These are separated by the character who uses the cards or at least follows a theme relating to them. As you play through the campaign, you unlock various booster packs to choose from. These packs are bought with battle points that you earn from winning duels. I’ve personally tried to do as many reverse duels as possible, although some duelists’ decks feel underpowered at times.Īs mentioned before, you can buy packs and build your own decks. You aren’t required to complete the reverse duel in order to unlock the next scenario, but doing so rewards you with more cards and battle points that you can use towards buying packs.
This essentially turns every campaign duel into two duels, which adds more content to have fun with. After you win a campaign duel, you unlock its reverse duel the reverse duel allows you to play the scenario as the opponent you previously defeated. It also gives you access to cards that you may not have unlocked or obtained through packs yet. Not only that, but playing with a plethora of deck setups helps you learn more about the cards and develop new strategies. This allows you to truly step into the shoes of the character and do your best to win with their unique strategies. It’s nice to be able to use your personalized deck against the duelists, but I think it’s better to stick with the pre-made deck. When taking part in one of the campaign duels, you have the option to either use the character’s current deck from that scenario or your own deck that you’ve built. The campaign takes you on a journey through the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, GX, 5Ds, Zexal, and Arc-V storylines, along with a few matches from the newer VRains series.
The game offers a tutorial to show you how to play, but I feel that the game itself is much better when you’ve experienced the shows that it’s based off. For newcomers, I’d highly recommend going back and watching the shows (at the very least check out the original Yu-Gi-Oh!). The scenes are just still images with text, but for anyone familiar with the shows, these are more than enough to jog your memory. Each duel gets an explanation of what’s happened up to that point along with a short scene involving the corresponding duelists. There’s no overworld or anything each series has its own tab that contains the most important or memorable duels that happened during it. The story of the game follows the stories of each series (aka different characters, plotlines, gimmicks, etc) in a cliffnotes sort of fashion.
I actually played the original back on PS4 and loved it, so I was excited to hop back in after four years.
For fans of the series, this is definitely a sweet bonus.
This new version is not only portable thanks to the Switch, but it also includes all previously released DLC for the original game. Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution is actually a port of Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, which was released for PS4 and Xbox One back in 2015, and PC in 2016. Now we’ve got a cool collection of almost every Yu-Gi-Oh! season to date represented in one portable game on the Switch. From the card game, to the show, to a boatload of video games, this franchise has kept chugging along since the late 90s. One incredibly popular, and to this day, still ongoing example, is Yu-Gi-Oh!. Sometimes these worlds would collide when digital versions of card games were made available, which eliminated the need to purchase physical decks and card packs until you got what you wanted. Card games and video games alike were a big part of my childhood, along with the childhoods of many others.