Still lacks story made which should be basic in a game that has such good storylines from a successful anime series
The game will start by asking for your name, what you want to call the place where you live in the game. Then you are aked questions about your dueling personality. I won't spoil it so i won't mention the questions. But this will give you different cards depending on your answer.
When you finally get to play the game and duel it's so much fun and really feels like the real deal like the cartoon. This is really due to the fact that they have there own decks. This game however doesn't fully throw you into the action as you can get tips on the rules and how to play when you meet yugi's grandad in the KC shop where you can also buy packs using Kaiba money which you will recieve when you defeat dueliests. There is a map which will allow you to move around and look for dueliests which is a nice touch. However I still wish they'd have done a mode where your character can actually move like on the GBA games.
The game is quite slow to begin with but when you start to duel and gain money and new cards the game is just great. The animation on cards is very detailed and lifelike to the cards you have for real. The graphics are quite good too with the way that monsters are summoned and spell cards are used. There are short videos too which are good but very brief they could be longer. The stylus pen is used to good effect and you can use it for basically everything in the duel. But if you don't like then you can still use the d-pad. It can also be used on the map where you found dueliests.
The sound is good but very repeative which happens very quickly. The main disappointment is still the fact that the characters don't have voice overs. I know that it picky but in mind the only yu-gi-oh games that has this is the PC games such joey the passion.
Gameplay wise you can't find many games that offers more hours of play than a yu-gi-oh game and this is very long indeed. The fact that there are around 20 packs too get and over 1000 cards to collect not to mention the fact that you have to win tournments. Then there's the shadow games which is very deadly in the way that if you lose it's gameover so be careful doing this period. Even then there's over 20 dueliests to find over the course of the game. It makes this yu-gi-oh game a very deep and detailed game.
Finally I think that this is a game should be owned by every single yu-gi-oh fan out there and should be tried by people who are considering or want something different on their DS. Quite simply this game shouldn't be missed and is by far the best in the series. A superb game and one of the better games on the DS.