1. The game was fun at first, but got tiresome super fast due to the fact that a match can easily go up to 20+ minutes, it was *really common* for multiple players to just gang up on you, sort of creating a "don't let them see you bleed" meta and the monetisation didn't help. 2. The Raids were awesome tbh. Pretty fun and it actually encourages people to work together. And the fact that The Monarchs are the bosses was a nice touch. 3. Master Duel *definetly* stole any sort of hype Cross Duel might have had. 4. I *really hope* they actually take the models and animation they made for this game and put it into another, better, game.
Do you remember how long it took for summoning animations? Like half a game was just to see the same monsters getting summoned again and again. When they sped it up, it looked wonky as hell.
I actually enjoyed this game, and you do make good points. The second the other players smell blood, it's a hard fought uphill battle, but i didn't mind. But what made me stop playing and uninstalling this game was the fact that I needed either the same card OR a certain amount of the same rarity to upgrade a card. Meaning I got an unimpressive Holly Angel unless I give them my money and role the dice. I also like that each monster had its own Flavor Text
I kid you not, this morning I thought I would try to play cross duel and no one was online. I can't believe this video came out the same day. I didn't even know it was ending
I mean what did you expect? The game was boring as hell. I tried it out, had a few duels.....and I ended up bored to death. The Gimmick of the traveling grids was dumb. Seriously this was shitty Duel Links with extra steps.
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can.
Honesstly, Cross Duel reminds me a lot of the early experimental YGO video games where they had wacky playstyles and formats. It makes me wonder if they had fleshed it out a bit and released it as a console game with online multiplayer rather than a mobile game competing with Duel Links and Master Duel, would it have fared better.
If they had made it something like a mini game or event in another mobile game to really flesh it out. If it went well then could have spun into its own thing. But to just drop it without really any indication people actually wanted it, probably explains why it met its unfortunate end so quickly. And to compete against your own franchise usually doesn't go well.
I think a franchise like Yu-Gi-Oh is a difficult one to make spinoffs or games w/ revamped mechanics. Duel Links got a good reception because it’s main selling point of being a fast paced and back to basics Yu-Gi-Oh really piqued our interests at the time, and currently it’s still a good alternative to playing Master Duel. Yu-Gi-Oh to me doesn’t have that many routes open for spinoffs. Even if they decide to make a game out of Dungeon Dice, Labyrinth Duels, etc., it won’t do as good as Duel Links ever did.
Because most people don’t want to even give them a shot,if it’s not regular yugioh,they won’t bother. And saying that it’s hard to make something differently for yugioh? I strongly disagree,you have infinite ideas when it comes what kind of game you want to make relating to yugioh. It’s just that one,Konami are notorious for not even bothering with a ip’s full potential and two, most people just care about the card game and don’t want to give someone different a chance. People want tag duels,people wanted something like master duel and people played duel links because it was a quicker version of the og card game.
@@vipersniperpiper6093 the problem is monetization this days Everything cost money You wanna win? Buy this awesome deck! People that don't spend money will either slowly climb up or give up. It's a sad reality.
Honestly I put the blame squarely on Big K's shoulders here. Early on, Yu Gi Oh enjoyed myriad spinoffs and side games. Capsule Monsters, Dungeon Dice, Duelist of the Roses, as well as games made before the ruleset was really ironed out like Forbidden Memories. These games and side projects ranged from failure to moderate success, and I can remember friends being excited about the ideas of different play styles and whacky rulesets. But the MOST money to be had was in the tcg, competing with mtg and pokemon, So Konami pretty quickly put all eggs in that basket. To the point that anything that isn't just like the tcg will fail on two fronts. 1, most tcg fans will ignore it b/c it's not the tcg. 2 most non fans will ignore it b/c they'll ASSUME it is the tcg. A shame really, I miss whacky Yu-Gi-Oh.
@@kaneobscurum6016 Like what Sam said, Konami probably looked at how much money both games were making, Master Duel and Cross Duel, saw how much Master Duel was making compare to Cross Duel and were like "Screw this, this is where all our money is coming from"
I remember hearing MBT described it as being too complex and grindy for new comers, but not work with the knowledge that experienced players had since monsters were no longer consistent with their effects.
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can.
Even though I have never played or watched it, I think it's really sad that it's ending. As a Duel Links player, I think Cross Duel was very interesting and had some really nice features and specially aesthetics. It would be great if Konami were to incorporate some of these things into Duel Links, like character animations or even custom characters that you could choose.
Cross Duel Is Outclassed By The Crosses/Beasts In MMBN6,ESPECIALLY The Legacy Collection Version!With All The Event Chips,Patch Cards,Even The Django/Vampire Scenario!Battle Network Is Mega Man x Yu-Gi-Oh!Send Those Viruses And Bosses TO THE SHADOW REALM!Wish I Could Play The Legacy Collection!I Have A Folder Of PA's IN EVERY GBA GAME!!!
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can.
I definitely agree with a lot of your points. The game was fun, but it had a high hill to climb to compete with Duel Links and Master Duels. Definitely liked the Battle Royale format, but I had designed a deck that I saved free gems for that (and even that, newer cards/strategies made it harder to compete when I was saving for the boss monster that I really wanted to build). Like I personally really enjoyed the Guardian monsters, especially since it allows Maximum monsters from Rush Duels work in a Yu-gi-oh format alongside other monster types. My first real competitive deck was XYZ-Dragon Cannon that evolved to WVXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon. It was fun and I liked a gimmicky deck where I essentially ran all machine monsters to make the deck worked.
The power creep in this game is real. Dark Magician of Chaos turning everyone on your field into A Wizardry beat down Ace was the start of the modern meta. Where you can expect monsters with 7000 atk coming down your lane with only one turn of warning. Spell card being the fastest, most interactive/reactive card type in the game give this a mechanical advantage. Then came Borreload Dragon. Who literally steals all your opponents skills becoming an unstoppable snowball of aggresive pressure. But his design flaw is being a link monster. Meaning a quarter of your deck had to be anticipating him being put in defense position. Then finally came YamiRuler the Dark Delayer, with “Determination” most popular interruption effects like swords of concealing light and Enemy controller not only were powerless to stop him, they boosted his attack and defense by 1000. In a game where defense points matter being able to switch your monster positions and get the maximum value out of each body on the field already is doing laps around the other decks. Add on top of that that he is a Kashtira and zone Locks your opponents setting you up for direct attacks that can only be defended against with a guardian monster and you have a card which is head and shoulders above powercrept clunky awkward strategies like Arboreal Power, or Extra attack. My determination deck with only 2 slots and missing gyakutenno megami but still cleans up.
When was the last time you played? They’ve recently added Morphtronic BoomBoxen, Sky striker Ace Shizuku, and the game finally has Enough machine monsters to make XWXYZ Dragon Cannon consistent and threatening.
This is depressing cuz it actually looks kinda cool. The animations and 3d models remind me of the duelist of the roses and falsebound kingdom games that I loved. I simply never heard of it, so I never played it.
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can.
Yeah, between the P2W and ganging up, Cross Duel was really hard to get into for me. I did enjoy doing stuff with the anime characters, it felt a bit like Tag Force in that way but that was it for me.
I’ll miss that they had effect monsters that usually are just effect monsters have flavor text in their base form in the game. It was a really cool idea that I would’ve love to see that more in other yugioh games.
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can..
this duel show the perfect exemple of unblance. purple had something like the starter deck without any effect monster while you had effect monsters boosting all your board everytime with in final this blue eyes that made you win easily at the end. it look like the first duel of each yugioh season where the hero or a friend fight versus a kids deck very bad. Even Omar (the green player) could not do something even if he played perfectly
Yeah. Bots only exist in the very bottom rank. The people you’re matched with in rank are real people. Not only because they have names like “big caulk” “B.EyzWTrash” and “Ligma” Which obviously konami would never program into the game. But also because they are highly intelligent and you can feel the spiteful hatred expressed in their game decisions. Honestly the psychological aspect is part of what makes cross duel so fun. Displaying dominance. But not overextending yourself to lose card advantage. While also not looking like a pushover is a balancing act. Then sometimes theres no coming back and you can devote the rest of the game to fucking over the person who fucked you over and making sure they get 3rd place and go down in rank with you.
I avoided Cross Duel like the plague. I didn't even really consider trying to play because it was a gacha since Duel Links was bad enough on that front.
I don't see many people mentioning Cross Duel's Raid Boss game mode. For me, this was some of the most fun I've had with the game. Instead facing off against each other, you all had to work together to defeat the Raid Boss at the center of the field. It felt so cool to work with other people in this manner, and depending on the boss, you and your teammates would have to use different strategies and abilities to efficiently take down the boss. Some of the possible combos you could pull off as a team were absolutely nuts. I'm gonna miss this game for sure.
i like that konami has tried different things, but i feel like the only spin off they should ever have put any investment into is DDM, because it was actually a good game, sure its broken to spam lvl 1 monsters and go straight to the enemys hearts but still
This game was clearly created with a lot of effort and love, like there was a 3D animation for every single monster, the voice actors all returned, it’s such a shame it shut down
Honestly I enjoyed my time with cross duel. I especially liked the idea that every monster started off as a vanilla and you got to modify them to gain effects. I just think I would have liked to see more events for it. it was neat to see raid bosses and the ability to have everyone work together. but maybe they could have shaken it up a bit by making different events. maybe have a tetris vs mode where the highest score wins, and losing all your Life points makes you halve your score or something. idk just more stuff going on
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can..
Despite the many flaws of the game, it’s never nice to see a piece of yugioh history ending so fast, sucks to see it end so suddenly, especially since the animations of the monsters looked pretty good and were a nice concept >.>
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can.
Hey TGS, can you please do a duel analysis of the duel between Adrian Gecko using Exodia/Exodious vs Yubel possessed Jesse Anderson using Sacred Beasts? I would really like to know which deck would have really won that duel. Keep up the great work and stay safe.
I just rewatched it, and I feel like Adrian could have won if he'd crashed Exodius into Hamon instead of Uria, the turn Exodius got up to 4000 atk. Because damage was never his win condition to begin with, he had no facedowns he was setting that turn that Uria could destroy, and Yubel literally stated out loud on their previous turn that Eternal Reverse could negate battle destruction, yet Adrian still seemed completely surprised taken by surprise when she used it. That would've changed the outcome because Yubel couldn't have summoned Raviel, let alone Armityle, without controlling both Uria and Hamon. I checked it just now to make sure, and it holds up.
@@EthanKironus8067 Plus Yubel's power was dependent on Darkness. If Echo was really gone, Yubel shouldn't have been able to use their power since Adrian had none.
I kinda liked some of the new-ish play styles Cross Duel had going (Every monster having a skill tree and it being 4 players). Both made me think of Season 3 of the original series. The first half of the season was the virtual world arc where deck masters were a thing: giving sometimes vanilla monsters an effect like the skill trees in Cross Duel. Then in the second half of the season, the Battle City finals arc, Yugi, Kiaba, Marik and Joey were in a 4-way duel to see who faces who in the semi-finals. I wouldn't mind seeing these mechanics again in a new Yugioh game that has a lot more planning. Cross Duel in a way did feel like a rushed project.
I agree with a lot of your points. I played a lot of Cross Duel on the month of release. I even bought packs and whatnot. However, the monetization was horrible. The beginning meta was just Blue-Eyes at max level up because it had the highest base attack for 2 sacrifices AND you get to destroy any single one monster card. The most frustrating part was the dog piling. Like you mentioned, once you are at a slight disadvantage, two people start attacking you and it is damn near impossible to fight back. It becomes a case of, eliminate 1 person to end the match so everyone else keeps their ranking (or goes up).
I don't think it helps Cross Duel's case that, as far as I remember, marketing for this game was _non-existent._ I learned the game existed because I just randomly found it on the google play store weeks before it was released and looked into it. And then since it was mobile only, my phone wasn't good enough to even play the game.
I heard mention of Cross Duel on about... 4 occasions. 1. Crash prone, laggy Beta or whatever they called it. 2. Launch, with absolutely absurd microtransactions. 3. Maybe a month or two in, free to play Z - Metal Tank was the best strategy. 4. Death announcement
I love how the board and the gameplay was for this game but there were problems. Mobile only, now I don't mind this but with battery usage is a problem. Four people at once, I love the idea but that's it. The gameplay should have been a two vs two tag team where one team share the same board but the monsters moving to the other side to fight can be kept. Full field, I don't like boards similar to speed duel or dual links. Animations and music are the two things I really love. IF his was team focus, I would have played more.
Me and my 3 Yu-Gi-Oh friends do a free for all thing where we basically do turns around a table clockwise or anticlockwise with someone chosen to go 1st. No one is allowed to attack until everyone has had a turn and other than that its like normal Yu-Gi-Oh but you choose who to attack when. There are some really funky rules like how Raigeki and Mirror Force can only destroy monsters on 1 player's field due to cards having "opponent" and "opponent's" (singular) respectively and it in general feels more balanced, Dark Hole and Heavy Storm do still destroy all opponent's cards but none of us use them. It is really fun and I spent most of school in the library with my friends playing like this.
Honestly for me it felt like the game was just monster beat down. Spells and traps were more or less just bricks and useless after turn 1. The mechanic of extra deck summoning were almost impossible to figure out and never seen. It was an okay idea and the only real cool thing was the animations.
I still remember me playing it… I always used exodia, and after seeing yugioh sometimes, I decided to play yugioh cross duel but… I couldn’t find it, then I realize is gone
I love the summoning animation and the monster visual aesthetic appear on the field . But i assume it much easier if they turn it into dungeon dice like in the manga/anime cause fans are more familiar with it rather than introducing new mechanics
Personally I don't take twitch stats as a valid way to show if people are playing a game. Viewers watch what their streamer plays. If XQC decided to play some obscure game, that game would be the top of twitch for that day as an example
The animations had so much character and charm to them. I think it was amazing that even trashy monsters got animations because usually, it's only ace monsters. I usually played single player or the event single player/raid because pvp was so slow. At least in single player there was the auto duel button for passive grinding if you were doing something else and also the 2x speed button for the animations and all that. The pull rates were horrendous, though. I got mostly lucky but not as lucky as Sam, but something definitely doesn't feel right when there's an event box going on and you can sink 15 max pull gems into it and still get a duplicate UR if you're *lucky* when all you want is the new boss monster. Also, while some of the stories were very basic and just revolved around the player being in a tournament and meeting the anime characters and having fun, some were really intresting honestly! The Akiza event where the player is also a Psychic duelist that was in Sayer's group along with Akiza was really neat and intriguing and I'm dying that we'll never get the conclusion to that plotline to see if the player and Akiza escape the basically cult. Oh, and of course all the custom voice work was great too. And japanese audio available day one. I see why Cross duel wasn't successful but I think with some simple changes that konami kept refusing to make it could've been a very fun side game for people who arent as into the tcg or just want something new. (Or shorter than master duel because when speed up was allowed the matches are definitely quicker than Master format). If anything I hope Konami learns from their mistakes here but also isn't afaird to try new kinds of ygo games and not just newer ports/versions of the standard tcg. Like I do miss when the ygo video games would try more "out there" things like with Forbidden Memories or Duelist of the Roses.
Master Duel managed to make my phone do that. Apparently it's incompatible but I was able to play for a while since I downloaded the apk. But that meant when they released an update, I can't update it anymore. RIP all the gems and the TriBrigade deck I was building.
I actually made a Reddit post about this. One of the many problems it had was and not limited to: 1.) Never released on PC/Steam 2.) The animations take way too long to finished. 3.) the game itself is a phone Battery eater. 4.) Sometime the rewards were not worth the battles. 5.) Constant disconnects and crashes. 6.) Matches/Raid take too long to finishes. 7.) Getting any SR and UR monster slots after the first slot is a pain to get before the free 10 pull event day. 8.) heavy Monetization Sadly, I like Cross Duels, it was an interesting game and playstyle but the lags really hurt the game.
I'm kinda hoping all those animation assets are reused for a Falsebound Kingdom style game. Seems like a good opportunity for a "new" RTS to enter the market
The game was basically Duel Links but way more complicated. If it was just a 4-player version of Duel Links without all the extra complications, it would likely have lasted longer.
I had one of the most fun duels ever on Cross Duel. Player 3 ended up losing but they weren't going alone. They played Secret Barrel to take down Shark as their last card after taking lethal damage. All my opponents (apart from player 3) were about to attack me directly but I played Mirror Force to destroy them. There were still monsters on the field but they were in Defense Position and I had Red Dragon Archfiend. At the end of the duel, nothing was left apart from Red Dragon Archfiend. I had 8000 life points.
Similar to Blue Eyes for TGS, I got really lucky with the Inventor strat, getting 3+ copies of Sevens Road Magician along with the other 2 Sevens Road monsters. Unfortunate that that strat has rarely won me any games lately, though I have been finding success with Stardust Dragon weenie rush. Also kind of find it funny how they're putting in things that really should have been there from the start in the game's twilight days, such as the daily free gacha and a gem gift to celebrate new events or cards.
I enjoyed the fresh idea of almost tower defense like duels. I liked being able to have monsters I just liked! ٩(๑òωó๑)۶ My phone would tend to overheat with unfortunately . I LOVED being able to tag duel with my favourite characters 💖 I'm sad to see it go SO soon...it seemed like it never had a chance.
A Christ-like Fragrance Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15- Some people like to wear a lot of cologne or perfume. And if they hug you, you will still smell like them hours later. But what is fragrant to one person may not be fragrant to another. For instance, nothing smells better than when you walk into a kitchen where someone is making spaghetti sauce with garlic. And nothing smells worse than the breath of someone who just ate garlic. That is true of the gospel as well. The apostle Paul described it this way: “Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) Some churches have become a little too preoccupied with being the cook, and they’ve forgotten how important it is to confront people with the claims of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we have the delivery system in place, but we don’t have the message to deliver. And sometimes in our attempts to cross over, we fail to bring the cross over. But if we miss that, we have missed everything, because the gospel is the only hope for our nation and our world. It is the only hope for nonbelievers. When we share the message of the gospel, it will be a fragrant perfume to some. But to others it will be offensive and repulsive. Some people will respond favorably. And others will respond unfavorably. But we still need to share the message. We still need to use every means possible to get the gospel out to as many people as we can..
I felt that this game wasn't friendly to new players who were playing casually. If you wanted to actually play and win the game then you need to really work at it and that sucks
Bro it would have been even more stalling cause the meta in this game was stall and just out stall you that's why this game also failed cause every game was basically a draw
Yugioh has so many "things" in it I feel they could try to fit all of it into a larger scope game. This to me felt more like a minigame with extra features
Cross Duel is a brilliant example of the (lost) potential of these spinoff games, my only consistent gripe was that deckbuilding was the hardest part to figure out, i.e. what are good ratios of of monsters-spells-traps. I loved the opening animation and the way that Utopia felt like it was bending the rules when it stacked up a few buffs/debuffs. A console game would have been a good idea; it would have made navigating the menus a lot easier and allowed the room to add more engaging Single Player content--I can easily see a Story/Campaign mode where the plot revolves around trying to revive Exodia. Raid Duels would be a perfect way to display that a fight is more serious.
Cross duel was a fun idea but like you said, the fact that you could just get ganged up on and insta lose was a big problem. The main other thing is that it did seem like it was more of a buy in game than anything, free players had to work for what they got and they had to get lucky as well. If they revised the concept a bit though, it could turn out much better
What's so funny is that they could just make it Commander in a Yu-Gi-Oh! format and call it a day. Like, some effects have to be adjusted to fit the four-player gameplay, but still, would be cool.
I personally liked Cross Duel. Did I play it every day? No. Were there times in Ranked when I felt cheated? Yes (although that happens in every online game). Was it a bit slow? Yes (animations were cool though). Overall, though, I thought that the gameplay was unique and interesting. It’s a shame to see it go, but I understand why it’s going. One funny thing that I’ve noticed is that, since the announcement of the end of service (+MUCH better gem rewards and free daily pulls), there have been more people online in Ranked. Not a LOT more, but a noticeable uptick compared to before the announcement. The one thing I don’t like about this end of service stuff is that the Duel Links rewards (Gems) and Master Duel rewards (Icon + Gems) are for Android users ONLY, which sucks, because the Master Duel icon that you get looks really good (plus who doesn’t want free gems).
What made me actually quit cross duel is how they never address the disconnection problem (which rarely happens in master duel),, and not only that it got worse from update to update, the last time I played I even got disconnected from playing a SINGLE PLAYER MODE (vs NPC), and for me that's the nail to the coffin..
I always appreciated yugioh games that weren’t duel monsters. Dungeon Dice, Capsule Monsters, Falsebound Kingdom was my favorite! Even if this one didn’t stick, I appreciate the attempt at trying something new.
It was a cool concept. Reminds me of the time when Konami released those weird not quite yu gi oh games on consoles. But they worked because they were self contained packages. It's really hard to make a live service out of something that is such a departure from the main thing. Have they made this a stand alone game with online play maybe, then I think it would've been a different story. But Konami doesn't seem to like making games like that anymore. And so, the dream of a World Legacy RPG will never come to fruition...
I’m surprised no one is talking about the thing I thought it failed. Sure, there’s all the stuff mentioned, but the major problem for me is that while playing it, I could use my phone as a personal heating device, and it would absolutely devour my battery charge, though that might also be because my phone battery was in the ‘please replace me’ stage, but still.
honestly i feel like a major thing that caused the game to be quite unsuccessful was the launch it was available in several countries for a while before publishing globally which caused the hype that came up at first to die down as the people interested in the game often couldnt play it
ALL I WANT is for them to make a Yugioh game with a proper campaign to it with full animations, monsters, lots of cards, etc. Just standard Yugioh like Master Duel but full campaign. It's been ages since we've gotten that.
I think a standard Traditional Yugioh game that let you partake in 4 Way Duels (Like the battle city Final 4), or 2 on 1 duels, that you would see in the anime, where the team would have 4000 LP per player and the solo player having 8000 LP (Like in the Virtual World- Yugi and Joey vs Big 5 Tristen). A game with other formats than 1 on 1 duels, would be great!
Konami just doesn't have luck with all that Yu-Gi-Oh spinoffs. CapuMon Chess died after first set. DDM after few months. Yu-Gi-Oh BAM lived a little more than 4 years (2 if we exclude BAM Pocket). And now Cross Duel joins the club.
I played a bit on launch and didn't come back for a while. I picked it up again a few months ago, but mostly stuck to Tag Duels and Events. Till it's shutdown was announced, I was basically only on to grind events and unlock partners. I think that the gameplay and strategy involved was pretty solid but the fact that it was so anti-F2P probably did it in the most for me. As Yugioh Everything brings up in his video, the fact no-one streamed to promote it either did it no favors either. This game might have done twice as well if it was released on PC.
I was hyped originally due to the Battle Royale kind of format. The idea of more than two Duelists duking it out against each other was something I was looking for. The idea was fine on paper, but it really didn't end up working out. I just want a legitimate team battle, like in the animes, put into an actual game that Konami made. I'll admit, the music was good though.
I thought Yugioh Crossduel was going to be a cross-platform 4v4 Yugioh game. Similar to the Yugi vs Kaiba vs Marik vs Joey match. When it wasn't that, I didn't really have interest in the game.
I played this with my gf snd thought to stream when I drew the rare and powerful enemy controller for my blue eyes beatdown with exodia. Then, she quit after a season or two and I immediately knew this wouldn’t be the game to catch on. Real shame.
I remember giving this gave a fair try (about a month), but even from the get-go, i hated how long and boring each match was. I still think they should have just released this as a mode inside of Master Duel, streamline the mechanics so it moved faster, let you use certain cards that you earned while playing the main mode of Master Duel. Not only would that have not cannibalized Cross Duel's potential player base, it would have bolstered Master Duel's features. Especially at the beginning of the game, where there wasn't a ton to do.
