Yugioh's Insanely Difficult Game - Reshef of Destruction

[@Mangakamen]

Hope you all enjoy the video, and please consider leaving a comment and like on the video :)

[@vanitaspeterson9248]

I sure enjoyed it, I love seeing Yugioh games from my childhood you have done two of them so far, heck I still play duelist of the roses on my ps2, now I just have to wait for yugioh capsule monsters to pop up. it's fun but slow, turn based and kinda plays like fire emblem. You don't have to Kamen but I would Suggest playing it, at a later point, Yugioh burnout does suck and I really love watching your vids. I have learned a lot from you as well, Heck thanks to you I been able to write and tell better D&D stories and my players love it and I have sent them over to you and they like watching you now to. So thanks Kamen and have a wonderful day.

[@ryanbrook8384]

Would reshef be better if the rewards were the same as sacred cards

[@kyubi_101]

Can you make the Right and Wrong ways to make a Rival: Kamen Rider Edition

[@kyubi_101]

Can you make the Right and Wrong ways to make a Rival: Kamen Rider Edition

[@keirahenderson9912]

Hi! Cool video. I just wanted to ask if you had seen @Gameboylad 's video on Reshef. You touched a lot of similar, even identical, points to him, so I was just wondering if that video served as some sort of reference.

[@1111-e4p]

Ah yes, the game where you have to manually restore your life points after each duel. And it only gets worse from there.

[@Mangakamen]

yup

[@kirbo4964]

Totally

[@stefanosmarkopoulos]

​@@Mangakamen I know that this is not relevant to the video but just stop made a video about smash bandicoot were he has copyrighted cartoonshi abusing the copyright system and still harassing and obsessing over other people. I'm writing this with the hope that you could help spread the message about it stop smash

[@magicalnewsmaneditsbumpers4374]

Didn't know xana played yugioh. Don't you have middle scholars to go terrorize?

[@daryback7103]

The only thing I remember from this is Reshef itself and his freaking deck. Darn him and his "I AM the rules" deck. PS: The pleasure later on when I finally freaking won was cosmic.

[@loganmccreery4634]

Yugi: "Ishizu!? Why were you hiding in the bush like some creepy stalker?" Ishizu: "Because shut up."

[@Luuute]

ISHIZU?! You're an Egyptian God? How do I summon you?

[@notaprinny]

Fun fact if anyone doesn't know: Yugioh World Championship 2009 2010 and 2011 have story modes and let you customize your sprite. There's not a whole lot of customization to it, but they let you run around and duel randoms, buy packs, etc.

[@zigazav1]

Reverse of Arcadia comes to mind about that. It even gives you a gender choice. Something I cannot remember another Yugioh videogame allow as a self-insert protag. I bought the game used long ago, and wiped the save data, as I didn't like how the save file was. I have the game somewhere at home, I just don't know where it is. I haven't played it in many years now. Partly because I beat it and there isn't any more story to go through for me. fyi, I have not played every Yugioh game, and certainly not every World Championship series of games

[@notaprinny]

@@zigazav1 unfortunately only those three years of WC games have story to my knowledge (one of them is Reverse of Arcadia, I think the 2010 one). And I 100% agree. It’s such a good series and I wish they’d give us better games with actual story modes.

[@Alfenheimer]

It's crazy this game managed to out bullshit Forbidden Memories.

[@noukan42]

Played both and is not even close. If you know what you are doing reshef is a lot more playable than forbidden memories and it's final gauntlet is far less aggravating than the one in FM.

[@rodidoesburg4061]

​@@noukan42 Agree, I beat it very easily as a child. The only difficult duel was Marik. Otherwise, if you got Ra after that, you just had to wait in each duel to draw the Phoenix version and you could win easily. Very basic RNG to get a god card asap in a duel. Forbidden memories on the other hand has a lot more BS rng

[@EugeneKurlikin]

Forbidden memories is absolutely the hardest yugioh game. It was known as a joke in my friends circle. Only way we could play it was with GameShark. Rashef is more of a numbers game. Still brutal but FM is almost incomprehensible.

[@ori.g4mi]

I am surprised by the people here arguing otherwise. FM's final gauntlet merely requires for you to fight Meadow Mage for a couple hours until your deck is stacked with THTD fusions and Meteor Black Dragon, then you can comfortably beat the whole game. Reshef is WAYYY more annoying to play and its design is much worse.

[@geistgrace6452]

This game is possibly the Hardest Yu-Gi-Oh game of all time. This game is like an official Kaizo hack Where even the random choice named characters can fold you like an omelet.

[@Mangakamen]

Yup.

[@Greg501-]

It's the SMB2 of Yugioh (the one that got localized as The Lost Levels)

[@MaestroAlvis]

To be fair, folding an omelet can be tricky.

[@chesspuppeteer]

It's crazy that people insist Forbidden Memories is harder. This game is the dickkicking machine.

[@DentalPlanger]

​@@Greg501-Nah, worse lmao

[@jordaneats7566]

Something I don't see a lot of people talk about with this game: did you know it has a post-game? You can reload your save after beating Reshef and go to the Hall of Eternity. There you can fight some duelists you couldn't normally like regular Pegasus, Noah, and Simon (called Paradox for some reason). They have insane life point counts ranging from 30k to 60k, and the Pharaoh, Kaiba, and Yami Marik all have their Egyptian God Cards from Battle City, but you get around 10-20 Deck Capacity for beating them which is... something I guess. It's more for a challenge than any real reward.

[@rodidoesburg4061]

That are the only duels that are kinda hard, outside Marik during the story

[@Fatalordi]

You can get the Winged Dragon of Ra Sphere Mode and Battle mode from antes.

[@ΘανοςΠετρέλαιο]

Tried. I cant.

[@murlocshamab7308]

Paradox Is the anime name of simon

[@BloodyEclipse756]

So a Yu-Gi-Oh game that kick you in the stomach for having the worst cards that you have no choice to use, a shopkeeper is so cheap that mind as well be Mr. Krabs as a Yu-Gi-Oh character, and a final boss that breaks the game like a twig. Oh sign me up Banoca boy!

[@Mangakamen]

Be sure to get the QoL mod so you don't have to deal with the card check.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

And a cheat code that obliterates all the seriousness of the final encounter by turning the final boss into Goemon.

[@Buzzy_Bland]

@@MangakamenNah throw them in the deep end.

[@maxwassermann3171]

My childhood trauma right there! Reshef of Destruction is one of the most baffling games I ever played. Like, in how it expects you to win 269 duels to add a single good card to your deck. I really hated this game. And I actually finished it.

[@Mangakamen]

I had to finish it twice for this video.

[@orangegalen]

I never finished it and I still try like once a year. Currently my last play was to try and Exodia cheese but I don’t have enough capacity for any other good cards so it failed horribly.

[@jasondarkflame4948]

My stubborn child ass kept up with this absolute torture fest of a game. Beating this shit is a feat of sheer endurance. Have nostalgia for this even though I’d never revisit it without the fair Reshef mod.

[@jaimereupert4247]

I've beat this game and it was definitely difficult. Way too much forced grinding just to make a decent deck, and this is only for the 1st opponent.

[@shawn_7413]

269 duels for a good card? I remember it being that much just for a crap card.

[@Hack_Man_VII]

I. Hate. This. Game. Duelists of the Roses for Life!

[@johnnycage112]

Forbidden Memories!

[@jaimereupert4247]

That and Falsebound Kingdom. 😊

[@TerryB01]

Oh yeah it's Yu-Gi-Oh! time. The creator is chilling in heaven with Toriyama now.

[@gamerwolffang2722]

Don't make me cry 😭

[@TerryB01]

@@gamerwolffang2722 Happy tears I hope.

[@connorwood9211]

Twist that knife in my heart why don't you

[@ceecee6521]

.....FUCK, YOU'RE RIGHT!!

[@Anomalous_Phenomenon]

Hangin up there with King Kai and bubbles

[@gustavo555tani]

The First 5D was also hard as balls, when random duelist dropped a fucking DAD on you or played lightsworns

[@Poppipower]

That 4 in a row gauntlet where one person played legit Tele-dad was ridiculous

[@DragonTyer]

I think I had that game but don't remember

[@GatsbyCioffi]

I loved Nightmare Troubadour, where you could be randomly ambushed by a Rare Hunter and forced to play a shadow game, where if you lost, the game was insta over and you had to restart from the very beginning, no matter how far you got 😂

[@tinkerermelon6599]

​@@PoppipowerThe gauntlet wouldn't have been so bad if you could go and grind some more, but they put a save point IN the gauntlet room. You were either stuck with the cards you had or break immersion and go into world championship mode to grind more cards...

[@yoursonisold8743]

That game was a really cool RPG similar to Reshef, except... actually good. But that final boss gauntlet where you had to defeat 4 of your clones with one deck and without being able to refresh your life points was one of the absolute hardest things in any TCG video game.

[@kristofgriffin384]

The only reason why I even know about Reshef in general is because he was the boss monster of the main villain of Capsule Monsters.

[@Fatalordi]

I didn't know Reshef was featured in other games. edit : you were obviously talking about the anime, my bad

[@Lukecario1216]

I remember watching that arc and seeing Reshef get summoned and I was like “wait what the fuck it’s a REAL MONSTER?! I thought it was just some OC villain.” Looked it up and yeah, there it was.

[@JSHADOWM]

"Its worse in the manga belie-" I dont have to believe you, i KNOW. Takahashi was such a goober about filling this playing shadow games, then cardgame manga with random violence or torture

[@topcat59]

Grandpa Muto be making bank on these young duelist.😺

[@Mangakamen]

Just like other card shops

[@SuperSilver316]

The post game content with the special duelists you can duel are kind of fun imo. Also fun fact, Slifer the Sky Dragon can be affected by Dragon Capture Jar, which is hilarious to think about.

[@TheRagnarokknight]

"Gaming isn't a one size fits all. Because while anyone can get into any game, that doesn't mean that every game has to be for every one." -Manga Kamen. Beautifully said. I agree wholeheartedly. Awesome intro.

[@speccrusastrum]

Reminds me a of quote from a youtuber. Thing for everyone is like water. Bland as fuck but everyone can enjoy it. Things for some of us is like juice. Its not for everyone but has better flavors

[@TulipQ]

I am having the exact opposite reaction. If a studio has the budget to be making something huge and lavish as a game project, they can and should include accessibility tools for people. Disliking a game should be a matter of taste. Not a matter of "I am literally unable to engage with it."

[@polocatfan]

​​@@TulipQyeah comes off as slightly ableist. like I don't think you should change your entire design for a cool mechanic just because a small group can't play it, but you can easily add symbols to color coded puzzles for example. acting like accessibility "dumbs down games" is honestly shitty.

[@TeamAPS]

Now I want to try this game out. Never got to play it as a kid, but it looks like exactly what I want in a Yu-Gi-Oh game myself. With the quality of life mods, of course. Great video!

[@Mangakamen]

Go for it - It's an actually fun game! Love your videos man, so stoked to see you here! Thanks!

[@martintedesco7143]

26:15 the way this actually works is that you get 1 duelist level per every 3 deck capacity. Thats why when you get 1 duelist level the 1st time you beat a duelist since it gives you 3 deck capacity. This means, for example, if you wanted to run 1 copy of dark flare knight (which requires you to be duelist level 150) you would have to beat tristan a total of 232 times. And yes, just one copy because dark flare knight is LIMITED in this god forsaken game.

[@armythecat]

I've seen a playthrough of Reshef and it is amazing how not only the game expects ludicrous farming and grinding from the player but how much it just keeps ramping the absurdity and difficulty up as the game progresses, it is honestly fascinating

[@MrDavezd]

So u mean its the dark souls of card games

[@kingmagikarp97]

The first big difficulty curve is on the train with paniK, at least for me and I'm assuming many others

[@bizarregold4515]

Kamen's TV analysis is good and his exploration of ideas is interesting and informative but I absolutely love and favor his deep dives into games

[@sunstar4559]

I love watching these videos. I get to learn aboit games I didn't even knoe existed!

[@Mangakamen]

Enjoy.

[@dudeguy8686]

GGs for the playthrough, and thanks for the vid! Reshef is the Kaizo mod before Kaizo mods, and was pretty satisfying to beat. Biggest surprise was that a starting deck capacity only run was possible, and how strong the zero-cost cards really are (like Inexperienced Spy basically being Skill Drain). Somewhat mitigates that difficulty, but not much. Biggest tip i have for anyone, with very minor spoilers, the 2 best grind spots: 1st spot, for most of the game, including the beginning: Yugi. Start a new game, add all your fire monsters to the deck, ez wins. Might still lose to the occasional Sangan or Exodia head, but Mushroom Man is the main threat, and he loses to fire. The reward for each duel is a chance at an Exodia piece, or Spellbinding Circle (or Kuriboh..) For the 2nd, yet absolute best grind spot, that's both mandatory and missable: When a certain "robed figure" asks to "play a game", you'll face 6 consecutive duels you must win to proceed with the main story. At this point, if you win up to 5 duels and then exit the area, the duel count resets. This is key, because each of these five duels rewards 2 cards (with a chance at the 999 cost rituals), and each opponent has only 2000 life points. Quick games + good rewards, but once the 6th duel has been won, this opportunity is lost for good, and it's a grind spot that beats anything else the game offers. Well, thanks again for the vid, Reshef deserves the love (and hate)!

[@shawn_7413]

I remember playing this when it came out. I was interested in the story but quickly realized how bs this was. It wasn't worth the insane level of grinding just to find out the very obvious plot twist that the white haired dude is actually Pegasus.

[@dragonknight1560]

I remember as a kid, I grind the heck out of this game in the GBA, using all my time when I was done with homework. It was hell but I knew I could beat it. I even learn of the Ra cheat code to get Phoenix Mode and knew there was a chance... then my brother took the game (it was his) and I never finished it. So years later I try again in some website that had the game emulated, grind like never before and then the site erased my save data. ... Then I got the emulator and played the game twice, the vanilla and this mod (the second time making a fanfic version of this fanfic game for my fanfic story) and I really love the story of the game, I love the side stories and wish there were more. The issue was the grind and the unfairness, especially since the game will force you to add the Gods into your deck so unless you have the right cards to summon a God, you bricked and WORST if its Sphere Mode and regular Ra. I really like this game as much as I like the Tag Force series. It's a beloved game and I wish Konami did more Yugioh games like this but no, just Master Duel and my laptop can't even play it and it's also unfair if you don't have gems to make a deck for the meta. So then Duel Links which... meh. It's better but not by much.

[@jaimereupert4247]

They definitely need more RPG style Yu-Gi-Oh games. ❤

[@dragonknight1560]

@@jaimereupert4247 I agree. We just need a game that doesn't require you to pay for cards IN game with real money.

[@Tog_the_Kind]

I was hoping you'd mention the field check after every action. It was a FREAKING nightmare. Also, the only way I was even able to enjoy this game was with a GameShark like device, unlocked every card, max duelist level and max deck capacity the second I noticed how bullshit the difficulty spike was between Sacred Cards and this lol

[@DarkPurpleDude]

In my first playthrough of Reshef of Destruction, I got so sick of the game's bs that I resorted to an infinite LP cheat just to beat it. How it worked is that, whenever I took damage, it would reset my Life Points back to 8000 afterwards. This was really important, as Reshef was capable of doing more than 8000 points of damage at once with the Winged Dragon of Ra, meaning that, even with supposedly infinite Life Points, I still lost to him ten times before I finally beat him. From that point on, this game solidified itself to me as the one game that was so unfair, it could out-cheat a cheater.

[@Mangakamen]

I hear that. There's a lot of good in this game, but it's held back by terrible gameplay choices.

[@drunkennephilim2995]

This game was rough, too hard in places and frustrated me a lot as a kid, i came back and beat it as an adult and realised i really liked it, unique story and cool optional what if scenarios, fun mechanics you HAVE to engage with if you want a chance of beating it, i genuinely love this game but its hard to suggest people play it because its so back breaking with its "rewards" and uneven difficulty

[@dbzloverxl]

And I was dumb enough as a teen to raise my Duelist Level to 999 and Domino to 500,000 just to have Thousand Eyes-Restrict in my deck. Without cheats. “How the fu-?!” Endgame has Hall of Eternity with 60,000 LP duelists that give a lot of Domino and they also make raising Duelist Levels bearable. I spammed Ra (Phoenix Mode) Discard to bring its Battle Mode onto the field to win duels against them. That’s how.

[@rodidoesburg4061]

Not that hard, getting the capacity to fit all those 999 level cards in your deck was the real struggle. I once got from 7300 to around 10250

[@Savaris96]

Regarding the Final Battle, to Quote Pikasprey: "Thats a BIIIG Number, a pretty big number that I have to do after a previous big number" That was my reaction to that as well, and it burned itself into my memory

[@HeWhoHungers]

The quote from Pikasprey's playthrough that stuck with me most is a very valid question: "Why does he have 10000 life points? He's a pickle!"

[@730Flare]

And god help you if you used Ra's effect that leaves you with just 1 LP against Pegasus before fighting the final boss, as both duels are back to back.

[@mayborneflower]

I can’t believe I managed to clear this game without the cheese strats. I just leaned on Trap cards and the element charts a lot.

[@lodaceva1741]

Can never go back after playing the QOL version. Also Falsebound Kingdom was probably my most played Yugioh video game. The Fire Emblem of Yugioh's experimental gaming age, it's one I've replayed for fun a lot too.

[@ankuriboh]

I’ve been imagining what a modern Yugioh rpg would look like. I can imagine running around in Persona 5 and challenging people to duels instead of fighting.

[@lovethyenemies6702]

Rebecca jumping you at Kaiba corp early game was some bullshit 😂 I miss when Konami experimented with games like this.

[@UnkindledTheUndying]

I got this game after The Sacred Cards as a kid and was so excited to play it. I don't think I've ever felt more bullied by a game.

[@CarmsCelestia]

A few Fun facts: 1. If you have 2 copies of the game, you can play each other. Winning gives you 10 Deck Capacity, losing 5. Your duelist level increases by 1 for every 3 Deck Capacity iirc. This means, the best way to grind both DL and DC is by spamming link duels, which is how I got my DL back to 999 back in the day on my second copy of the game. 2. Vampire Lord also revives, adding that to DFK and DDD. And Vampire Lord has 2k ATK, but is cheap enough due to his 1 tribute status 3. In general, a cards required level has a few influencing factors: Divine? -> 999 Spell or Trap? -> How iconic and often useful are you? Certain, rare exceptions, e.g. all 4 limbs of Exodia have a cost of 66, a play on the name of the beast Other than that, it's based solely on the highest statline and the required tributes. All 0 tribute 2000 ATKs/DEF Monsters have a cost of 319. The 6 most expensive non-divine monsters are: 585: Labyrinth Wall, 1 Tribute 3k defense 532: Big Shield Gardner, 0 tributes 2.6k defense 500: Helpoemer, 1 tribute 2k ATK set for his effect even tho it is garbage 493: Castle of Dark Illusions 0 tributes 2500 Base Defense (Effective 3250 since it is boosted by its own effect) 449: Metal Guardian 1 Tribute, 2800 DEF 384: Jirai Gumo, 0 tributes 2200 ATK 4. After beating the game, you unlock a special map that only includes 6 duelists for you to battle, who iirc all start with Yami, even though they don't all use monsters that prefer it and some will use other field spells. They can be divided into two tiers: Tier 1: Maximillian Pegasus Paradox (not the brothers, the old robed guy from every old yugioh game) Shadi Joey Wheeler, possessed by Marik Tier 2: Noah Kaiba Yami Yugi Seto Kaiba Yami Bakura If you have deciphered the secret code and obtained Ra (Phoenix Mode), Yami Marik will also appear as a Tier 2 Duelist. Tier 1 Duelists have 30.000 LP. Tier 2 Duelists 60.000. Kaiba uses Obelisk, Yugi Slifer and Marik Ra. All duelists are using 2k attack monsters, multiple limited cards etc. The easiest is probably though Yami Bakura, who nearly only uses Dark Monsters and only has a few way to beat Dream type monsters. Tier 1 Duelists give you 10 DC, TIer 2 20.

[@johntroutman7256]

2 months later and KZbin added your video into the algorithm for me. Very grateful that it suggested your video, been subscribe to you for almost a year now. Love your contact, huge fan of Yu-Gi-Oh and the Persona series

[@Mangakamen]

Wow, thank you

[@Rawrzaur]

You have convinced me to want to play this Seems like such a wild game

[@Mangakamen]

It's fun at least.

[@StormingNova]

Well there's a name I wasn't expecting to stumble across. Good to see you're still as insane as ever. 🐢🐦

[@TeraunceFoaloke]

You should stream it Rawrzaur and yeah wasn't expecting to see your name ever again.

[@VaderTheWhite]

Even hacking it so you have the best deck from the beginning, it is still a bitch. Especially the end where you basically need to somehow summon Obelisk or Slifee along with using Phoenix Ra to easily get out Ra to have a chance

[@TheRedneckBudha]

Oh no. Now I kinda feel cheap. I had not only the guide book but the code for every single card in the game in that book scholastic book fairs used to be cool.

[@SmashBros2009]

Surprised you didn't mention about the Hall of Eternity post-game stuff, those guys were nuts! 30,000-60,000LP opponents anyone?

[@whambamduel]

I absolutely fucking love Reshef of Destruction. The story it creates, the powerful arc it puts Bandit Keith through where he legitimately comes off as a genuine threat for once are absolutely peak.

[@stresslee]

The game was confusing but when you actually managed to find out where to go it was so fun I remember having a lot of good times with this game just reliving all the yugioh classic moments in battle city

[@videogamerzero1schannel]

I see you're doing the most infamous Yugioh game and with your talk about wanting a Card Game RPG reminds me that it exists called SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters Clash, and its a very good game that makes use of all of SNK & Capcom's IPs put into a very fun card game that while kinda like Yugioh also stands out with something creative with the SP system and why I'm curious on the sequel that was fan translated & the one that came on the DS

[@zigazav1]

btw, I watched someone do a no monsters challenge run of Duelist of the Roses, and uh, most AI of opponents just breaks in the game if you don't have a single monster in your deck.

[@Quicksilvir]

Reshef of Destruction is fascinating. It's brutal nature makes it memorable in a way some other games aren't, but also makes it cruel to any player who didn't sign up for that experience. It's also unfortunately breakable if you are willing to optimize it and go all in on Vampire Lord, Mirage Knight, and the few underpriced cards. Ultimately it's held back most by it's awful life point system, painful starting deck, and unforgivable field check system. It should be inconceivable that I don't want to play cards like Slifer because they make the game nauseating to play. I played it as a kid, but eventually quit sometime after freeing Domino city because I couldn't get past the dang boss who has earth cards to protect his powerful waters. I came back later in life with the mod, and had a much better time with the full patch and QoL only. Farming Mako in his first appearance for Cash from his fortress whale and a decently synergistic set of monsters makes it much easier to get to the point where you can start accruing the busted stuff. Ultimately I feel Reshef can't reach the heights of Forbidden Memories or Duelist of the Roses, mostly because of the artificial difficulty and jank like the card costs and field check. Sacred Cards is even more stingy with cards, but the ones you have are a lot more usable thanks to the fusion system. Duelist of the Roses has uneven difficulty and some jank, but nothing crippling the experience like Reshef.

[@tpspeed]

This game actually made me snap my GBA SP in half from how hard it was

[@aisadal2521]

Even more unfair and BS than Forbidden Memories? Now this, I gotta see 😂😂😂

[@goofballjim6167]

Forbidden Memories is unfair because it’s rng dependent. Which in a way can be fun since you don’t know what is gonna happen next. This game is just unfair because its hard to grind up you Duelist Level, the enemies scale way to fast, multiple Duel Rushes with no healing in between. And a final dungeon that doesn’t tell that you need all the prime cards of the duelists you face there.

[@daveroberson7386]

The whole life point restoration thing made the game virtually impossible for me to beat and so I quit the game halfway through after I got to an area I couldn't leave and my life points were extremely low and didn't want to restart the whole game.

[@brutalnobody5240]

A good tip for early game. Low level ante's can be good to , sometimes you'll get garbage but other times you'll get an decent trap card or spell. For the mid game odion is an good farming target due to how cheap cost wise traps are you can use most of what he gives you and then use the same traps to beat him because he only has an handful of monsters in his deck and will regularly wipe his own board+bricks+ hard countered by mirage dragon/doron like cards that can bait out all his traps every turn.

[@flamelash1283]

I was curious if anyone did an analasys on this game just now, then I see a video from u made JUST NOW about it. Luck has blessed me at this very moment huh 💀💀 nice

[@Mangakamen]

I know there's at least one more in-depth review on the game floating around there.

[@crazyconan28]

I had the pleasant experience playing this game last year on a mod that made the game fair, I really enjoyed it and recommend those who liked the prequel to try this game with that mod, it can be found easy online and straight forward to apply it to the ROM.

[@squeethemog213]

I really enjoy these videos and look forward to when you do Falsebound Kingdom. Thank you so much and have a good one Kamen :D

[@crossdaboss8914]

Fun fact about darkness approaches it was for the longest time the only card in the actual card game that could set a monster in face down attack postion untill the rulling got changed a few years back

[@ulkimion]

3 seconds into the video, and just, before i watch this, having been through the same journey... i'm so so sorry you went through that

[@MegamanElric16]

I always liked how Reshef and Destiny Board had at least both Yugis on the box art instead of just Yami Yugi.

[@Trauson]

Ill say this. Probably maybe you should try the Digimon Card Game for PS1 I think it had similar mechanics and you can invest in the world as well. Its worth to have a look.

[@DarkEclipse23]

MangaKamen plays the most aggravating yugioh games just to entertain us. This soul deserves a lot. 😂 Granted Duelist of the Roses wasn’t hard to me. But from hearing you had to do this game twice makes up for it. We are eternally grateful. 😭 😂 💯 Great vid! Coincidentally had I not found legacy of the duelist link evolution I would have gone to this. Thank you for saving me from this horror. ❤

[@StormerSage]

There's a post game bonus dungeon too. You've got major characters, Pegasus, Kaiba, Noah, etc. from the anime to fight. They even snuck in some dub voice clips, some of them will say "It's my turn!" They are definitely superbosses. Pegasus, Joey, Shadi, and Paradox all start with 30,000 LP and award 10 capacity and 2500 domino when defeated. Kaiba, Bakura, Atem, Marik, and Noah start with 60,000 LP and award 20 capacity and 5000 domino when defeated. Their decks are lightly themed to the monsters they used in the anime (Kaiba has Obelisk and Blue Eyes, Joey has Gilford and Red Eyes, Marik has Ra, Noah has Shinato and Five Headed Dragon, Atem has Dark Magician and Slifer, etc.) but ALL of them have change of heart, swords, duster, torrential, etc. all at 3. You can use Phoenix Ra (obtainable by the password system) to break the latter half of the game in half (discard Phoenix Ra from your hand and you get regular Ra on the field for free) and it STILL might not save you here.

[@dinolover]

Remember how when you beat the game you're introduced to a room where every duelist has the most cracked deck? Holy shit fun times that made me wanna break the game in half. I seriously dont know how i made it to the end of this game

[@EnigmaBarry]

Fantastic review. You gave the game an indepth look, complemented what it did right and how it reflects on the games you like. It's a shame the game falters due to the artificial difficulty. Maybe Konami will try something similar to this again but with stronger focus on being character driven and a fairer implementation of RPG mechanics.

[@jaimereupert4247]

Hopefully. 🙏

[@crownclown3519]

I weirdly love this game and finished the vanilla version a week ago and had a lot of fun ,BUT it is only payable in an emulator with saving ,2times speed and the code that takes off permenant effects. Something that helped me is using as many wind and water monstere vs joey to help my starting deck

[@Elegantegalan]

You know... it takes me 2 2 2 and a half weeks to beat this game.. but i lovee this gane 100%

[@MWT_Araw]

I work in a Casino basicly as servant.I hear your video while i serve the players on my headphones

[@Mangakamen]

Keep an eye on watching them counting cards.

[@Mr7tv]

At like 11 or 12 years old I was only ever able to make it to the end of the game to battle Reshef a few times. I was never able to beat him, but I think I only got my duelist level to 200 max so I got hella far for a kid who had no idea about the mirage knight trick.

[@Flutterdark_]

if i had to guess the "you need 2 cards to sell / ante them" thing comes from them not wanting to code certain cards as unsellable since there are multiple points where specific cards are required. so it was easier to just say "you need 2 so you dont get rid of shit you need"

[@sean1oo1]

Man I will never not love this game, I got it preordered when they advertised it in some magazine for upcoming yugioh releases back in the day

[@that_dude_over_there]

I had the yugioh double pack with Sacred Cards and Reshef. But it was more like I had the GBA cartridge of Sacred cards since I could never get passed Panik

[@haloslayer255]

That's how I had the game as well. I'm still amazed how they were able to combine the games onto one cartridge. It seemed like magic so long ago.

[@Real_Amphy]

3:05 Holy shit the sprite background just hit me with a nostalgia blast and I cant explain why. I would bet good money that world tournament 2005 was my first yugioh video game but I KNOW I have seen this spritework for this city.

[@challengeaccepted5613]

Hey man that was nice! Maybe you could do the sacred cards next? I mean the game was mid n all, you can't even legitimately obtain Ra without cheating, but it would be interesting to hear your take about it.

[@conradvallon5661]

Well there are Yu-Gi-Oh games with character customization those being the World championship series from what I believe is 2007 to 2011, Gx Spirit Caller and Nightmare Troubadour.

[@rikulrevontheus800]

YES! More people need to play the WC Games. ESPECIALLY 2011, My Personal Favorite.

[@conradvallon5661]

@@rikulrevontheus800 2010 is my personal favorite

[@Ramsey276one]

I got two of those! One stopped working with save data, though... Maybe the either did but my GBA died

[@MrMadOfficial]

I put SO many hours into WC 2097 as a kid. For a while, it was one of the only DS games besides Pokemon and Kirby Superstar Ultra I would play nonstop back then.

[@mistriousfrog]

Weirdly I never really had a problem with the final gauntlet to beat reshef. But multiple playthroughs of this game got completely stalled out by the gauntlet in china where you need to duel I think it was 5 opponents in a row without any break in between to restore your lifepoints because it resets if you ever leave the screen.

[@raina1848]

I wasn't able to defeat Marik in this game at the part where you go to Egypt. He kept summoning Ra at the drop of a hat and killing me, and just even just getting to that point was insane. I haven't played it since and it's been in my closet for years. I keep telling myself I'll come back to it, but I can't seem to motivate myself to do it. 😞

[@Lukecario1216]

My uncle gave me a little ziplock bag of GBA games when I was a kid. Amongst those was this game. I’d never seen or heard of Yugioh at that point. Popped it in and played for a bit. Got to Panik, and could not beat him. Immediately my soul was embedded with “this game is bullshit” even back then. Fast forward maybe a decade, in between which I’d tried the game once more and pretty much had the same issue. Decided to get an emulator for the game, and decided to use some cheats to 1. Instantly restore my life points mid battle at the click of a button. 2. Wipe my opponent’s field immediately with a button combination. 3. I think removing summoning restrictions? I barreled through the game, got to Reshef, and STILL managed to lose because he acted so quickly and just demolished me that I didn’t even have time to process what was happening. God bless the Reshef of Tolerability patch that makes the game playable again.

[@RainingHotLava]

The fact that this came out right after The Sacred Cards, arguably one of my all time FAVORITE Yu-Gi-Oh games…is insane.

[@swordkingx4874]

This was one of three Yugioh games I played as a kid. Reshef, a battle city type one, and Capsule Monsters. I loved all 3, I did have Duelist of the Rose but I was bad at it and couldn't beat my first opponent as I had no idea what i was doing.. Resehf I never beat as a kid, and I don't think I would have been able too from what I hear in this video. Still the idea of a Yugioh RPG sounds a lot of fun, would it take a long time? Yes but I think that's fine. You could have someone dressed up as a Hero and using a E Hero deck.

[@mattwo7]

40:23 I mean, there was an attempt with Cross Duel but it wasn't something they should have thrown us into as a four-way FFA format at first as it was already confusing enough to get an idea of how to play.

[@krowking123]

One of the most brutally awful games I’ve ever played. It’s sad that such an interesting story and rare RPG idea for Yu Gi Oh was wasted by the worst gameplay imaginable.

[@sephondranzer]

Yea - I’m not a fan of the ‘it’s not for everyone’ gas lighting. Like no dude your game is objectively worse than patty cake.

[@FredzDimension]

It was brutal, yes. I can understand people calling it unfair. But the story was what kept bringing me back.

[@aberlol]

I'm Curios; what was the reason to show the German version of Flash Assailant? No good Pic of the English one?

[@shamiyama0505]

i couldn't finish the game at all as i always stuck somewhere hahaha. but speaking of rpg yugioh games. do you know about the 5ds world championships games? Like Over the Nexus and so one i would recommend them a lot they are so good!

[@mattwo7]

10:47 That was a lie, Bonz didn't return until Duel Links and Yami Bakura had nothing to do with it. I don't think it was ever explained how he came back too.

[@chimeratechgaming9091]

Game was fun, i beat it overnight when it came out, was disappointed that GameStop was only offering like 5 bucks to buy it back instead of a return - I learned that day that trade-ins suck :) oh yeah, and that GameStop doesn't do returns on opened games :P life lessons learned early. ( No, I did not find that particular game very hard) Nicely done vid!

[@Edrobot7]

"Who's Gary Stu?" "I don't know, but I'm pretty sure he's my best friend."

[@Unotuchable]

Speaking of Sequel difficulty spikes, the original X:COM shipped with a bug that would automatically set the difficulty to the lowest one upon loading a save. So they heard complaints about it being incredibly easy and they made the sequel Terror from the Deep the most backbreakingly brutal game possible because they didn't know about the bug and assumed that the hardest difficulty was just too easy.

[@5p3cu10]

I have deeply fond memories of Sacred Cards. I mind being 11 when it came out and I got it on launch (UK). I played that game to death! Grinding out Bones to get my level up to buy a 4 Star 2k Att monster. I never played Reshef. An excellent video! Your video quality is tremendous.

[@crimsontrooper9425]

Really loved this video and the unique perspective you have on this infamous game in the Yugioh Fandom's eyes. I think I can actually make a recommendation on a CardGame RPG that might be what you were asking for in the video, Shadowverse: Champion's Battle. A full fledged anime based Cardgame rpg with a surprising amount of content, no microtransactions, sidequests, character arcs, a fun cardgame to learn that actually plays differently from the 3 major tcgs on the market, and the most important thing for me; FULLY VOICED ENGLISH VOICE ACTING FOR ALL MAJOR CUTSCENES AND STORYBEATS. So yeah, i loved it. It was my game of the year for 2022. It's on the switch eshop. It has a free demo that lasts for the opening prolouge and 1st chapter. I think it'll fit what your looking for.

[@tristanalain9239]

Since you referenced the 5D's games... I would greatly want to see you do a look at World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia. It does the Dark Signer arc and does it well I feel. Bosses, especially in the Team Satisfaction flashback tend to have interesting unique rules to their Duels. Turbo Dueling exists, and you can build and modify your Duel Runner, and that actually does matter.

[@ivolopez-felix5270]

I love your content! The way you talk about these games is just top tier. Keep it up!

[@scottriddell3514]

I played this game and I didn’t know it was that damn hard It was quite infamous like forbidden memories

[@daltronius]

heads up, darkness approaches is only outclassed in its job now, it used to put stuff in face down attack position, the only card that could so there were really niche use, but now its just worse book of moon

[@connorclary3458]

I just started playing this game for the first time! Thanks for the great video!

[@starblast16]

I was never able to beat this game as a kid. So seeing you cover it was pretty nice.

[@LeoLucisCaelum7789]

Amazing video

[@Mangakamen]

Thanks!

[@LeoLucisCaelum7789]

@@Mangakamenno problem

[@pagananarchist4723]

Another quick point against the real life version of Darkness Approaches: it was errata'd after the debut of link monsters because they can't be put face-down or in defense mode at all. People were assuming you could use DA against link monsters to put them in face-down attack position

[@MrSC219]

I'm convinced Konami has been trying to stop people from playing Yu-Gi-Oh since day 1. They just didn't forsee that Yu-Gi-Oh fans are masochists.

[@auroravalentina396]

It was a huge shock seeing this video pop up while I was in the middle of planning my own video on what I thought was a rather forgotten game, lol. I love this video though!!! I've been working on beating this damn game for MONTHS and it's incredibly validating to see that I'm not the only one who thinks it's a good game held back by... a whole lot of just plain bullshit mechanics. I think I'm gonna download that QOL hack so I can maybe have a chance of seeing the ending without beating my head against a wall. I feel like this is one of those games where if you play it long enough you start to get existential about it. Like, does Yugi feel the stress of the horrible time loop I've been putting him through every time I reset after losing a duel? How does Tristan have any money or cards left after I've dueled him literally hundreds of times? Does it bother Yami that while he was kidnapped, Yugi and Joey were off dueling against toy monkeys in Galapagos for some reason? Much to ponder.

[@maple5126]

Man can't wait for you to cover the tag force games, they were quite literally my introduction to YuGiOh

[@PicketPolecat]

11:50 I mean TBF, Yami Marik DID kinda spawn from holding a grudge against his father, so making peace with him would be pretty beneficial