
I usually have to use music from other games in these videos but if you mostly hear the original OST of the game throughout the video, then you know that I think the music slaps in this game
Your views to subs crazy bro 😅 super good content. Your presentation is what makes your content so good. Idc about yugioh really at all. But your dialog makes it way more interesting then it really it. Keep doing shit you like. It translates great to the viewer 👍
This was my second YGO game after Dark Duel Stories, and the first one with proper rules. I used to play the TCG too back in the day, but with little to no actual understanding of the rules. The wording of the effects was ambiguous as hell and for many of us the anime was the only source we got our basic grasp of the game from. So one could say that I started to learn the game properly thanks to this game.
Something to note is that each of the three starter decks have two variants, and you just get whichever one the game feels like giving you. The black deck can also give you Exodia and its pieces, but there's nothing in the rest of the deck to back it up. I like the other black deck with Slate Warrior and Jinzo because Slate Warrior is a 1900 ATK Level 4 that's a pain in the neck to get otherwise in a game where those are really valuable, and Jinzo is Jinzo. Passing time definitely is a reasonable thing to do early because as it comes up, the magazine can give you Dunames Dark Witch whose 1800 ATK on a Level 4 is very nice when it's early and the game is happy to beat your ass. Yeah, Joey's no beginner duelist here. He's harsh with those damn Goblin Attack Forces and Zombyra the Darks. Even if you're loaded up with Gemini Elf, Vorse Raider, Mechanicalchaser, and Slate Warrior he just has the upfront pressure to knock one of them out off of one card so he can be obtuse. St. Joan is a nightmare. I feel like both Tea and Ishizu have her. The Championship is every Saturday, but it just appears in a different space each time. Yeah, Strings is... a really, really strange fellow. The moment he puts down Jam Breeding Machine, he's gotten the noose around his own neck and is just waiting for you to kick the chair out from under him. If you can't rush down Seeker it's probably best to have Card Destruction. If he draws a piece with Sangan/Witch, throw it down and his win condition is kneecapped if not completely disabled. Really do gotta take 3000 out of Kaiba fast, or have a way to respond to Ultimate Dragon. That's right about Mokuba. He really does just exist to beat down if you get choked out. It does annoy me that there's no alternate unlock condition though, since that by proxy makes it impossible to get Duke Devlin to show up while keeping a perfect record since you need to beat everyone else on the street, Mokuba included, at least once. It's funny how Jinzo just completely ruins Odion, especially if he's plugged up his entire back row so that he can't respond with a Dark Hole/Raigeki. It REALLY sucks how the track that plays the first time you go against Marik never shows up again, even if you get Yami Marik on the street later.
Bakura's deck out strat is so odd as it's almost "functional." More often than not though I'd just let Bistro Butcher attack into me once or a couple times for the "tactical" plus 2 lmao, thanks for the Graceful Charity and Reborn you'd draw for me Bakura!
One of my favorite plays was I think mage power (plus 500 for each magic or trap card on your side) united we stand (plus something for every monster on your side) axe of despair, some kind of trap face down that could negate the activation of something, and Maha vailo with maybe scapegoat. It's been a hot minute.
I love fighting games, especially the French bread ones, so this video is sick! I also love Yu-Gi-Oh and just got this recommended to me. I wonder how big the overlap between the FGC and Yu-Gi-Oh is?
In my personal experience a lot! When master duel came out a lot of FGC influencers were playing it on stream. I think YGO and fighting games share a lot of the same ideas like being combo heavy. Most of the YGO players I knew were either MvC players and/or Blazblu players when I was active
I remember that in the first duel I did on this game I dueled Kaiba… he did the whole Cyber-Stein shtick to summon Blue eyes ultimate dragon in his first… too bad for him he didn’t have a back row and I drew change of heart that same turn, so I just used one card and won.
OMG that's right! Wait I'm looking back at the footage because I know she has 3 cyber for sure. She might not have vanilla at all but I swear I saw her have vanilla harpies. I'm so use to the new harpie cards that I forgot the old ones you couldn't do that. Other wise harpie decks back then would have had 3 copies of harpie lady 1, 2, and 3 on top of cyber. I was told not to long ago that in Expert 6 some opponents in this game start with fixed hands. This game is just an update to expert 6 so maybe that's why her deck felt ultra consistent. Thank you for pointing that out!
UPDATE! I dueled her just now and decked her out. she does not have 3 vanilla harpies! I goofed up lol. I think I mistook her for having them cause she had cyber harpie and harpie sisters in almost every game I had with her so it felt like there was more. Again thank you for pointing that out! I'll probably mention the goof up in my next vid
(totally not leaving a comment just for algorithm purposes). Stairway to the Destined Duel was the first "official rules" card game I played. Something I find VERY interesting is that even before the rules were established, games like the original Duel Monsters GB game had rules set that weren't anywhere in the manga, but would become official later on, primarily the 8,000 LP start.
it's funny how that the one thing that was almost always the baseline was the 8000 LP rule. I think in DOtr it was 4000 and even then you can increase it to 8000 in multiplayer
Kaiba and Cyber-Stein - that reminds me of a duel I had one time on Power of Chaos: Kaiba the Revenge. He played Cyber-Stein and pulled out Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on turn two... and ran straight into a Mirror Force I had set down on my first turn. To add insult to injury, I had Monster Reborn in my hand, so take a wild guess who I finished him off with X'D Power of Chaos flashbacks aside, this is a great video - Worldwide Edition was my first foray into the GBA Yu-Gi-Oh! games (Mainly as Eternal Duelists Soul never received a European release, it was a bit outdated by the time this one came out so it made sense they'd release the newer one of the two)
I didn't know EDS didn't make I to EU but I makes sense. They use to release games to EU super late and yugioh was extremely behind everywhere so they straight up missed games
@@gameboylad I know we had Dark Duel Stories as well (From what the wikis say, DDS came out a whole month before WWE in Europe, but still a whole year later than the US release - Forbidden Memories on the PS1 was the first Yu-Gi-Oh! title released in Europe, funnily enough). A lot of the earlier Yu-Gi-Oh! titles in Europe ended up having different promo cards as well, the American release had the likes of Valkyrion, Sinister Serpent and Harpie's Feather Duster... and we got Seiyaryu, Acid Trap Hole, and Salamandra.
Awesome video man. I'm planning to release my own Yugioh video in the future and cover nearly all the GBA Yugioh games. I'll be honest though, the reason you struggle in most of the duels is because you're running a beatdown deck. I on the other hand use Hand Control so most duels end with them having no hand or forcing them to deck out. The duels do drag on a lot though.
Yeah hand control was the deck to beat at the time. Thing is I try to play the game as blind as possible to mimic the first time playing of the average player. Also I didn't really get many hand control cards lol
Rewatching this video made me remember 7 trials to glory I remember hating the game as a kid while my friends all liked it Ill replay it one day, when i do ill edit this comment
9:47 - 9:55 That wouldnt work though. Lady Assailant of Flames removes the top 3 cards of your deck to the banished zone, not the graveyard so Marie The Fallen One Life Point allowance gain would never trigger for the player at all. Since Marie The Fallen One is banished from the game not in the graveyard.
That’s where the WOC secret police come in. My LGS was proxies friendly until they got an email from WOC threatening them with losing WPN status if they didnt police proxies at events hosted using their official tournament/Companion apps which are used for every commander night
Oh man I didn't know they can do that kind of thing. I wonder how they even figured out that was going on? Someone snitched? I think in magic cards tend to be a bit cheaper because of draft format constantly opening packs. but let to much time pass and some of the card prices sky rocket
Hey man I love your videos and I’m playing reshef of destruction funnily enough so super excited to see your video on that and your thoughts on the effects and their implementation especially the power ups, honestly I couldn’t stand slifer the sky dragon at all it felt like I couldn’t get through a single turn let alone duel with that guy. Keep up the good work man and I hope to see more of your content be yugioh or whatever else. You’re great dude thanks for the laughs
One of favorite cards from sacred cards is one of the most annoying cards to have in the deck in reshef lmao ( Witch apprentice ). It's weird continuous effects work that way when they got it right in expert 5 and 6 already. Can't wait to finish my video on reshef. Thank you so much for watching and pulling up to the comments!
@@gameboylad I’m so glad you mentioned witch’s apprentice I was wondering if you were gonna end up keeping her in your deck or not lol. I hope you enjoy the game and I like the story in this one it really did feel like an rpg with more dialogue and places to go in my perspective.
I love how out of context it sounds like "Oh, Slifer must be difficult to deal with in Reshef! I've heard horror stories about that game..." But in context its "Oh no, I have to deal with that stupid board check message Every Single Action!"
Mokuba was perfect for farming cards. Especially CS/BEUD/United/Mage Power/Mega, just to make sure and go overkill. (for those that don't wanna do math, it usually came out at around 12100 ATK) Also, with that, always make sure to go last for a potential 1 turn sweep lol
The best way to consistently deal with monster reborn or raigeki is to run 3 copies each of magic jammer, seven tools of the bandit and royal command. Help you deal with traps, sweepers and flip monsters so you can get through uncontested.
Great content you’ve earned a new Subscriber man nice choice of background music as well!. I owned EDS so this version didn’t appeal to me it was mostly the same minus the map free roam. A video about yu-gi-oh! 7 trials to glory WC2005. If you liked worldwide edition I’m sure you will like that game as well!
i think playing EDS or WWE is virtually almost the same experience. as long as you played one, you kind of played the other. I plan to do 7 trials for sure after my next 2 videos on wcs 2004 and magic!
I remember mokuba randomly stealing games from me when he would normal summon Kanan the swordmistress one minute, and blasting me with cyber stein another minute. absolutely agonizing.
If you change the status from limited to unlimited you the npc characters become even broken. They will have multiple copies of raigeki, dark hole, witch, Cyber jar, reborn, premature, ring of Destruction, cylinder, mirror force, swords and change of heart lol
So I can basically turn this game into dark duel stories for the price of my sanity? I thought that would be for me alone when I read up on it. I didn't think it would change their decks too lol. This game has more to it than I thought
Holy shit, the stuff with using YGOPro to determine what cards you can use is exactly like what I've been doing for some time to spice up YGO games. Usually I'd use a cheat to unlock all cards and then use the YGOPro collection and pack sim to show what cards i can use. I even developed a system with getting wins against NPC that can be collected then redeemed for packs, starter decks, tins etc.
This was my favourite ygo game as a kid; my deck ended up becoming a 1800-2300 4* atk beatdown deck with no magics and only a handful of traps that destroy or return opponents cards. I think I only had 2-3 5-6* monsters, like summoned skull, as playing anything bigger was too complicated and costly for the pace.
i had this game as a kid and it was the shit, lost it when i moved but managed to get another copy last year. There is Duke Devlin too, dont remember how i unlocked him
Gameboylad: I think I can keep up with Kaiba now.
Kaiba: Immediately shits out a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
He screwed the rules on you.
Ah, Cyber Stein.
It's nice that your guardians made room to get you and your brothers cards with each new set. Shows they cared about your interests. Three packs each doesn't sound like a lot, but I got a secret rare vampire lord from a random single pack of dark crisis my grandma got me for no reason.
3 packs is not a lot at all but as a kid I didn't care as long as I got some cards lol. It's the effort that counts really. Those times where you get a secret or ghost from a random pack are insane. I remember getting 2 ghost rare stardust from random packs
@@gameboylad I got a ghost rare Black Rose Dragon from a Turbo Warrior tin. Thing is, Synchro monsters were still very new and elusive at my school, we called them "White monsters". So when I got a "white" monster with a white frame and relatively white artwork, I didn't realise the card was filthy rare.
And I don't have it anymore. One of my end goal in life is to get enough money to buy a new one from the market.
The word is "parents"
@cyberdarkturtle6971 no, it's not. Your parents are not necessarily your guardians, and your guardians are not necessarily your parents. "Guardians" is a catch-all term
@@martindouge1947if it makes you feel better, I had a Ghost Rare Honest, Rainbow Dragon and Red Dragon Archfiend/Assault Mode and traded them away before they shot up in price.
I used the trade option exactly once. It was at a small tournament held at a local card shop. I was getting the final piece of Exodia through it.
Rebecca used Marie The Fallen One & Fire Princess in the anime as part of her Stall Burn deck. She sent Marie to the GY using Graceful Charity but Foolish Burial would also work. This was actually a rogue deck choice during GOAT format.
Oooh I had a feeling it was probably a decent rouge deck after making one myself lol
I'm so lucky youtube somehow lead me to your channel. Can't wait to see more from you!
I'm just as lucky as as you are! Thank you
This game is a classic
It definitely is! I recommend this game for any yugioh fan looking to play the older games to be honest
The ghouls were scary
At the 6:00 mark, you showed that Jinzo tin and... Just the best nostalgia wave washed over me. My grandma got me that tin and took me to Elmers so I can open it while we ate. Just the memory how I was gushing at her about how awesome it was to get that tin is such a wonderful one.
She's not very lucid now a days, and I miss those times with her. YGO was one of those franchises that I loved because of times like that, because even if my fam didnt understand why I loved it, they still encouraged me to play. Ty for making vids like these, as the GBA titles were some of the real chances for me to play beyond the young adults at my lgs who would pub stop kids like me who couldnt get tournament legal decks. I look forward to more of your content, and hope you keep at it, cause they are fire.
Comments like this is what motivates me to keep doing what I do! I wanted to speak to the shared experience most of us had with these games and how they effected us and led us down our own unique paths and experiences. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
I binged every of your Yugioh Videos just to see that there are only 14 Videos....Maaaan, your videos are so good, please keep making them!
Damn, another banger. This is one of the Yu-Gi-Oh games I had as a kid and I didn't remember much story but it is shocking how LITTLE story there is. At least the Pokemon TCG had gyms and a plot.
It's funny how back then most of the YGO games with made up rules and gameplay have more story than the games that do follow the official rules. I wonder if that was a on purpose kind of thing
@@gameboylad those that lack in plot were originally designed to be played with Link system i suppose..
Just endless duels be it with people irl or with AI
There were also challenge duels. Essentially, you had to turn your deck into fiend-only, insect-only, etc. I think you unlock a specific pack in doing this.
Both games (Eternal Duelist Soul) have a ton of packs to unlock, but the cards are usually trash. The main cards to seek are the Gemini Elf, Vorse Raiders, Slate Warriors, and certain Spells and Traps, and in this game they are a lot easier to obtain because they make green and pink Millennium Eye packs that come with the best Spell/Traps, plus you can put the passwords to obtain the 1-of staples. There's a yellow eye pack too, but it's probably unlocked from the above.
Eternal Duelist Soul had even less of a story, you had to go through a whole year of duels for the Grand Championship to get 1 of every card in your trunk, but if you already had the card, it's problematic, so using a password to get Vorse Raider early means you won't get the extra later, but again, they give you the gold puzzle pack at the time that has good cards. Gemini Elf you have to beat Mai or Mako 20 times to get from Great Moth pack or something ridiculous.
These were the only true TCG games at the time, and they were caveman, so still pretty fun Battle City cardpool, but I think Sacred Cards and especially Reshef of Destruction might be better stories despite not having TCG rules (which were released after too). There weren't too many options, but the charm was the characters and their dialogue.
As a kid this is everything I wanted from a Yugioh game, a simulator that allows me to battle everyone from the anime.
Even roaming the city and never know who will I see had that battle city like feeling.
I knew how to play the card game before I played this game, as I was going to locals and such but this game really help me to understand what each card did.
There was so many cards that I got from a pack and just placed it in my deck to see how does it work, as a kid I really had fun with that game
0:32 I think this is Miho who was originally Tristan's pseudo-love interest in the series before Serenity was introduced as an actual character and not a one-off. IMO they had way better chemistry since she and Tristan shared a lot of personality traits and they got along really well. You can actually see them together in the background of a bunch of episodes of Zero and she was relatively important in the Capsule Monster episodes against Bakura at the end of Season Zero and the last Kaiba Episode. (Edit: I realize I made a mistake and kinda underplayed how important she is in the Bakura arc. As in, she is literally the reason he's even there because she has a massive crush on him and invited him to their school). Unfortunately, when the series transitioned to the card game oriented format we all know now, she got left behind. There's a very small cameo of her in like the second episode of Duelist Kingdom when Tea and Joey are dueling, you can see her talking to other people. Exactly what happened to why she no longer hangs out with Yugi and co, no one knows or is manga exclusive. What's most likely is that Takashi didn't want to have another "cheer leader" character who didn't actually play the games or do anything in the story so he had to cut her.
4:24 I did, but only for Eternal Duelist Soul and only with my sister lol. I did have some friends I would trade pokemon with though.
13:22 I'm definitely gonna start calling these guys that lol
yup, 100% that is Miho from Season 0. She only appears in that season and wasn't even in the manga either lol
She was in the manga just not with the group because she denied tristin
Something wild about this game is there are actually two different sets of five cards for each deck type at the start. Like, if you pick the monster one sometimes you roll 5 Exodia pieces instead of the actually good effect monsters. Both Spell and Trap packages are a lot more evenly-balanced though.
at this point of the game I think magic cards had so much more value than the other 2 card types so it might be in some ones best interest to get the magic one lol
Yeah, Jinzo's nice but Imperial Order is actually just unreasonable 🤣
That Snoop "WHO!?" for the Griffon's wing was perfect
I never felt so bamboozled in my life
😂
Nice was looking for someone who plays the old yugioh games
Big same but I didn't find many that cover the games as I would have liked to see them covered. so as a wise creator once said, make the content you would like to see
I remember my older sister making me my first deck, she used her battle city art dark magician so I could have a two tribute monster because none of us had any extra deck cards we could summon without house rules, we went back and forth between official rules and house rules, those were the times the game was the best, sadly that was 09 when I was freaking four
Underrated channel! Love your editing style
Thank you! Means a lot to me when I read comments like this. Things can only go up from here
My parents got me this game when I was a kid in 2005 for Christmas. I never touched the game cause at the time the idea of playing card games on a Gameboy was too strange for me. Plus I never wanted the game, honestly it was not the Christmas gift that I expected.
Incidentally at a book fair at school I ended up getting the strategy guide for this game, not realizing it was a strategy guide for the same game. I thought it was a collector's catalogue since it had a catalogue of cards at the end of the book. At the time I was obsessed with collecting every YuGiOh card in existence.
One day many months later, I ended up getting bored and playing the game. But I lost repeatedly because the starting deck was no good. After many days I ended up putting two and two together, realized that the "card catalogue" I got at school was actually a strategy guide for this same game. The catalogue at the end of the book also had all the card codes, as well as many of the cards that I already owned physically.
When I was about 12 I put together an Exodia deck after I got all of the cards from almost exclusively buying Legend of Blue Eyes packs and Metal Raiders. As well as two of the Exodia cards from trading kids at recess. So I had the idea to put together an Exodia deck in this game. But with the added bonus that I used the codes in the strategy guide to put the Destiny Board cards in my deck as well.
My losing streak immediately ended. I was destroying all the characters in that game. Yugi, Kaiba, the Rare Card Hunters, even Marek was swatted aside by Exodia. If I didn't win by using Exodia then I won by getting the FINAL from the Destiny Board cards. There were countless times when the AI would use something like Card Destruction to dump the Exodia from my hand, only for me to activate Destiny Board and win that way.
Yeah the strategy guide was useful for understanding each character's play style. But I honestly mostly used it for the codes or to navigate the extremely complicated and confusing map in this game. What decks they were using didn't matter to me because I was going to win automatically by using Exodia or Destiny Board. I ended up beating the game over a weekend.
It's funny how most people who had strategy guides for ygo games used them more like a card catalog than a guide. I did the exact same with the FM/DDS strategy guide. I could read it but what it was saying wasn't holding my attention compared to just looking at cards lol
@@gameboylad I guess kids think alike. I used to check mark the guide for the cards I owned physically.
Until I found out that a lot of those cards were not in the TCG and it ended my dreams of being the next Seto Kaiba, running around with all of the cards ever made inside my brief case.
Especially cards like Magician of Black Chaos, Meteor Black Dragon, and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon... which I wanted so badly.
However I did end up getting Blue Eyes Ultimate which was released as a Shonen Jump promo, from a kid in my neighborhood when I traded him a bunch of Archfiend cards which were his favorite.
I love this channel it brings back memories. You could also share some of your YuGiOh stories in your videos. I'm sure there are lots of them.
Bro I literally be listening to your podcast while I'm working Love your narration and your gameplay and honest about your review keep it going brother! Also I've had these games as a kid and it's a childhood and nostalgia
I realized I never commented this before, so fun fact! Sometimes when dueling Mokuba, Kaiba will show up to protect him. So you can go from facing the easiest duelist in the game to one of rhe hardest. It's so funny every time it happens lol
I had footage of it happening but lost it at the time lol 😭
I remember getting this game and thinking it was my ticket to worlds. Like some kind of weird version of that movie where the high score in the arcade notified someone.
Sounds like the wizard in a way lmao. premise was a boy going to the nintendo world championships by getting high scores
I remember playing this game religiously as a kid but I had the regular version. Didn't even know the worldwide edition existed until now so I learned something new. Kick ass vid dude.
never liked playing beatsticks during this era. Floaters were huge in this era. You could play, warriors, with an easy accessable exiled force to deal with anything, and a mataza the zapper with an equip for OTKS, also mystic swordman to get rid of walls. You could play dark floaters, mystic tomato, giant germ, into a newdora or a nighf assailant, a necrofear. Also zombies, pyramid turtle can fetch a level 6, and zombias master is zombie master .
fun fact on the passwords, you can get multiple copies of blue eyes as the different prints with alt art used different codes. I remember freaking out when i had 2 Blue eyes obtained through the password. and of course i obtained Ultimate from the card being featured in either a magazine or an issue of shonen jump. either way the password system makes these games more manageable knowing you could essentially throw your entire deck into the game. I remember spending days just inputing passwords to get my deck into the game then altering it to the point i was just going for Cyberstein into ultimate then equipping megamorph and just OTK'ing the opponent.
It's such a neat system and it's weird that some early games just don't have this function at all like WCS 2004
@@gameboylad yeah I saw your video on that and that's just baffling they would allow tournaments through it despite not allowing the use of passwords to import a deck. It's not like it's cheating since it's a hard once per password
The only memory I have of this game was the fact that Kaiba will *_always_* use Cyber Stein and Megamorph to get a 9K Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on his first turn and just steamroll you if your deck refuses to help you, all because you tried dueling Mokuba while he was nearby.
Glad this vid made it into my recommended, I like your edits and I really love the old yugioh games so it's fun seeing them get in-depth reviews. Subbed and liked, hope your channel keeps growing!
I hope so too 😭 Thank you for watching and subbing!
great video my man! these games up until 2006 or so were my childhood. especially this one really opened up in the post game if i remember correctly. what a great trip of nostalgia
29:10 Imagine being in a dark alley, about to lose your wallet, and it's Odion who says this to you...😂
Hope he only takes the wallet cause my deck might be more valuable 💀
This was my childhood playing with my friend memories
That bit about simulating pulls to create your deck was a fun touch
Been a while since I did it again cause future games put limits on the password. I hope to bring the idea back eventually lol
So glad I stumbled upon this video. I'm looking forward to your next one. I like your style of funny editing too
Reading comments like this motivate me so much honestly. Thank you so much for watching! I got another one coming up soon
16:09 I do wanna mention that Soul of Purity of Light actually sees competitive play in Edison format, the 2010 5DS retro format, as it's evolved. One of the better decks is a Fairy deck focusing around Archlord Kristia and the Herald cards, and as an easy to special summon fairy Soul of Purity and Light is often run at 2 or 3. I was genuinely surprised to come up against it while playing Edison, and that it was actually pretty legit. Also it even was in a couple lists topping lists around the same time in the regular game, similar to the decks that play it in Edison.
Sorry for double comment but it’s funny how in eternal duelist soul Tèa still has an LP gain deck but she also has three freaking Gemini Elf’s, making her Bakura and Joey the only three tier one duelists who might be able to get a consistent lead on life points on the first turn, speaking of Bakura in ESD he’s actually a bit tough for newcomers or revisiting fans who didn’t expect him to have any challenge, his powerful spells and traps like raigeki and triple magic jammer can actually hurt a lot, thankfully I had MST but it’s cool to see how the game balances being hard and fun so that you never get to overwhelmed like new players in forbidden memories might with how the luck strat just doenst work starting on Mai without proper drops, making this game probably in my top three with that game and Duelists of the roses, but ESD/Worldwide is always number one
Duke the dice guy is in this game too. Loved this old game good vid dude
Yeah I didn't even see that duke was in the game until after I was done editing lmao. I wonder how many people got through this game without even knowing him and several other characters are in the game. Thank you for watching!
Pps love the yuyu hakusho music towards the end
I just went through this game recently, then started playing the Japanese version. Both games are great, but the extra cards in the Japanese version make it alot more exciting. From masked beast des gardius to some weird missing cards like soul exchange and Lord of D. On top of this you can get the God cards as trophies, but can't use them in duels. The difficulty is pumped up a bit too. Main characters like Yugi, Kaiba, and Mai have a decent chance to start with a special OTK hand. For example, Kaiba using both raigeki and feather duster, dropping cyberstein, summoning blue eyes ultimate, and slapping megamorph on it. Almost nothing can be done unless you've specifically prepared for this situation. Also, completing the limitation tournaments do not give you all the cards. This leads to the 10 trophies that unlock when you beat the pyramid are much harder to complete. Just a suggestion if you ever want to play this game but with slightly more content. I'd say the one big downside is that the worldwide edition runs much faster, because you don't have to hold B down the whole time to fast forward it
it's strange to me that this was the "update" but it's missing a good chunk of cards. I mostly try to play these games with the lens of a new player playing this game for the first time. I didn't find out about all of the information of this game till a bit after the editing but by then it was too late to mention it and I was a bit behind
Eyooo that kaiba thing happened to me too, lucky I got magic cylinder and mirror force muahahaha
My first yugioh game! I still love this game despite its flaws. Great video going through it!
Thank you for being back memories I want to cry I miss childhood
Thank you for watching! I miss my childhood so much I started this channel in hopes to reach out to those with the same experience. Reading this means so much to me
@@gameboylad man I still have the game on GBA game boy I completed it like 5 times already I miss it bro I feel like crying
This was my favorite Yugioh video game until Ultimate Masters: World Championship Tournament 2006. And that one didn't get replaced for me until Legacy of the Duelist.
Dude, great video. I've played eternal duelist soul all the way through, but I never heard of this version. Nice video man.
Thank you 😭 Most people owned EDS back than. I think it sold over a million easy just in the US alone. This one kind of went under the radar at the time.
Maaaan I started playing the Pokemon TCG on Gameboy Color again when they dropped it on Switch emulator. It got me nostalgic for cards and I randomly remember having a Yugioh GBA game and I think this was it. Great game. They should totally re-release it on Switch too.
It would be cool for them to release some of the games on switch but I kinda doubt it cause konami is kinda stinky lmao. Not all hope is lost though
I appreciate watching your Retro Yu-Gi-Oh! content. YGO WWE is my favorite YGO game. I just subbed, keep up the good work :)
Thank you so much for subscribing and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I have my next video about Sacred Cards coming out next week :0
Once when I was playing this game and dueled Mokuba and he was using Kaiba's deck.
Don't know if that is a bug or sometimes Mokuba can use his brother's deck.
Every now and then mokuba will have a game winning combo I think but I forgot the chances of it happening lol
You mighta button mashed past it, but sometimes when you duel Mokuba, Kaiba will butt in and duel you because you're bullying his brother, lol. It's deffo a pants-shitting moment when/if it happens.
Randomly found your channel. Love the vids dude! I had this game when I was a kid I remember really enjoying it
why is this channel not blown up yet? and shadi has the best theme!
The music in this game is so good with shadis being my personal favorite
Certified Banger! It was my first yugioh game. Remember playing a lot in a GBA emulator. My father teached me about the game and i love it to this day. Now i play duel links but man i miss the vibe of these old Yugioh games, as they are dark and have a whole "Shadow Game" aesthetic to it!
My pops bought me this game . 😢 i miss him so much. I used to play for hours while driving around with him
Great video! I went to look for more and was so dissapointed that there's only a couple to catch up on and shocked you didn't have more subscribers. I look forward to seeing more videos.
I just started back up with making videos again recently lol. I got another vid coming out this week and hopefully I can consistently make videos from now on. I went up by like 200 subs in the last month so I'm doing something well thankfully. Thank you so much for watching 😭
@@gameboylad Well damn, I've never hit the bell before, but I don't want to miss the next one coming out :D
Best game out of the GBA era ❤️
Absolutely. Most of game plays the like a lunch room duel from middle school, which is wonderfully nostalgic, but also has some nice challenges the last third that will have you really thinking about your deck structure. Uncomplicated, classic Yu-Gi-Oh.
Duke Devlin unlocks after you beat every duelists once.
Yup but I didn't see him in my playthrough and by the time recordingwas done that's when I was shown some stuff I missed. It's ok though I feel like most people's experience in the game would have them miss a few characters. Especially mokuba lol since you have to lose 5 times to see him I think
Ok that booty goblin got me pretty good. I Absolutely love this game and I replay it like every couple years tbh, I definitely want to get into some of the later ones too
This was my second playthrough of this game and honestly I think it's worth a revisit every now and then. I haven't replayed some of the later ones yet, but nightmare troubadour sticks out in my head for being one of the better games. look into that one for sure. Thank you so much for watching 😭
@@gameboylad looking forward to more! Thanks for making them lol
7:12 bruv these edits are too hilarious. Love this I played this game totally to 100% when I was in my childhood prime 12 years old screw school and grind. I had no problem beating the cpu duelists but I am pretty talented in YuGiOh TBH. 10:50 another banger man the booster packs give u so many times only garbage indeed. On emu u can save and reload if it sux but on GBA times u were banged in the rectum. made grind even more annoying
Yeah opening packs in this game can be a bust a lot of the time lol. I started to get more lucky towards the end though. You can always cheese it but I wanted to try and stay as close to the original experience as possible!
0:32 That is Miho. She is an obnoxious annoying character who palled around with Yugi and the gang in season zero. Honda/Tristan had a huge crush on her, and Miho had an annoying speech tick where she would talk in the 3rd person. I'm so glad they never decided to bring her back after season zero.
I can't imagine listening to her tick in the English dub 💀
It's probably been said constantly by now, but I can indeed confirm they take cards if you lose. Because I was not good at this game growing up, and they took a lot of my cards.
I'm shocked that those super specific traps like Gryphon Wing and Anti Raigeki are actually troublesome.
Regarding strong opponents like Ishizu appearing right at the start, I'd rather have that over what they did in Spirit Caller. That game had arguably the worst starter deck of any Yugioh game, and the starting opponents are so pathetic that they make the early game super boring. The game gets fun later on after you clear some story duels and unlock more duelists, but it takes longer than it should to get there, even with Non-Fusion Area in a vanilla beatdown deck to cheese Jaden and earn DP faster.
Just got around to actually watching this video! I think it was a fun format. It'd be cool seeing you maybe trying out the very first Yu-Gi-Oh game on Gameboy. I've tried it a couple times and it's pretty interesting.
I've been messing around with the 2003 format because of a video I'm working on and surprisingly enjoyed some aspects of it that I feel is missing from modern YGO. I plan on covering more of the Gameboy games but a bit more down the line to prevent burnout in case their as bad as the one I'm playing now lmao.
One of my favorite games of all times. Its music influenced my own. I have 2 step bros who also played the game hence how we could end up using the link cable function.
I usually have to use music from other games in these videos but if you mostly hear the original OST of the game throughout the video, then you know that I think the music slaps in this game
I have so many happy memories from this era of games. I remember trying to build meme decks. Now I still do that, but in MTG :D
I'm in the same boat with mtg and pokemon 😂
special thanks go out to ma boooooooyyyyy
jinzo
couldnt have make it without ya
Your views to subs crazy bro 😅 super good content. Your presentation is what makes your content so good. Idc about yugioh really at all. But your dialog makes it way more interesting then it really it. Keep doing shit you like. It translates great to the viewer 👍
This was my second YGO game after Dark Duel Stories, and the first one with proper rules. I used to play the TCG too back in the day, but with little to no actual understanding of the rules. The wording of the effects was ambiguous as hell and for many of us the anime was the only source we got our basic grasp of the game from. So one could say that I started to learn the game properly thanks to this game.
Something to note is that each of the three starter decks have two variants, and you just get whichever one the game feels like giving you. The black deck can also give you Exodia and its pieces, but there's nothing in the rest of the deck to back it up. I like the other black deck with Slate Warrior and Jinzo because Slate Warrior is a 1900 ATK Level 4 that's a pain in the neck to get otherwise in a game where those are really valuable, and Jinzo is Jinzo.
Passing time definitely is a reasonable thing to do early because as it comes up, the magazine can give you Dunames Dark Witch whose 1800 ATK on a Level 4 is very nice when it's early and the game is happy to beat your ass.
Yeah, Joey's no beginner duelist here. He's harsh with those damn Goblin Attack Forces and Zombyra the Darks. Even if you're loaded up with Gemini Elf, Vorse Raider, Mechanicalchaser, and Slate Warrior he just has the upfront pressure to knock one of them out off of one card so he can be obtuse.
St. Joan is a nightmare. I feel like both Tea and Ishizu have her.
The Championship is every Saturday, but it just appears in a different space each time.
Yeah, Strings is... a really, really strange fellow. The moment he puts down Jam Breeding Machine, he's gotten the noose around his own neck and is just waiting for you to kick the chair out from under him.
If you can't rush down Seeker it's probably best to have Card Destruction. If he draws a piece with Sangan/Witch, throw it down and his win condition is kneecapped if not completely disabled.
Really do gotta take 3000 out of Kaiba fast, or have a way to respond to Ultimate Dragon.
That's right about Mokuba. He really does just exist to beat down if you get choked out. It does annoy me that there's no alternate unlock condition though, since that by proxy makes it impossible to get Duke Devlin to show up while keeping a perfect record since you need to beat everyone else on the street, Mokuba included, at least once.
It's funny how Jinzo just completely ruins Odion, especially if he's plugged up his entire back row so that he can't respond with a Dark Hole/Raigeki.
It REALLY sucks how the track that plays the first time you go against Marik never shows up again, even if you get Yami Marik on the street later.
Yami mariks theme is one of my favorite tracks in the game along with shadis and ishizus honestly
Algorithm somehow threw your channel at me and you’re definitely underrated, keep up the amazing work
I almost thought that was zell in your pfp but it's actually Squall LMAO. Thanks for stopping by the channel!
@@gameboylad LOLLL and np!
Oh i get it, Pitbull AKA Mr worldwide 😂👏
I think your the first person to comment on that LMAO
Was waiting for this video 🙏🏼 loved it
Thank you so much for watching it 😭 I got another one on the way between this Friday and next Monday
@@gameboylad no pressure keep them coming when you’re ready and want to we can wait 🙏🏼
Great review of one of my all time favorite games! 👍🏻
Bakura's deck out strat is so odd as it's almost "functional." More often than not though I'd just let Bistro Butcher attack into me once or a couple times for the "tactical" plus 2 lmao, thanks for the Graceful Charity and Reborn you'd draw for me Bakura!
The crazy thing is that there were legitimate mill decks at the time but the devs rather make awkward versions of it lol
Sweet video, hope to see more in the future!
Thank you for watching! I got 2 cooking right now with one of them coming out next week!
I have so many childhood memories about this game, played this a ton.
4:14 I don't know where that Link Cable gif comes from, but it's fantastic.
One of my favorite plays was I think mage power (plus 500 for each magic or trap card on your side) united we stand (plus something for every monster on your side) axe of despair, some kind of trap face down that could negate the activation of something, and Maha vailo with maybe scapegoat. It's been a hot minute.
Maha vailo is such a cool card lol. just fun to see the numbers go high when you equip stuff to it
Second video I'm watching now, yup you earned a sub my man :)
Thank you 😭
I love fighting games, especially the French bread ones, so this video is sick! I also love Yu-Gi-Oh and just got this recommended to me. I wonder how big the overlap between the FGC and Yu-Gi-Oh is?
In my personal experience a lot! When master duel came out a lot of FGC influencers were playing it on stream. I think YGO and fighting games share a lot of the same ideas like being combo heavy. Most of the YGO players I knew were either MvC players and/or Blazblu players when I was active
I remember that in the first duel I did on this game I dueled Kaiba… he did the whole Cyber-Stein shtick to summon Blue eyes ultimate dragon in his first… too bad for him he didn’t have a back row and I drew change of heart that same turn, so I just used one card and won.
heart of the cards lmao
Having 3 copies of both Harpie Lady and Cyber Harpie Lady is illegal, since Cyber’s effect is being treated as Harpie Lady at all times.
OMG that's right! Wait I'm looking back at the footage because I know she has 3 cyber for sure. She might not have vanilla at all but I swear I saw her have vanilla harpies. I'm so use to the new harpie cards that I forgot the old ones you couldn't do that. Other wise harpie decks back then would have had 3 copies of harpie lady 1, 2, and 3 on top of cyber. I was told not to long ago that in Expert 6 some opponents in this game start with fixed hands. This game is just an update to expert 6 so maybe that's why her deck felt ultra consistent. Thank you for pointing that out!
UPDATE! I dueled her just now and decked her out. she does not have 3 vanilla harpies! I goofed up lol. I think I mistook her for having them cause she had cyber harpie and harpie sisters in almost every game I had with her so it felt like there was more. Again thank you for pointing that out! I'll probably mention the goof up in my next vid
@@gameboylad Very glad they didn’t let that one slip by them. Would’ve been silly.
(totally not leaving a comment just for algorithm purposes).
Stairway to the Destined Duel was the first "official rules" card game I played. Something I find VERY interesting is that even before the rules were established, games like the original Duel Monsters GB game had rules set that weren't anywhere in the manga, but would become official later on, primarily the 8,000 LP start.
it's funny how that the one thing that was almost always the baseline was the 8000 LP rule. I think in DOtr it was 4000 and even then you can increase it to 8000 in multiplayer
Man I loved this game when I was a kid. Now and then I still played it in emulator
If you still play it on your uncles PS2 I highly suggest giving the libra mod a spin!
This game was my first YGO game, nostalgia overflow for me
Oh i forgot about this one. I need to replay it. Great job as always. Magic & trap cards was op.
Thanks again for pulling up to the comments. Really enjoy the fact that my videos are that enjoyable for you
@@gameboylad they always brings a smile to my face
Kaiba and Cyber-Stein - that reminds me of a duel I had one time on Power of Chaos: Kaiba the Revenge. He played Cyber-Stein and pulled out Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on turn two... and ran straight into a Mirror Force I had set down on my first turn. To add insult to injury, I had Monster Reborn in my hand, so take a wild guess who I finished him off with X'D
Power of Chaos flashbacks aside, this is a great video - Worldwide Edition was my first foray into the GBA Yu-Gi-Oh! games (Mainly as Eternal Duelists Soul never received a European release, it was a bit outdated by the time this one came out so it made sense they'd release the newer one of the two)
I didn't know EDS didn't make I to EU but I makes sense. They use to release games to EU super late and yugioh was extremely behind everywhere so they straight up missed games
@@gameboylad I know we had Dark Duel Stories as well (From what the wikis say, DDS came out a whole month before WWE in Europe, but still a whole year later than the US release - Forbidden Memories on the PS1 was the first Yu-Gi-Oh! title released in Europe, funnily enough). A lot of the earlier Yu-Gi-Oh! titles in Europe ended up having different promo cards as well, the American release had the likes of Valkyrion, Sinister Serpent and Harpie's Feather Duster... and we got Seiyaryu, Acid Trap Hole, and Salamandra.
Awesome video man. I'm planning to release my own Yugioh video in the future and cover nearly all the GBA Yugioh games.
I'll be honest though, the reason you struggle in most of the duels is because you're running a beatdown deck. I on the other hand use Hand Control so most duels end with them having no hand or forcing them to deck out. The duels do drag on a lot though.
Yeah hand control was the deck to beat at the time. Thing is I try to play the game as blind as possible to mimic the first time playing of the average player. Also I didn't really get many hand control cards lol
Rewatching this video made me remember 7 trials to glory
I remember hating the game as a kid while my friends all liked it
Ill replay it one day, when i do ill edit this comment
I remembered this game having 3 new promotional cards and 2 of them we're broken staples (sea serpent and harpie's feather duster).
Oh damn this game was 100 percent worth buying at the time lmao
9:47 - 9:55
That wouldnt work though. Lady Assailant of Flames removes the top 3 cards of your deck to the banished zone, not the graveyard so Marie The Fallen One Life Point allowance gain would never trigger for the player at all. Since Marie The Fallen One is banished from the game not in the graveyard.
Yeah at the time I misread it so badly lmao. That just makes her deck a lot worse in my eyes.
That’s where the WOC secret police come in. My LGS was proxies friendly until they got an email from WOC threatening them with losing WPN status if they didnt police proxies at events hosted using their official tournament/Companion apps which are used for every commander night
Oh man I didn't know they can do that kind of thing. I wonder how they even figured out that was going on? Someone snitched? I think in magic cards tend to be a bit cheaper because of draft format constantly opening packs. but let to much time pass and some of the card prices sky rocket
We makin it out the shadow realm with this one
hopefully I don't gotta look back
Hey man I love your videos and I’m playing reshef of destruction funnily enough so super excited to see your video on that and your thoughts on the effects and their implementation especially the power ups, honestly I couldn’t stand slifer the sky dragon at all it felt like I couldn’t get through a single turn let alone duel with that guy. Keep up the good work man and I hope to see more of your content be yugioh or whatever else. You’re great dude thanks for the laughs
One of favorite cards from sacred cards is one of the most annoying cards to have in the deck in reshef lmao ( Witch apprentice ). It's weird continuous effects work that way when they got it right in expert 5 and 6 already. Can't wait to finish my video on reshef. Thank you so much for watching and pulling up to the comments!
@@gameboylad I’m so glad you mentioned witch’s apprentice I was wondering if you were gonna end up keeping her in your deck or not lol. I hope you enjoy the game and I like the story in this one it really did feel like an rpg with more dialogue and places to go in my perspective.
I love how out of context it sounds like "Oh, Slifer must be difficult to deal with in Reshef! I've heard horror stories about that game..." But in context its "Oh no, I have to deal with that stupid board check message Every Single Action!"
I like how Mako looked annoyed and irritated when the rare hunter butted in.
Mokuba was perfect for farming cards. Especially CS/BEUD/United/Mage Power/Mega, just to make sure and go overkill. (for those that don't wanna do math, it usually came out at around 12100 ATK)
Also, with that, always make sure to go last for a potential 1 turn sweep lol
Literally taking candy from a baby 😂
Had the international version of this game. It was hella fun
I feel the same way about it. It's worth playing if your a fan of yugioh overall. It's like a time capsule for old school yugioh
The best way to consistently deal with monster reborn or raigeki is to run 3 copies each of magic jammer, seven tools of the bandit and royal command. Help you deal with traps, sweepers and flip monsters so you can get through uncontested.
Great content you’ve earned a new Subscriber man nice choice of background music as well!. I owned EDS so this version didn’t appeal to me it was mostly the same minus the map free roam.
A video about yu-gi-oh! 7 trials to glory WC2005. If you liked worldwide edition I’m sure you will like that game as well!
i think playing EDS or WWE is virtually almost the same experience. as long as you played one, you kind of played the other. I plan to do 7 trials for sure after my next 2 videos on wcs 2004 and magic!
Awesome video dude!!
Thank You! I try my best sometimes
I remember mokuba randomly stealing games from me when he would normal summon Kanan the swordmistress one minute, and blasting me with cyber stein another minute. absolutely agonizing.
They gave him a bunch a troll cards and then a card that can catch you off guard and wipe you out of nowhere lmao
This and duelists of the roses were my favorite games
Roses is my absolute favorite for sure 👌
If you change the status from limited to unlimited you the npc characters become even broken. They will have multiple copies of raigeki, dark hole, witch, Cyber jar, reborn, premature, ring of Destruction, cylinder, mirror force, swords and change of heart lol
So I can basically turn this game into dark duel stories for the price of my sanity? I thought that would be for me alone when I read up on it. I didn't think it would change their decks too lol. This game has more to it than I thought
@@gameboylad Yes. That's how I duel with the npc most of the time lol
@@gameboylad It was the second Yu-Gi-Oh game that I completely in my life.
My memories of this game are Cyber Stein go Burr but I could be misremembering.
Cyber stein definitely goes stupid in this game 💀
God damn I remember this game. What a time.
Dam i miss cave man yu gi oh. I stopped around the GX series on PSP...still enjoyed the series and see what random sets pop up amd such
Holy shit, the stuff with using YGOPro to determine what cards you can use is exactly like what I've been doing for some time to spice up YGO games. Usually I'd use a cheat to unlock all cards and then use the YGOPro collection and pack sim to show what cards i can use. I even developed a system with getting wins against NPC that can be collected then redeemed for packs, starter decks, tins etc.
I can't wait to use this system again for the next game that allows passwords lol
This was my favourite ygo game as a kid; my deck ended up becoming a 1800-2300 4* atk beatdown deck with no magics and only a handful of traps that destroy or return opponents cards. I think I only had 2-3 5-6* monsters, like summoned skull, as playing anything bigger was too complicated and costly for the pace.
i had this game as a kid and it was the shit, lost it when i moved but managed to get another copy last year. There is Duke Devlin too, dont remember how i unlocked him