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Amazingly bad considering the potential

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 16
Date: March 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses should have been great. The series is amazingly popular and the card game can be quite fun. Somehow, Konami managed to ruin a game despite the odds.

First, this PS2 game takes the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! and transplants it into the middle ages, with the War of the Roses. The houses of Lancaster and York are vying for the throne of England, and only cards can settle it.

OK, I don't mind that. I love English history, and I also enjoy card games. So into the tutorial we head. While they go over every step in the game, it's one gigantically long rush of about 1/2 hour or more. And instead of letting you practice the commands and repeat them, it's a slideshow-like sequence where you just keep hitting X ... X ... X. You really need a walkthrough to print out to have it all available and ignore their slideshow.

Finally you get to the game. You choose a default deck and take it into "battle" as you try to move across England. Problem 1 - there's no practice! You go from that slideshow right into a nasty battle that many find difficult to win. You are often dealt awful cards that even skilled players find it hard to win with. It's hard to learn the game when your monsters are stomped easily left and right.

At least you might have pretty things to look at and listen to while you die, right? Wrong! The graphics for the cards are awful. You can barely tell what element something is or anything else. Even the important numbers are hard to decipher. And for sound, you get the same droning loop of synth music again and again.

Cardplay is new and unusual, with monsters moving across the board and facing each other on different terrain types. It's sort of interesting but can be extremely frustrating, especially for new players. You do get a semi-cool 3d "quick battle" when the cards meet, but even that is on a boring background and lasts maybe 5 seconds.

Perhaps worth it for the incredibly-dedicated Yu-Gi-Oh! fan, but the rest of us should demand something better next time. This game is an embarassment given the quality of PS2 games coming out today.

Don't Buy This!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't already burned your eyes by playing this horrible Yu-Gi-Oh game don't buy it!! The graphics are bad, the gameplay is bad, and to top it all off, the game is really hard! Use your money to buy something better!

Big Let Down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm two things, a Yu-Gi-Oh fan and a video gamer. And whens these two things collide it isn't pretty. The first problem with its game is the graphics. they are what you would suspect from a PSX and not a PS2. The plot is also another problem, why are we in the 1400s and why can't I play being Kaiba of Yugi. The Final problem, the game is so darn hard, your deck is absoulute weak with very few useful cards and the A.I. is so hard to beat you would almost have a better chance of winning the lottery. In Short, Yugi fans you have been warned rent it first. Anyone else just stay away from this game.

worst ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a biiig fan and this is the worst ever tooo long training K

wouldbe negative 5 stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i hate this game.yu-gi-oh buyers beware this is almost impossible to beat!It takes foreever to summon a blue eyes if your luckey to get a blue eyes that is.If i were you i would just buy yu-gioh falsebound kingdom for the gamecube.If you are buying this for a young child he will be so unhappy so do him\her a favor and dont buy this game

not even yugioh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: April 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

o my gosh. this game is so terrible, i rented it (thank god) just to see what is was like.it has nothing to do with yugioh,your some little model that moves around on a field trying not to get hit.
out of ten bieng the best controls: 2, grafx:7 the best thing ab out this game wich is sad, sound:4 and the learning curve is tough.. do not even rent

Yi-Gi-Oh is not for children

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 70
Date: August 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game will have good graphics and okay gamplay but is just so hard for kids to grasp on (i read a preview about it), and the idea of deuling mosters does not appeal to anyone over 15, so do a favor and don't get this game ( i did play the sample of it at E3), it stunk, THE COMPANY DID NOT SHOW AUDIENCE AWARENESS)

And the stratagy guide is coming November, while like game comes December (thats not smart!)

This didn't even deserve the 1 star I gave it!

not rated for everyone

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My 7 year old wanted this for his birthday so I got it for him. He does Yu-Gi-Oh cards everyday and knows just about everything there is to know about the cards. He was bored with this game in less than 5 minutes. It had just to much talking between the charactors and nothing to tell you how to use them. I took this game back the very next day..

WORST GAME EVER!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Please don't buy this game, it is dumb. The only thing cool about it is the 3d monster action. Over all, IT STINKS!

Not Like Yu-Gi-Oh At All

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What a waste of money. I bought this game because I thought it would be like the card game but I sure was wrong. The cards are not even the same. They have differnt effects. I tried reading the tutorial but it takes at least an hour to fully read and understand it. My younger brothers couldn't even grasp the information. The story line is really fake also. It's not based on the tv show. It's based on a little bit of history but changing the names of the characters of the past to the characters in the tv show. If you're looking for a game that is closer to the card game and show I would buy the Game Boy Advance games: Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition Stairway to the Destined Duel and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul.

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