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Bad in todays standards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and sound are abysmal. The card pool is small. The game doesn't follow the Yu-Gi-Oh rules. The opponents are random. Get a better Yu-Gi-Oh game.

It's time to duel!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This was KONAMI's first try at making a Yu-Gi-Oh game.....and it was a complete success! In this game, there are five dueling stages. You have to beat everyone in one stage five times, in order to unlock the next stage.

The stages and the duelists within them are as follow:

STAGE 1
- Tristain Taylor
- Joey Wheeler
- Mai Valentine
- Mako Tsunami
- Yugi Mutou

STAGE 2:
- Esp Roba
- Rex Raptor
- Weevil Underwood
- Rare Hunter
- Arkana
- Seto Kaiba

STAGE 3:
- Paradox
- Ishizu Ishtar
- Slysheen
- P. Seto

STAGE 4:
- Darknite

STAGE 5:
- Yami Yugi
- Nitemare (need password)
- Shadi (need password)
- Yami Bakura (need password)
- Marik Ishtar (need password)

This game is cool because if you collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards, you have an advantage! At the lower left-hand corner of each card, there's an eight digit password. When you choose "Password" on the Main Menu, and type in the password - the card will be recorded in your chest. When you beat someone in a duel, a random card will also be added to your chest! But what's this 'chest' ? Your chest is where the game keeps stored all the cards that you have earned so far. Your deck has to have 40 cards, so when you want to add a card to your deck - all you do is go to your chest! You also have a duelist volume. You earn points that are added to your duelist volume when you win duels. Each card has a number from 0-255. Obviously, the higher the number, the stronger the card. So even if you get a card added to your chest, that doesn't mean that you'll soon be able to add it to your deck if you want. The higher your deck volume, the more stronger cards you'll be able to add to your deck. Cards like "Feral Imp" (ATK/1300 DEF/1400) is kind of weak, so it's only worth 27 points. Easy to get even with a low deck volume. Cards like "Blue Eyes Ultra Dragon" (ATK/4500 DEF/3800) or "Gate Guardian" (ATK/3750 DEF/3400) cost 255 points! You must get more points for your deck volume to make your deck volume really high! That way, you'll be able to add very powerful cards like that to your deck.

"Yu-Gi-Oh: Dark Duel Stories" also comes with three random cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game. The awesome game also lets you create your own cards by putting to halves together. Kind of like fusion monsters. Besides that, if you have a Link Cable, you can link two Game Boys together and duel against someone who also has this game. You can even trade cards with them!

Overall, this game is a must have. We all know that Game Boy Color games are so old and unpopular, but this one is must have! This game is one that you will never ever get bored with. I, myself, am not that big of a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh. I mean, it's not bad, yet it's not good. It simply is okay. However, this game is all you could want!!!!!

Not half as good as some of the newer games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As much as I'm a fan of Yugioh, I'm sad to say that lately my oppinion of the game has gone down the toilet. Games like Nightmare troubadour are better.
For one, the monsters have.. Element types?... Sure that makes it easier to win, but it's just... weird. You can't even play more than one trap card, only one can be in play at once, and if it's not used in one turn, it's gone. All the card effects are messed up, so if you play the card game, then consturct your deck in DDS the same way, It's almost Guarenteed to fail. Since when does the Harpie lady sisters say "+2 power for own harpies dragon"?
If your a huge fan of the series, then I would say buy it. Same to if your just starting out. But if your an experienced duelist and have a DS, I say go straight for Nightmare Troubadour, unless you want every game created.

Wicked!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: August 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This Game is pretty much an awsome game. There is one problem: Strings is not in this game. That is what makes Stairway to the Destined duel better. This game has the following duelists: Tristan, Yugi, Mako, Mai, Joey, Esp. Roba, Weevil, Rex, Seeker, Pandora, Kaiba, P. Seto, Ishizu, Slythereen, Yami Yugi, Nightmare, Bakura, Shadi, and Malik.

i love it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: July 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i can just say a word, this is soooooooooooo GREAT!!!!!!!!!

Not thrilled by the game, but the cards are good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The games itself really disappointed me. The gameplay during battles isn't true enough to the real game for my liking (the monsters have elements?!). Also, at the beginning of the game you start with no magic or trap cards making it purely a game of luck. You get more trap and magic cards later, however. The different sections of it (i.e. deck construction, etc.) aren't very easy to navigate through (not that they're complicated, but they're waaay too simple and therefore hard to find what you're looking for). However, the graphics aren't bad for GBA and overall it's a decent game, but it sort of got boring for me.

However, it comes with 3 limited edition cards, so I ended up getting the Dark Magician, Blue Eyes White Dragon, and Exodia the Forbidden One. The Dark Magiciand Blue Eyes helped my Kaiba Starter Deck a lot.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A Great Game~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a really good game. You can also get 1 of 2 sets of cards
the set I have is: searayu (2500 2300), salamandra, and acid trap hole. 2 of the cards from the oter set are: exodia the forbidden one and the blue eyes white dragon.

Mreh....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics were pretty good, but the horrific part was that you had to either buy ten thousand cards to get a good deck or continuously search for codes online. Although my game was pretty messed up, I couldn't go past Joey. I beat Tristin easily, but when I attempted to battle Yugi, it was the annoying Tea popping up and saying something about a Max-Card Limit. And the level of cards were very frustrating. So excuse me if I've made some sort of mistake, but overall this game is confusing and aggrivating in my opinion. But the battes are cool :)

Cheaper at the store.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is under $8 in Toys R Us stores.

DDS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All around this game isn't bad. I wish you could get packs of cards instead of single cards. Traps only last 1 turn, and magic cards always power up by 500pt. Black Skull, BEUD, Gate Gaurdian, and others don't need polymerization or rituals. You should be able to walk around towns and be able to duel. Some people get more than 1 restricted card like change of heart. Crush doesn't have real effect. I hate it when Ishizu uses swords of reaviling light 3 times in a row. Some passwords don't work. Some monsters have special abilities like mammoth Graveyard and they should not have them. Decent game.

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