Secondly, it allows you to have Kiba win against Yugi since he’s the better duelist and simply doesn’t have the RNG gods on his side. This does two things: firstly, it is vital to collect many of the rarer cards in the game. By playing with the decks provided for you in a given duel, you essentially can reenact matches from across the series’ history.įurthermore, the game also offers a Reverse Duel option, wherein you can flip the script and take control of the opposite character in a duel you’ve completed. These could include the Deck Recipe for your opponent, the character you utilized for that match or even pocket rare cards from the played decks outright. When you emerge victoriously, you also may collect additional duel rewards. That may sound like a lot of cards, so don’t worry, because it is! Upon completing a duel, you will receive a given number of Duel Points, or “DP.” The number of DP that you receive post-match is dependant on whether you win or lose, but you always get something. Not only does the game’s single-player campaign offer players the ability to recreate over 30 duels from each of the series’ six arcs thus far, from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! to Vrains, but there are over 9000 (insert Vegeta’s angry voice here) cards from across the game’s history within Link Evolution. So let’s get after it.įrom jump street, Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution is playing from ahead and has something for quite literally every generation of Duel Monsters player. Furthermore, I’m going to operate under the assumption that if you’re reading this review, then you already possess, at minimum, surface-level knowledge of the actual card game and are here to get my take on how the latest video game adaptation translates that. I won’t spend time explaining all of the 8 million mechanics that the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game is made up of in its present state, but suffice to say its depth is substantial. This, however, is but a paltry sampling of what the game is once you dive into the weeds. However, you’re still subject to Lady Luck when it comes to the cards drawn. That is to say, provided one deck doesn’t possess demonstrably better cards than the other, the game will always come down to who is the better strategist. Yu-Gi-Oh! is a lot of back-and-forth exchanges (unless you’re playing with an OTK deck that doesn’t provide that opportunity, but we’ll come back to that). This is complicated by Spell and Trap cards that your opponent can set up on the back row of their field to protect their monsters from being destroyed, or to counterattack yours. That being said, the fun strategy of summoning monsters and attempting to defeat your opponent while dodging numerous Spell and Trap cards that seek to stand in your way remains.Īt its core premise, Duel Monsters is quite simple: summon various monsters to the field and attempt to lower your opponent’s Life Points (or LP for short) to a big fat goose egg. The game has changed immensely since the early 2000s. I must have made my face out loud because, after a brief pause, he said, “Just come over already, and I’ll show you!” Back in 2002, after Upper Deck obtained the rights to print the TCG in the West, the game took all of 15 minutes worth of an explanation and then a single practice duel to learn what were, at the time, the simple mechanics of Duel Monsters. I will never forget the very first time one of my friends tried to explain Yu-Gi-Oh! to me over the phone. We pocketed our lunch money and chose to spend it on booster packs instead of food, as any respectable teen would. Throughout my middle school and early high school years, my friends and I would spend countless hours trading, dueling, and collecting the Duel Monsters cards. Much like the phenomenon that was (and still is to this day) Pokémon, the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and trading card game hit the West when I was the target age for the product, and they hit the bullseye. So, when Konami announced that Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution was coming to Nintendo Switch, I got hyped. However, it has been quite some time since we last had a full-blown entry in this series, with the last one (that wasn’t for mobile smartphones) being Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal World Carnival in September of 2014. Konami would eventually do the same with the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters card game on several of Nintendo’s handheld systems over the next decade.
The ability to take everyone’s favorite new card game on the go without the worry of dropping your binder or deck box and losing their prized collection of cards was an instant hit. and Hudson Soft, developed a digital version of the already exploding Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Nintendo GameBoy Color.
In 1998 Nintendo, along with Creatures Inc. I’m going to date myself a bit here while I reminisce for a moment.
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