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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.

This Game Is SO WEAK!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I went out and bought this game the day that it came out returned it the day after! Konami made this game a joke! What with no way to input cards with passwords, REALLY S L O W game play (the only way to speed it up is to hold down L and R at the same time) and useless cards to start out with, This is the worst game they have ever made!!!!! I'm going back to Worldwide as it is the best!

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.

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.

Big anticipation. Bigger disappointment.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let me just say that I am as big a YuGiOh fan as there is. I play and collect the actual TCG and have all the GBA games. While I will say it is nice to have access to alot of the newer cards in this version, there is NO PASSWORD system. You have to rely on the computer to "give" cards randomly. I have maybe 20+ round played at this point and already have multiples of useless cards. That is not any fun if you can already play the game, and have played with a well built deck. To make it worse the game is painfully S L O W, with no way what so ever to speed it up. The only reason a single game would last 10 minutes is because the computer feels it neccessary to show every card played, for at least 5 seconds, before it proceeds (which may not seem like much but, it feels like an eternity when you got several moves in your head) and shows every phase very S L O W Y. If you take this game at face value, it's still fun because it's a new Yu Gi Oh and the 3 cards that come with it could actually be useful. Although the double of whammy of below elemetary pace and NO custom password system (which makes even less sense, because of 3 possible decks to build) kills what could of been without a doubt the best one yet. I was really disappointed.

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

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!!!

A Big Set-back for the YuGiOh GBA Series

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game could have, and SHOULD have, been so much better. The ability to maintain 3 separate decks is a welcome addition, as are the great number of new cards.
However, the lack of a password system and the incredibly slow pace of the duels make this game almost unbearable. I thought World Wide Edition was a much more enjoyable game.

Worth it?! YOU BET! If you believe me, look up Sarcasm!

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

This game is great having all the latest cards, yeah, but sadly with the loss of the password system, the game seriously lacks. They should've allowed us to create our decks, like the decks we own by adding the pass feature so we could put in what cards we have to make our deck.

Otherwise, this game is too hard to understand in the deck building area and a little too hard to get the cards you want. If I were you, I'd buy Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the destined duel and get used to having only up to the LON boosters.

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.

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