How I Beat The Hardest Yu-Gi-Oh Game Ever Made

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

Regardless of how young you were, you learned _real_ fast that Twin-headed Thunder Dragon was your best friend.

[@GETONxYOURKNEES]

I just never knew how to make it

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

@@GETONxYOURKNEES I forget how I figured it. Trial and error I guess.

[@GETONxYOURKNEES]

​@Drilis true. I kind of had an idea how, but I don't think I was able to beat it. I remember putting alot of time in trying though

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

@@GETONxYOURKNEES Quite frankly, I don't know how _anyone_ beat it without a guide, luck, and patience.

[@TheGreatSalsaMan]

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.

[@darkira2129]

"Beloved RNG Nightmare" "Your opponent will kill you in 2 turns" Boy, this game is ahead of it's time

[@trolley13]

Nowadays I watch my opponent combo for 15 minutes as they use kashtira to lock my zones turn 1.

[@gman9918]

@@trolley13 then special summon out nibiru and Watch them cry Finished it for you

[@maxkuozc]

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

[@femto420]

​@@gman9918 "Yeah man pull the out!"

[@Xygard]

@@trolley13 kashtira still better than ishizu tears meta that was nightmare fuel all around the world

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

Fun fact: in the unmodded game, the computers LEGITIMATLY cheat because the game will CHANGE THE CARDS IN THEIR HAND depending on your own moves

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

Wtf lmao

[@FLiY_Tv]

and...

[@wellstherabbit]

It's called having the heart of the cards. 😮‍💨

[@RandomGyaru]

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

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

@@RandomGyaru still cheating

[@simplyskrypt3914]

"Nightmare doesnt have a single magic or trap card. Hes 100% monsters" Wow, who wouldve thought episode 1 joey was the final boss

[@r3zaful]

Man is playing shs ftk in 1999

[@leociresi4292]

“It’s time to D-D-D, DDDUEL!”

[@thefrostwizardgamer1555]

I guess he predicted gong's deck (from arc-v) having 102 percent monsters in

[@four-en-tee]

Superheavy Samurai players be like

[@WeirdWonderful]

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.

[@NineNovem]

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.

[@YTChannel420]

😂😂😂😂

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

It was supposed to be paired with a pocket station making getting cards easier.

[@angelolopez1748]

So damn true lol

[@FknClownShoes]

Game wasn't hard at all

[@TheGachaGourmand]

Took me around two and a half days to get three copies of it thanks to emulation. Still, it's a pain in the butt.

[@firstlast2386]

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.

[@RobotnikPlngas]

I remember playing this game as a kid, I had no memory card, and losing any match is instant game over.

[@rednovastrum2475]

so a weird yugioh nuzlocke?

[@RobotnikPlngas]

@@rednovastrum2475 now that you put it that way, that would explain my obsession with Roguelites lmao

[@filipvadas7602]

Same :

[@whydoihavetousemyname5603]

I guess you took "forbidden memories" too seriously

[@nickkarion]

Even with a memory card, you couldn't save between the last six games of the campaign

[@bathumb45]

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.

[@420mralucard]

The first time I did that was completely by accident at a friends house and we thought it was the hypest thing in the world.

[@mundial200]

Did it with all the cards I had, but only one time each, then I would get bored with how long it was xD

[@nawab256]

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.

[@adamyami2902]

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.

[@ShiriusuNH]

Not only does every card have a 3D model, they also have 2 separate attack animations depending on which star sign you pick.

[@Handepsilon]

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.

[@BarrickMacready]

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.

[@Handepsilon]

@@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

[@fmoney]

Same lol

[@praggodey]

​@@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

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Yeah, me and Thunder Dragons go way back. "Ah, that's a good deck! Shame what happened to Colossus, but, it had it coming." Huh?

[@CreepsMcPasta]

As a kid I always thought I was cheesing the game by making Twin Headed over and over and using raigeki to clear the board

[@diversezebra6754]

Funny running into you here.

[@pooperman2232]

Creeps, what are you doing here? Love your stuff.

[@HackNSoul]

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]

Don't you read cringe stories for kids? To the extent that Goosebumps is legitimately scary in comparison? Crazy

[@CHIVALRYALIVE34]

​@@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.

[@robertlewis4244]

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 🍾 ✨️

[@tubster105]

It probably was pops I highly doubt you’d forget if you did it 😂

[@divinedragon17]

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

[@VieiraFi]

Must treasure that memory

[@albertdio420]

As I dad I'd be fucking honored for my kid to have such a fond memory of me

[@Beetletop]

My dad made me watch DM and he still plays duel links

[@Dexuz]

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]

yeah, and all the millenium items appeared, he probably gave them the rough parts of the pharaoh's backstory

[@Dexuz]

@@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]

@@Dexuz the millenium world started in 2002, also making a game takes longer than a weekly manga chapter

[@Dexuz]

@@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.

[@vladimirfruitin3118]

@@Dexuz i was talking mostly about the rod

[@logans.7932]

I love how Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon is like, the win button in 8 yugioh games over the course of 30 years.

[@r3zaful]

Now we have collosus

[@kauanjos3199]

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

[@al_2331]

I really wish it wasn't a reskin art, It should have looked like Thunder Dragonduo, but I do like the red

[@dark_rit]

@@al_2331 Yeah, how they just thought hey let's use two-mouth darkruler art again because that makes sense.

[@dark_rit]

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.

[@gokufirespit8418]

“Because it was made in 1999 the only strategy is to assume the characters gender”😂 that absolutely sent me

[@leviathan4579]

Like today, we always assume the sex from a person

[@dr_captain5093]

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.

[@emred4653]

many of the card art makes it pretty obvious if a card is male or female

[@Kerim9991]

RIP Yugioh wiki female card list 😔 you'll be missed

[@1dfr33]

@@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.

[@michaelk7007]

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.

[@darkwyngraym]

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]

well that would explain why there are 5 to 6 star normal monsters which 1600 to 2000 attack in the first few booster packs.

[@darkwyngraym]

@@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.

[@lpfan4491]

​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)

[@maluse227]

@@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.

[@dbz1064]

​@@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

[@fakefake2316]

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]

Seriously?

[@danielhambrook3669]

@@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

[@prophechoo]

Yeah i noticed this too.

[@hanql7273]

@@danielhambrook3669 yoo same i remmeber fighting the green defender for 3500 monster, after 200 wins u get it

[@KopperNeoman]

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.

[@teamspeak9374]

I spent MONTHS trying to beat this as a kid and I finally did it with the help of an older cousin, such amazing memories

[@Unidad176]

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.

[@easiestcc6451]

Perhaps thats why Kaiba had 5 Blue Eyes White Dragons in his deck

[@nawab256]

And raigeki happens and you lose your shit. I’m not speaking from experience at all 😢

[@Unidad176]

@@nawab256 It only destroy 5 Meteor Black Dragon. I have a sixth 😎

[@Galafador]

after farming Heishin and Meadow mages for over a hundred times each and not a single MBD dropped, I'm starting to think that the card is just a myth😂

[@mikaelsza]

I know this feeling, and IT'S AMAZING!!

[@blah4151]

When the final boss said "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I really felt that.

[@Randy-qm8hu]

When you commented "When the final boss said "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I really felt that.

[@PlastiGomi]

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

[@TimelessWorldOfGaming]

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

[@canalxpcial5108]

You mean, Duelists Of The Roses...? That one as stupidly the most easy i even played since the GBA ones...

[@xdookmanex7576]

@@canalxpcial5108Duelist of the roses came out after Forbidden Memories and it is definitely not easy

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

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.

[@willh1655]

Meteor B. Dragon will always defeat Gate Guardian in this game because of SUN guardian star sign. It is ultimate dragon you have to worry about.

[@nel9035]

Just choose to correct symbol so m. B. dragon defeats the gate guardian

[@Billy_Wyatt]

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.

[@willh1655]

@@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.

[@abj6920]

The memories are probably forbidden because the RNG in this was the start of a few people's actual gambling addiction

[@NotSoKnownHipHop]

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.

[@devin9594]

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.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Which one's the third duel?

[@FknClownShoes]

You suck I beat this game a gang of times,learn the fusions

[@ianbraun271]

You mean the first heishin battle, the high you are supposed to lose?

[@devin9594]

@@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.

[@ianbraun271]

@@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.

[@Essman614]

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

[@skoottietv]

Yeah he just keeps rematching you until he wins lol

[@roro2.00]

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

[@dirty_dave]

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.

[@blackchibisan8116]

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.

[@jordancambridge4106]

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.

[@e-zombiehero]

I used PS3's memory card adapter to immortalize my save file on a USB and so that I could continue playing it on PS3.

[@ph_grizz4391]

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]

I wasn't an idiot - yes you were now go edit your post.

[@micklethepickleman]

​@@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?

[@AtomLabX]

Get a life, stop being a Bech@@basillah7650

[@officerdooderino5266]

@@basillah7650cringe burner account

[@redeyeskuriboh2839]

@@micklethepickleman Depends how often he runs into them (contrary to your beliefs there's quite a lot of them this day)

[@KylezGotGame]

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.

[@skoottietv]

Of course! This game was super unique and fun if youre were just playing normal tournaments

[@marcosdheleno]

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.

[@baalmolech]

I played this game obsessively as a child and even to this day as a 30 year old I have not beaten the final six. Good job on beating the game, dude!!!

[@athglade2170]

Bro you're 30 now. You can beat the game. Do it for your childhood-self!!

[@xImSaf]

I already did and am now completing forbidden memories 2

[@Nick-dp7ti]

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 😅

[@Ruimney]

There are some speedrun tournaments going on online that you can watch and get some ideas on what to do, if you want it

[@AntithesisEldritch]

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]

You can definitely win Meteor B. Dragon in the US version, I had it as a kid in the early 2000's.

[@JC19171]

Jono 2nd or Low Meadow mage also drop it and at much more consistent rates. Every playthrough I do, via grinding, I have 3 meteor b dragons

[@sodenoite45]

@@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

[@derrickbartledoo2680]

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.

[@will.7]

Yep can confirm. I had to grind 3 meteor B dragon in order to beat the final 6. I don't remember which character dropped it though

[@Stigmatikk]

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

[@capuchinosofia4771]

Lmao what were the devs thinking with this level of rng??? This is madness, i dont know how you managed to go through this! Kudos to you!!

[@protesttheshirou6233]

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.

[@allenhamilton8623]

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.

[@namenlosNamenlos]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ben_sisko2149]

The opponents having a 20 card hand is one of the cheapest programming decisions I've ever heard.

[@NarutoArenaCx]

I remember playing this game as a kid thinking what the hell is happening?! I grinded for days for good cards to even get close to beating the game

[@HackNSoul]

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.

[@NarutoArenaCx]

@@HackNSoul 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I know the pain.

[@ProffezerrOAK]

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 .

[@Quicksilvir]

@@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.

[@Billy_Wyatt]

@@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.

[@s.e.3172]

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 😂

[@ProffezerrOAK]

I was beating this game easily. I collected the cards and I was able to add cards that I had in real life to the game . Shit was sooo easy.

[@RHCPnoel12]

I've beat the original game a long time ago, farming pegasus for megamorph and meadow mage for MBD Finished what they call ''mod 11'' which let you drop the 82 impossible cards(never finished 722 cards libraby tho) then i finished the mod ''Forbidden Memories 2'' that has a lot of new cards, effects, some new characters etc one of the hardest games i've ever played, took me hours a hours of farming with over 500FPS emulator(the more fps, faster the game) they even made a mod that drops you 5x cards in a single duel, even 15x cards

[@N1ckelD1me]

Wow what a grind!! What were the developers thinking?? Congrats on beating this RNG nightmare!

[@darthparallax5207]

Obviously it is either love it or hate it. I didn't know it existed but now that I know it does I love it.

[@JadeIsBunny]

they were thinking "buy the pocket station and trade for strong cards", but that was never released outside of japan.

[@ProffezerrOAK]

You collected the cards in real life and entered in the code that the card has on the bottom. That’s how you added cards into your deck.

[@JadeIsBunny]

@@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.

[@15thobserver]

@@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.

[@Freebs311]

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.

[@RoXasNikeman]

I remeber this game. If you beat the boss at the beginning of the game, it forces you to duel again until you lose.

[@scottriddell3514]

Besides that every other fight is a game over upon a single loss. Not fun isn’t it?

[@Quicksilvir]

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.

[@nickmaster3886]

Reshef of destruction was a great game.

[@kaiserauthoria]

there were a couple like this until stairway to the destined duel

[@robertgeorge4602]

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.

[@WingedEspeon]

I beat Reshef of Destruction on original hardware. It was super hard.

[@christopherkaiser8369]

I don't think i ever beat the final Pegasus duel in Reshef

[@stickybons3319]

I remember renting this game from blockbuster during a sleepover with my friend and it felt like loading up a fever dream. Had no idea what the fuck was going on

[@zeroizanagi]

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.

[@BitBoltShow]

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.

[@ProffezerrOAK]

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 .

[@hydro_storm4527]

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 😂

[@ALadybugDreamsOfAFarm]

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😬

[@praggodey]

​​@@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

[@ALadybugDreamsOfAFarm]

​@@praggodey"mathematically". You *do* realise this is a game people play to have fun, do you?

[@theentity5201]

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]

Would this be viable in an actual speed run I wonder?

[@jayman9910]

Also if you have a lot of Star Chips just buy cards after you copy to memory card.

[@bayumahendra1797]

Easy 3 raigeki started deck

[@Peshuan]

"we then beat May" lol

[@dark_rit]

@@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.

[@DanielNineStar]

I used to love this game as a kid. I never got anywhere near the end, but thoroughly enjoyed playing it time, and time, and time again.

[@DaCheznik]

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!

[@aictopus]

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.

[@onimushatherapper]

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.

[@skoottietv]

Getting reset to 1 is the worst feeling

[@alfonsopayan09]

00:04 yes reshelf of destruction and no, it was not easy and yes we needed a fast forward times 3x to get thru the mains phases and grind, not any grind easy I said EASILY 1000 games just to get meh levels for ok-ish cards to barely even the odds by the first half of the game :)

[@voidvisual]

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.

[@ProffezerrOAK]

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 .

[@higglybiggly1174]

@@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?

[@fulloffool5925]

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😄

[@QwilSchirmer]

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

[@cademulig5097]

Love this style of content Skoottie! Keep up the good work!

[@rodrigofreitas1316]

I remember beating this game when I was 10 or 11 years old. Took me months if not a year. I farmed the crap out of all those different type terrain duelists, eventually after 50+ wins they start giving you the big cards

[@lucinae8512]

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!

[@gustavosm7]

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

[@Terry-hb6wc]

My brother and I had a version of this game that ended up broken and skipped to some weird super leveled boss. Never heard of anything like this before anywhere

[@SpencerTheBard]

Really good video Skoottie, the editing and story telling worked very well together

[@skoottietv]

Thanks!

[@Ccvikings2009]

This video makes me so happy. I always thought I was just awful at this game. Happy to know it wasn’t just me.

[@williamponce5907]

Dude, here I am all excited replaying a childhood game. Only to find out it's almost impossible to beat

[@RealDasaFG]

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.

[@thetrynes]

How did someone even think to try such a thing

[@ArisIgna]

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!😅

[@prospero2405]

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.

[@Raigeko_13]

My mom ende up helping me beat this game as a kid, even all the way through Nitemare, with no guide. Complete insanity.

[@darconious524]

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

[@kumaz3nstone59]

There is a cool feature when you attack in this game as well. If you press square instead of x it will have a 3D animation of your monster attacking the other monster. This game was before its time!

[@dansh3723]

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...

[@dark_rit]

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

[@viralcardbreaks]

This game demolished my dreams when I was a kid… I’m glad I found this video. Brings me comfort to know it is as hard as I remember it being!

[@afelias]

Already I'm seeing a difference in pattern here. THTD required a dragon of decent ATK and a Thunder element monster. So usually you would NOT waste two dragons by fusing Thunder Dragon then THTD, but do something like Stone Dragon then fuse a Thunder into it. You tended to be able to make as many THTDs as you had Dragons and Thunders in your deck, not bottlenecked by Dragon/2.

[@SaulGMV]

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).

[@alexanderleogarza]

Thats correct

[@eriknilsen3350]

If only this was the hardest yugioh game, that honor belongs to reshef of destruction.

[@skoottietv]

Maybe I have to check it out

[@eriknilsen3350]

@@skoottietv lol Its best if you dont. Great video none the less.

[@dark_rit]

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.

[@AliceNano]

I miss this game 😭 I remember cloning cards with two memory cards on my PS1 lmao

[@colenaber7409]

I remember playing this game as a kid, but had no idea it was such an RNG nightmare to beat. No wonder I never managed lol. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@theruleroftheinternet8260]

Meadow mage is your best friend in this game. Farm him get a bunch of good cards and find some power ups to boost your strongest cards like meteor B. Drag or thunder drag. If you're looking for something a little more to do after you beat the game then i guess you could try and get a play set of blues eyes and metalzoas just for the sake of it. Meteor B. Dragon. Blues eyes white dragon. Metalzoa are the 3 strongest cards you can possibly obtain in this game

[@Forrest_Pump]

gate guardian ...

[@TheGoodWillSpreader]

@@Forrest_Pump Gate Guardian can't be obtained on non mod version of the game. Its set at 0% drop rate. Its only available in NTSC-J via pocketstation. Or unless someone has developed a glitch or Manip to turn that 0% onto a different number.

[@dark_rit]

Can't win metalzoa or blue-eyes white dragon until you beat the game. Metalzoa drops on Sebek exclusively at a 4/2048 rate on SA pow, blue-eyes drops on Seto 3 sa pow, the hardest place to get sa pow in the game, at a 26/2048. Meteor b. dragon is the best monster you can win at meadow mage at a 20/2048 rate on sa pow. Gate guardian is impossible to obtain outside of the pocketstation.

[@syrelian]

@@TheGoodWillSpreader I think you can also Passcode a single copy but uhh Have you seen the cost for literally any power monster or iconic monster? Lul not happening

[@TheGoodWillSpreader]

@@syrelian unless you spent years with the same file and grinding for ever. iirc the limit is 999.999 stars so the fastest way to farm them would be to duel over 200.000 times Simon Muran. Assuming a single duel takes 5 minutes (you need at least 3 Meteor B dragon's or 3 BEWD to go onto overkill) you'd be dueling simon Muran for over 17.000 hours. Or almost two years (1 year and 330 days or 1 year and 10 months with 8 days. Assuming my math is right) So, borderline impossible.

[@pokemonmanic3595]

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.

[@Alan-oe3dq]

Ah a fond childhood memory unlocked. I vaguely remember this game but I rememeber the high levels of frustration while playing it . Good times.

[@Onetruesikorsky]

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.

[@nah4215]

It did not come with winged dragon of ra, that was dawn of destiny on the Xbox

[@nickkarion]

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

[@Bruce_Fernandes]

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.

[@MrStarman17]

Man, I always thought I was just bad at this game. Learning all of this makes me feel so much better!

[@divineeternity7268]

Takes me back to Duelist of the Rose. I remember my main go to fusions was Twin Headed Thunder Dragon. Wish I can go back and play it more maturely.

[@smeguyontheinternet6954]

there was a Yu-Gi-Oh game I had on the GBA, I can't remember the name but I remember being stuck on a part of the story where you get into a train and have to duel through those carts, and eventually you reach a guy whose cards get stronger in the dark. Oh and certain attributes could instantly destroy a certain attribute, so a Kuribo could instantly take out a Blue Eyes.

[@theguitargamer1]

The game is Reshef of Destruction, and It's the hardest YGO game ever released

[@smeguyontheinternet6954]

@@theguitargamer1 Thanks, I’m hoping I can find it somewhere so I can try completing it.

[@kramg1995]

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.

[@ProffezerrOAK]

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 .

[@timothyturner3195]

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

[@kramg1995]

@@timothyturner3195 I totally agree with you. Back then for a child with no access to KZbin 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.💀

[@kaid115]

I feel much better about younger me. I beat it once, and knew literally none of this.

[@saharudin3159]

So when another person became duelist you already a master.

[@MaskedGuyCh]

Forbidden Memories is my favorite card game. Absolutely love the music and vibe of the game, and the gameplay is super satisfying. One of the best feelings in the world is when you finally get that card that you've been farming for. Such a great feeling~

[@seekthuth2817]

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.

[@YB_.]

Raigeki means lighting attack in Japanese.

[@TheForgottenOddKing]

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 😂

[@bearbbb12]

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 🤣🤣🤣

[@lucifermorningstar8562]

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.

[@Highabovemexo]

An incredible video! So much thought and effort went into this, great job skootts

[@skoottietv]

:)

[@geasobd]

Used to play this for hours with a close friend as a child not knowing wtf was going on and why this game was so damn tough 😂

[@Mound1r]

Yu-Gi-Oh is literally my entire childhood, thank you for this masterpiece

[@芦白龙]

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 😅

[@jayman9910]

Yea I beat Heshin like 200 times in a row and it always restarts until you lose. Good way to get good cards though

[@rcarfang2]

@@jayman9910 How did you beat Heshin at the beginning of the game? He always summons 2500 to 3700 attack monsters.

[@Quicksilvir]

@@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.

[@NocturnalPyro]

6:07 That's Ishizu.

[@jingalls9142]

It's isis because it's set in ancient Egypt. So all the names are transformed into egypty names.

[@aaronrobinson8394]

“And just like the 90’s you’ve gotta assume the monsters gender “ 😂

[@brunojoelcamposnava867]

I remember playing this game when I was a kid, i played the TCG a lot so I never understood the bizarro rules of the videogame 😂 I legit never made it past the first duel.

[@GenAqua]

I got this for my birthday years ago