Can You Beat Yugioh: Duelist of the Roses Without Any Monsters?

[@Jon_Oh]

Well... guess i won't be moving on to duelist of roses after the forbidden memories challenge runs😅 Can't top a zero monster run 🎉 good job!

[@RobinandZephyr]

Thanks, man! Saw your FM stuff; half the reason I tackled this at all! 👍👍 Could always forgo the use of spells and traps. “Pyro monsters” ONLY, no exceptions. If you could even fill a deck with that… LMAO

[@fryhtan6674]

You're not getting out of it that easily. XD

[@dalebumpaous1502]

Seems to me like having to try to win with specific monsters would be harder than trying to win through burn in this game

[@Emperorwolf999]

nooooo please do DOTR

[@TheTeddyGuy28]

I so desperately want you to do DOTR runs my guy lol.

[@brysonlepage3003]

If i remember correctly, in the White Rose path Seto actually does send you back, whereas Henry "Yugi" Tudor's ending doesn’t say this and its implied he wipes you from the history books

[@AnakhaSilver]

And likely dumps you somewhere to just Exist.

[@appelofdoom8211]

Honestly going with Seto rosenkreuz just makes sense from a story perspective as he actually gives you a reason to join him besides "i summoned you from your cozy life to fight in my war, you should work with me." Anyway fuck yugi Tudor

[@NovaCrackers]

Yes, this is true. The White Rose path also reveals that Yugi Tudor's army expected you to just be a disposable pawn. Very cool idea to make the idea of the "right path" ambiguous.

[@skeleton_magic]

The whole thing Christian Rosenkruz just sounds par for the course with Kaiba. The man did find a way to physically travel to the afterlife just to duel Atem for a rematch.

[@MainManJaggi]

He's the one Yugioh character I would legitimately believe.

[@Insert_Bland_Name_Here]

And Kaiba canonically managed to do that in the year 1997, while they still used VHS tapes for movies. Think about that for a moment.

[@thescribe509]

40:40 Ishizu was protecting a spot on the board, as many are programmed to. Any leader that tends to move to a particular spot (or stays on their opening spot) is actually often defending a hidden card that you can only unlock by entering the space where it is with your Deck Leader. Ishizu stormed the center and then held that spot because there's a hidden card on the exact center square. Some players never find this out, because whether or not you can find hidden cards on the board is actually dependent on what leader you have and what Rank it is. Pegasus, for example, sits on his starting space no matter what because on his starting space, there's a hidden card. Jasper has a hidden card in his little Exodia Fort. Both Card Guardians have a hidden card on the center square.

[@game84cube]

I'm assuming when they get there, it's like their own Destiny Draw and they collect the card for their next play?

[@thescribe509]

@@game84cube No, it's added to your collection and can be played with. It's the only source of a few rare cards and basically all the immortal type cards. nothing happens if the opposing deck leader goes there

[@kylesherlock3859]

Yes I remember accidentally finding those when I was a teen. After the battle you usually get a deck master rank up prompt but instead you get a “you discovered X card”. I remember some were slate warrior, psychic kappa, orichalcos shuneros or whatever, looks like it, except yellow. And souleater?

[@FateStayN1ght]

"If Tea draws into tenderness too soon you will lose the duel". A sentence no yu gi oh player has ever heard before.

[@zigazav1]

When it matters for her to step up and duel, she's won, in the few times in the anime that happened. Makes sense why she'd be tough in this challenge

[@Quandry1]

@@zigazav1 If I remember right doesn't she actually have the highest win rate of any of the duelists despite never really dueling in the manga or anime?

[@icefiredragon94]

​@@Quandry1 Yep, won all the casual matches before class against her friends, mai surrendered, and she beat crump for a staggering 100% win rate lmao

[@Quandry1]

@@icefiredragon94 that's what I thought... and had like 4 or 5 duels shown that she all won from what I remember.. but it's been a long time.

[@calza1990]

Fair 😂

[@Fang1st]

the 'half food' part is probably meant for 'surf n' turf, a common food term considering the map had plains and water for that half of the map.

[@RobinandZephyr]

Y'know what, let's go with that

[@ShadwSonic]

That moment when you realize your clever idea for a challenge run is secretly the best strategy.

[@Praetarius]

Seto bricking 4 turns in a row? Why, totally appropriate for his favorite archtype the brick-eyes white dragons. The game was just ahead of its time.

[@Randerson2409]

This statement is both 100% true, and will 100% not make me stop playing it in Master Duel, because I have a high suffering tolerance and a fondness for nostalgia lol

[@Praetarius]

@@Randerson2409 hey, as long as you're having fun with it, keep at it!

[@zigazav1]

@@Randerson2409 At least Blue Eyes White Dragon by now, has several ways to get it out easier than readying 2 tributes and actually getting the chance to sacrifice them

[@Randerson2409]

@@zigazav1 This is also true, but it's still quite prone to bricking somewhat frequently. Worth it, though lol

[@DoctorKingWeegee]

The sheer batshit insanity of the Christian Rosenkreuz loredump had me in tears oh my lord

[@Not_Alanius]

And to think he predicted the insanity...

[@shadexvii3975]

36:03 panik’s AI is super funky. Of all the duelists, he’s probably the one with the most erratic playstyle.

[@EJmoray]

I'd say pain in the ass because he always spams traps at me.

[@donovanewing1820]

Clicking the video expecting a challenge run, left with a new understanding of history and Christianity

[@darkprelude3155]

Let me say that this is one of my favorite Yu-gi-oh games of all time. Me and my brother would play it so much that it was fun even to lose. He was really good at the game and still plays it even now. To see the ENTIRETY of the game be bricked by only Magic and Traps is something I never thought to see. By far this video was an enjoyment the whole way through!

[@DustD.Reaper]

Christan "Seto" Rosekreuz backstory in a nutshell: "screw the rules, I am the reincarnation of Lazarus"

[@appelofdoom8211]

Good to see Tea godner is living up to her undefeated streak in the anime by being a potentially unwinnable fight Also I would say someone should save Heat from the garbage but if getting used in dds2 isn't enough to do that nothing is.

[@funbro99]

The fact she unironically hasnt lost a single time is..unnerving.

[@zigazav1]

Partially why she's undefeated in the anime, is because of how few duels she actually participated in the anime. I only remember one time she dueled in the Duelist Kingdom arc of the anime, and that time she was dueling for Yugi, who was feeling very sad over something very important, and wasn't in the emotional state to duel. Considering the fact she's been Yugi's friend far longer than any of Yugi's other friends has, it makes sense she'd step in to duel for Yugi. Anyone who's read the early volumes of the manga knows that who the English dub of the anime calls Joey, was not Yugi's friend from the start. Infact, he was one of Yugi's bullies who picked on him, until Yugi defended him against a bully who was targeting "Joey", and got beat up for doing so. The Duelist Kingdom arc I think even had a flashback sequence in it showing that scene. As I remember hearing it dubbed in English

[@appelofdoom8211]

@@zigazav1 she also beat Joey several times offscreen in like the first or second episode before he actually learned the rules and there was that filler arc. It's funnier to think off tea as this sleeping giant of dueling

[@Kylesico912x]

All honesty, she's really just held back by her deck. She'd probably be competent if she had a better one.

[@withxoutxlife]

@@Kylesico912x You say that, but she absolutely trounced me a few times in a row because I was new to the playstyle and had no real idea what cards were in my deck yet, nor how to synergize them. She also benefitted a lot from my less aggressive playstyle, and managed to power up all of her monsters by quite a lot either via effects or buffs. She eventually ran me down with several monsters with nearly 4k attack, and as it was my first ever duel of the game and I only had the starting deck, I was extremely discouraged by the starting difficulty of the game lol. My first victory against her was due to a successful zerg rush, where I tried to beat her down before she could do her buffing spree. Luckily Tristan's massive dropoff in difficulty gave me the reassurance I needed that I could beat this game. 😅

[@emberthefox4951]

I love how this run turned from challenge run to joke run the moment you realized that the AI just broke due to your obscene strategy.

[@IzraelGraves]

The AI breaks from almost anything. If you pass turn and do nothing, the AI will too. It'll literally let you deck it out (turn out, rather, not deck out)

[@Paddydukes89]

​@IzraelGraves that's poetic

[@emred4653]

İts beautiful

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

@@IzraelGravesthat’s true, my personal way of challenge runs is using weaker card types like plant or thunder or aqua or insect so it’s harder without breaking AI

[@SniperSly]

​@@gabrieldevoogel6225 from what I remember insect is actually cracked if you farm weevil at the beginning to get cocoon of evolution pretty sure that's what I did the first time I beat the game

[@Dw7freak]

I don't know if people actually know what the immortal creatures are so I'll just briefly explain: The immortal creatures are special effect monsters. Firstly, they're unaffected by the Crush terrain and actually gain a field bonus from it. Secondly, they create Crush terrain when attacking, being attacked, and being destroyed. If you use them offensively, you can wipe out enemies on attack declaration. If you use them defensively, you can stall enemies that don't have a way to overcome large amounts of Crush tiles. As a drawback, they are some of the most expensive cards in the game. On the flip side, none of the story duelists use them, so you only have to worry about Crush terrain on maps that already have it.

[@game84cube]

Any examples?

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

Of Immortal monsters? Sure. Shapesnatch.

[@gabrielcamara3713]

Fun fact, Kaiba can actualy see's your cards, he and the final bosses of the two campains are the only ones how can do this in this game, thats why they AI messes up.

[@zaphod77]

Pegasus totally can do so as well.

[@blazingghost9963]

You know, it makes sense that Seto would brick this hard, he is a blue eyes player after all

[@brendanbeta487]

The Christian Lore is something that Seto would completely write to make him seem powerful. He’s literally Gaslighting us

[@MainManJaggi]

Gaslighting? Seto Kaiba built a machine that allowed him to visit the actual afterlife in full duel gear just to settle a grudge with Atem. He's the one Yugioh character I'd BELIEVE.

[@sebia1238]

​@@MainManJaggi time machine he created a time machine

[@MainManJaggi]

@@sebia1238 False.

[@sebia1238]

@@MainManJaggi got any proof

[@MainManJaggi]

@sebia1238 Sure. Two things. Atem passed on to the afterlife following the Ceremonial Duel against Yugi. Secondly, Atem instantly recognized Kaiba. If Kaiba had gone to the past, the only version of Atem he could have possibly visited at any point in time would have been one that didn't recognize him. It could not have been the past. It must have been the afterlife.

[@redmage076]

Yugi field works in his favor in a very strange way, in this game ritual materials have their attack counted after terrain boosts so if a card steps on a favorable terrain and meets the ritual requirement he can use it as a sacrifice. If my memory serves me right, he has the black luster soldier ritual and needs two monsters with exactly 1500 attack as a sacrifice, so he uses the terrain to weaken or strengthen the monsters so that they have exactly 1500 attack.

[@shadowraven12]

This game is held together by string and duck tape, but not good duck tape. It's the awful off-brand duck tape you get from the crafts store when you're desperate. It's one of my favorite games ever, I'm glad someone else experienced just a small portion of its bugfuckery.

[@merchantziro4285]

I like to imagine in-universe everyone is mystified because up until that point nobody in the history of humanity has ever tried to play Duel Monsters with a ridiculous self imposed challenge as this and thought it was ludicrous. Thus as a result nobody is prepared when Dick comes in doing that very strategy, having no idea how to deal with someone with such an unorthodox strategy when they saw the practicality of it.

[@shadexvii3975]

3:52 when I first played this game, I sided with Red Rose and got my ass handed to me repeatedly by Weevil and his insect deck

[@gigaguy200]

Same for me too. If you didn’t get a deck with a field spell that worked against either Weevil or Rex, they tended to steamroll you. White rose gives you less options but it is definitely easier in comparison.

[@dynastygirl2912]

Pick the Thunder Nyan Nyan deck, you have everything you need to steamroll the game

[@shadexvii3975]

@@dynastygirl2912 nowadays I already have beaten both routes

[@Gamingpandacat]

I actually beat weevil multiple times to get an insect deck of my own, ultimate great moth and javelin beetle are really good boss monsters that might actually make the red rose path winnable on a first try if you don't got the insider knowledge of the thunder chad dragon

[@shadexvii3975]

@@Gamingpandacat I mean, yeah, but you gotta actually beat him

[@manyppI2]

I find it funny that if you think about it, huelist of the roses is at least the inspiration for Rush Duel's draw phase mechanic, lol

[@zigazav1]

you're probably right, nice catch!

[@chiefbawor_thegr8966]

The fact that Duelist of Rose Seto is the nicest version of Seto in the whole franchise is kinda funny to me

[@AX-ROSE]

The AI lobotomizing itself around your bullshit deck is so fucking funny. I love old games that just brick when you do stupid shit like this

[@Pudge371]

I appreciate Heat STILL being in the trash

[@RenKium]

It’s his home now, he’s making it comfy

[@appelofdoom8211]

Im sure Rolands keeping him company down there

[@Emperorwolf999]

*muffled* "Your ass is mine!"

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

He stood up mettatron... and then crashed

[@Dw7freak]

When I played the game as a kid, Gamefaqs only had 3 or so passwords on it. I don't know why, but no one actually dug for them back then. But what it did have broke the game. Aqua Dragon and Mirror Wall. Aqua Dragon has the effect to change any terrain it attacks into or is attacked on (except labyrinth) into Umi. As the game can't see the field power bonus it'll give itself until the attack is made, everyone with over 2250 attack will just kill themselves on it. For anything with over 2750, that's where Mirror Wall comes in. Mirror Wall is one of the few continuous traps in the game. Continuous traps can't move while face-up, but as long as they're protected, they won't be killed. Mirror Wall in DotR is the same as the anime, halving the attack of all enemies on attack declaration without any costs. And just like Aqua Dragon's terrain effect, the game doesn't see this. The only problem with this strategy? THEY FRICKEN EXPENSIVE TO RUN! The only cards that cost more than Mirror Wall are the immortal cards.

[@Robin93k]

That's why you use a ton of cheap monsters that can be fused into Kairyu Shin and Aqua Dragon.

[@kingofcombos]

“I’m doing a challenge run!” *pulls out gravity bind* “… But not for me”

[@Ic3Blade97]

The Seto lore was fucking wild lmao

[@DankLordDemaar]

SKATQ70F is the assword for Just Desserts

[@RobinandZephyr]

Hey, you get a password for beating the game, right?

[@Vaerlayn]

"assword" hahahaha. Take my upvote.

[@gracesiemi]

This might be one of the funniest videos I’ve ever watched

[@DimkaSulegnaa]

I am not surprised at all that you can beat DotR without monsters. The AI is about as smart as the AI from Gen 1 Pokemon. Not to mention that speed runs for the game exploit how stupid it is. Awesome video

[@shadexvii3975]

55:33 there’s actually a 22nd duel, iirc. If you have forbidden memories data, you face duel master K, but with a deck that is using stuff from that game. Or something like that

[@Not_Alanius]

Damn really?

[@shadexvii3975]

@@Not_Alanius I believe so. I haven’t tested it yet

[@Not_Alanius]

Now you've got me wondering if there's YT footage of this scenario.

[@zaknelthepony7124]

Oh, you think this strategy bricks the AI? Try this. Get into a position where you have higher life points than them. Then just do nothing. Every turn. Just keep ending your turn. If my childhood memory serves correctly, this will brick the AI into also thinking it should do nothing. And if you keep doing this, when the turn counter runs out, and you have higher life points, you will win.

[@komikittykim7986]

This game was peak childhood for me man. Seeing you beat it with no monsters was absolute goat. 10/10

[@Not_Alanius]

I can't believe I noticed this only now but there's technically an error in the video. 0:34 The grid is 7x7, not 9x9. Still, I appreciate the video for teaching me more about this game's AI and how it can be lobotomised.

[@deltaphazon4688]

I love when people play challenge runs only to find a new optimal strategy to beat the game with.

[@UnknownSovereignty]

This was a trip down memory lane. It's been close to 20 years since I've touched Duelist of the Roses. Probably the only yugioh video game I've played outside of duel links

[@plasmadragoon]

Hmmm I thought there was one final end game opponent after beating both campaigns, I guess that’s what happens to memories when you haven’t played them in years

[@Not_Alanius]

Let's just call these Memories Forbidden.

[@Gamingpandacat]

there is another opponent in the custom other than master K but I don't remember how to bring them out exactly

[@kingofgrim4761]

You aren’t off about seto being able to see ur cards. I know for sure Pegasus can, and I think generally MFL can also read your cards. That’s probably why the AI went crazy

[@michaelcarlton1484]

It's crazy how they basically combined the Paradox Brothers duel and Dungeon Dice Monsters together to create this monstrosity that barely explains its own game mechanics.

[@zigazav1]

Ah, retro games, where the devs put little or no effort in making sure the player gets stuck or lost

[@Aquilenne]

The instruction booklet does a pretty good job

[@Mikewee777]

This was probably the most faithful rendition of the anime rules before they started messing with capsule monsters .

[@ZunkleFunkle]

Just stumbled upon the channel, I really appreciated the editing on the voice acted cutscene segments!

[@FreyRosfield]

I was caught so off guard by "Marmalade Fab Liar" that I had to pause, rewind and listen to it again and it was gold Perfect

[@GooberGoofy-lj5yd]

I love the fact that you mind broke the AI by doing something the developers never expected. That is truly the best representation of what it means to be a gamer.

[@ThePrestoGuitar]

Fucking BASED for the Library of Ruina music

[@BrinkOfInfamy]

It took me until "I shall tell the tale of the Duelist without a single Monster in his deck." to realize this wasn't the actual script and voice acting of the game.... so 30:00 minutes in.

[@RobinandZephyr]

I am flattered to hear that :)

[@ryokophreak]

Woah! Didn't expect this! Should be fun. Lol, I remember really struggling with this game.

[@shadexvii3975]

41:18 I mean…that’s Ishizu normal play. The AI for this game is not often bright

[@samu166]

I remember loving using the fusion combinations for Aqua Dragon to easy mode this game! I made the actual card my deck leader but implemented Umi, other monster cards that made sea terrain, and those fusions to water log every match! Boy that was some fun. Thanks for bringing back these memories for me with this video challenge!

[@ryokophreak]

Ok! Just finished watching. Great vid :D

[@Erick-ux3qh]

LET' EFFIN GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I am so glad to see my favorite youtuber playing my favorite yu gi oh game❤❤

[@sokekon]

You traumatized them. You monster! Good job 👍

[@Lexichuu_]

So, there's actually three extra duelists besides Deck Master K. All involving use of the P2 Memory Card slot. One requires a PocketStation, one needs a Forbidden Memories save on a PS1 card, and one requires a Forbidden Memories save being put onto a PS2 card for some reason. One runs an Egg deck, one runs Exodia, and one runs Immortals. Sadly there's likely not a way to play them on the totally legit PS2. *cough*.

[@retto4390]

Pegasus ai won't ever leave toon terrain. He's like 75% trap cards as well. So he weakens your monsters as low as possible and kills you that way. But he the only ai I seem to understand minus the whole crab walk thing

[@dustinpilon2258]

This has been floating around my recommended for awhile now. Glad I finally decided to watch it. Great vid

[@LamunesADV]

Ishizu uses a Water deck in this game and FM, a light deck in EDS, a Female deck in DDS.... And her TCG/OCG is Earth Fairies Damn girl, for real you can't make up your mind huh

[@cloaking111]

Shoutouts to Fake Trap!

[@Iceclaw77]

As someone who's never played Duelist of the Roses, or even watched a playthrough of it, I genuinely thought the voice acting at 2:17 was real, and was actually impressed by it until the name "Dick Lancer" came up.

[@RobinandZephyr]

This is precisely what I am going for 100% of the time

[@houraisheperd9721]

It's silly that Yugi's side is supposedly losing, but he's got a strong hold in Britain, *and* he has control of the seas to the point you need to rely on a merc to get to mainland Europe. A merc that's on Yugi's side, at that. Either Simon's lying, or Yugi is suicidally incompetent. Also, the second Manawhatever duel had a very easy to break board due to one thing: the crush zone in the center. He does *not* know how to handle it, and he can't touch you when you're at least two spaces deep. Quite frankly, he's an easy duel once you remember that the terrain exists.

[@NekoValtz]

I've never heard anyone call a life gain card in a TCG a "healing" spell.

[@RobinandZephyr]

Reshef made me view life gain cards differently, man

[@Dokurider]

44:47 So in other words, it's perfect role casting. He's Seto Kaiba before Seto Kaiba

[@game84cube]

Well, you know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, then you're probably not Seto Freakin' Kaiba!

[@dannyfox9262]

I played the hell out of this game as a kid. Tristan always does the stupid back and forth thing. He calls it crab style. The players all have a sort of unique strategy.

[@lolialf]

when the supposed villain, is more of a good guy than the supposed good guy

[@RobinandZephyr]

Roses Seto is one of my favorite iterations of the character

[@DamnUsernameAvailabi]

I wonder if the weird AI is the game trying to rubber band for you. Like it can see your cards, knows you don't have any monsters on your board or hand, and starts stalling to give you a chance to draw something

[@RobinandZephyr]

That was my theory; the game thinks we have no board and no hand, so it stalls for us to “get better cards,” not realizing the cards we’re getting are just that

[@dorugoramon0518]

I knew it was Seto Kaiba behind the Georgia Guidestones.

[@jakeschnare3120]

Winning yugioh by checkmate is a sentence I never thought I'd hear 😂 amazing

[@CenetaurmanE52]

48:10 - Even in the 15th century, Blue-Eyes players are doomed to brick.

[@ciboria1]

I really needed my favorite Yugioh/ history AU comfort video today

[@RobinandZephyr]

Christian Rosenkreuz may or may not be real, but he can't hurt you

[@ciboria1]

@@RobinandZephyr As opposed to Mako, the infamous Card Mercenary during the Rose Wars

[@appelofdoom8211]

Unfortunately white Shadi is very real and can hurt you

[@_leper.4155]

This...this is cinema But can you win with only skull servants?

[@princeofhalcyon]

Im remembering just how broken this games AI was. I would just play cards around the enemy deck leader so they couldnt play anything else and trigger the auto win

[@loupblanc7944]

44:21 ...Yep him being Seto's ancestor makes too much sense.

[@BrandonSwinney-j2v]

Panik actually played like the coward Yugi said he was

[@yonokhanman654]

54:01 his one weakness: dying

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

I love that the music used when fighting PaniK was Library of Ruina's Second Warning

[@LunarSoul255]

But what about Deck Masters S, T*, and I? Also feels like the AI is built around winning through monster-v-monster combat primarily, and direct attacks only as a bonus... which makes sense in normal play, since aggressively chasing after direct attacks would leave them open to your own monsters... Remember, aspiring game devs! You gotta balance the game not just for people playing the game as intended... but also for people playing the game by insanity Edit - T, not K, lol

[@OnlyBugmenWantedHandles]

As a kid who didn't get to see enough of the anime, White Shadi was confusing because I didn't know which character he was and thought there was someone else besides Shadi. It's no more 'sus' than brown Yugi in Egypt.

[@whateveraegis3043]

I've seen the ai run over spellbound cards with much weaker cards just to make space even when playing normally, it's probably just a strat some guys use, but still funny to run over a MBD after the spellbound ended just to continue to not attack

[@AlphaSquadZero]

I never knew that about solomon's law book, it doesn't even cost that much. 27:42 emulator moment

[@nutmegdoesstuff1339]

Clearly Seto was just so offended that you brought that kind of deck against him that he just walked away in the middle of the duel.

[@filiptrajkovski2198]

Seto getting enoucg bricks in his duel to build his library by the end of it is peak lorè accurate and peak Blue Eyes player

[@RobinandZephyr]

Bricked so hard I built a heptagonal knowledge chamber

[@DrGamer365]

I'm not gonna lie, I was like half paying attention through like 90% of this video but the Christian Rosenkreuz rant had my FULL attention

[@emamule23]

Fun fact: if you dont attack jasper tudor he can only win by burn,since he has an habit to set defensive. monsters and (almost) never gets rid of them so if you dont kill his spellbounding monsters hes (almost) useless.so te easy way to counter jasper is to simply set goblin fan and burn him or use a monster that can cross labirinth. Btw if the ai stops doing anything that's a pretty common bug in the game, sometimes if you defended too well, or you have too many cards in your side of the field the ai just stops attacking and just put his cards in defence.

[@Degnique]

I love your editing and humour! I just subbed.

[@RobinandZephyr]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@xdfeverdream8122]

The random Kuriboh at the very end killed me. XD

[@EnigmaAlpha11056]

I'm so glad you could get Liquid Snake himself to voice Christian Seto Rosenkaiba. Really adds to the experience!

[@RisingAboveThis]

“Manavida la Vida” Fab Llyr in the distance: “OH COME ON!” Had me in tears 😂

[@FunBox.]

Fantastic video! Love the explanations and strategy breakdown

[@Solidwake]

Well done on the video. Loved the script and voice over. Solid run!

[@thebigdork8030]

Well we can't have a middle eastern man appear in the War of the Roses, the asian people are fine though. Afterall we all know about the trade route between Japan and England opened up by Sir Francis Baconator.

[@fumoffu_l]

So I recently played through this game, and I don't think the AI is breaking due to you not using monsters. I started with Kaiba like you did, and it was actually kind of tough (I had never played before so I was bad at first). The second I got to Mai she was fusing and rushing me down hard. However, after beating the Kaiba story and moving on to Yugi, i noticed the AI acting exactly the same as they are in your video. I legitimately think that you are meant to side with Yugi first, and as a result, the AI is extremely passive. I could just chill in place and the AI would refuse to get within striking distance of any of my face down cards. I think the AI in the Yugi playthrough is programmed differently, and to not take risks. Even if they did a double fusion with 2 buff cards, they still wouldn't attack my 2 cost face down. I still love the video and the idea of going pure burn, but I don't think that has anything to do with the AI. I experienced the same thing playing "normally" I do think in the later Yugi duels the AI becomes more aggressive, and we saw that in your video as well. That being said, you spellbinding his creatures absolutely broke the AI. Though it is possible that the devs wrote some lazy IF statement like "If 3 or more monsters spellboud, turtle." and as a result the AI is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing. Who knows?! Edit: I do agree with your analysis on the Kaiba and Mana Warden duels though.

[@dannydanggang1675]

Ah a challenge the opposite of young me, who thought pure monsters was the best strategy lol I was a dumb kid but this was my favorite game

[@withxoutxlife]

I didn't know Joey Wheeler was in the comments!

[@freyathedragon899]

I think Bonz's field is supposed to represent 'life' (meadow) and 'Death' (wasteland)

[@EoUAnriSparceKurokaze]

54:15 Manawyddan is bid farewell by Dick Lancer, shocked someone knows how to pronounce his name Narrator: o rly? Hold my beer Narrator "And so, with the defeat of ManaVida La Vida..." 😅😅 ManaVida La Vida a k a Marmalaide fab liar a k a ManaWyddan fab Llyr "OH come on!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@RaceBandit]

Great use of "God's Anger" for the big reveal at the 36:30 mark. _(I had to do some digging to find the track name though, since it wasn't listed in the description.)_

[@RobinandZephyr]

The singular song I forgot to put on the list; thank you. Lol

[@sharplosion1]

As opposed to Ishizu's Wind Symbol in Capsule Monster Colosseum. As oppposed to her Light Symbol in Capsule Monster Colosseum. Is this a roundabout way of asking for a Capsule Monster Colosseum video of some kind? Perhaps.

[@RobinandZephyr]

Never played; would have to take a look!

[@ciboria1]

This has become somewhat of a weird comfort video to come back to weekly, as I always laugh of both the jokes, as well as the insane Yugioh Fanfic of British History.

[@RobinandZephyr]

That actually means a lot in a weird way to hear. :) LOL

[@HermitGamerTengu]

This would be a great idea for a fun run on the REDUX DOTR. I wonder what the A.I. would do in that. The A.I. is smarter and harder in the REDUX than in the O.G.

[@almightyk11]

This is the kind of gimmick I would try. What an interesting video. Side Note: If you ever plan on playing Reshef of Destruction, I suggest playing with a code that maxes out Duelist Level. You still need to grind up Deck Capacity, but it allows you to theoretically put any card in if you have the capacity for it.

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Using a burn deck with maiden of the aqua as deck leader is nice irony