Just when you think Pokémania ended, Yu-Gi-Oh! Becomes the latest craze. Nintendo canned the license because they thought it would turn out to be a flop like Medabots. The anime launched on Kids WB as a show that followed Pokémon. It was based on a boy named Yugi who found the Millenium Puzzle. He completed the puzzle, and a Pharoah Spirit named Yami came into contact within his body whenever he played a game called Duel Monsters. Duel Monsters is a card game that relies on skill, luck, determination, and heart to win. You can use Magic and Trap cards to your advantage and even fuse monsters to create the ultimate monster. There are different types of rules to each game of duel monsters that’s played, but one always must remain focused, and has to rely on the Heart of the Cards to be called a great duelist. The world in Yu-Gi-Oh! WorldWide Edition takes place in a tournament in Domino City. Seto Kaiba, the host of the tournament, is out to find the Legendary God Cards and add them to his deck and beat Yugi to become the #1 duelist. You play as your own person. You can travel all around Battle City using the map, and depending on where you go, you’ll encounter duelists along the way. When you’re challenged to a duel, a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, begins. If you win, you decide whether to go first or second. It’s an advantage to go second. That way, you can attack first. There are different phases to your turn. Draw Phase: This begins your turn by drawing a card from your respective deck. Standby Phase: Once you’ve drawn a card, it’s now your standby phase. You must now either set a Magic or Trap card on the field of play or set or summon a monster on the battlefield. Attack Phase: If you chose to Summon a monster during your standby phase, you can now enter the attack phase. If your opponent has no monsters on the field, you may attack his lifepoints directly. Main Phase #2: End your attack phase to enter main phase number 2. You may set Magic or Trap cards on the field. After this, your turn is over. With this strategic game comes cards that totally decide the fate of the battle. The minimum amount of cards a duelist can have in his or her respective deck is 40, and the minimum amount is 60. There are 3 different types of kinds of cards in the game of Duel Monsters. Monster Cards: - Normal Monster: Normal Monsters can be set or summoned onto the field at anytime. - Special Monster: These Monsters have more than 4 Level Points, and you must offer monsters as a Tribute to summon them. - Normal Effect Monsters: These monsters are like normal monsters but have a special effect when activated. - Special Effect Monsters: These Monsters are like special monsters but have a special effect when activated. - Ritual Monsters: These monsters are coated in blue cards and can only be summoned by using a Ritual Magic card. - Fusion Monsters: Fusion monsters can only be summoned using a Polymerization card to fuse two or more of the needed monsters. Magic Cards: - Equip Cards: These cards can raise or lower a stat of a monster and are permanent throught the whole battle until the monster is defeated or the card is destroyed. - Land Cards: These cards are played to raise and lower the stat of a monster and can only be destroyed when a new land card is played or when destroyed as a result of effect. - Ritual Cards: When this card is activated you must offer a few monsters as a Tribute to summon the monster connected with this card. Trap Cards: - Permanent Trap: Trap cards are cards that are flipped in able to activate them. They are mostly used during your opponent’s turn to turn the tide of battle. These cards are permanent. - Trap: These cards can only be used once, and they are discarded. After winning a duel, you’ll get to choose a booster pack with 5 cards in it. Choose wisely, and remember to maintain a balance between cards to have a great deck. After winning a fair amount of duels, you’ll face the Rare Hunters. Be careful, if you lose to a Rare Hunter, they’ll take your rarest card. If you beat a Rare Hunter, you’ll get 5 RARE cards for your deck. Visually, Yu-Gi-Oh! Isn’t very amazing. The characters look detailed, but the battles itself look somewhat choppy and uncared for. Then again, the game is all about the card game, so it wouldn’t matter much to the player. There’s background battle music in the game, but it sounds terrible. It’s a mix of techno and…nothing. It’s all techno and it sounds terrible. The sound effects of the cards sound like a broom sweeping the floor, and it’s not very good either. Yu-Gi-Oh! World Wide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel is only for fans of the hit show or players of the card game who don’t want to waste their money on them. If you’re unfamiliar with the card game, you’ll want to stay faraway from this game. Because unlike The Eternal Duelist Soul, this game has no tutorial. It’s also different with Battle City Tournament Rules. The learning curve will take you about a week, but all in all this is a good game that involves a lot of strategy.
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