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It’s weird as a kid I never played this game but Twin Headed Thunder Dragon was my absolute favorite card because of its artwork for some reason I cannot explain and even though it was a fusion card in the TCG and not the most viable strategy to actually use as even with Thunder Dragons effect to search out 2 copies of itself it was still a technical minus 1 in card advantage after going through the process of summoning him. Must’ve been some weird yugioh sixth sense I had.
Don't even mention the crazy one card starter they have in gate guardian, blue eyes ultimate dragon, or meteor dragon, that's 9/40 chance to start, it's crazy
Ah yes. Forbidden Memories. That game where getting a Meteor Black Dragon could take a whole summer and getting trap cards was harder than pissing out a house fire.
Ehm actually🤓👆👆 the AI has a fuck ton of cards on their hands, but because the game can only show 5 of em, it will "change" to the one they actually want to use, making it look like they are pulling a card out of their ass
My dad bought this game for us to play together when I was in first grade. Over the years, we played it pretty regularly trying to beat it ( no cheats or internet) When one of us finally beat this game, idk who was first. I was in 7th grade I still remember the celebration 🍾 ✨️
man your childhood filled with yugioh, to bad in my area when i child theres no gameboy here yer and we only play the game phisically by summon them xD (ofc we know a rule of tribute summon) but for spel and trap nah, at that time we dont understand english and we prety much didnt use it xD, only use monster even with monster effect type we dont know what it effect and use it as normal monster lol, theres a time we summon sliver the sky dragon, back then its attack was X000 and we though is 10.000 lol
As a 5yo kid I just couldn't understand why the game was so crazy hard and why the rules were completely different compared to classic Duel Monsters. I was learning how to play by watching the anime episodes every week, so I really couldn't wrap my head around what those planet symbols were. I was also constantly trying to figure out and remember which cards could be combined and which couldn't. I think PEGI 3+ was too low for the difficulty of the game.
@@barneybetsington7501 He might ignore you, but I will not; so ummm what do you do? because I work and go to school, just got in hence the time... are you angry because there is more Doritos' dust on your shirt than on your fingers? See where the apostrophe is in Doritos? That means the dust belongs to them; give it back hog.
What I did was farm the Meteor Black Dragon, The Red Eyes Black Dragon and the Meteor Dragon. Red Eyes+Meteor Dragon makes a Meteor Black Dragon. By the end of the game, I had 3 Meteor Black Dragons and I could get another 3 by fusion in my deck. And let me tell you, the feeling of having 5 Meteor Black Dragons in the field is amazing.
You can also copy your save file to another memory card and trade with yourself essentially duping your 1 of cards into your main file. Ideally you farm some star chips, save, make a copy of the file, buy a card, save and trade them into your main. Then copy your main save and repeat.
Not just games, it was good in the TCG as well when it released, it was the only real good fusion back then because of the effect of thunder dragon to discard itself from the hand to get 2 copies, and if you couldn't use the fusion in the match it at least thins out your deck, and with pot of greed legal it's good to easily get your 2 card combos
I like how thunder dragon is still useful even now in the tcg and ocg as a card that you can play and use in competitive decks. Yeah back then it was one of the only fusion monsters that was any good because you had real clunkers like fusionist and dragoness the wicked knight as polymerization targets.
There’s only male or female, and the difference between them is clear as day, if you want me to assume you’re something that you’re not.. then fool me otherwise sthu with your lying delusions.
@@leviathan4579 I mean for the most part it's pretty safe to assume a gender. And when it's not, if words can't remedy the situation then the mistake didn't matter in the first place.
Pre Battle City, Joey could probably beat a lot of people who aren't Yugi as he had those massive high level cards XD And the reason for excluding Yugi is more his weird ability to both claim his opponent's magic spells for himself as well, and his ability to somehow break game logic, like attacking the Moon or launching monsters off of Catapult Turtle to increase their attack.
Imagine. Knowing Yu Gi Oh and only ever seen battle through this game 20+ years later a friend of yours introduced you to the actual duels and rulings... Then realizing that Normal Summoning Meteor B Dragon or Blue Eyes without tribute is a bit of bullshit Literally the story of my life there.
I didn't even realize I got an official rule book with my starter tin back in the day. It's funny to think all the time and money and I never knew that you HAD to tribute summon cards instead of dropping what ever when ever ect.
@@BarrickMacready I suppose now that you think about it, it does kinda make sense, because if you could just do that, it's basically going to just boil down to whoever gets the 3k Blue Eyes first or whoever has a God card
@@Handepsilonwell not in the modern meta but those old decks would be slightly more playable. The newer decks would benefit more than stuff like god cards or bewd
Hold up, Seto, Isis, 1999? That means this game had input from Takahashi himself, as the World of Memories arc wouldn't begin until 2001. Also cool that he already had the whole story figured out.
@@vladimirfruitin3118 Although all Millennium Items already debuted after the start of the Battle City arc, which is the single longest portion of the original manga.
@@vladimirfruitin3118 Start of Battle City was in 1999, but you're right in that the game would at least have been in development a year before that. Now that I think about it, the Millennium Items DID debuted before the Battle City arc, in Duelist Kingdom when we saw Pegasus' memories of his journey to Egypt. So it's certainly possible that they debuted in the manga before the game was in development.
I loved this game as a kid who was obsessed with all things Yugioh. What I really liked was that you could turn on an option to play a fully 3d cutscene of the monsters battling. It took forever and added nothing in terms of win potential, but it was still a neat feature.
On the back of the game, it advertises this and I thought everything was a hologram battle, which was pretty cool. But I found that it was a button you had to press to make it happen. I thought well that’s cool, but it takes for fucking ever so I used it like four times before I got over it.
I also played this game when I was a kid and yugioh was booming in popularity. But I remember cheesing this game with a friend making the best deck with two memory cards and that was it. Although I found this game hard, you could win it with the same strategy throughout the entire game. For that I find the game Yugioh Reshef of Destruction for gba a harder game overall than forbidden memories.
They quickly integrated the tribute rule because the very first iteration of the card game (basically when the volume 1 OCG booster pack came out) did not require tributes and stars only denoted a cards rarity. So everyone was running three copies of dark magician and gaia the fierce knight.
@@rcarfang2 a lot of cards also had their atk/def and stars switched around from their bandai counterparts. this might also be the case. for in the bandai card game, you played till both decks ran out and you tallied up the star level of the monsters destroyed. whoever had the highest amount that they destroyed was the winner.
I like how Levels as a mechanic were legitimately spawned by pure accident, but then became key for multiple eras in a row.(sadly, Links decided to be swag, so they have their own type of thing instead)
@@darkwyngraym That is so much cooler than the systems we eventually got, and it guaranteed a fun longer game rather than the machine gun format were stuck with now.
@@rcarfang2 some were even weaker then that lol. Shapesnatch had 1200 attack and 1700 defense. It had the stats of a level 3 monster, yet it had 5 stars
That final gauntlet was insane. Everytime I advanced further I kept thinking, "Finally A Checkpoint!" Only for this game to teach me what depression was as a child. Reached nightmare once when I was younger, lost immediately to two ultimate blue eyes and quit for good.
Dude this video made me so happy. I played this game a lot as a kid and was like wtf why is this so hard. As a yugioh fan boy back then it was so disheartening to get rolled so easy. It's so relieving to know this game was intentionally stupid hard and I wasn't and idiot. Great video
@@basillah7650 How rude. Did you forget there's another real human being on the other side of this comment chain? How often do you call people idiots in real life to their face?
I played this game so much as a kid that i still remember every detail about it to this day. At 16:40 when the spell cards turn " darker" after the enemy hovers over them, it's guaranteed that they're not trap cards. They are traps when they are not highlighted by the darker shade.
@@youtubeuniversity3638 Yeah, I noticed that when I played when they are darker they pretty much always spell cards. Also if you play the game enough you can even tell what monsters the AI has played has played face down based on their guardian signs and sometimes depending on if they keep it in attack mode, especially for the tougher fights or characters you will be farming a lot
The computer doesn't pick the second guardian sign. The computer doesn't account for equips when deciding that it doesn't need to use magic cards. The computer can use a "wait command" on its magic cards. (This one's probably a debugging feature left in by mistake) The computer never plays monster cards face-up unless fusing. Some opponents know the attack and defence of your facedowns. Some opponents can dig a predefined number of cards into their decks to discreetly swap with their hands.
at first I thought it wasn't much when he said "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" then when I pressed x and he said "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I really understood his pain and what this game was about
I had Meteor B. Dragon in my first playthrough, and I never got further than the first time I faced one of the big Palace Guards, because they immediately played Gate Guardian, and I had no Equips. That should tell everyone something about how dang near impossible the game was. Thanks for just further confirming it.
I had the same trouble though I had a good amount of equips by farming throughout the game. Also, getting S/A Tec ranks with Pegasus is very time consuming to acquire the best equip spell cards so I almost always lost to Seto 3rd.
@@Billy_Wyatt I agree that it is slow going. That is why I only play the 15 card mod. You win 15 cards every duel. Then I used the fast A-Tec technique which can finish a duel around turn 9.
Forbidden memories was so hard. It was only because everyone complained about how easy the game before it was so the developers decided to make the next one ridiculously hard. The AI only used cards that had attack of around 800, no more. lol
Played this game for countless hours with my older brother when we were young. He has since passed away and I still come back this game every once in a while and remember those days. Rip big bro
As a kid I honestly thought that the reason I couldn't make it past, like, the third duel was because I sucked at the game. Thinking back now though, I swear to God that game just decided every time I would get close to winning to give my opponent a board wipe. It is also entirely possible that I did in fact suck at the game, AND the game was unfair. Either way, I never made it past the third duel.
@@ianbraun271 No, it was definitely one you were supposed to win. I can't remember which battle it was exactly, all I remember is that it was pretty dang early into the game.
@@devin9594 Ok so in the beginning, you have Simon, the guy who brings you into the past. Then there are Teana, Jono, and the 3 Villagers (all optional). Then Seto and Heishin. After you lose to Heishin, to travel back to present, in the tournament. You fight Rex, Weevil, Mai, Bandit Keith, Shadi, Yami Bakura, Pegasus, and Isis.
I think many of us wish we had our save files from games played long ago. I'm glad you made 8yo self proud! Time for me to dig though my old game list for a hit of nostalgia.
From experience, let’s be entirely clear. Some of the best games for us when we dig through nostalgia is those ones with the barely remembered label that no matter how hard we Google fu what little of the gameplay we remember we take two years to find it again. Because the results at the end of the journey is a nugget of pure amazing nostalgia nougat.
What are you talking about I still have mine. I still play those games because newer games are shit. I keep myself intact with the fundamentals of gaming. Yes I am too dangerous to be left alive but lightning and the oceans sucking me out to sea did not work nor did my mother killing me in a bucket of water keep me dead. Also that time I got stung twice in my spinal cord by yellow jacket wasps but that did not hurt at all. I was in a hot tub and the water boiler fucked up and it got to 241 degrees in the hot tub and it felt warm and toasty and quite nice. I do not know why the other people were saying it melted their skin it felt nice. The water I use to wash dishes is only slightly warmer than that hot tub was so its not too bad. I find it rude to be called a demon. I am weird and proud of it.
One of my fondest memories of this game was trading a twin headed stacked deck and raigeki's to a file as soon as it could trade and beating Heishen at the Palace winning a Mystical Sand only for him to turn right around and say something to the effect of "If you think I'm finished yet" and then getting mopped
I remembered my dad buying a PS1 and got this game for me. He saw me played it and actually would play it with me. He didn’t like Yu-Gi-Oh but he thought the game was fun. Good memories, I didn’t beat it but I didn’t know how cheap it was lol
Kinda sad, me n my friends all beat the game eventually as 10 Yr olds and I've played it through on emulator many times since. You just gotta farm the right cards my friend its a grind 😅
Quick correction: You are fully able to get meteor black dragon as a playable card without fusing for Heishin 2nd. it's a rare drop from Pegasus and IIRC meadow mage as well as Jono 2nd. So the first of the final 6 is slightly different. This may be different in the US version I'm not sure.
@@thejedioutcast804 if you get one meteor b dragon you can duel yourself , and get extra copies , i played this game for months back in the day , and got amost every card
Currently replaying it on an emulator unmodded, I can confirm Jono 2nd drops Meteor Black, it's just a really bad drop rate of 0.1%. Snagged one after going 8/1 trying to grind out Red Eyes, and got a pair of those with less than 50 duels in a streak of luck my younger self would have raged at.
@@ProffezerrOAK you still had to pay for the card in star chips, which you could get at most 5 of per duel, so around 10 per minute with a good deck. That's over an hour of grinding for something like Aqua Dragon or an Equip.
@@JadeIsBunny True! When I found out I could add cards by entering the numbers off the ones I owned I was super excited... until I found out I had to pay for them in star chips. No blue-eyes for me, that grind for chips wasn't going to happen.
I didn't even have to click on the video to know the game was gonna be Forbidden Memories lmao This game tortured me and my best friend as teenagers, can't even tell you how many runs we did only to get smoked by The Final Six.
I played this game a lot a a little kid. I never could finish the game. Almost made me crazy back then haha. Super satisfying to see someone beat the game and actually explain how to beat it. My 6yo self would be really happy 😂
Oh man the nostalgia hitting good right now. I remember spending weekend after weekend with my friend in middle school playing this game on his PS1. Playing multiplayer was hilarious because you had to turn your back to the screen while your friend had their turn. The night we beat this game is a memory I will always hold on to.
yeah i remember when i did that with my lil brother, some times my lil brother would cheat by taking a peek at my hands like pegasus, so i would had to use the number cards and painfully wright down on paper each cards name in the number slot, yeah i did the yugi mind shuffle on his ass, he quit the game after he saw me for the first time summon exodia, he ran out the room crying, he thought that his blue eyes ultimate dragon on megamorp steroid would beat it but silly rabbit tricks are kids, he better be glad it was not real life, i would had send his ass to the shadow realm for cheating in the first place.
This is really bringing me back. Merging cards was literally my past time and I always hit a wall and just restarted... This game was frustrating but also got me so excited when certain cards would do cool animations.
My mind is blown. I haven’t thought about this game in like 15 years. Thank you so much for this. I always liked the weird fusion concept of this game.
the irony is, this game did something card games cant do in real life. so while we do get alot of trash card games nowadays, this one took full advantage of being a video game first.
I remember I was constantly wondering how NPCs could ram my ass so badly. At some point I was lead to think NPCs were blassed with the heart of the cards, since that was the only logical explanation for them being able to summon monsters with 5000 atk in the first run and totally destroy me every time.
All you had to do was collect the cards in real life . Go to password on the game and enter in the unique set of digits that card has and you could claim the card and it was in your build deck. Only real yugioh fans and collectors know that this game was easy haha .
@@ProffezerrOAK Password cards require Starchips to get. Barring Jirai Gumo which costs 80, every card over 2000 Atk costs at least 160 Chips. That's at least 32 S-Pow Duels. Any card with at least 2200 atack cost 800. Every card over 2400 attack either costs 1700/1900 or 999999 starchips.
@@Quicksilvir not necessarily, some weak monsters had the 999999 starships mark for some reason like Nekogal 1, Acid Crawler, Job Change Mirror, Time Wizard end to name a few.
I love how the more videos people make of this game the more we see that almost everyone just kinda played it cluelessly for hours and naturally worked out independant of each other that twin headed + equips is just how we win. Its such a shame that the starchip system was poor except for getting more low cards to fuse up and a chunk of cards were locked behind the PS.
Glad to know I wasn't alone in struggling with this game. Finding all the unique fusions as a kid without knowing why some worked and others didn't was always a blast
I beat this game twice, once when I was a teenager by boosting my twin-headed thunder dragon with water field and a lot of boosters, in the end I had him in at 4800, which easily destroyed their blue eyes ultimate dragon. Then in my adulthood, I actually took the time to grind and got all my meteor black dragons, which was way easier than the first one. I don't know to which one I am the most fond though. I love my twin-headed dragon, but I loved grinding for my meteor black dragon.
Reshef of Destruction is another one of those unbearably hard and tedious Yu-Gi-Oh games. The mod that makes the game not check the field for a second after every god darned action is essential. Forbidden Memories is equally ruthless though. The heck is up with those A-Tecs, all for just one shot at a spell/trap. Good show on beating this. Also, excellent breakdown on the strategy and mechanics. All the necessary information while still concise.
Reshef is one bastard of a game to beat. I think it might be harder than forbidden memories. Speed up feature to help deal with the game checking the field, and starting with max deck capacity are essential.
This video was really well paced and informative. I always found the batshit fusion system in this game really amusing as a kid. I replayed it recently and still get stuck on modern day Kaiba. Your breakdown of the meta was really well detailed and I enjoyed watching your journey.
All you had to do was collect the cards in real life . Go to password on the game and enter in the unique set of digits that card has and you could claim the card and it was in your build deck. Only real yugioh fans and collectors know that this game was easy haha .
Ahh, forbidden memories....that bring back memories....my favorite feature of the game was after selecting a monster to attack, you press square to chose which enemy you want to attack and a 3d animation appears to show how your monster attacks.
I got back into the actual card game a few years back, and one of the best decks at the time was Thunder Dragons. Even though i was told not to, I slipped a Twin Headed Thunder Dragon into my extra deck because of this game, thinking it would be funny to actually play it in real life. That card won me a locals tournament and I swear i heard that "You Win!" Jingle after the game was over 😂
Bro, back then Twin Headed was *the* out against Striker's Widow Anchor and Crackdown. Anyone who said not to play it was a moron. *A lot* of people at my locals had the same mindset, though😬
@@ALadybugDreamsOfAFarmmathematically they weren't wrong. There were a bunch of better cards you could get if you could get the criteria to summon twin headed that also did well into anchor. So calling them a moron isn't the nicest thing if they aren't wrong. No twin headed won a remotely big tournament so there's tournament statistics backing them up as well
I’m 28 now and a casual gamer but this game was my all-time favorite from my childhood and I still like to play it today! I think I got it when I was 7 and of course I didn’t read the rules then so I didn’t know you can swap out cards from your starter deck. I would pretty much brute force my way through with Twin Headed Thunder Dragon and got as far as Pegasus, I think? Took 7 year-old me all day lol When I revisited this game as an adult, one time I “accidentally” beat Heishin with my starter deck. I got the cards to make THTD by my second turn and Heishin played Umi. I know he had cards that topped 3300 attack but didn’t play them? Idk, I must have had some incredible luck. It warms my heart that there’s still a community based this game, just thought I would share lol
I absolutely love the aesthetic of this game and the old school cards. Its funny how ahead of its time it was when you look at modern yugioh speeds and the punishing CPUs of the late 90's gaming era are in full effect.
All you had to do was collect the cards in real life . Go to password on the game and enter in the unique set of digits that card has and you could claim the card and it was in your build deck. Only real yugioh fans and collectors know that this game was easy haha .
@@ProffezerrOAK you're jusd straight up lying. You need stars to unlock any card you enter, and the good cards we all had as kids (blue eyes, dark magician) cost 999,999. Why lie about something so easily looked up?
There's actually a mod that allows you to get 15 cards instead of one, which makes the game a lot smoother to play; and that is also one of the most competitive categories people speedrun; my best time is 7 hours(1 drop), but I beat it in 1:25 with 15 drops
Other than the game being a rng nightmare. I think one of the reasons the game was so hard was because of the lack of information. The game never explained about anything. Fusions, Star Guardians, Starchips, Equips and a lot of other stuff. The manual didn't do a good job of explaining. You were thrown into the chaos and was expected to figure your way out. The worst part wasn't the drop rates, it was trying to find out who gave out the card you wanted. If the opponent has the card that you wanted in their deck, you assume that if you beat them enough times you'll get that card right? No not at all. Most of the time the opponents will give out cards that they don't even have in their decks. So you would waste your time, grinding away only getting bad cards as the drop rates are awful. Despite all of that I love this game. I spent so much time playing this game as kid and just having fun. I had a notebook of monster fusions I would bust out when I got stuck. I now play a modded version which now gives you 15 cards instead of 1 when you win a duel, so you have better odds of getting a good card. Well if you're still reading this comment. Thank you for attending my TedTalk and I hope you have a nice day...
Yeah, without the modded versions dropping more than a card I would have given up on this game long ago. Sure I beat the regular unmodded game in just over 5 hours one time, but it's such a grind hoping for amazing RNG to finish since with few equip cards and dragons/thunders you're single digit percent to beat the final gauntlet of 6 or 7
you could have duplicated cards with 3 memory cards, as soon as you have one copy of a card save that game, start a new game on the second card , trade the cards to that one, also have a copy of your original save game on the 3rd one so you can restore the previous data to the first and trade the cards back from the second to the first, rinse and repeat saves a lot of time
@@stinkygoat2686 No, speedruns disallow the trade function entirely under the rules. Otherwise you would just trade yourself 3 megamorph, 3 meteor b. dragon, etc. and beat the game in an hour.
For me Reshef of Destruction is the hardest YuGiOh game. You can find a winning formula in Forbidden Memories, but Reshef actively keeps you down by making it impossible to buy good cards due to how little you earn from duels, making it so you have to manually refresh your LP inbetween duels (and making you fight five duelists in a row) and being slow as hell because the game has to check every turn for continuous effects. Would not recommend.
The soundtrack in this game is so weird and dark, I love it. And the free duel song is a bop! Never even got passed the tournament as a kid so this was very interesting to see
Forbidden Memories is one of my favorite games. I've been playing it for 2 decades already. It's not hard once you know the game like the back of your hand lol. My dad used the Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon themed deck strategy back then but he rarely could win against me. Good times.
This game was amazing. I and my brother played together this game. We used to write down which monster fuses with which and also equip cards too so that we will have easier next time. I still remember there is a woman in red with with flower head band that fuses with the Wolf😄
I just finish my research on this game, and I'm pretty sure your deck is one of the best out there. Twin Head Thunder Dragon is the most easy, cheap, and strong fusion in the game. Congrats, you're one of the best players to discover it when you're young!!!
I mean this game if you go in blind knowing nothing is going to take over a hundred hours to beat realistically. Not sure about Reshef, heard it's hard too. The game tells you nothing at all about what to do, you click new game and it throws you in with a random 40 cards and asks you to save egypt.
I remember this game, I learned the fusion thing fast and that facedown defense was apparently a Trigger for ANY opponent to suddenly make 3500 atk monsters lol
I still remember the moment I finally got to beat Nightmare on my PS1. I literally went crazy after all those (countless) attempts. Forbidden Memories definitely has to be one of the very few games, if not the only one, I have ever spent so much time on grinding the impossible out of the RNG (Megamorph - Meteor Black Dragon). That video brought back a loooooot of childhood nostalgia!😅
Insanely good video. I just tripped down some nostalgia recently and got wayyyy too re-invested in this beautiful monstrosity of a game. I love the perfect balance of entertainment, information, and pro quality that you brought to this. Super helpful!
I remember watching my brother play against the final six, we thought up so many ways that kids could and now i finally realize that it wasnt us, it was the game 😂
I played this and Duelist of the Roses sooooo much as a kid, I loved them more than Pokemon games! I never got that far in either of them or fully understood the rules, but the one thing I'm sure of was that eventually I got further than my older brothers!
This is one of my favorite games of all time, almost every year I finish it. But currently I always play on an emulator with increased speed, so I don't waste so much time farming. My strategy is to farm Meteor B. Dragon with Meadow Mage 1 and some equipment with Pegasus. Anyway, I had a lot of fun watching your video, I'm enjoying the secondary channel. byeee
Fun facts about this game, not mentioned in this video: -every monster has their 3D model and you can do 3D fights, just for the aesthetics; -there are ritual cards (spells and monsters) but NOBODY uses them and are also hard to obtain; -apart from fusing 2 monsters or 1 monster with 1 equip (for increasing ATK or for obtaining Metalzoa), you can also fuse 2 spell cards or 1 monster with a trap card in order to obtain equip cards or spell cards
The reason nobody used rituals here is because they were made even worse than the real game rituals, since they each require 3 very specific sacrifice monters for it and you had to guess which ones and you can't sacrifice from your hand, all sacrifices had to be on the field for the spell to work and the ritual monsters could not be obtained by other means, even though some opponents would spam them without ritual spells.
This game and Duelists of the Roses made the Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon one of the memorable Yu-Gi-Oh! cards for me, it was always such a cool moment to fuse a random thunder monster with a baby dragon to get a 2800 monster on the field.
I thought the order of the Guardian Stars was decided by the elements that they represent. The monsters’ attacks during the 3D battles change depending on the GS you pick, so when you pick Neptune you pick the Water based attack, which is why it gains advantage against Mars monsters (Fire).
There's a trick to get some decent cards in the very beginning, it requires switching discs on the last turn between your current version and the japanese disc of the game, this will cause the data to read differently and make Blue-Eyes White Dragon a pretty common drop and most importantly, it can also drop you a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, it would have helped a lot in your run.
I love how mountain and forest are translated to English, but umi (ocean) and sogen (meadow) aren't. It feels really random, but I just learned sougen, so I'm here for it.
Wow what a video! You went hard on this one, I remember playing it and not getting far as a kid, and I played the TCG. Could not wrap my mind around it. It also came with a Winged Dragon of Ra card which is why I bought it lol. Only minor complaint with this video is the pronunciation of Seto and Mai threw me for a loop.
I like how some of these characters are reused in other Yu-Gi-Oh spinoff games. Like my personal favorite "Yu-Gi-Oh The Falsebound Kingdom." LOVED that game.
I remember finally beating this game in 2015.. a whole 13 years later and I was so happy. It was like I graduated high school a second time. The simplest yet hardest Yugioh game ever.
All you had to do was collect the cards in real life . Go to password on the game and enter in the unique set of digits that card has and you could claim the card and it was in your build deck. Only real yugioh fans and collectors know that this game was easy haha .
Yeah claim for thousand and thousand star chip, the hours for farm chip for a single good card were way more than the hours for farm that card from wood sage.. this game is easy with internet and know how to drop cards, was definitely a hell of a game at 8 years old
@@timothyturner3195 I totally agree with you. Back then for a child with no access to RU-vid videoe, that game was extremely hard. Nowadays you can just search up who has the best drop rates.. instead of trying to reach 999,999 star chips.💀
I know Yu-Gi-Oh! as a franchise didn't really "need" this game for it's success, but as someone who owned this game when it came out they really missed a golden opportunity to really shoot the vide-games into popularity. As a fan of the card game the minute it came out - you have to admit that the series as a whole had no idea what it was doing. You had the anime teaching kids that the game is played with 2,000LP, without tribute summons, then you had the video game (the only at the time) teaching kids they could fuse monsters without polymerization, and that they could just discard cards in their hand to draw more cards. All in all - it was a good Yu-Gi-Oh game, but the one missed opportunity that would've made this game 1) A whole lot easier, and 2) a genuinely great YGO game was the numeric card-entry in the corner of the cards. It was such a good idea, and keep in mind this is a time where the internet was only in about half of American's homes, and you couldn't just Google search cards for the numbers. I know you can input cards like Exodia pieces, Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes, etc but the star-chip cost was basically a wall. Even if you played for 10 years, you wouldn't once achieve the 9999999 star chips required to buy even 1 chase card. I think the "chase" cards should've been pricey, but not impossible. Ultimately, to the kids who had knowledge on gamesharks for the playstation 1, this game was probably insanely fun. I would like to go back and try to beat this game, eventually - but when games are this rigged, it's criminal. Which is why I refuse to ever give this game a chance as an adult. I do have fond memories, however of reaching the last boss numerous times, and raging so hard that I gave myself headaches...and that was after I basically cheated, creating a duplicate save file to trade myself the chase cards like Raigeki and Dark Hole.
I still have this game, it is awesome, I think the first and last fight is with someone called Heishen or something and you are meant to lose after Atem/YuGi escapes the castle, even if you beat Heishen (I think his name) he makes you replay him until you lose 😅
@@rcarfang2 1. Save scumming. 2. Password in the two cheapest thunders. 3. Fight Jono over and over to get dragon statue and baby dragon. 4. Summon Twin Headed and pray. If you beat him you unlock him in Free Duel so you don't have to save scum any more. You can luck out and get some 2100 cards like Roaring Ocean Snake from him if you get lucky.
That and Reshef of Destruction were the two big games I have no idea how I ever beat them as a child. (I vaguely remember spamming equips on Summoned Skull in Forbidden and lucking my way through with God Cards in Reshef. No phoenix mode.)
Dude, this game was ridiculous. I maybe beat one high sage the whole time. I kept trying to make a monster stronger than Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon but couldn't. Now, I know why. I didn't even know about how the first deck was generated. Kinda figured out the star signs. Good on you for getting through that.
I think it is really impressive how you did the calculations on what cards to use to power through this game. Also I love how, when the final boss finally lost, he said “not again” like it doesn’t seem like he has many losses so idk what’s making him tick like that 🤣🤣🤣
