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A good starter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was a pretty good game. While I was a little disapointed with some of the AI and not happy about things being a little confusing. It was still a good starter game for anyone who wants to learn how to play the card game. Only problem is that my copy seems to have a bug or two. which won't always let me play certain trap cards. Which get's to be a pain. Over all for the most part it is a pretty good game. However I won't spend more than I did on it. Buy the game cheap. It's not a bad game, it's just that after you unlock Rex, Mako, and exct. you don't get anyone else. and you can't play Marik or Seto in this. Which sucks. If your just after the cards, then it might be worth it to buy the game new. For everyone else, buy it cheap or just rent.

I just DONT know!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My uncle works in Konami in the US. I just don't know how to rate this. Even though this is a good game, I reccomend World Championship 2005. I'll tell you the truth, you can get this game, but GET World Championship 2005. [...]. Bye.

How to waste 30 bucks for nothing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw this game I was attracted by how much it was hyped. ADVANCED AI!!!!! THREE DECKS!!!!!!!!!!! MORE OPPONENTS!!!!!!!! Don't be fooled. The AI was beyond advanced. It would pump up a monster, then sacrifice it for a weaker one. You'd find a much better opponent in a four year old. I would have usually been excited for more opponents, but here they just wasted my time. You need to duel someone over and over to unlock someone else. It just gets old. When I beat the final opponent I felt like chucking this game out the window. I am not risking my money by buying another yu gi oh game. EVER AGAIN

Not Worth The Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: August 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I saw this game,I figured since it's the championship,it would be good.How wrong I was.You start of with Yuugi(Yugi),Ryou(Bakura),Honda(Tristan),Grandpa,Anzu(Tea).Beside their pics and names is the type of duelist they are.(eg.High ATK)You duel them ,and if you win,you pic a booster pack with about 5 new cards.It then sends you to your deck page,where you can edit and list your deck how you want to(as if that helps).There are two slots in the area where you find the duelists,apparently when you win a new character comes.I've been dueling each character and winning at least 5 times each.Those slots never get filled.So basically,you do the same thing over and over and over and over again.Buy Worldwide Edition Stairway to the Destined Duel or The Sacred Cards instead.

BEST GAME EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best Yu-Gi-oh! Game ever made. The rules are just like the official rules ( So there is no level $hit ) and all the characters from the tv show are also featured. The cards from LOB, MRD, MRL, PSV, and LON. There will be some cards ( Dark Magician Girl, Wide-spread Ruin )that are later released and some ( Big Shield Gardna, Shine Palace ) that arent even released in America! The game is so great and the promos are cool. Defanitely pick this up!

The other ones were better.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

One day Konami made a card game that had potential to become as popular as football. Then that same person slapped on a corny story that was based on the card game and made the card game based on the story. (I'm confused too.) Then they made a game for the gameboy advance that directly recreated the actual card game, with excellent AI and most of the cheesiness taken out. It was called Eternal duelist soul. Then they made another one with more cards and an improved interface, called Stairway to the destined duel. Then Konami apparently fired all their good programmers and created World championship 2004.

The good AI was gone. Your opponent would summon a huge monster, power it up to haides and back, and then sacrifice it to play a weaker monster. Then your opponent would wait until he had used up his summon for his turn and play 'Dark Hole', wich destroyed all monsters on the field WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY TO DESTROY ANYWAY, MEANING YOUR OPPONENT JUST SLAUGHTERED HIMSELF BY KILLING HIS OWN MONSTERS AND LEAVING HIMSELF OPEN TO ATTACK ON YOUR TURN.

Most people who have played this series complain about the game being slow. In this game you have an excuse because the game play is stuck in slo-mo, wich nobody wanted to play in in either of the earlier games. What made Konami think that people wanted to use up ten minutes taking three turns? The phase change messages are annoying, slow, AND YOU CAN'T MAKE THEM STOP!

Then you can't take passwords off your real life cards and use them in the game and it's almost impossible to get good cards. Worse yet, the cards you start out with would be pleased to be called 'pathetic', because that's much more credit than they deserve.

I have to mention that you can also trade and play against anybody else that has this game. The only problem is: Nobody else has it. The reason for that being that nobody wants it. The reason for nobody wanting it is hopefully obvious by now.

You can't play hardly anybody unless you've played hundreds and hundreds of hour long duels, wich after a few games, you won't want to do. I seriously suggest that if you are reading this review, you hit the back button on your browser and search for 'Stairway to the Destined Duel'. Trust me on this, if anything.

I LOVE IT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. All my favorite cards(Except one or two) are here, plus a bunch of fun new ones. This game is challenging but fun whether you're starting out the game or are an expert. New characters are hard to unlock, but that just adds to the fun. I for one like this game. I wish I didn't have to sell mine, but I need the money. Peace out.

Cheap!!! Imitation of previous games!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: May 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I agree with those of you who think it's crap.

I mean, for computers to cheat(ie. knowing your cards even if they are face down) already exist in previous games like Eternal Duelist Soul & Worldwide Edition. This is just a more advance form of Eternal Duelist Soul. I like the format of Worldwide Edition better, at least you get an identity (it'd be better if you can put you name into it, like GBC ones), calendar, and passwords!

Three decks idea aren't bad, but a waste of time and increase confusion. It also decrease card volume (60 compared to 64 in previous games, I think). Also, where are the Egyptian God Cards?!?! Who wants it to be exactly like the card game anyway? Might as well buy THE card game itself. They should allow use of God Cards except in LINK battles to add more fun to it! That's the short-fall of the previous two, but they haven't fixed that. Like I said, this is just a modified version (perhaps for the worse) of Eternal Duelist Soul!

The only good thing about Sacred Cards is that you can use the God Cards, but the graphic sucks!!! The game-play is different too, they sacrificed card details and effects for stupid little characters and a lame story-line. You should emphasise on the cards, not the story-line or little funny characters, which you can't even change the face of if you don't like it (no names either!) I don't know what those people in Konami are thinking! They probably don't play the games themselves, and don't know what we faithful fans really want!!!

Don't expect much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I don't think I've ever been more disappointed in a game. This game is basically a bare bones version of the Eternal Duelist's Soul. The graphics have been slightly changed for the game board, and some cheesy music added. If you played that early game, you will be quite familiar with this.

The problem is, you don't even get the features included in that previous game. Want to speed up the game? Not a chance in options or holding down keys. Looking for a calendar with upcoming events? Nope. Characters talking to you? Nope. It probably took Konami longer to remove code from the Eternal Duelists Soul than it did to add any.

What's added? New cards? Hmm... A lot of low to midrange (600 to 1500 ATK), along with a couple decent ones. Nothing stunning. Why bother to invent a new card with ATK/DEF in the 800s? New AI? I can't detect it. Maybe they should have spent some time fixing the old AI since the computer characters still do stupid things like summon a good monster, then use Dark Hole or Torrential Tribute to kill it. They will still use a better card as tribute for a worse one. If you use Imperial Order or Royal Decree, they will still play spells and traps even though they won't work.

It is frustrating because this is a bandaid of a few graphics stuck on a gutted version of an older game. Shame on Konami for exploiting the market like this. Don't give them your money.

Good, could be better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, This game is pretty cool. It's sort of like that old school card game Magic The Gathering, from back in the day. The game is modeled after a tv show, popular with small boys. I'm 17, however, and i very much enjoy the game. I do, however, have a few annoyances with this game.
1. Your opponent "cheats". Clearly they know what cards do (the defense points of your monsters), even when they're supposedly hidden to them... which is very aggrivating.
2. It's very confusing, and time consuming to unlock the new characters. It's almost impossilbe to unlock the characters without looking at some sort of online walkthrough, unless you're willing to spend literally months of messing around, (You have to find certain rare cards, beat duelests specific amounts of times, and configure your deck in special ways to unlock the new characters).
3. I think Joey's time Wizard is always succesful (if you haven't played the game yet, or are familiar with the game, ignore that).
4. You don't get an identity. I don't know, there's something satisfying about opponents trash taking you "hey andrew, i'm gonna beat you". And at the end "Andrew is the best dueler in the world" etc. You don't get a name. They could've had you be yugi or something... ah well
5. All the duels are the same, I can't... say... challenge the rare hunters to a duel for our rarest card. that would've pleased me to no end.
6. The levels all look the same, (the color is different, woohoo...). In the ps2 kindom of hearts yugioh, each level was very unique. Some sort of variety would have made it less monotonous (yeah, i know it doesn't follow yugioh rules, but in yugioh, you don't play 15 straight duels in one sitting)

The game is, however, loads of fun. Here are some of my favorite points of the game:
1. You can have 3 decks, very handy. You can make specialized decks. I have a normal deck, exodia deck, and a MAKE YOU DISCARD ALL YOUR CARDS REALL QUICK deck. It's kinda fun to mess around with your decks, and you don't have to worry about messing up your real deck.
2. I get to see all my favorite yugioh characters... they're all there yugi, joey, pegasus... etc. And you get to **** the **** out of tea and tritsam =).
3. I really like the booster pack idea. For every duel you win, you get a booster pack of cards, just like us magic card (or yugioh card, i suppose) players in real life. You hope for the rares, just like in real life, it's great.
4. The sound is pretty bad ass.
5. The game is really long, a good value for the money.

I'd really recomend buying this game, even if you don't know what the f... yugioh is. I'd only started watching the show after i got the games. If you've ever played any of the old (or new) card games, (magic the gather, spellfire, star treck tcg, star wars tcg, pokemon, etc.) you'll feel right at home.

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