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this (isnt good)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is just awful. It's nothing like the real card game and the graphics leave much to be desired. Plus the promos (arent good). If you want a good yugioh game I suggest The Eternal Duilist Soul, it has great promos and is just like the real card game.

what a disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Since GBA, came out, I haven't been buying GBC games, but I was curious, so I got this one for my younger sister as a gift. I had hoped it would give her a chance to learn more about the card game, and give her a chance to play people who wouldn't beat her all the time like I did until she developed her skills. Well, there wasn't much to be learned from this game about the real card game, since the rules worked quite differently, and even the hardest opponents were no challenge at all.

Still, there's more to a game than a good challenge and fidelity to the original game such as graphics and plot. Unfortunately, this game has neither. Compared to what current technology is capable of, the graphics were sad, and the game had absolutely no plot.

Perhaps the game would have been a little more valuable if my sister or I knew anyone else who had the game. There is much room to improve decks beyond what is needed to beat the final opponent, and a real person would certainly provide more of a challenge. But, I couldn't honestly recommend that any of my friends waste they're money on the game.

a very complicated game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game was kind of stupid! my cousin and i bought this game on the 30th of november. we started to play the game in the car. after a while i cut it off and cut it back on again. when i went to duel, taya said i couldn't play beacause i didn't have all of my cards! i tried to get cards out of my card chest, but, i couldn't add any of the cards to my deck! ...

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.

SOME GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All ya do is play the card game forever.It gets boring after a while.I recommend playing the card game instead!BOO!

DDS falls far short of expectations

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Disclaimer: I am a serious gamer. My negative review of this game is not based on a dislike of games with rules simple enough that older children and young adults can play. I enjoy less complex games I can play with my kids as much as I enjoy very complex games like Avalon Hill's Star Fleet Battles or Axis and Allies. Also, I am not 11 years old and refuse to describe this game by saying that it is neat, cool, or it rules (although if I did you would probably see "it stinks," "it bites," or it is just plain awful").

I bought myself a copy of Dark Duel Stories last week after much ranting and raving about how good it is by my thirteen year old son. I have played for about five hours (don't want to have a knee-jerk reaction to it) and I feel that I wasted my money. I was expecting a game that faithfully followed the rules of the original card game like the Poke'mon TCG for Gameboy. What I got was a game that has rules that are often vague, that are in sharp contrast to the originals, and don't always work the same from game to game.

A few examples

There is nothing in the rule book that says certain classes of monsters are strong or weak against others (like in Poke'mon) yet I have noticed on several occasions that a weak "light" monster will kill a strong "fiend" monster with triple the attack points. Sometimes, however, a weak monster will also kill a strong monster of the same type.

Regular rules do not apply to trap, fusion, or magic cards. Continous trap cards will dissappear the turn after they are played. The five spaces for trap and magic cards aren't there. The fusion deck zone is gone completely (although some of the cards can be fused without the required use of Polymerization).

If you're thinking it can't get worse.. It does. The programmers of this game evidently couldn't figure out that the text for a card is more important than the picture that was on the original. A large part of the cards do not display the full name because there is not space. Many monster cards have special abilities but if you don't have the physical version of the card or a book that lists them you won't even know about them.

Magic and ritual cards suffer the same text problem but with a twist. The cards have a very abreviated amount of the original text. For example, the card "Curse of Tri-Horne" is identified as a ritual but doesn't say what the ritual does. How can anyone who doesn't have the real card know what the text, "Offer: B.Dragon Jungle King etc" means.

I could go on about this game for much longer than anyone would want to read and take more space than Amazon allows but I think I've gotten my point across. Just in case I haven't the bottom line is this: Spend $... on the actual cards or get a different Gameboy game. Don't waste you money on this poorly programmed game.

Glitchy and gets boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think this game gets boring after a while and all the people you face break all the restrictions. I fought P. seto and he used ragieki 2 or even 3 times!!! What is wrong with that picture?! And sometimes the game lets the stronger monster get destroyed on purpose like when a summoned skull attacks a mystical elf. The Summoned skull dies.

its way too confusing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I got the game I really expected better cause I'm an extreme yu-gi-oh fan, you should not get it. It'll take you days to figure it out, but when you do it's really boring. The cards are cool lookin in all but this game [stinks].

THIS GAME ROCKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is my all-time favorite game. I get so happy playing it that I zone out for hours and foam at the mouth. I think it bites me and I get rabies.. It must be that Blue Eyed guy...ANYWAY...This game is so funky,the only negative is that you have to battle the same guy 5 times to win, OH WELL, Play on Brothers and Sisters.....PEACE OUT

THIS GAME ROCKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is my all-time favorite game. I get so happy playing it that I zone out for hours . It must be that Blue Eyed guy...He rules like no other homie does....ANYWAY...This game is so funky,the only negative is that you have to battle the same guy 5 times to win, OH WELL, Play on Brothers and Sisters.....PEACE OUT

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